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Music From the Motion Picture

by Billy Simons Jr.

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1.
Alive 03:34
I find lately I can't help but think about What's on my mind and under my nose It's like summertime it comes around again Sunshine stripping off them clothes In these times, maybe baby I just want to be Outside, day or night whenever It's right to live a life a life so lovely All my, all my friends together But I can't tell you what's gonna happen Or what you oughta do Cause this can't last forever And you ain't no fool Oh no, there you go again needing reasons Oh no, let it go and just live your life Oh no, there you go again breathe out no no breath in So long as you do well you know you're alive So hold high every glass of everything you drink tonight and toast to your friends It's like nothing else can really satisfy just right when this party ends BUt I can't tell you what's gonna happen I wouldn't have a clue Just look at your reflection You'll know what to do Oh no, there you go again needing reasons Oh no, let it go and just live your life Oh no, there you go again breathe out no no breath in So long as you do well you know you're alive No pepper for my rhymes you know the summer is the season For pleasing this sensation patience is free and Why would you wanna mess with that Like asking for a heart attack Or begging to back to occupation from vacation No changing the station the party is raging A formal declaration of you total emancipation Oh why now, don't try now it's salt if you look back and laughing at harder days we played relax and baby kick back the knicknacks you're collecting, allocating and disecting Ain't collecting anything I'll give you something worth perfecting Like singing and dancing and laughing and playing And bringing the words to all that I'm saying Lately I'm praying that this summer's staying Oh no, there you go again needing reasons Oh no, let it go and just live your life Oh no, there you go again breathe out no no breath in So long as you do well you know you're alive
2.
Why hello, my name is Arthur I grew up on the street where you live I’m the kid from all your classes with the greasy hair and glasses The one nobody wanted to play with And I never had to many friends And I, I play first chair clarinet All my memories from the playground always waiting for a beatdown You really packed a lot in the punch You know I always found it funny how you said it was for money But you knew my mama packed all my lunch And for years now I’ve been planning my revenge It’s time to tell you how This is happening I knew you’d be surprised I can see it in your eyes I, I’m sleeping with your wife Well hello, my name is Arthur I’m a partner at the firm where she works She has been my secretary from the very first day that she transferred And she once told me that you just can’t communicate And she’s not lying when she says she’s working late And two weeks ago You weren’t around then I came over We used your bed I knew you’d be surprised I can see it in your eyes I, I’m sleeping with your wife I worked so hard back then so you and your whole clan Could copy all my homework and quickly turn it in You taught me well back then ‘bout the proper ways to cheat And now you know why all of your children they all look like me I knew you’d be surprised I can see it in your eyes I, I’m sleeping with your wife
3.
I’m ripping out the stitches from my body And tearing wounds that I hope will never heal And writing down the way to tell this story Of how the war was fought And how the scars feel I’m counting down the hours til tomorrow And thinking up a way to let you know That you might feel a sting before surrender And then you’ll understand you’re losing all control Cause I’m borrowing arrows from my enemies Standing right in front of me On this lonely shore And I’m borrowing arrows from my enemies Firing almost endlessly On this holy war And running won’t protect you from this army Oh and hiding seems to always slow you down You’re covering your tracks while setting fire to your past You think you won’t get burned You think you won’t be found Cause I’m borrowing arrows from my enemies Standing right in front of me On this lonely shore And I’m borrowing arrows from my enemies Firing almost endlessly On this holy war Put your hands up put your shield down put your hands up Put your hands up put your shield down, put your hands, put your hands Cause I’m borrowing arrows from my enemies Standing right in front of me On this lonely shore And I’m borrowing arrows from my enemies Firing almost endlessly On this holy war
4.
We live in a crazy new nation and we're afraid of limitations So we changing the station with any mention of abrasion The occasion is rare to see a show with rehearsals Where the characters are wearing shirts that don't promote commercials For buying a burger, a beer, and a coffee The man and his plan, oh tell me where does he get off of me He's making me a promise he can never deliver And almost every time I'm feeling fine I cannot help but shiver, going Oo-oo, getting it all back together now Oo-oo, getting it all back together now Oo-oo, getting it all back together now Oo-oo, getting it all back together now Well little Tommy on the block he is only 13 But he's believing every word that he's been reading in a magazine Diminishing while finishing his supersized Pepsi Got vitamins, no saccharine, that means that it's healthy Don't point your finger at me Don't point your finger at me, no You see the whole human is fine with second to last place Breaking your neck just enough to save face Tooth for a tooth, you got an eye for an eye So we can blindly chew with our gums, the burgers and fries Oo-oo, getting it all back together now Oo-oo, I said we're getting it all back together now Oo-oo, I said we're getting it all back together now Oo-oo, getting it all back together now I don't want to tell y'all what to do That would make my demonstration rude I don't mean to lean on you and preach I'm just trying to make you reach a little farther But now we're mixing and matching, quickly fixing and patching, catching America Barely American Mixing and matching, quickly fixing and patching, catching America Barely American Mixing and matching, quickly fixing and patching, catching America Barely American
5.
Two Ships 04:13
Somewhere out there in the darkness Two ships on the sea Underneath Orion Waiting patiently Passing by at midnight Could mean anything The path along this journey Changes every day And one moment of hesitation Could change their destination Because it's raining outside don't make this a sign from God Cause your knuckles are white that don't mean that it's right to hang on Because you gave her your love that don't mean that it's all that you've got I just wish you could see This is more than being lonely And maybe one takes it for granted And one is sure it's fate Both know the answers Always come to late But these winds and this weather Have brought these two together Because it's raining outside don't make this a sign from God Cause your knuckles are white that don't mean that it's right to hang on Because you gave her your love that don't mean that it's all that you've got I just wish you could see This is more than being lonely
6.
Mother Goose 03:16
Jack had something special that he wanted to show Jill It's getting late, but this can't wait I say it's up on Blueberry Hill But Jill was the type to go with older boys in town So Jack got fresh and Jill got pissed And she broke that sucker's crown What's the moral of the story What's the moral of the story What's the moral of the story Mm mm mm Rub a dub, a rubber ducky, sitting in a tub With the butcher and the bakerman and then there's on I can't think of Now maybe they were trying just to keep expenses down But that is not the story they've been spreading through the town What's the moral of the story What's the moral of the story What's the moral of the story Mm mm mm Mr. and Mrs. Dumpty they've got a son I think you've met They went and named him Humpty so you never could forget Well just like that poor reindeer all the children called him names Kids can be so cruel when you don't look and act the same Now I don't mean to make a joke where one deserves respect But look and see, the story never says he was an egg What's the moral of the story What's the moral of the story What's the moral of the story Mm mm mm If you need explanations For what you read in the paper every day Just a mental vacation Mother Goose is just a page away
7.
Backseat 03:08
Revving it up, start your engines You hear her call your name out in the dark Got the key in your ignition Sliding across the leather, moving faster Still in park Shifting in to high gear and taking this to red Get in the backseat of my car I'm gonna show you what you are Taking the corners a little harder every time I'm gonna show you what to do Unbuckle me and let me loose Breaking the limits as we both slip into drive And testing limitations And throwing her in neutral cause I know it's her first ride And burning lubrication Contracting on the out, expanding on the inside Get in the backseat of my car I'm gonna show you what you are Taking the corners a little harder every time I'm gonna show you what to do Unbuckle me and let me loose Breaking the limits as we both slip into drive Trembling to a standstill You hear her purring underneath the hood And tapping the accelerator Slowly, barely nudging as the carburetor floods Get in the backseat of my car I'm gonna show you what you are Taking the corners a little harder every time I'm gonna show you what to do Unbuckle me and let me loose Breaking the limits as we both slip into drive
8.
Biography 04:05
Collections of time and pages from paperback lives That turn in the blink of an eye And you don't have time to decide The moments we try to capture on kodachrome slides The photographs holding those times That bookend the chapters we live And those that we write We all try to write the biography That we'd like to read and believe Is real life and not just some fantasy Sci-fi yeah you watch on tv And all you let go for reasons you can't understand You trade in the young for the old And nothing quite goes like you'd planned Oh collections of words we modify into a verse And masquerade lives that we curse You tell yourself "sure this ain't great, but it could be worse" We all try to write the biography That we'd like to read and believe Is real life and not just some fantasy Sci-fi yeah you watch on tv But you know what it's like when your mind goes on strike And life may as well pass you by And routines form circles that turn into hurdles That turn into zeroes you're leaving behind We all try to write the biography That we'd like to read and believe Is real life and not just some fantasy Sci-fi yeah you watch on tv We all try to write the biography That we'd like to know as our own And rewrite the pages of history Or we might go out unknown
9.
Get Along 03:23
Well maybe you said them things that people told me you were saying Been sneaking them lines between the times that we were troublemaking And maybe I crossed the line too many times especially lately But who would’ve known that we’d have grown apart so wide? Maybe I did Now all of them sticks and all them stones that you’ve been throwing at me They're making it hard to walk a friendly line each time I’m ready So sit for a moment, listen careful while I say this to you We could just walk away today or there is something we could do Yeah maybe we could try to get along Maybe we could try to get along Maybe we could try to get along Remember the days that we would play round in the summertime I’d go to your house on some days some days you would go to mine Who could forget the days that turned to night and back to morning Where did they go, how could we know without a single warning…how? All of them greens in all the trees I should’ve have realized The way that they change when the fall come should have been my advice Well people grow cold the older they get when they lose their color I lost the summer to the winter I can’t lose another friend So maybe we can try to get along Maybe we could try to get along Maybe we could try to get along Maybe it's not too late I still think we have time And lord knows I've got faith If you need trust well you've got mine oh mine So maybe we could try to get along
10.
Good Enough 04:15
At 17 he packed his bags and never left a note for dad A word was hardly mentioned of his plans And some will say it's just his way Of handling a fall from grace But I still think he left it all to chance And guided by a waning moon he disappeared behind tattoos While telephone connections disengaged The walk of life continued on A fair but uphill marathon We made facts for questions that remained Well this is what we've got oh is it good enough to be a part of us If you live long enough then you will learn To love the life you're living Is it good enough Oh are you strong enough to Love what you could otherwise ignore Cause that's what hearts are for And in between the bars he tended A son becomes a husband to a wife And black and whites from photobooths They tell less and less about the truth The stories never changed throughout my life Well this is what we've got oh is it good enough to be a part of us If you live long enough then you will learn To love the life you're living Is it good enough Oh are you strong enough to Love what you could otherwise ignore Cause that's what hearts are for And you can tell a man a lot of things And see what consequence it brings And though he sings a song of happy days A son who often felt denied Raises his son by his side And though there's things I'd like to say I still don't know how this all plays out Well this is what we've got oh is it good enough to be a part of us If you live long enough then you will learn To love the life you're living Is it good enough Oh are you strong enough to Love what you could otherwise ignore Cause that's what hearts are for

credits

released November 21, 2009

all songs written by Billy Simons copyright 2009

produced by David Stillman and Billy Simons
recorded by David Stillman and Keller Glass at
the academy | recording studio, suffield, CT

mixed by Steve Addabbo at shelter island sound, new york, NY

mastered by Chris Athens at sterling sound, new york, NY

Billy Simons vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
David Stillman electric guitars, piano, organ, bass (tracks 2, 3, 8)
Graham Maby bass (tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10)
Dan Matchett drums and percussion
Richie Cannata saxophone
Scott Hiestand pedal steel guitar
Pam Autuori additional vocals
Steve Addabbo tambourine

photography Mike Falco

management Jared Shahid (billysimonsMGMT@gmail.com)

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