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You Blocked the Light For Me

by Russel the Leaf

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1.
If You Will 03:06
Get out Get in Looks like I'm at the start again Put it all on the window sill, and give it all back if you will Love hurts Love lies But, can I please get back my supplies Then ill ask if you love me still, and get away from you at your will I dont need special treatment I dont need a dotted line I dont need a way to call you with a dime All I need is some help right now I turned over a new kind of dumb Luckily for you, man my heart was numb I clean up all the things you spill, and leave it on me for the bill Went to the fortune teller and she told me my next rhyme Dont want no new old fashioned lover to tell me lies all I want is someone there when I die Know what? Im done and I wouldnt even call this fun what I'd call it is a trucker's crash so put it all back in the trash and give it all back if you can give it all back if you will
2.
Birds and bees and robins Chickadees and passers by Squirrel and cow can come by seven flocking to my window Flower's petal, piney cones Sitting ducks and flying drones to make some room just throw a stone and flock up to my window Room aplenty for a friend Bring eleven, even ten Just make an even structured line the cover's free, just be on time to flock up to my window Window cleaners, farmer Jons better bring them all along and when it's hot, we'll share the lawn and flock up to my window when you make a little den company will come in tens just keep it clean and youll be fine the rent is due so pay on time to flock up to your window flock up to my window
3.
New Love 02:47
I've got something to say it's not coming out I've had it gone my own way for a long time now I'm learning to keep my place in a book right now this fiction escapes my pace in one ear then out it's easy when nobody remembers your name Happy times ain't no friend just a gentle little slap reminding you to take the day just a break old chap new love is on the map new love is on the tap
4.
The Calmer 02:33
Usually it happens when you're inside of the house you can keep it with your pocket change and put it in your mouth every time is different, so I cant say "all the same" when it happened to my brother he was feeling kind of lame once in every instance there's a secondary "bing" when it happens in the morning you can put it in your drink Oh, why do I? Oh, why do I? Out into the alley theres a tiny little note you can read it if you're on the edge of someone's little boat "Love is Just the Sun that's Shining in Us" what it read it's an offer to reteach you how to put away the dead oh so very often you forget to paint a smile but you see the note a mile away and read it for awhile Oh, why do I? Oh, why do I?
5.
Happens all the time when I'm wondering what to write when you're under the stairs tonite, call my line Happens all the day when I'm wondering what to say when you wonder if I'm okay, I'm sure I'm fine Happens just to me when I'm wondering what to wear when I wonder if they won't care when I'm not here Happens all the week when I wake up in the dream of hurt when I pull out my box of dirt Happens all the time when I can't pay for the bus when I can't buy food for us I run and hide I can learn from me like we did in the 80's back with multi-color sheets, black and pink When I crank out a sweaty shirt When you message a four year flirt When you carry a holy thirst When I make up a silly lie When I tell it to all of my guys When I take out both of my eyes
6.
Love love is gunna find my heart again love is gunna change my mind again I remember when you told me that Hate hate is gunna spin my head around it throws all the good times to the ground I repeal the frown that it gave me Love Love Love
7.
Now that we've found out the times that you've lied the whole of September, mid way through July I try to tell you how much of it flew by it's not a story as much as a rhyme the melody was longing for someone to pry you tell the jokes and I'll keep the time Looking for a reason to live Nothing is easier than making a song the verse and the chorus will come right along what's tough is bridge well, that's where you're wrong I find it simple, I find it a joy to treat it so calmly, to treat it so coy to laugh is to live, and that's what love's for Looking for a reason to live
8.
Something with distance, something with pride something to even out the flowing tide something I'm taking just to pass the time keep my stuff in line Anything comfortable, and old rag read the sayings on the marquee from my old main drag they told me to forget about my old black bag, and to sit and smile Smile Can you talk it over with me, chop it up, repeat it? can you talk it over? I promise to be sorry I promise to be sorry, I do Lost it in the mystic, covered in pine found in the business of the flooring kind discovered in the bedroom where you make your rhymes I'm not the best with time Time Can you talk it over with me, chop it up, repeat it? can you talk it over? I promise to be sorry I Promise to be sorry can you walk me over to the car and let me start it? but could you walk me over? I promise to be sorry I promise to be sorry, I do I do
9.
Up & Down 02:56
Up in the morning up at night up in the daytime blue up to the evening through the light morning is passing too Down in the middle of the day down when you can't come back down is the feeling when you say, "staying would make me slack."

credits

released April 24, 2022

All songs written by Evan M. Marré
(c) russongs, 2021

Arranged, performed and produced by Josh and Evan M. Marré

Josh Marré performed…
lead nylon guitar on “Flock Up…’
background vocals on ‘New Love’
EHX loops, prepared snare drum and engineering on ‘Up & Down’

Joan Kelsey and Connor Armbruster performed…
background vocals on ‘I Promise to Be Sorry’

Recorded at Russtudios in Lansingburgh, NY
on the AT-RMX 64 Tape Machine
…big thank you to Jared Dirolf for servicing this machine in the middle of this record

Mixed by Mike Dvorscak and Evan M. Marré

Mastered by Mike Dvorscak at Beachball Records HQ in Brooklyn, NY

Artwork and Cassette Layout by Lexie Frisbie

Records from Russ (RFR-004)

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