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It's All A Mystery
02:56
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Well I can’t tell if it’s rain
Or all my tears of pain
It’s all a mystery,
and you know that I can’t hide
Was it me that let you go?
or something that I don’t know?
It’s all a mystery,
and you know that I can’t hide
I’m combing through our days and nights,
just lookin’ for a lead
on where’d you go,
what went wrong,
girl, what made you leave?
I’m fallin’ through the holes I made
I’m muckin’ up the gold
I was on track, but the trail’s gone cold
Will we still be more than friends?
Will I ever see you again?
It’s all a mystery,
and you know that I can’t hide
It aint in my place to solve this case,
I’ve never been the type
To grab a pipe, and fade into the night...
Was it me who played the clown?
Will I ever figure it out?
It’s all a mystery,
and you know that I can’t hide
Will I find out who’s to blame?
Will I slowly go insane?
It’s all a mystery,
and you know that I can’t hide...
It’s all a mystery...
And girl, you’re the reason why...
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2. |
Why
03:17
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Got up early this morning and I went to my job
And I really had to ask myself why
Came home late in the evening tired as a dog
And I really had to ask myself why
I just really had to ask myself why
I really had to ask myself why
‘Cause it’s sooner or it’s later when we’re off of this ride
And I really had to ask myself why
Burned all of my free time scrolling through my phone
And I really had to ask myself why
Looked at 100,000 pictures just to feel less alone
And I really had to ask myself why
Well, there’s bills and there’s meetings
and a strong sense of dread
and a fear that some empty big head
will make us all wind up dead
Still, there’s freedom, friends, and family,
and a will to survive...
I went down to the river, but I didn’t drown
Figured might as well see what happens if I stick around
I just really had to ask myself why
I really had to ask myself why
‘Cause it’s sooner or it’s later when we’re off of this ride
And I really had to ask myself why
I just really had to ask myself why
I just really had to ask myself why…
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3. |
Stop Playing Around
05:07
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Stop playin’ around
With my heart and my mind
You’re lookin’ for attention
That’s not something you’ll find
You’re someone else’s baby
You’re someone else’s squeeze
Stop playing around
I shouldn’t have to say please
Stop talkin’ ‘bout “on the side”
That wouldn’t make you all mine
I couldn’t have you for days and nights
We couldn’t spend all our time
You couldn’t be my girl
I couldn’t be your guy
Stop playin’ around
I shouldn’t have to say why
I shouldn’t have to crawl on bended knee
Asking you to forget
Beggin’ you to leave
For days and weeks on end
You strung me along
Tellin’ me how you’re leaving him
How your life is all wrong
Don’t you have someone else?
Don’t you have a life?
Stop playin around
Stop making me cry
Cuz when I get home, I’ll be all alone
Flip on the tube, give my dog a bone
Go through my fridge, and turn off the light
Thinkin’ about you
And where you could be tonight...
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4. |
West Coast
04:10
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Hidin’ out in the west coast
You found the people who would care most
Tied your picture with a rubber band...
Had a model life, then transposed
Read your story and took notes
They think it’s easy, they don’t understand...
What’s the reason for you traveling so far?
You’re always by yourself, my dear,
No matter where you are
And, oh, forgiveness, you know it comes so hard
But still you’re hiding out by the railways
Shooting scars...
Then one day you’d stop to need such help
Realized only you can love yourself
Even stars explode into a cloud...
“You got to build yourself a new life”
Said the stranger with the blue eyes
Then he disappeared into the crowd…
Well…
It’s not that far,
It’s not that far...
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5. |
Old Rochelle
04:06
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Oh Rochelle, Ol' Rochelle,
I am under your spell
I should have known—since you're from there—
That you'd put me through hell
All the secrets and the lies
That I never can tell
Still, you know that I love you, Rochelle
You've been by my side all along now, dear
But to light your sight is what I would fear
I've spent cold, lonely, days
And dark, secret, nights
But I know, in the end, it'll be all right...
If the truth came out, I have no doubt
That most of these folks won't be hangin' 'round
But that's the way you were born
It's been there for so long
In your dress, I confess, is where you belong...
Oh, Rochelle...
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6. |
Flyin' Through The Ages
05:00
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Well, it seems my time it's been
Flyin' through the ages
Turnin' all the pages of my old life's story
Nights are getting colder
Children gettin' older
I ain't smarter, but I'm bolder
I still don't know what's good for me
I've been a fool, I've been a savior
I've shown people the light, and I've led them to danger, but
Nothing's been so right as making a new life
With my wife and child by my side
Well, it seems this life it's been not much to speak of
I'm writing words and beats for some ol' forgotten melody
That's when I feel the realest
But songs, cyphers, and big hits
They all fade in the distance when I dream about you and me
I've been a fool, I've been a savior
I've shown people the light, and I've led them to danger, but
Nothing's been so right as making a new life
With my wife and child by my side
I've been a fool, I've been a savior
I've shown people the light, and I've led them to danger, but
Nothing's been so right as making a new life
With my wife and child by my side
Nothing's been so right as making a new life
With my wife and child by my side
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7. |
Pretty Sly Diane
02:29
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She Photoshopped my face into a picture that she’s seen,
It was so true-to-life, but I was never in that scene
And now I face the judge who’ll say he’ll throw away the key
Her photo manipulation skills have destroyed all my dreams
We were together for a time, it was butterflies and roses
She accumulated pictures of my face in many poses
She slapped my head on someone else, the skin tones they did match
And now I’m stuck up in a cell with a lonely iron latch
I encouraged her to take some night classes for her health
At the local community college, put a diploma on her shelf
But she used them skills of hers to make it seem like I was there
Standin’ over her dead lover with a knife, a smile, and no care!
So I’m facing 20 years with not one chance of parole
I guess I’ll write some letters, try to clear things with my folks
And maybe my attorney will someday do his job
When he finally leaves my baby—that two-timin’ dirty slob!
I encouraged her to take some night classes for her heath
At the local city college, add a skill under her belt
But she used them skills of hers to make it seem like I was there
Standin’ over her dead lover with a knife, a smile, and no care!
She Photoshopped my face into a picture that she’s seen,
It was so true-to-life, but I was never in that scene
The shady ways of that dame made the shell of man I am
It’s plain to see that ‘PSD’ for me stands for “Pretty Sly Diane”!
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8. |
The Bullet
04:10
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Come with me babe, I'm gonna take that train
It'll put me out quick like a bullet to my brain
And it don't matter, I’m gonna take my soul away
Gettin' higher than a drunk out on 16th street,
Ain't nobody baby gonna discuss me
And it don't matter, I’m gonna take my soul away
Well, you know life is tough
Sometimes, I’ve had enough
And then start cryin'
I’m lonely tonight
Say it'll be all right
Hold me babe, cuz it feels like I'm really dyin'
When you're far from home,
It's such a long way down that you fall,
and your heart's so weak from pinin'...
Standing tall,
Then you fall back down
All you want is for her to come home
To make it right again
When you packed and left,
Well, my heart collapsed to the ground, and ev’ry hour that passed,
It felt like days
If we start anew
Darling, I’ll be true
Oh my love,
I’ll quit all of
My wild and rowdy ways...
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9. |
When Molly SIngs
06:40
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Huggin’ all them curves, eastbound 110
Off to that damned place where I’d just been
She takes me off to places I’ve never been
Flowin’ through my heart and through my skin
When Molly Sings...
When Molly Sings...
When Molly Sings...
I forget those things
One more shot of caffeine to help me pretend I care
Yeah, we’re “moving forward”, I’m goin’ backwards and nowhere
Tryin’ to save what’s left of my hair
Thinkin’ of home and yearning to be there
But when Molly sings...
How does time fly there, when it moves here so slow?
Am I valued or one foot out? I don't know
Missin’ what he’s sayin’, and missin’ him grow...
But I can drift off to her songs on my radio
When Molly sings...
Like twigs of the treetops swayin’ in the wind
She barely moves, but her sound is deafening
When I get lost, she guides me home again
Drowning in her ocean, and in her sand
When Molly Sings...
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Please don’t wreck up my world, love
It took me so long to climb
And please don’t wreck up our world, love
A true life can be yours and mine
Our love has survived the low and high tides
That’s so hard to find...
And the love that I grew has not faded for you
Despite all the fights
So please don’t wreck up our world, love
A true life can be yours and mine
Please don’t mess up my world, love
Let’s bring our faults to the light
And please don’t mess up our world, love
To save it would be worth the fight
We easily confuse when it’s who’s-blaming-who
A past slowly lies...
But if you look in my eyes, you’ll see time’s turned the tide
and we can start anew
So please don’t mess up our world, love
I can’t stand to see our love die
You’re sweet indeed, but I’m feeling the eve
of a tear in my eye
And noone can break these ties that we’ve made
except you and I
So please don’t wreck up our world, love
A true life can be yours and mine
A true life can be yours and mine
A true life can be yours and mine
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11. |
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Just what was goin’ through my head
I’ll never understand
I cut my hair, I got a job,
I tried to be a man
But to leave me sad & lonely
was the plan that you put through
That was the last damn time I cry
over someone like you!
I saw dedication in your eyes,
I thought you were so cute
I was certain that you fell for me,
I’m far from astute
Like the night I gave you flowers,
and you gave me the boot
That was the last damn time I cry
over someone like you!
Well, I know I wasn’t seein’ one thing clearly
Your bitterness, I took for playing cool
And although I held all that you did dearly,
All along I was your lovesick fool...
I don’t know what got me thinkin’
that you’d be somethin’ good
My heart was tryin’ to warn me,
I never understood
Your soul is cold, oh, this I know
as sure as I am blue
That was the last damn time I cry
over someone like you!
I thought we’d stick together,
but we just never clicked
My days were filled with passion,
that fizzled out real quick!
I’d like to call you evil,
but that insults hell too
That was the last damn time I cry
over someone like you!
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Grievous Angel, sweetie pie
Hang your mittens up to dry
But I Can’t Dance
At your $1,000 Wedding
‘Cause I’m Still Feeling Blue
At least I know enough
Never to come back here
I wish I could say the same for you
Come on over for a while
Cherry soda makes me smile
But I can’t dance
At your $1,000 wedding
‘Cause I’m still feelin’ blue
At least I know enough
Never to come back here
I wish I could say the same for you
‘Cause I’m still feelin’ blue
I wish I could say the same for you
‘Cause I’m still feelin’ blue
Johnny Bravo, do or die
You like my record?
So do I...
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Please don’t wreck up my world, love
It took me so long to climb
And please don’t wreck up our world, love
A true life can be yours and mine
Our love has survived the low and high tides
That’s so hard to find...
And the love that I grew has not faded for you
Despite all the fights
So please don’t wreck up our world, love
A true life can be yours and mine
Please don’t mess up my world, love
Let’s bring our faults to the light
And please don’t mess up our world, love
To save it would be worth the fight
We easily confuse when it’s who’s-blaming-who
A past slowly lies...
But if you look in my eyes, you’ll see time’s turned the tide
and we can start anew
So please don’t mess up our world, love
I can’t stand to see our love die
You’re sweet indeed, but I’m feeling the eve
of a tear in my eye
And noone can break these ties that we’ve made
except you and I
So please don’t wreck up our world, love
A true life can be yours and mine
A true life can be yours and mine
A true life can be yours and mine
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Old Rochelle Lowell, Massachusetts
Melodies and Feelings
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Since 2010
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Formed/forged in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Formerly named:
“Bucky Fereke”
“Bucky Fereke & The Freelancers”
"Bucky Fereke and the Pony Express"
"The Old Rochelle"
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Thank you for listening
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