RENAISSANCE MAN (Joe Bouchard)
Playing history as if in a game
Subtle influence on your mind
The rise of a superpower
And desire for gold
In the magic circle
Apocalyptical fantasies
In rare old manuscripts
Some written tongue in cheek
Guitars like weapons
Rewired to blow your mind
Comes a renaissance man
A gonzo intellectual
Hunter Thompson Rock & Roll
Sounds that could haunt your dreams
And stranger things upon the wire
Part of a mysterious scheme
Carried on by aliens
Throughout the centuries
Came a renaissance man
SOLO
With an obscure twist of phrase
He played the game powered by his words
A strange confluence time
Shining light on another world
To another dimension
Came a renaissance man
A gonzo intellectual
Hunter Thompson Rock & Roll
Sounds that could haunt your dreams
And stranger things upon the wire
Part of a mysterious scheme
Carried on by aliens
Throughout the centuries
Came a renaissance man
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NOW WHAT IS THIS? (Joe Bouchard)
Outside the car
The city of darkness
Neon signs and a purple sky
Lay Lady Lay on the radio
Felt like a searchlight
In my eyes, it was in my eyes.
Now, Blonde on Blonde
And a laugh and a joke
Tall tales and the wildest things
A goose with the golden egg
If you figure out the mystery
Now, what is this?
No, it’s not his best
He changed his mind
Sharing the spotlight
Dark eyes in the moonlight
Old stories of a magical time
And crowd responds
At every line.
The clock on the wall
Was running backward
Illusions and reality
Experience churning together
Poured into the radio, Oh no.
Now, what is this?
No, it’s not his best
He changed my mind
With dark eyes at midnight
And sharing a spotlight
Tall stories frozen in time
And crowd responds
At every line.
They all agree
With every line
They all agree
With every line
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BAD DECISIONS (John Elwood Cook)
I've made some bad decisions
Decisions I have made
My bad decisions will haunt to the grave
In a clean spot I'll be buried
Somewhere near the borderline
My bad decisions will die with my mind
In a clean spot I'll be buried
Somewhere near the borderline
My bad decisions will die with my mind
When a full moon crosses the islands
On a night when a season ends
The moon goes down the sun comes us
And I must make ammends
I've made some bad decisions
Decisions I have made
My bad decisions will haunt to the grave
A freeze is on the river, a freeze is on the night
Over all the bad decisions I can't make right
A freeze is on the river, I'm walking on thin ice
Over all the bad decisions I can't make twice
A freeze is on the river, a freeze is on the night
Over all the bad decisions I can't make twice
In a clean spot I'll be buried
Somewhere near the borderline
And all bad decisions will die with my mind
In a clean spot I'll be buried
Somewhere near the borderline
And all bad decisions will die with my mind
I've made some bad decisions
Decisions I have made
My bad decisions will haunt to the grave
In a clean spot I'll be buried
Somewhere near the borderline
My bad decisions will die with my mind
With my mind
With my mind
DIAMONDS IN BLUE (Joe Bouchard)
Diamonds in Blue
Caught your eye
In the strangeness of the night.
A cosmic lullaby sings rock-a-bye
Sweet baby, now don't you cry
Don’t cry
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Diamonds in Blue
Caught your eye
In the strangeness of the night.
A cosmic lullaby sings rock-a-bye
Sweet baby, now don't you cry
From the vault of heaven
In the upper atmosphere
Glittering stars
At so many light years.
Telescopes and spacecraft
Such a long way to go,
Such a long way to go.
So baby, now don’t you cry.
Diamonds in Blue
Caught your eye
In the strangeness of the night.
A cosmic lullaby sings rock-a-bye
Sweet baby, now don't you cry
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52 AGENTS OF FORTUNE (Joe Bouchard)
Got my first guitar on my 10th birthday.
Dad fixed it up for me, got blisters from it anyway.
The band was all the rage at local high schools
Rock and Roll was magic, we were making up all the rules.
No time for a careless mistake
Working so hard just to make a big break
Hey little girl I gotta meet my fate.
The road to the top is risky to take.
Don’t know whether you’re coming or goin'.
Sign the contract on the dotted line
Lady luck got it's sights on me.
Falling in the great unknown
At the mercy of the 52
At the mercy of agents of fortune
At the mercy of the 52
At the mercy of the agents of fortune
Agents of fortune
Agents of fortune…now
Keep holding steady moving up the path
Still pushing limits and get the feeling back
No time for a careless mistake
Working so hard just to make a big break
Hey little girl I gotta meet my fate.
The road to the top is risky to take.
Don’t know whether I'm coming or goin'.
Just sign the contract on the dotted line
Lady luck has it's sights on me.
Feels like falling in the great unknown
At the mercy of the 52
At the mercy of agents of fortune
At the mercy of the 52
At the mercy of the agents of fortune
Agents of fortune
Agents of fortune…now
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INSANE (Joe Bouchard)
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Hot blood burns in your veins.
In a frenzy and whipping the flames.
A new year, I'm still here
I’m boiling mad, get off my back
Escape my past, don’t make me laugh
A sea of ghosts at a crossroads
Thumbs down, you push me around
The smell of fear and you disappear.
Come on, come on
But I'm reasonable,
Come on, come on
I'm responsible
Come on, come on
Might be out of my head (yeah)
Come on, come on
I'm hanging by a thread
Insane….
Insane….
A big mom sitting around the house
Artificial grass kick you on your ass
Time out something to talk about
Going out of bounds and
Bringing the curtain down.
Come on, come on
But I'm reasonable,
Come on, come on
I'm responsible
Come on, come on
Might be out of my head (yeah)
Come on, come on
I'm hanging by a thread
Insane….
BRIDGE
In a rave going insane
Riding on the rocket of fame.
Time warp is wearing the night away
Storm clouds be heading your way
Come on, come on
But I'm reasonable,
Come on, come on
I'm responsible
Come on, come on
Might be out of my head (yeah)
Come on, come on
I'm hanging by a thread
Come on, come on
But I'm reasonable,
Come on, come on
I'm responsible
Come on, come on
Might be out of my head (yeah)
Come on, come on
I'm hanging by a thread
Insane….
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THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE (Joe Bouchard)
About three miles west of the city
It was a roadhouse in its day
A break from the sweat and the ordinary
Where the workers would come and play
A free for all with old time dances
And some ladies that would make it all right
Eat, drink and you will be very merry
Any time of the day or night.
This random destination was where
The young man found his home
A refuge from the dangers of a past life
Now taking on a life of its own.
Goin on up to the Mountain House
Gonna get a little nip of corn
Goin on up to the Mountain House
And grab the old world by the horns.
Hard cider and a pretty girl
You better bring your knife or gun
Drinking and carousing the night away
Getting crazy on dangerous fun
The dangerous fun.
Over the top of Frenchmen’ s Bluff
Stands a giant cross above the highway
It marks the spot where the girl had fallen
It was guarded by snakes night and day
As the night rolled on and the music heats up
You might feel like a fly in a web.
Beware of dark deeds and dead men’s bones
Buried in the back the neighbors said.
This random destination was where
The young man found his home
A refuge from the dangers of a past life
Now taking on a life of its own.
Goin on up to the Mountain House
Gonna get a little nip of corn
Goin on up to the Mountain House
And grab the old world by the horns.
Hard cider and a pretty girl
You better bring your knife or gun
Drinking and carousing the night away
Getting crazy on some dangerous fun.
Hard cider and a pretty girl
You better bring your knife or gun
Drinking and carousing the night away
Getting crazy on dangerous fun
The dangerous fun.
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NIGHT OWL NOCTURNE (Joe Bouchard)
An electric moon
From deep from your dreams
Staying up late
The madness this time brings
The inner spark
Passed down from the stars
In lonely darkness you toil away
In the heat of the night.
The devil's bite
The flames that light
The wildness in your dream
It sets a pulse
That sounds about right
Where the poets cast a spell
Strange dreams of schemes
Walking the edge
Lost in thought
The sounds of the night owl.
While bathing in moonlight
Riding wild horses
In a trance by the window
Stirring fires at your station
Lighting sparks
Under the moonlight.
Night Owl
Night Owl
Night Owl
Night Owl
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THE WRITTEN HISTORY OF MISERY (John Elwood Cook)
Goodness and mercy shall not follow me
Through the written history of misery
Hooks in my spine, bones in a line
In the space of imagination
In the space of imagination
In the space of imagination
In the written history of misery
Remember to remember me
I’m inscribed, Inscribed.
No longer alive
In the space of imagination
In the space of imagination
Insects live longer than my thoughts
But they will still sing my song
when all the marks I’ve made on paper
vanish, gone
Illegible now Illegible now
In the space of imagination
Like an antique tombstone I’m eroding
As the world moves on
Dawn to dust, dust to dawn
Dawn to dust, dust to dawn
In the space of imagination
In the space of imagination
In the written history of misery
Remember to remember me
I’m inscribed, Inscribed.
No longer alive
The written history of misery
Remember to remember me
I’m inscribed, Inscribed.
No longer alive
In the space of imagination
In the space of imagination
In the space of imagination
In the space of imagination
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DRAGONFLY 44 DARK MATTER (Joe Bouchard)
Dark matter invisible worlds
Flying through the universe
It's out there somewhere
Beyond the stars
Hang on tight, might be a stormy ride
Warped by light speed and far beyond
Where you might vanish
In a cloud of dust, just vanish.
Conspiracies and paranoia
Tension in the starlit craft
Space junk littered along the way
A lonely highway in the veil
What’s lurking in the inky night?
Where you might vanish
In a cloud of dust, just vanish.
Smooth sailing to the edge of the world
Flying through the universe
Out there somewhere
Beyond the stars
Warped by light speed and beyond
Peaceful dreams of a distant shore
Now coming up for air,
the elusive, evasive
Dragonfly Forty-four
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Published by Joe Bouchard Music ©2017 All Right Reserved.
Except Bad Decisions and The Written History of Misery written and published by John Elwood Cook