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On to Chicago
04:09
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I wake up every morning with that fire burning bright
Burning thoughts and lucid sparks, shooting through my mind
The beer stains in my notebook bring these poems back to life
Here lays the only grains of freedom I could find
Eighteen hours wasted get your feet back on the ground
I waited all night for that bus, man, it never came around
But I ain't too shook, I got a bottle and a book to pass the time
And I'll sit here and watch as they cross that ol' fall line
I've got Jesus on my side, but he often likes to hide behind me
And the devil that I loved flew like a dove and put a knife in the side of me
But she's in my mind every night as if she's lying beside me
Laying down the coals and running through barefoot
He pointed at my heart, he said "kid you be careful"
Everything can change in a lonely moment night
It takes a peek into the darkness, just to see the light
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2. |
Take Me Back Down
04:41
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I went down, I went down, I went down
A teardrop falling from the clouds
From wherever I was climbing to
Eighteen wired, and feeling mean
A bus ticket and an eye to the gleam
Just trying to claim me some point of view
But I’m tired of waiting on a call
I’m going back to New York City in the fall
Things will be different, nothing ever stays the same
Find a new road to walk alone
Find a new drug to keep me loaded
And play my guitar on the steps of memory lane
Take me back now
I went down, I went down to the river
My axe on my back and my feet full of slivers
Watched as the tree of life began to wither
Then I walked on back down home
An ace, a spade and a heart for hire
I can almost hear the choir
Oh my love blow the dust off this golden crown
Take me back down
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47b to Yorkdale
03:57
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I forget, and I forgive myself again
A hundred ways a man can die, but this ain't one of them
I feel nothing now just lost in this contentment
Sweet, sweet silence, I'm mercy at your feet
All I've ever known is noise
There are so many words I would have liked to speak
Just never seemed to find my voice
Strung out reeling, chase this feeling straight from my mind
So I let it slip, and with wine stained lips
I kiss my worries goodnight
I forget, pull the promise from the regret
Pull the last of a cigarette, and let it fall away
Nothing changes I've learned, days just pass in turn
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4. |
Two Steps
03:36
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Two steps down the line
But I’ve been walking for some time
In the rain, no paper bag over my brain
God complex and a fear that anything should ever change
Waited too long now
Good thing gone hear that lonesome sound
From my soul, like rock and roll
I try harder than you’ll ever know
There’s one bullet in this .44
Get my foot out of my mouth and in this closing door
Before it shuts, cigarette lust
This town ain’t easy on people like us
I’ve got more to give
Nothing tastes quite like a life unlived
Sinking stones, and broken homes
And everything I used to know
Come running back again
Two steps down the line
But it feels like miles in my mind
The places you’ll go, we’ve already been
Come running back again
Come running back again
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Cocaine Smile
04:38
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All the oceans turn to streams
Trusted nightmares turn to dreams
If you want to set me free
I could make good use of the relief
Days like embers, falling from the flame
Truth be told I'd turn away
Like a child, like a child
Cigarette tooth, cocaine smile
Think of me once in a while
There's a darkness in my light
There's a burning in my sights
If you want to set me straight
There's nothing I can't laugh away
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6. |
Main Street Man
03:50
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I've been dreaming of walking them back roads again
I've been dreaming of walking them back roads again
Lord have mercy, I ain't no main street man
Wipe the dirt from my boots, kick the sweat from my brow
Wipe the dirt from my boots, kick the sweat from my brow
Made it this far, mama and I don't know how
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Borderline
04:06
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Well I dropped off, and I burned out good
In the darkness I thought I'd been blind
Three years wild, wandering the woods
But mama I'm coming home tonight
And I don't want to live just to pass the time
I've been running from something near all of my life
Lord I've been living on borrowed time
Just trying to find peace on the borderline
My mind's playing tricks with what I believe
I'm losing the plot and I don't know the scene
I ain't done enough killin', to be playing the villian
But there ain't no hero in me
And I don't want to live just to pass the time
I've been running from something near all of my life
Lord I've been living on stolen dimes
Just trying to find peace on the borderline
I'm feeling the weight of things that I can't control
Sing me along borderline
I've been weak, and I've been bold
But mama I'm coming home tonight
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Carl Lorusso Jr. Toronto, Ontario
2017 Toronto Independent Music Award nominee for "Best Folk/Roots".
"Carl is a
powerhouse wordsmith whose songs represent the dystopian view of a youthful generation.”
-Harrison Fine, producer, FINE Productions
“Shades of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen rolled into his own unique style. Very well written & sung.”
– Randy Skaggs, Q108 Kingston
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