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The Year of My Ramona
05:21
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And now it’s come
To the end of the road
And we got to say fare-the-well
Don’t know about you
But I’m gonna miss this
This crazy-ass ride on this carousel
It was the year of my Ramona
How could I forget (I can’t forget)
How could I forget (I can’t forget)
It was the year of my Ramona
So filled with regret
My Ramona
I look in your eyes
But I can’t read ‘em
Don’t know if you’re happy or or you're sad
You’ve always been
A bit ambiguous
As I stand before you unclad
You’ve got your issues
That’s what you say
Actually you call them quirks
But they don’t bother me
I could care less
I just love how your mind works
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You told me at the start
That you did not like the cut of my jib
Then you pulled out a knife
And you stuck it right under my rib
You said if I caused trouble
You would hand me my ass
Well I must admit I admired
Your balls of brass
But no, no I will never be your slave
No, no I will never be afraid
You tried your very best
To keep me under your thumb
Guess you thought I was an easy mark
Or just kind of dumb
Well I let you think
That you could run me into the ground
And when you went in for the kill
Well I was nowhere to be found
You tried to keep me down
Any old way that you could
You tried to make me look like a fool
You said you did it for the common good
But I did not sit back
And let you run yourself all over me
I stood up against you
And the rest is history
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3. |
You Can't Go Home Again
06:07
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Well I pulled in to my old town
A town I hadn't seen in years
I'd forgotten the names of the streets
And the names of my old peers
My old house and my old school
They pretty much looked the same
But there was something dark underneath
Something I could not name
You can't go home again
No you can't go home again
There ain't nothing for you there
There ain't no one who gives a care
I went to a bar to get me a drink
And I saw my old buddy Joe
I asked him what he'd been up to
And he said, Who really wants to know
You've not been back here since '72
So it's not like you give a shit
Whoever we are, whatever we do
Look around, this is it
Joe and I got into his truck
And we drove out to Buzzards Dam
We talked about the old times
And when he got back from Nam
Joe, he got pretty shit-faced
And said, Some things never last
I'm not sure what the answer is
But it doesn't exist in the past
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Look Out Below
04:05
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What was I thinking
Hell I don’t know
That I could affect some sort of change
I’d worked like the devil
My whole life long
Why does that seem so strange
I had this vision
Of a better world
Of a world where we’re all holding hands
I know that seems silly
I know that’s naive
But it’s what my heart understands
Look out below
Here I come
Ready to save the day
Look out below
Here I come
Everything'll be OK
What was I thinking
Had some big ideas
And one by one they imploded
It fucked me up
Tore at my heart
All my confidence eroded
How could I get back
To where I once belonged
Just like the Beatles had said
I left my home
In Tucson Arizona
And with my dreams I fled
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5. |
My One Last Shot
05:04
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Found a letter in my journal
From St Martin’s Press
Said they really liked my novel
It was someone saying “yes”
Don’t remember that I got it
Don’t remember it at all
Then it came screaming back to me
Like a flaming fireball
You took it all away
My one last shot
Never had my heyday
It was all I got
This is how I would repay
The life I bought
My one last shot
You said we had a deal
For my transgression
Tit for tat and tat for tit
Or some kind of expression
I tried to say sorry
But it was not enough
You would never forgive me
You stood pretty tough
You rarely get a shot
Only happens now and then
And if you don’t take it
Well it may never come again
This has been my story
This is how it went for me
And I can only dream of a life
Of a different history
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I Wancha Back
03:22
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I wancha back
I wancha back
Ahhhhhhh
I wancha back
I wancha back
You got a thing about you baby
Can't say just what it is
You got a thing about you baby
I think it's 'bout to make me schiz
You got a thing about you baby
And it's kicked me in the guts
You got a thing about you baby
And it turns me into a klutz
You got a thing about you baby
Got a block rockin' beat
You got a thing about you baby
Without you I am incomplete
You got a thing about you baby
I know that you don't take no flack
You got a thing about you baby
Can't you see that I wancha back
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Nowherebound
07:00
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Got a ticket for my destination
Standing here in a subway station
But I don't know
I don't know which way to go
Should I go to where lights are bright
Should I go into the dead of night
Well I don't know
I don't know friend from foe
And I am nowherebound
Just look around, just look around
And I am nowherebound
Can't be found, can't be found
So I board an outbound train
Got nothing to lose and nothing to gain
'Cause I don't know
I don't know what difference it makes
The train gets stuck halfway through
And the conductor he don't know just what to do
He don't know
He don't know what's wrong with the brakes
Somewhere over the rainbow
There I go, there I go
Somewhere over the rainbow
There I go, there I go
"A girl in a white dress
Was being courted out among the cars:
As her voice swarmed and puddled into laughs
I felt like some old pike all badged with sores
Wanting to swim in touch with soft-mouthed life"
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Point of Reference
04:45
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You don't get what I am up to
You don't see from my point of view
It's like I speak a different language
You're a headline and I'm a haiku
You look at me with derision
Like what I do is pretty dumb
But if you've never put it all on the line
How can you know where I'm coming from
You don't got any point of reference
You've no idea what I'm on about
You look at me like I'm an alien
I give you doubt
You've never struggled with a direction
There's no place you've wanted to go
Everything has been taken care of
What you don't know you don't know
You look at me with discomfort
You'd rather I never even come around
"Don't go messing with my foundation"
You say, "don't disturb the ground"
Maybe you should try to write a poem
Spill your guts out on the page
Being met with indifference
You'd have a better way to gauge
Don't expect you'll be understanding
Don't want your sympathy
But I don't want your judgment
Like something is wrong with me
There are days when I just can't stand it
There are days when I lose my voice
There are days when it's all too painful
But then I continue, I have no choice
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Ozymandias
04:34
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Not so long ago and not so far away
In a kingdom down the block
A big ol’ dude well he held sway
He says, It’s my way or the highway
Ozymandias
King of kings
Ozymandias
Look on my works and despair
The big ol’ dude built his world out of sand
His self-belief as tough as any Ayn Rand
He says, I gotta know right where you stand
He had his own enforcers
Who preyed upon the weak
Their modus operandi
Was not all that unique
Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
Everything has its prime
But the big ol’ dude he did not know
That he’d run out of time
The big ol’ dude he only wanted more and more
Nothing was enough to satisfy his need to score
He says, Do what I say or I’ll stab you like a matador
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Hiraeth
05:20
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There is a place
There is a place I know
There is a place lost to the past
And it is a home
It is a home long gone
And I hold on to it steadfast
Was it a dream
Was it all a dream I had
These days I just don't know
I feel a grief
I feel a grief deep down
I feel a grief that lays me low
Hiraeth, hiraeth
Oh how I yearn
Hiraeth, hiraeth
No I can't return
There is a house
There is a house somewhere
It has a smell that brings me back
There is my mom
And there is my dear old dad
They say lay down my sack
There is land
A land I knew
It seems a million mile away
I wanna go
I wanna go right now
Before I get to my last day
Just gotta laugh
Just gotta laugh at the sky
It's all so strange and vast
What is the point
What is the point of it all
When nothing will ever last
Hiraeth, hiraeth
Oh how I yearn
Hiraeth, hiraeth
No I can't return
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Barbaric Poem
04:58
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I am crude, I am grotesque
My words skid along, long, long
In a clumsy arabesque
I'm a bull in a China shop
My muscles slither out my tank top
Hey diddle, diddle
The dog and the piddle
I am boom, boom, boom
I am hunger, I am appetite
I am hot, hot, hot as burning anthracite
I am desire, I am rage
C'mon and bust that lock
Lemme out of my cage
Hey diddle, diddle
The dog and the piddle
I am desire
I am lust
I leave my enemies nonplussed
I am avarice
I am intoxication
I am the trend that sweeps the nation
Hey diddle, diddle
The dog and the piddle
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12. |
Without You
06:51
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I said hold, hold me now
Hold me in your arms
And find peace
I said stop, stop worrying about
All the things
Things you cannot fix
I said come, come to me
Let me fill you up with my seed
I said dream
It’s all a dream
What will it be when we wake
Sky is blue, shining now
Waiting for you
And I'm still here
Say without fear that I
I can't live without you
Without you
I said see, see me as I am
Look me in the eye
Don’t turn away
Well we can blow, we can blow our minds
Change our path and make it real
I said be, c’mon and be with me
Don’t deny what you feel
It can be true
True as you want it to be
Just let me in to your heart
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"It was hell," recalls former child.
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