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Stella Ray

by Shane Cooley

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Shane Cooley was ready for a mental vacation when he penned and self-produced his new summer single, “Stella Ray.” “One of my favorite Beach Boys songs is ‘Barbara Ann,” said Cooley. “In the recording, you can hear people laughing and carrying on in the background. I love the spirit of escapism in that.”

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Stella Ray

Mm Stella Ray
I am grateful for your ways
And unfiltered kindness
And your traveling soul

I've been astray
For several years or twenty
Rip Van Winkle wakes up and finds it funny
How people spend their money these days

Everyone is pent up
Living in a box
And they don't know
Any other way but to play the game
Win the prize and wind up in the suburbs
But honey that's not me at all
And I don't think that you're like that either
So maybe we could meet up somewhere sweeter
Down the line when you want it or need it
Stella Ray
Oh Stella Ray
Stella Ray

Stella Ray
Another fella may come on to you
But that's alright
Every night is your night and mine
And then it's our time
Whenever you want it or you're needing it
I'm not asking you to sign any dotted lines
Man I've been there before
It left me defeated and out of my mind

Pent up
Living in a box
And they don't know
Any other way but to play the game
Win the prize and wind up in the suburbs
But honey that's not me at all
And I don't think that you're like that either
So maybe we could meet up somewhere sweeter
Down the line when you want it or need it
Stella Ray
Oh Stella Ray
Stella Ray
Stella Ray

Stella Ray
We're in a room of marimbas
So shiver me timbers
And let's have a time or two

We may only live once
But note the resemblance
Of what's been unspoken
And what keeps us open

So we don't wind up pent up
Living in a box
And they don't know
Any other way but to play the game
Win the prize and wind up in the suburbs
But honey that's not me at all
And I don't think that you're like that either
So maybe we could meet up somewhere sweeter
Down the line when you want it or need it
Stella Ray
Oh Stella Ray
Stella Ray

Stella Ray
Oh Stella Ray
Stella Ray

credits

released July 8, 2022
- Written, performed and produced by Shane Forest Cooley (ASCAP)


- Recorded at Cooleyland Studio in Mollusk, VA


- All instruments performed by Shane Cooley


- Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering, NYC


- Cover art by Shane Cooley

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Shane Cooley Mollusk, Virginia

*photo by Bill Goodman
'He's one hit away from radio stardom...with a hungry confidence that may prove his hip-shaking ways will soon be making their way to bigger stages.'

- Jeff Miller, Billboard Magazine
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