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Borderline - Album

by Carl Lorusso Jr.

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1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
Two Steps 03:36
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
Borderline 04:06
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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Recorded in the spring of 2012, at Point Blank Productions in Toronto. All songs written by Carl Lorusso Jr.

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released February 2, 2013

Produced, engineered and mixed by Harrison Fine
Mastered by George Graves at Laquer Channel Mastering

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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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