Bad Joe Rising (June 2016)
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TRACKS
- 1. Trouble Again
- 2. Whitewash Blues
- 3. Senseless
- 4. Tie me to the wind
- 5. Falling through the cracks
- 6. The Road
- 7. No Easy Way
- 8. The Angels Sing Sweet Jane
- 9. Push Comes To Shove
- 10. This One
- 11. So, what’s next
- All Songs by Richard Malouin
PLAYERS
- Richard Malouin: Guitar and Vocals (all), Mandolin (1 and 3)
- Steve Morris: Electric guitar (1,4,5,6,7, & 8)
- Mark Thackway: Electric guitar (2,3,6,7,8,9) Acoustic Guitar (5,10,11)
- Todd Larter: Bass guitar (1-9)
- Justin Dillon: Drums and percussion (1-9)
- Garth Dynes: Harmonica (2,6,8,11)
- Phil Howes: Violin (3,11)
- Sarah Frazackerly: Flute (4) Backing vocals (2,4,6,7)
- Hayley Malouin: Backing vocals (2,4,5,6)
- Clare Hillier-Gonzalez: Backing vocals (2,4,5,6)
- Kevin Ker: Backing Vocals (2,6)
Listen on
CREDITS
- Produced by Kevin Ker
- Engineered by Dave Featherstone
- Recorded at Chalet Studios and
- The Epidemic Music Chandelier Room
- Mastered by Peter Letros @ Wreckinghouse
PHOTOS
VIDEO
LYRICS
- Living on the edge; riding on a bubble
- Doing everything right get myself in trouble x2
- I’ve been in trouble since the day I was born
- I’m always in the middle of some bullshit storm
- Gotta a foot in the pan the other in the fire
- Gonna start me a business and call it trouble for hire
- Got a bad disposition and a bullshit detector ‘bout to overload
- Sometimes you stand and fight & sometimes you gotta just hit the road
- when the protest started, I got into the spirit
- When the sirens blew I swear I couldn’t hear it
- I tried to run for cover but I never got near it
- I done everything right to get myself in trouble again
- In the right place right time to get myself in trouble again
- I’m in trouble again
- I’m in trouble again
- A whole lot of trouble again
- I don’t wanna but I know I will
- I can get in trouble just by standing still
- Trouble just won’t seem to leave me alone
- Trouble’s always waiting when I got home
- Where I cut the grass and fixed the porch
- Cleaned the garage and mopped the floors
- I got two thirds through the list on my chores
- And I got into the whiskey and I did no more
- I knew what I was doing; I was getting into trouble again
- I knew what I was doing but I just didn’t stop
- I polished of the bottle to the very last drop
- And if I shut my mouth I could have ended this fight
- And I wouldn’t have to sleep on the couch tonight
- But I couldn’t so I didn’t; now here I am
- In trouble again and don’t give a damn
- I done everything right to get myself in trouble again
- I done everything right to get myself in trouble again
- I’m in trouble again
- I’m in trouble again
- It never is what it is and it aint looking great, uh huh
- It never is what it is and it aint looking great, uh huh
- We’re gonna need a whitewash
- We’re gonna need a whole new coat of paint
- There’s splatter on the walls of the sacred hallowed halls of the King
- The shits been busy flying now it’s time to mop it up
- But here’s the thing
- Don’t get it in your eyes because I tell ya man it’s gonna sting
- It never is what it is and it aint looking great, uh huh
- It never is what it is and it aint looking great, uh huh
- We’re gonna need a whitewash
- We’re gonna need a whole new coat of paint
- I got a sneaky feeling that there are cameras in the ceiling, uh huh
- Taking pictures that they sell in kiosk next to hell, uh huh
- The door is always open
- And you can always find it by the smell
- The owner is a squid; you should see it when it tries to stand up
- It’s walker is a shopping cart; it’s filling it up with your stuff
- He’s a wild eyed consuptionist that never ever seems get enough
- It never is what it is and it aint looking great, uh huh
- It never is what it is and it aint looking great, uh huh
- We’re gonna need a whitewash
- See the writing on the wall. It isn’t news at all
- You always knew it just might come to this
- The noise around you doesn’t stop and when the penny drops
- You try to stop that ringing in your ears
- Hold on tight; you’ve been knocked senseless
- Hold on tight; you’re not defenseless
- You had a taste of love before, but you can’t anymore;
- Just a bitterness inside your mouth
- Something here smells really bad and you know that you’ve been had
- When it looks like a rose and smells just like a rat.
- Hold on tight; you’ve been knocked senseless
- Hold on tight; you’re not defenseless
- Feeling like it’s all a dream. The kind that make you scream
- You feel the sweat pour down your back
- Touched, but unable to feel; it doesn’t seem quite real
- I think I last the feeling in my heart
- Hold on tight; I’ve been knocked senseless
- Hold on tight; we’re not defenseless
- And when a threat gets real again
- And your instincts they just kick
- And you see yourself as if it’s someone else
- Hold on tight; you’ve been knocked senseless
- Hold on tight; you’re not defenseless
- You’re not defenseless
- You’re not defenseless
- We are not senseless
- Tie me to the wind or a wave can you just help me out of this mess
- Honey I aint brave I’m afraid to ask for help I guess
- You gotta understand I’m just a man and I’m doing my best
- That last plan I had went bad like all the rest
- I’ve been babbling excuses so long I’m out of breath
- I can’t think of any more and it’s got me scarred to death
- I broke the rules and I stopped and I asked for directions
- All I found out was my attitude needed correction
- (Chorus)
- Tie me to the wind or a wave
- Something that will roll along for a while and dissipate
- Tie me to the wind or a wave
- Something that can carry me off without a trace
- Tie me to the wind or a wave just don’t through me under the bus
- There was me and you. Remember when I used to be one of us
- I never turned my back on that; I always did want I must
- All I asked for was a little bit of your trust
- (Chorus)
- (Inst. – one verse)
- Don’t knock on my door any more I’m coming just trying to get dressed
- On second thought maybe not I think I’ll just go back to bed
- I guess it’s true what they say about the wicked; that we get no rest
- I think you just aught a go away I’m really not at my best
- I won’t be buying anything you’re selling at all
- It’s too late for that now go away don’t bother to call
- You always had the knack for making me feel small
- So I guess I just wont be around next time you fall
- (final chorus)
- I’ll be on the wind or a wave
- Something that will roll along for a while and dissipate
- I’ll be on the wind the wind or a wave
- Something that can carry me off without a trace
- I got nine lives and I think I’ve already used up eight
- They’ve fallen through the cracks.
- Dispossessed and stranded with no way of getting back
- Kicked off of the front page and send down the wrong track
- Racing to eternity and wound up in obscurity
- Somewhere down there down among the cracks
- And completely off the rails;
- There are no good intensions here
- There’s an ill wind in your sails
- Life gives you no extensions
- And you know it never fails
- Two feet firmly on the ground
- The big black dog gonna come around
- Take you down and knock you off the rails
- I never knew there are so many shades of blue
- I thought I’ve felt all of them after all that I’ve been through
- Recently it seems to me this darkness that surrounding me
- Just might be a whole new shade of bluee
- No one hears you anymore
- You can stamp your feet and beat your chest
- But you will be ignored
- They used to hang on every word
- But that was before
- Too much time is never kind
- When you’re out of sight and out of mind
- No it seems no one hears you any more
- I bet you never know there were so many shades of blue
- You thought you knew all of them and I thought I did too
- Lately it appears to me this darkness that follows me
- The road the road it just brought me here
- The road the road it just brought me here
- I close my eyes and cover my ears
- The road the road it just brought me here
- How I got here aint so clear
- I was only stopping in for a beer
- Something happened when you came near
- It must be something in the atmosphere
- I stumble forward without any fear
- Started the engine and put it in gear
- Try as I might but I just couldn’t steer
- The road the road it just brought me here
- The road the road it just brought me here
- The road the road it just brought me here
- I close my eyes and cover my ears
- The road the road it just brought me here
- Now I’m scratching at your back door
- I know you told me don’t come round here no more
- Your intensions were abundantly clear
- But I tell you it’s the road that brought me here
- No road blocks to interfere
- No detours and I show no fear
- I got the engine and I got the gears
- I got the road that brought me here
- The road the road it just brought me here
- The road the road it just brought me here
- I close my eyes and cover my ears
- The road the road it just brought me here
- Half of my life is spent on the run
- The other half is for having fun
- You might say it’s a full-time career
- I’m sorry lady, I really am
- I hung around way too long
- Lying to you and fooling myself
- This whole thing is just wrong
- Aint no easy way to say we’re done
- See ya round sometime, it’s been fun
- Aint no easy way to say we’re done
- Just pack a bag, load the car and run, again
- Just pack a bag, load the car and run
- Call up the office just to talk to a machine
- Leave a message when you hear the beep
- Speaking clearly so they catch the drift
- They’re gonna be short this shift
- Aint no easy way to say I quit
- For your information this is it
- I won’t be coming back here anymore
- Before I use the window I think I’ll just use the door
- Before I use the window I think I’ll just use the door
- (bridge)
- Either way you turn is as good as the other
- When you know you aint coming back
- All you want to do is run for cover
- It’s your sanity that’s under attack
- Aint no easy way to get it done
- When the chip on your shoulder weighs a ton
- And you seem to think that you’re the only one
- The only one around here not having any fun
- The only one around with sense left enough to run
- Aint no easy way; anit no way
- And it doesn’t really matter what you got to say
- It’s in motion now your options are few
- Aint no easy way to do it but you get thru
- Aint no easy way to do it but you get thru
- Page8
- Building bridges just to burn them down
- As soon as I get across
- No use following or hanging around
- Or crying about what you lost
- Aint no easy way of getting by
- By hook or crook you know you have to try
- And you seem to think that you’re the only one
- The only one around here not having any fun
- The only one around with sense left enough to run
- I check my pulse each day before I get out of bed
- No point in getting up if not completely sure you’re no dead
- I know that you are speaking but don’t understand what you say
- Everything I hear sounds like mumbo jumbo anyway
- I’m heal on fire from the flames coming up from behind
- It seems I burned another bridge but hey, I really don’t mind
- All it really means is I can’t go back to being blind
- I should act like I care but I don’t so I won’t this time
- Don’t ever let the clowns coax you onto their bus
- They’ll wait till you’re not looking and all start making a fuss
- When no one is watching they get nervous and start to combust
- Just give them something shiny and a topic they can discuss
- Like trying to count the angels dancing on the end of a pin
- They keep hopping on and off so I have to start all over again.
- They’re all getting drunk and loudly singing ‘Sweet Jane”
- And holding out their glasses but I’m all out of Champaign
- I used to hang out on edges but I don’t go there anymore
- I used to listen to the words by it seems I heard them all before
- It all the same from my position down here on the floor
- Just prop me up and point me in the general direction of the door
- Just prop me up and point me in the general direction of the door
- This one has a broken heart
- This one was broken from the start
- This one is falling all apart
- This one turns it into art
- This one always seems so ashamed
- This one is not the one to blame
- This ones in for penny or a pound
- This one is always hanging around
- This one starts a fight
- So this one closes up inside
- This one is more broken than flat
- This one is not the same as that
- This one has nowhere to go
- This one is not the devil that you know
- This one has played the game before
- This one has locked and barred the door
- This one never got a brake
- This one is a liar and a fake
- This one doesn’t talk
- This one is screaming run don’t walk
- This one is a room for all the fools
- This one is where you learn the rules
- This one contains no clues
- This one is not the one you use
- This one just pretends to be a clown
- This one is too high to ever come down
- This one is never as it seems
- This one gave up on all their dreams
- This one came unmade
- This one just wants to not be afraid anymore
- This one fits just like a glove
- And once in a while
- I find myself smiling
- And I think this is nice
- If only for a little while
- And then it’s gone
- Just like that in a wink
- And I stop and turn and face whatever is next
- Yet sometimes
- I step away from this race
- Where I can dream
- I dream about a time place
- I know I Can never recreate
- But the sense and the feelings of the moment come to me and I smile
- And once in a while
- I think I might be happy
- Then I realize
- I’ve probably lost my mind
- When the light comes on
- And I am all alone again
- And I stop and turn and face whatever comes next
- There are times when I don’t have to deal with this
- I put my feet up and I get to looking back
- At this and that and I try to find some meaning
- And I come to the point in the story where I face this fact
- That was then and this is now get used to it
- You can’t go back: It’s over; stick a fork in it
- Make it just A memory without regret