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B​-​Room

by Dr. Dog

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1.
The Truth 04:26
The truth don’t stop It makes you move Round and round Like the moon It’s comin down The truth don’t stop It’s really coming The truth don’t stop it’s falling hard The truth don’t stop Another day The truth don’t stop Thunder and lightning The devil’s done I paid my dues But he just won’t quit He don’t like to lose (chorus) let the rain fall
2.
Broken Heart 03:36
I never really had a broken heart. I always played it kinda close to my chest. Love for me’s just been a walk in the park. It doesn’t really matter, It never really mattered. I never really had a broken heart. It’s always such a shock to me. What looks to me like people going through the motions, but when it’s over their hearts are broken. I’m fine on the shelf She really loved him, I couldn’t see it He really loved her, I don’t believe it, oh no Freedom from love, freedom from the heartache I never really had a broken heart. You don’t believe me, just look at my chest The way some people like to run and hide, I never really, really. I never really. I never really had a broken heart. I’ve never really ever been undone. It’s just playing house. If two can do it, you can do it too. You better hit the ground running.
3.
There’s the wrong to the right There’s the day to the night We’re turning it off But it goes on There you are to the other There’s the sky to the mountain Be still in the wind For it goes on And on Yeah it goes on and on, and on I don’t wanna make you mad I don’t wanna make you at all We’re minding the usher Move along Dirt was the man And his mouth was the river For she is the day As the dawn On and on, and on Yeah it goes on and on, and on (chorus)
4.
The man appeared to me inside that yellow wood. I’d carved his name in the dirt, at the crossroads where we stood. He said, “Are you looking for directions?” I said, “Gee, I wish you would. Which way to the infinite road that unwinds from within.” He said, “Follow the distant light” Oh’ you know I will! Follow the distant light, just a little bit over the hill Follow the distant light and although you’ll never near it. You can travel on forever and you’ll never be back here. I said, “alright” The stranger appeared to me, he hopped down from his tree. I said, “I can give you anything, but you know that nothing’s free.” Well I could take it or leave it. I said, “well what do you want from me.” He said, “nothing much really, just a small token of appreciation that would mean so little to man like you and so much to a man like me.” Gimme the distant light. Oh no I cannot do it Gimme the distant light, he said through his teeth Gimme the distant light I said, “I aint quite yet through with it” As I saw it shining dimly through the branches of his tree, I walked on Following the distant light. Like the way some people look for parking Following the distant light, and tripping all over my feet But following the distant light And I know if I keep walking, I’ll never touch it, but as long as I move it’ll shine down on me.
5.
Phenomenon 03:55
Open roads, broken rope Sign me up, give me will To keep the hounds from sitting still Any longer Red skies at night, The mornings white The sky is blue The sky is green Am I, to you, to intervene? The fire’s like the gasoline And you are like the smoke You’re always leaving But you’re never gone You’re everywhere at once Like a true phenomenon So take me down your old back roads And show me where you go That god may help me know it When I see it I could use a job But I ain’t for hire You ask and you receive Or you learn to make believe The fire’s like the gasoline And you are like the smoke (chorus)
6.
I was a child when I left home. I wandered blindly until I roamed. While others have secrets I have none. Now I’m too weak, too weak, too weak, to ramble Bitter the fruit Withered the vine Long gone the virgin who danced til she died I’m here in the valley, hidden from light Too weak, too weak, too weak, to ramble Too low to get up Too weak to try Too drunk to stagger Too gone to lie I always told myself I’d make it out of here alive But, I’m too weak, too weak, too weak, to ramble
7.
I fell asleep around quarter to four I had a dream my baby didn’t want me no more I was drowning in a sea of love I was swallowed up by the water above Oh water above, oh water below Take me away in your undertow I’ve been drinking from a broken cup And a long way down means a long way up Yeah a long way down, means a long way up When I came to I was feeling high I got a telephone call from a friend of mine Coming through so loud and clear Yeah he was picking me up Man he felt so near When I hung up, and I looked around I could hear the rain hit the cold cold ground But there was sunshine just because and it didn’t matter what the weather was Yeah a long way down, means a long way up… Something unreal. I won’t slave for them I won’t behave for them. I will be brave. You can laugh about it, If you just let go.
8.
Cuckoo 04:04
I never really left. I was never gone. I never strayed too far from where I was I never noticed it. But now I know… I come out for a minute and go back again It goes on. It goes on So strange it seems to want so bad. To pine for things I never had So far the gate. So far the fence. I come out for a minute and go back again It goes on. It goes on And the cuckoo sang With his hoot and twang He come out for a minute he went back again Getting out of the rain And the cuckoo sang, and the cuckoo sang Come out for a minute, he went back again Stone cold cuckoo! Hexed and hoodooed. Here! Well, I was once just like you. Born to roam and ramble too. So strange it seems to fade to blue
9.
Twilight 03:35
I catch a falling star Beneath the sky of velvet blue I catch the night bird’s call Beneath the honeymoon with you To sweethearts in love with the twilight That thrills you and fills up your cup Just outside At night Looking up Silhouettes of alley cats The day is done The night is new I’ve fallen into a dream Beneath the honeymoon with you (chorus) (chorus)
10.
Rock & Roll 03:07
When I was young, yeah I was young one time, we’ve all been young. But, this one time when I was young my buddy gave me a tape. And it freaked me out. I didn’t know what to do. It was like TNT. I was in my brother’s room. And another time, different house, different song, different friend, different band, he had real long hair, pulled the record out, put the needle on and freaked me out. I’d never done drugs. I barely brushed my teeth. But I was on the floor all glassy eyed fucked up beyond belief. Who’da known, who’da known, who’da known, who’da known That it would be rock and roll That would terrify and eat me That would haunt me so completely Yeah you were there, summer-time, young love, halcyon days, elysian fields, Marlboro reds, white car, blue eyes, cd in, cd in, cd in, a cd in a car stereo and it freaked me out. What he said about love. You were right there, I don’t know where I was. How much do I owe my uncle? I suspect it’s more than I can pay. He gave us a tascam, some maxells, a shure 57 and a stereo delay and we freaked me out. Yeah the hum and the hiss. We were only 16, but we were the shit.
11.
Love 03:41
There goes my baby There goes my bride Feels like the first time, Time and time again She was the one, she was the only she was a mystery imagine my surprise. I went to London Down to the dungeon I’ve been to hell if I’ve been any other way If I’m not mistaken I wasn’t taken I found my own damn way down there for love. But can it last All my life As it passes? I met her in a costume Underneath a full moon Love from the stormiest skies. The whole masquerade stopped Yet another shoe dropped But it was just another kind of disguise I’m holding on Don’t ask me why I am afraid the only answer is a lie. I tell myself The strangest stories, I aint a crow I found a crooked way to fly oh love But can it last All my life As it passes by (chorus)
12.
Nellie 03:37
Does she wander deep inside her slumber from dream to dream? What does she dream? You know you love her, but do you really know her? I look in her face I know I’m somewhere in there. But, she’s somebody else. She’s somebody new. And I can’t help myself from going wandering with her from room to room. Today, tomorrow, today Oh Nellie Does she wander deep inside her slumber from dream to dream? What does she dream? Oh to hold her, so happy just to know her I got an old notebook, it’s filled with bits and baubles. I wanna tighten it up and put it in her room between the hyacinth and the book of Aesop’s fables. I wanna go there soon.

credits

released September 30, 2013

All songs written by Dr.Dog.
All songs produced, engineered and mixed by Dr.Dog
and Nathan Sabatino at Mt. Slippery. 2013.

Dr.Dog is Slick, Old Tober, Gasoline Monster, F.X. Mackanoid, Mickenz and Z.U.

Thank you, Tadd, Balz, Jim, Brian McTear, Andy Kaulken.

Greg Perkins – fiddle on Phenomenon

Horns arranged by E. Slick

Horns Antibalas:
Stuart Bogie - tenor saxophone
Matt Bauder - baritone saxophone
Jordan McLean - trumpet

All songs published:
Hunterisadog (ASCAP)
All rights administered by Kobalt Songs Music
Publishing ASCAP
Except-
Minding the Usher
Hunterisadog (ASCAP) and Grow Your Own Music (ASCAP)
Twilight
Hunterisadog (ASCAP) and Cabin Crease Music (ASCAP)

Mastered by Brian Lucey

Back Cover Photo By Nickie Divine with assistance from Larry DeMark

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