Centuries ago we were living on the gold coast,
She was still in love with a long gone cold ghost,
I was only trying to turn back the tide of her tears.
I felt like an endless ocean rolling through the fog,
Full emotion drifting like a weather beaten log,
I even thought that I out-thought her,
Till she said 'Babe, you're just a wave, you're not the water.'
Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Lubbock, Texas. His earliest musical influence was Hank Williams and the honky tonk brand of country music that his father played. In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other Texans such as Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Lubbock native Buddy Holly. He was profoundly influenced in the 1960s by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan and the folk music and blues revival in that decade. Read more on Last.fm