First heard this song on a promotional CD that came with a case of Coke in high school. Never heard it on the radio but really liked it. Glad to find it again after almost 35 years.
I heard this song on a cassette tape that my sister made for me from "THE WAVE" radio station in LA that we listened to tooling around the city. I told her on visiting how much I liked the music they played. Did I not find the CD in some used record shop in Middlebury twenty years later. In that shop, I also bought a T-shirt that said, "Be the person your dog thinks you are." I have neither the T-shirt nor the dog.
the first Shawn Colvin song I heard, Essex Massachusetts 1989 Now I use the wise words spoken in the refrain to tell my 24 yr.old Son Keep your Head on Straight Thomas
Soul food, this. 🙏❤️ Have loved this album since it's release. Has pulled me through some tough shit over the years. I'm 51, now. I quite possibly, may have very little time left on this planet. Think the 'Big C' has got me. Well, it does. Just not sure to what extent. It's kewl. All good in da hood. I'm at peace. LOVE HARD, KIDS. BECAUSE THIS ALL ENDS.🙏 LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS. LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED.❤️ THANK YOU SHAWN. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. YOU ARE AN EARTH ANGEL. I hope we have our tunage, in the afterlife.🤭 Music is one of the very few things I'd really miss. This album is GOLD.❤️🥰😘
Best concert I ever saw was Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter doing an acoustic night at the Mann Music Center in the Philly area. It was very casual and just one of the coolest evenings ever with two super-talented ladies. I believe it was Mary Chapin Carpenter's Golden Retrievers who were on stage. Awesome memories.
Just about the same here.. saw Shawn Colvin in Houston at Rockefellers and MCC and John Jennings joined her as surprise guests. They were mesmerizing.. and hilarious. They were quoting lines from the courtroom scene from "A Few Good Men".
lost all my cd's and forgotten what I'd missed. Dreaming I'm on road trip with Shawn. Driving across the open plains. I'm driving, she's singing and playing. A very pleasant thought.
the ABSOLUTE BEST FEMALE Recording Artist I have listened to in my 61 years of life on Earth and although many people are not aware of her Music, She remains relevant in our Wide World of MUSIC. This may be a good thing Shawn remains under the radar of people's perception of fame, she gets to walk around unencumbered by folks wanting autographs, selfies & whatever ? She has the best of both worlds,or at least I think she may have the Best of Both Worlds only she can say for sure about this, in any case She certainly is Phenomenal🙆🌎🎼🐯
She spoke to me, gave me hope when my life was begining to unravel. She reminded me that beauty can overcome pain, that grace was really sexy and vibrant and that there would be a life after the levee broke. Still after 32 years relevant and meaningfull.
China gets broken And it will never be the same Boats on the ocean Find their way back again I am weaving Like a drunkard Like a balloon up in the air I am needing a puncture and someone To point me somewhere I'm gonna keep my head on straight I just hope it's not too late Open up the gate I go straight on, steady on Steady on! I was feeling imploded A wooden smile, a wooden heart Then things exploded Like rockets in the dark Now I'm pulling out splinters And I'm off to hibernate somewhere For the nuclear winter Of another love affair Cause he seemed like a miracle I ate it up like cereal But it was something like shrapnel Steady on! It's like ten miles of a two-lane On a South Dakota wheat plain In the middle of a hard rain A slow boat or a fast train I am gonna keep my head on straight I'm gonna keep my head on straight Steady on!
Yes for me. During, after & after-after. No detes because TMI 😀 Whatta woman!!! Let's just say that I purchased recently, the little Steady On music box from her site. Love to all her fans from me✌️
“As I stepped beyond the threshold, I entered another world-like Dorothy walking into Oz. A slight breeze swirled the leaves and branches and blossoms of the garden, brushing the skin on my arms. Soft air and clear light caressed my face. Just then, the music stopped. It took me a moment to realize that the music in my head was actually in my iPod and the iPod must have run out of power. I took out the ear buds and a far more fantastic music flooded in, leaves rustling, birds chirping, insects buzzing, the distant shoosh of tires on the road invisible behind the trees. I sat at the wrought-iron table and put my feet up. The crystalline light astonished me. The air, neither hot nor cold, was invigoratingly dry. I felt energy radiating from my body into the air, mingling with the radiations emanating from all the life surrounding me. I scanned the back yard. The ornamental grasses had begun to shoot out golden tufts; the crepe myrtle, hydrangea, stone crop, petunias and geraniums all had covered themselves in blossoms. Figs grew large and heavy on the fig tree, which exploded tropically in one corner of the yard, and fat red tomatoes swelled on the still leafing vines in another. Tendrils of Virginia creeper and wild grape dripped from the pines across the back fence, persimmons hung from the persimmon tree like Christmas ornaments. I had seen all this the previous morning, and many other mornings before that. But now I had stepped into a page from an illuminated fairy tale. Just as that thought entered my mind, three large yellow butterflies appeared, flitting in spirals around me. I laughed aloud: I was in Oz after all🌄… …I can’t think of any other way to put this but to say the sky opened, and grace poured down all around me. Light itself had transformed into a palpable substance, spilling down as if from a fountain. But it was more than light. It was blessings of every kind, goodness incarnate, flowing inexhaustible and immutable from above. I didn’t say to myself, “What is this?” I didn’t guess. I knew, I saw, I was in the presence of God. This wasn’t a God with whom I could have a conversation, at least not two-way. I think I said, or shouted, “Ok, I am DEFINITELY not an atheist,” but God was mute, or rather, I understood, or perceived, that the only response God would ever make was the boundless bounty of beauty cascading over me. After the shock and awe, my first thought was that this gift absurdly overmatched anything I could possibly have deserved. I thought, and said aloud, “Why me?” Instantly, that seemed too pleased with myself. I could just look at this phenomenon that confronted me, this Niagara Falls of beauty pouring down, and know that I hadn’t been “chosen.” I was no one special. This was just what God was, a permanent condition that somehow had remained invisible to me until this moment..” reset.me/story/tried-psychedelic-mushrooms-35-years-saw-light/🌈 🍂🌄🍄🌄🍂
Yowza! This song will never grow old to me because it is one of a kind- it catches you, grips you, you MUST stop and listen. Heard Shawn doesn't like it- too commercial? I cannot disagree more. It's unique and it's wonderful. Gimme more. the Radman
Two days after this video, another female folk singer ended up being a victim of a fatal coyote attack at Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her name was Taylor Mitchell.
Richard Dawkins listened to this song and said 'this doesn't prove the existence of god...' (Okay I made that up.) Difference between life, and intelligent life, I guess.
I didn't _completely_ appreciate this song till like four days ago ... (In reference to my own kind) "IT was something like shrapnel"... Hate to say it, but 15 years ago I knew a musician girl who could do a better "Steady On" than Shawn Colvin could... But of course Shawn pioneered this for everyone...
When I listen to this, I remember waiting for it to come on VH1 and loving it, what happened? How could she go from this fantasic-ness to "Sunny Came Home"/ YUCK!!!!!! I HATE that song, especially because I know she has this fantastic talent and clearly her record company just screwed her all to hell. she has so much true talent like this song and "Diamond In The Rough". Her new music makes me cringe and I wonder if she ever misses being able to shine like she used to.
Kill The Blues with an exclusive backstage interview with Shawn from 1999! ua-cam.com/video/EQjyQQ8j1T0/v-deo.html What is your favorite Shawn Colvin song?
I can't imagine a video that would do this song justice. This album is too full with subtlety and complexity it doesn't leave room for additional media. But it was nice of her to make a video non the less.
China gets broken And it will never be the same Boats on the ocean Find their way back again I am weaving Like a drunkard Like a balloon up in the air I am needing a puncture and someone To point me somewhere I'm gonna keep my head on straight I just hope it's not too late Open up the gate I go straight on, steady on Steady on! I was feeling imploded A wooden smile, a wooden heart The things exploded Like rockets in the dark Now I'm pulling out splinters And I'm off to hibernate somewhere For the nuclear winter Of another love affair 'Cause he seemed like a miracle I ate it up like cereal But it was something like shrapnel Steady On! It's like ten miles of a two-lane On a South Dakota wheat plain In the middle of a hard rain A slow boat or a fast train I am gonna keep my head on straight I'm gonna keep my head on straight
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First heard this song on a promotional CD that came with a case of Coke in high school. Never heard it on the radio but really liked it. Glad to find it again after almost 35 years.
This album....
a masterpiece.🙏🔥
I heard this song on a cassette tape that my sister made for me from "THE WAVE" radio station in LA that we listened to tooling around the city. I told her on visiting how much I liked the music they played. Did I not find the CD in some used record shop in Middlebury twenty years later. In that shop, I also bought a T-shirt that said, "Be the person your dog thinks you are." I have neither the T-shirt nor the dog.
"...... or the nuclear winter of another love affair..............."
we need our poets..........
the first Shawn Colvin song I heard, Essex Massachusetts 1989
Now I use the wise words spoken in the refrain to tell my 24 yr.old Son
Keep your Head on Straight Thomas
Soul food, this. 🙏❤️
Have loved this album since it's release.
Has pulled me through some tough shit over the years.
I'm 51, now.
I quite possibly, may have very little time left on this planet.
Think the 'Big C' has got me.
Well, it does.
Just not sure to what extent.
It's kewl. All good in da hood.
I'm at peace.
LOVE HARD, KIDS.
BECAUSE THIS ALL ENDS.🙏
LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS.
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED.❤️
THANK YOU SHAWN.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
YOU ARE AN EARTH ANGEL.
I hope we have our tunage, in the afterlife.🤭
Music is one of the very few things I'd really miss.
This album is GOLD.❤️🥰😘
Love you shawn your a great song writer and singer and musician thank you for your gifts and wonderful music God Bless Zorba Bubadias NJ
My goodness, her music is sheer poetry. Oh, she is stunning as well!
I'm gonna keep my head on
Straight on
Steady on
Whenever things in my world get out of control, I think of this song.
Best concert I ever saw was Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter doing an acoustic night at the Mann Music Center in the Philly area. It was very casual and just one of the coolest evenings ever with two super-talented ladies. I believe it was Mary Chapin Carpenter's Golden Retrievers who were on stage. Awesome memories.
Just about the same here.. saw Shawn Colvin in Houston at Rockefellers and MCC and John Jennings joined her as surprise guests. They were mesmerizing.. and hilarious. They were quoting lines from the courtroom scene from "A Few Good Men".
It is still wonderful 24 years later. Still gives me goosies!
What a classic song, still a joy to hear after so many years...thank you Shawn 💕
I love all the percussive details on this track. Brilliant production.
God, she was gorgeous!
Shawn is a true poet.
Bravo ✌️🔥😎
Always love Shawn Colvin and this is one of her best for me. Wonderful music.
lost all my cd's and forgotten what I'd missed. Dreaming I'm on road trip with Shawn. Driving across the open plains. I'm driving, she's singing and playing. A very pleasant thought.
I just love her energy here.
Fantastic song I luv this xxxxxxxxxx
Love Shawn Colvin! saw her for the first time in 1995.
the ABSOLUTE BEST FEMALE Recording Artist
I have listened to in my 61 years of life on Earth and although many people are not aware of her Music, She remains relevant in our Wide World of MUSIC.
This may be a good thing
Shawn remains under the radar of people's perception of fame, she gets to walk around unencumbered by
folks wanting autographs,
selfies & whatever ?
She has the best of both worlds,or at least I think
she may have
the Best of Both Worlds
only she can say for sure about this, in any case
She certainly is Phenomenal🙆🌎🎼🐯
I agree (in my 59th year!)
love
You must see her live! This song is one of the best!
This sounds like it has a Scottish heart.
Such joy and confidence!
One of the best mixes I've heard in my lifetime (I'm only 65). Thank you ***** hope I got the right one!
I adore the lyrics 😚😚😚😚
She spoke to me, gave me hope when my life was begining to unravel. She reminded me that beauty can overcome pain, that grace was really sexy and vibrant and that there would be a life after the levee broke. Still after 32 years relevant and meaningfull.
Shawn Colvin Steady On is one of my favorite song
Fantastic song!
China gets broken
And it will never be the same
Boats on the ocean
Find their way back again
I am weaving
Like a drunkard
Like a balloon up in the air
I am needing a puncture and someone
To point me somewhere
I'm gonna keep my head on straight
I just hope it's not too late
Open up the gate I go straight on, steady on
Steady on!
I was feeling imploded
A wooden smile, a wooden heart
Then things exploded
Like rockets in the dark
Now I'm pulling out splinters
And I'm off to hibernate somewhere
For the nuclear winter
Of another love affair
Cause he seemed like a miracle
I ate it up like cereal
But it was something like shrapnel
Steady on!
It's like ten miles of a two-lane
On a South Dakota wheat plain
In the middle of a hard rain
A slow boat or a fast train
I am gonna keep my head on straight
I'm gonna keep my head on straight
Steady on!
Brilliant !
I love this song …
This song and others by Shawn got me through my divorce... I owe her my life...
You and me both! She gave me permission to be brave & tough
Same here! If it hadn't been for her CD, "A Few Small Repairs"--let's just say that Ms. Colvin's music has inspired me on many occasions!
Yes for me. During, after & after-after. No detes because TMI 😀
Whatta woman!!! Let's just say that I purchased recently, the little Steady On music box from her site.
Love to all her fans from me✌️
“As I stepped beyond the threshold, I entered another world-like Dorothy walking into Oz. A slight breeze swirled the leaves and branches and blossoms of the garden, brushing the skin on my arms. Soft air and clear light caressed my face. Just then, the music stopped. It took me a moment to realize that the music in my head was actually in my iPod and the iPod must have run out of power. I took out the ear buds and a far more fantastic music flooded in, leaves rustling, birds chirping, insects buzzing, the distant shoosh of tires on the road invisible behind the trees. I sat at the wrought-iron table and put my feet up. The crystalline light astonished me. The air, neither hot nor cold, was invigoratingly dry. I felt energy radiating from my body into the air, mingling with the radiations emanating from all the life surrounding me. I scanned the back yard. The ornamental grasses had begun to shoot out golden tufts; the crepe myrtle, hydrangea, stone crop, petunias and geraniums all had covered themselves in blossoms. Figs grew large and heavy on the fig tree, which exploded tropically in one corner of the yard, and fat red tomatoes swelled on the still leafing vines in another. Tendrils of Virginia creeper and wild grape dripped from the pines across the back fence, persimmons hung from the persimmon tree like Christmas ornaments. I had seen all this the previous morning, and many other mornings before that. But now I had stepped into a page from an illuminated fairy tale. Just as that thought entered my mind, three large yellow butterflies appeared, flitting in spirals around me. I laughed aloud: I was in Oz after all🌄…
…I can’t think of any other way to put this but to say the sky opened, and grace poured down all around me. Light itself had transformed into a palpable substance, spilling down as if from a fountain. But it was more than light. It was blessings of every kind, goodness incarnate, flowing inexhaustible and immutable from above. I didn’t say to myself, “What is this?” I didn’t guess. I knew, I saw, I was in the presence of God. This wasn’t a God with whom I could have a conversation, at least not two-way. I think I said, or shouted, “Ok, I am DEFINITELY not an atheist,” but God was mute, or rather, I understood, or perceived, that the only response God would ever make was the boundless bounty of beauty cascading over me. After the shock and awe, my first thought was that this gift absurdly overmatched anything I could possibly have deserved. I thought, and said aloud, “Why me?” Instantly, that seemed too pleased with myself. I could just look at this phenomenon that confronted me, this Niagara Falls of beauty pouring down, and know that I hadn’t been “chosen.” I was no one special. This was just what God was, a permanent condition that somehow had remained invisible to me until this moment..”
reset.me/story/tried-psychedelic-mushrooms-35-years-saw-light/🌈
🍂🌄🍄🌄🍂
25 years ago... where did it go ?
1-10-2012. She's gettin' her kicks at 56. Happy Birthday, Shawn.
The Steady On album is a sonic treat.
Luv it !
I saw you perform in a church in Portsmouth, NH. You had a wicked cold, but that didn't stop you from blowing us away!
This song very special to me right now! !!
What a song!!!
Superb videography for a great tune.
Yowza! This song will never grow old to me because it is one of a kind- it catches you, grips you, you MUST stop and listen. Heard Shawn doesn't like it- too commercial? I cannot disagree more. It's unique and it's wonderful. Gimme more. the Radman
First time listening this in 1996, Im 36
I love her
incredible... and I've never heard this (or her at all) on the radio, until my local public owned radio station played her. WXPN
I will live my life my way... cause that belongs to me 👍💖
This song is fantastic x
We all fall" it's life, the positive thing about this situation, can only make you stronger through your own emotions pattern!
love it still..more and more..
Yeaaaah
What a great song!
This special song to me right now.
Oldie but goldie!
That's our kid 👍💖x
Leventhal is a beast!songwriter master!
Complete relates to my life right now x
she was brilliant
Still is...
The only songs I’m used to from Shawn was “Sunny Came Home” but I like this one too.
how can you not love her ?
Hold tight 🥰🌾
So Brilliant!!!!!
chevere la cancion, lenta y chevere
Forgot how much I liked her...love this song
This is a great song but Fat City will forever be my favorite Colvin record
Reminds me a little of Joni Mitchell, but definitely her own voice and poetry is amazing.
I also see her as a bit of a latter-day Joni Mitchell, which is a big part of why I like her so much.
I really hear a Joni Mitchell influence in this song! Shawn's my fave tho:)
Agree. I see Shawn Colvin as a latter-day Joni Mitchell in her songwriting.
Your boots were ment to walk!
If I had a dollar for every time I've listened to this tune!!
1 of the best songs ever
60,000 pathetic!!!!
Hold tight. 🥰✌🏾🪴
@mfc90125
I also love that line
"Hibernate through the fallout . The nuclear winter of another love affair"
Steady on and fat city for me.
Talent, writing her own stuff
❤️❤️
👌🏾🌾💃🏽✌🏾🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Do you get my drift! !!
Two days after this video, another female folk singer ended up being a victim of a fatal coyote attack at Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her name was Taylor Mitchell.
Joni Mitchell is her biggest inspiration
Richard Dawkins listened to this song and said 'this doesn't prove the existence of god...' (Okay I made that up.) Difference between life, and intelligent life, I guess.
I didn't _completely_ appreciate this song till like four days ago ... (In reference to my own kind) "IT was something like shrapnel"... Hate to say it, but 15 years ago I knew a musician girl who could do a better "Steady On" than Shawn Colvin could... But of course Shawn pioneered this for everyone...
When I listen to this, I remember waiting for it to come on VH1 and loving it, what happened? How could she go from this fantasic-ness to "Sunny Came Home"/ YUCK!!!!!! I HATE that song, especially because I know she has this fantastic talent and clearly her record company just screwed her all to hell. she has so much true talent like this song and "Diamond In The Rough". Her new music makes me cringe and I wonder if she ever misses being able to shine like she used to.
Um, kinda, it's just all sounds so....bland compared to this album.
I love all of her music. Maybe you should try to listen to Sunny Came Home a few more times and you will appreciate it the way I do.
+Kate Taylor I find this really bland compared to A Few Small Repairs.
To my ear, Sunny Came Home is the We Built This City of alt rock. Commercial crap.
A lot of people can relate to"Sunny Came Home".
Kill The Blues with an exclusive backstage interview with Shawn from 1999! ua-cam.com/video/EQjyQQ8j1T0/v-deo.html
What is your favorite Shawn Colvin song?
Who produced this song? It is so well done.
The album was produced by John Leventhal and Steve Addabbo. I imagine they produced the title track as well...
I could hear the Joni Mitchell influence for sure!
I think it's the guy married to Roseanne Cash, Larry Klein?
John Levanthal I believe. He also produced the singer of "Luka" can't think of her name at the moment. He is married to Roseanne Cash
😋😚😤
Cudjoe key
I can't imagine a video that would do this song justice. This album is too full with subtlety and complexity it doesn't leave room for additional media. But it was nice of her to make a video non the less.
If you like this you might like to give Julia Fordham a try. Peace.
The guitar may have weakened this from being a hit. She's a good guitarist just does not suit what she was aiming for here.
It sounds like new Metallica with better drumming
China gets broken
And it will never be the same
Boats on the ocean
Find their way back again
I am weaving
Like a drunkard
Like a balloon up in the air
I am needing a puncture and someone
To point me somewhere
I'm gonna keep my head on straight
I just hope it's not too late
Open up the gate I go straight on, steady on
Steady on!
I was feeling imploded
A wooden smile, a wooden heart
The things exploded
Like rockets in the dark
Now I'm pulling out splinters
And I'm off to hibernate somewhere
For the nuclear winter
Of another love affair
'Cause he seemed like a miracle
I ate it up like cereal
But it was something like shrapnel
Steady On!
It's like ten miles of a two-lane
On a South Dakota wheat plain
In the middle of a hard rain
A slow boat or a fast train
I am gonna keep my head on straight
I'm gonna keep my head on straight