Fitting Finales
(Smith)
I enjoyed the times we spend together
Jamming with friends in my endeavors
I can't promise when we'll do it again
But for now enjoy the moment while we can
What have I got if it wasn't for you
Where would I be if it wasn't for you
Standing on the stage with our weapons at hand
Going full circle, the return of the band
Now I don't know how much time I got yet
Before I go riding into the sunset
As I return back to the basement
And look outside, satisfied with our accomplishments
What have I got if it wasn't for you
Where would I be if it wasn't for you
Standing on the stage with our weapons at hand
Coming full circle, the return of the band
I love you friends with all of my heart
For every ending there's a new start
A fitting finale for those who see
And what is done it will always, it'll always be
What have I got if it wasn't for you
Where would I be if it wasn't for you
Standing on the stage with our weapons at hand
Coming full circle, the return of the band
(C) 2015 R.Smith
Of course the centerpiece of Fitting Finales the album is this last song which I went home and wrote after my best friend Russ came on stage to jam with me for the first time in 30 years, not counting failed band efforts in between, but it was the summary of how I was feeling, not only for this historical reunion but rather getting back on the playing field. And I still have got it, I have approached by three different bands. The title actually goes way back to 1973 on a forgotten album I did on cassette, but while the title remains, the lyrics are up to date. Being the old warhorse that I am, in the back of my mind that the stage frights of years ago might return but in all fairness I have no regrets of playing this sort of music over the years. The pay may have been lousy but the music was pretty good.
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Monday, 4 January 2016
Fitting Finales-From A Motel 6
From A Motel 6
(Smith/Kat)
All my life I've been a rambler
Showboat gambler, on a losing streak
So I set a course across the nation
Station to station, off to make a break
But the road is long, and the top is far
As I sit in this old bar, playing to no one
And I keep driving my life away
Searching for someone that will help me stay
The eyes of laughter, the fairest of sex
That cannot be found from a Motel 6
I've been down this road forever
Through stormy weather, as well as the sun
I see myself of few variations
Situations from a life undone
I made my choice for better or worse
Knowing the outcome would be the same as before
So here I am in an cheap motel
Screaming kids next door, this doesn't feel like home
And I keep driving my life away
Searching for someone that will help me stay
The eyes of laughter, the fairest of sex
That cannot be found from a Motel 6
I think of the girl that got away
Dream from yesterday, hope to meet her today
So tell me now where I'm going
The Almighty knowing, but he won't tell
And I keep driving my life away
Searching for someone that will help me stay
The eyes of laughter, the fairest of sex
That cannot be found from a Motel.....6
From a Motel 6
From a Motel 6
From a Motel 6
From A MOTEL 6
(C) 2015 R.Smith
Yet another rewrite of my life it seems. This song came from a brainstorming session between me and Diggy Kat, the mysterious DJ of Lucky Star Radio who I actually been trading music ideas and music for over 10 plus years. He would suggest things and phases and I would write some of them down to come up with this song. And picturing myself back at Crookton Pass Bridge and imagining that I was back there writing this number.
This songs works better as a hard rock electric version rather than folk like strumming that is on Fitting Finales and I've been working with Rod Alan Albaugh in terms of adding a stunning lead guitar on where the final verse would be at. We been working on some of these songs during my Christmas Break but if and when we can back together remains if we can find a workable weekend to do so.
Based upon a true story, I was staying at a Motel 6, when I had a Romper Room family next door banging doors and stomping on the floors and yelling and screaming. That was the last time I ever stayed at the Madison Motel 6.
(Smith/Kat)
All my life I've been a rambler
Showboat gambler, on a losing streak
So I set a course across the nation
Station to station, off to make a break
But the road is long, and the top is far
As I sit in this old bar, playing to no one
And I keep driving my life away
Searching for someone that will help me stay
The eyes of laughter, the fairest of sex
That cannot be found from a Motel 6
I've been down this road forever
Through stormy weather, as well as the sun
I see myself of few variations
Situations from a life undone
I made my choice for better or worse
Knowing the outcome would be the same as before
So here I am in an cheap motel
Screaming kids next door, this doesn't feel like home
And I keep driving my life away
Searching for someone that will help me stay
The eyes of laughter, the fairest of sex
That cannot be found from a Motel 6
I think of the girl that got away
Dream from yesterday, hope to meet her today
So tell me now where I'm going
The Almighty knowing, but he won't tell
And I keep driving my life away
Searching for someone that will help me stay
The eyes of laughter, the fairest of sex
That cannot be found from a Motel.....6
From a Motel 6
From a Motel 6
From a Motel 6
From A MOTEL 6
(C) 2015 R.Smith
Yet another rewrite of my life it seems. This song came from a brainstorming session between me and Diggy Kat, the mysterious DJ of Lucky Star Radio who I actually been trading music ideas and music for over 10 plus years. He would suggest things and phases and I would write some of them down to come up with this song. And picturing myself back at Crookton Pass Bridge and imagining that I was back there writing this number.
This songs works better as a hard rock electric version rather than folk like strumming that is on Fitting Finales and I've been working with Rod Alan Albaugh in terms of adding a stunning lead guitar on where the final verse would be at. We been working on some of these songs during my Christmas Break but if and when we can back together remains if we can find a workable weekend to do so.
Based upon a true story, I was staying at a Motel 6, when I had a Romper Room family next door banging doors and stomping on the floors and yelling and screaming. That was the last time I ever stayed at the Madison Motel 6.
Fitting Finales-I Know About Me
I Know About Me (Don't Know About You)
(Smith)
I have been living in a dream
That will never be realized
I've been ridiculed by bullies
Who were jealous of who I am
I don't relish in vengeance
But I believe in karma
For living well is the best revenge
To combat the ongoing drama
I'm not here to cause any harm
To anybody that comes my way
I live my life the best that I can do
I know about me, don't know about you
I never been much of a lover
History has proven that's a fact
I took chances on the wrong kind
Always knowing they're never be mine
So I end up being the lone wolf
Riding down that lonesome highway
Trying to find some distant memory
It's just as well, it was planned that way
I'm not here to cause any harm
To anybody that comes my way
I live my life the best that I can do
I know about me, don't know about you
I know about me, don't know about you
I know about me, don't know about you
I know about me, don't know about you
(C) 2015 R.Smith
It has taken me almost 55 years to accept that I'm a loner kind of guy and that any type of love is out of reach. Growing up, I was bullied in high school by some dipshit who somehow was jealous of me. And of course you know all too well about the so called high school cheerleader who I misjudged as my high school sweetheart.
This assumption of this life is damn near autobiographical in this song. At this point in life, I wish no bad harm to the adversaries who drove me insane back then. And living well is the best revenge, I have outlived at least three of them.
(Smith)
I have been living in a dream
That will never be realized
I've been ridiculed by bullies
Who were jealous of who I am
I don't relish in vengeance
But I believe in karma
For living well is the best revenge
To combat the ongoing drama
I'm not here to cause any harm
To anybody that comes my way
I live my life the best that I can do
I know about me, don't know about you
I never been much of a lover
History has proven that's a fact
I took chances on the wrong kind
Always knowing they're never be mine
So I end up being the lone wolf
Riding down that lonesome highway
Trying to find some distant memory
It's just as well, it was planned that way
I'm not here to cause any harm
To anybody that comes my way
I live my life the best that I can do
I know about me, don't know about you
I know about me, don't know about you
I know about me, don't know about you
I know about me, don't know about you
(C) 2015 R.Smith
It has taken me almost 55 years to accept that I'm a loner kind of guy and that any type of love is out of reach. Growing up, I was bullied in high school by some dipshit who somehow was jealous of me. And of course you know all too well about the so called high school cheerleader who I misjudged as my high school sweetheart.
This assumption of this life is damn near autobiographical in this song. At this point in life, I wish no bad harm to the adversaries who drove me insane back then. And living well is the best revenge, I have outlived at least three of them.
Saturday, 2 January 2016
Fitting Finales-May Not Be A Next Time
May Not Be A Next Time
(Smith)
On the way to yesterday I passed today
In my mind it seemed so fine
Of the time that I call you, I called you mine
To lay the claim, forget the pain
Of this life that I lead
To believe that I can make this right
But you're not here and I'm not there
And what we got is all we have
You may not love me but the sun still shines
As for us, there may not be, may not be a next time
Bang a song on my guitar, drive a car and see how far
We can go before we crash
If this makes no sense to think that this pays
And that you really care for me
No longer it seems to me
But you're not here and I'm not there
And what we got is all we have
You may not love me but the sun still shines
As for us, there'll never be, never be a next time
(C) 2015 R.Smith
The heartbreaks of long lost love, this song came to me while thinking that the one I knew in high school that chased me all over the place turned out to be a tease. But then again high school infatuation is a illusion. And I reminded of that when I think of her.
(Smith)
On the way to yesterday I passed today
In my mind it seemed so fine
Of the time that I call you, I called you mine
To lay the claim, forget the pain
Of this life that I lead
To believe that I can make this right
But you're not here and I'm not there
And what we got is all we have
You may not love me but the sun still shines
As for us, there may not be, may not be a next time
Bang a song on my guitar, drive a car and see how far
We can go before we crash
If this makes no sense to think that this pays
And that you really care for me
No longer it seems to me
But you're not here and I'm not there
And what we got is all we have
You may not love me but the sun still shines
As for us, there'll never be, never be a next time
(C) 2015 R.Smith
The heartbreaks of long lost love, this song came to me while thinking that the one I knew in high school that chased me all over the place turned out to be a tease. But then again high school infatuation is a illusion. And I reminded of that when I think of her.
Fitting Finales-The Life We Lead
The Live We Lead
(Smith)
When I think of the time that you were mine
It brings a tear to my eyes
Spending sunny days and quiet nights
Hanging down by the riverside
It ain't easy but we're free
For it's the life that we lead
It ain't easy but we're free
And it's the life that we lead, the life we lead
May I have a moment of your time
Share a dinner and a movie with a bottle of wine
Steal a little lovin' on the side
And maybe pick up what we left behind
It ain't easy but we're free
And it's the life that we lead
It ain't easy but we're free
And it's the life that we lead
The life we lead.
(C) 2015 R.Smith
This came up as a spur of the moment song with me playing a two chord strum with a capo on the 2nd fret. This song has taken a new life of its own on the recording with Rodney Albaugh to which he remarked that this is a very infectious song. He also says it sounds much better with a new set of guitar strings which he put on the Guild. He's right it does sound better.
(Smith)
When I think of the time that you were mine
It brings a tear to my eyes
Spending sunny days and quiet nights
Hanging down by the riverside
It ain't easy but we're free
For it's the life that we lead
It ain't easy but we're free
And it's the life that we lead, the life we lead
May I have a moment of your time
Share a dinner and a movie with a bottle of wine
Steal a little lovin' on the side
And maybe pick up what we left behind
It ain't easy but we're free
And it's the life that we lead
It ain't easy but we're free
And it's the life that we lead
The life we lead.
(C) 2015 R.Smith
This came up as a spur of the moment song with me playing a two chord strum with a capo on the 2nd fret. This song has taken a new life of its own on the recording with Rodney Albaugh to which he remarked that this is a very infectious song. He also says it sounds much better with a new set of guitar strings which he put on the Guild. He's right it does sound better.
Fitting Finales-Different Paths
Different Paths
(Smith/Orbit)
Our love has reached a critical stage
I guess it's too late to turn back now
I know you tried you best to love me
But it didn't work out no how
Different Paths
Different Paths
We have gone on different paths
Nothing to say
Nothing to do
Our love has gone on different paths
So tell me is it somebody else
What's he got that I don't have?
I don't like this hand that you dealt me
So I'll just fold em and you can have him
Different path, different paths
We have gone on different paths
Nothing to say, nothing to do
Our love has gone on different paths
Somehow I got this feeling that something was up
You didn't look at me or even speak
But when you tried all you did was cry
There ain't no good in your goodbye
Different paths, different paths
We have gone on different paths
Nothing to say, nothing to do
Our love has gone on different paths
(C) 1983, 2015 R. Smith
These lyrics really date back to the mid 80s and it might been inspired by the failure of my time with Theresa O Connor, who I met at some backyard party after a Paraphernalia show and I was dumb enough to call her when she was passing out phone numbers. We were together for about 3 weeks in 1983.
We really didn't have anything in common.
And we really did gone on different paths.
(Smith/Orbit)
Our love has reached a critical stage
I guess it's too late to turn back now
I know you tried you best to love me
But it didn't work out no how
Different Paths
Different Paths
We have gone on different paths
Nothing to say
Nothing to do
Our love has gone on different paths
So tell me is it somebody else
What's he got that I don't have?
I don't like this hand that you dealt me
So I'll just fold em and you can have him
Different path, different paths
We have gone on different paths
Nothing to say, nothing to do
Our love has gone on different paths
Somehow I got this feeling that something was up
You didn't look at me or even speak
But when you tried all you did was cry
There ain't no good in your goodbye
Different paths, different paths
We have gone on different paths
Nothing to say, nothing to do
Our love has gone on different paths
(C) 1983, 2015 R. Smith
These lyrics really date back to the mid 80s and it might been inspired by the failure of my time with Theresa O Connor, who I met at some backyard party after a Paraphernalia show and I was dumb enough to call her when she was passing out phone numbers. We were together for about 3 weeks in 1983.
We really didn't have anything in common.
And we really did gone on different paths.
Fitting Finales-Better Off Alone
Better Off Alone
(Smith)
Seven times married
Seven times divorced
A hard core troubadour
But with a heart that's made out of stone
He can write you a good song
Makes you feel like you belong
But in the end he cannot change
Perhaps it's best that he remains
He's better off alone, staying par for the course
He says that things will get better
When she knows that they won't
So she says that she is leaving
She got her bags packed, ready to go
Contrary to rumor that the 3rd time wasn't the charm
As she goes back to the city
And leaves the old boy down on the farm
She's better off alone
Staying par for the course
She thinks that things will get better
When she knows that they won't
I played the game of love
And lost out in the end
Once the fascination's gone
And that she doesn't even wanna be friends
That's the way it goes
Being alone, this I know
I rather not have her stay
If we're both gonna be miserable
We're better off alone
Staying par for the course
I think that things will get better
When we both know that it won't
(So bye bye)
(C) 2015 TE Music Emporium
This song is in three different settings. The first verse is about the breakup of Steve Earle and his wife. Earle is one of the best songwriters out there and you may not like the politics he does but he speaks his mind. I think he wrote a song called Better Off Alone off the latest album. Being a musician does bring stress and strains on any type of relationships, I know that all too well myself although I'll never see myself married seven times let alone one. The second verse is when the inspiration for Pawnshops For Olivia came out here to see if she can handle a winter here in this state and ended up getting phenomena that lasted till March our last time together. The winter was somewhat mild (10 above) but it wasn't for her. The third verse, part of that was lifted from I Wanna Make You Mine. The original version that you hear on the album, the last line is I rather not have her stay for that my life is an open road but a later recording with Rod Albaugh behind the control board has the revised line I rather have her stay if we're gonna be miserable, which works better in context of the song. In life there's people that have to have somebody in their life, no matter how toxic it can be, or perhaps maybe they can get along. For myself and the failures of me not comprising and too set in my ways, I'm better off alone, no matter how much I say otherwise.
(Smith)
Seven times married
Seven times divorced
A hard core troubadour
But with a heart that's made out of stone
He can write you a good song
Makes you feel like you belong
But in the end he cannot change
Perhaps it's best that he remains
He's better off alone, staying par for the course
He says that things will get better
When she knows that they won't
So she says that she is leaving
She got her bags packed, ready to go
Contrary to rumor that the 3rd time wasn't the charm
As she goes back to the city
And leaves the old boy down on the farm
She's better off alone
Staying par for the course
She thinks that things will get better
When she knows that they won't
I played the game of love
And lost out in the end
Once the fascination's gone
And that she doesn't even wanna be friends
That's the way it goes
Being alone, this I know
I rather not have her stay
If we're both gonna be miserable
We're better off alone
Staying par for the course
I think that things will get better
When we both know that it won't
(So bye bye)
(C) 2015 TE Music Emporium
This song is in three different settings. The first verse is about the breakup of Steve Earle and his wife. Earle is one of the best songwriters out there and you may not like the politics he does but he speaks his mind. I think he wrote a song called Better Off Alone off the latest album. Being a musician does bring stress and strains on any type of relationships, I know that all too well myself although I'll never see myself married seven times let alone one. The second verse is when the inspiration for Pawnshops For Olivia came out here to see if she can handle a winter here in this state and ended up getting phenomena that lasted till March our last time together. The winter was somewhat mild (10 above) but it wasn't for her. The third verse, part of that was lifted from I Wanna Make You Mine. The original version that you hear on the album, the last line is I rather not have her stay for that my life is an open road but a later recording with Rod Albaugh behind the control board has the revised line I rather have her stay if we're gonna be miserable, which works better in context of the song. In life there's people that have to have somebody in their life, no matter how toxic it can be, or perhaps maybe they can get along. For myself and the failures of me not comprising and too set in my ways, I'm better off alone, no matter how much I say otherwise.
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