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BABY, I WAS LUCKY (to get outta there alive)
words & music by bill mallonee Summer c.2020 admin. BMI
Sit down at the table; This place always keeps the lights down low
They all speak in whispers but I can here the diminishing of souls
Now,now, now baby I don't ever play when the deck is stacked
There's too much evil in these parts and no one's got my back
I tried that suit on one, but it was really just for size
Sweet darlin' i was lucky to get out of there alive
Oh, Baby, i was lucky to get out of there alive
Well, you know what they say: "When you get the ball give it your best shot."
But you should remove that silk tie when you put your head up on that chopping block
And if the ax should fall much to your dismay
Just hold onto to your heart, might live to fight another day
I struck the match and flash it opened up my eyes
I tell you, baby i was lucky to get outta there alive
Now, we're parked here at the last verse & there's so much I seem to forget
And it's time to take the test and i haven't even learned my lesson yet
Sages, they speak in clipped phrases and prophets? they sing their lamatations
you may get some airplay but just keep it to 3minutes in duration
And if their ears are full of wax, by God this too shall pass
And if their backs are turned? Well, just preach it to their ass
Now, the hangman sold cravats by day his Windsor Knot was an enviable tie
Baby, I was lucky to get outta there alive, etc...
released October 2, 2020
Bill: song, vocals, guitars, bass
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ON SPEAKIN' TERMS
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SPEAKING TERMS words & music: bill mallonee
There's a million steps between
your spirit and these stars
and there's another million back
to this drink at the bar
There's a million apologies to make
if i could remember who they and get back on
Speakin' terms...speakin' terms...speakin' terms
Somewhere 'round Tex-Arkana
in an almost an empty room
an old fellow with pawn shop guitar
singin' river songs & delta blues
all the wisdom of the world
is locked inside of those tunes
Eternal & Firm
to get your soul back on
Speakin' terms...speakin' terms...speakin' terms
Had a million stages to stand upon
with a million lights above
On bar-room stationary
I scrawled out some words of Love
to preach myself a sermon
'bout all those bridges that i burned
to get you back
On speakin' terms...speakin' terms...speakin' terms
Now you can hate you enemy
You can call out all their sins
but the only thing that hatred does
is to make you just like them
there's a million apologies to make
if our hearts could find the words
to get back on
those speakin' terms...speakin' terms...speakin' terms
words & music by Bill Mallonee
c. 2021 BMI
Released January 26, 2021
Bill Mallonee. song, vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, bass, drums, harmonica
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ONE STEP INTO THE LIGHT words & music by Bill Mallonee
admin BMI c2020 published by "Once More, This Time With Feeling" Music
She waved to me from the river side as we pulled into New Orleans
There's not a lotta work for a sideshow freak pursuing his wildest dreams
Be they dreams of "parlay" and "savoir faire"
ah, but for so long I've been on my own
It's just one step into the light and He will carry you home
now,now,now what's a poor boy, a poor boy to do
when he's catches sight of an angel likes of you
'cept to hurl himself off a balcony at those feet that walk on water
They say that Love transforms just like Beauty & the Beast
Now, I'm here to testify sometimes it's lavished on the least
i know, i know...
It's just one step into the light and He will carry you home
She was a lovely hitch-hiker by the riverside
She said "I'm looking for someone with whom to start a new tribe
So are you in, my brother? Or are you out?
I'm give exactly one minute to think about it...
"I've got these dreams of my own of "parlay" and "savoir faire"
So debonair...and we will never be alone..."
It's just one step into the light and He will carry you home
credits
released December 14, 2020
Bill Mallonee; Vocals, guitars, drums, bass.
all rights reserved
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YOU'RE A LUCKY MAN NOW
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YOU'RE A LUCKY MAN NOW w&m by Bill Mallonee Admin BMI
I'll let her know that you're back in town
the love in her heart for you abounds
Her excitement, she can hardly keep
til the next time hers & yours eyes meet.
aye-oh I hope you realize the only thing she wants is to be by your side
aye-oh, i hope you're coming around cause she's a bright, bright star and you're a lucky man...now.
Her spirits are high when you're back in town
She speaks well of you all of the time
And her good heart hangs on every word
and she is such an intuitive girl..
aye-oh I hope you realize the only thing she wants is to be by your side
aye-oh, i hope you're coming around cause she's a bright, bright star and you're a lucky man...now.
I'll let here know you went back on the road
I do my best to sweep up broken hearts
And I'm sure she'll feel all alone
She wait up late nights by the phone...
aye-oh I hope you realize the only thing she wants is to be by your side
aye-oh, I hope you're coming around cause she's a bright, bright star and you're a lucky man...now.
Once you were lost, but now you're found
Wake up brother, you're a lucky man now
aye-oh, please don't let her down 'cause she's in love with you
and you're a lucky man now...
She's in love with you
and you're a lucky man now...
credits
released December 20, 2020
Bill Mallonee: guitars, bass, vocals, harmonies
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AmeriCacophony words & music: bill mallonee
I was not the first to see it
baby, i was late to the show
but, there's a long unbroken line of truth
It's there just so you'll know
but usually such voices get drowned out
by dissonance & deviltry
It all settled down upon us
like the ashes of the dead
Widely disseminated
with hate & blame & dread
they were drunk on some elixir
spiked with poison & with greed
America, America
Americacophony
Be it myth or history
or just "once upon a time"
first there was that beautiful song
till the darkness broke the rhyme
now Compassion? she was locked up
and they threw away the key
America, America
Americacophony
I was not the first to see it
nor, shall i be the last
There's a Kingdom from the Man of Love
So let that be our path
He is Risen loose & at large
so there is no turning back...
America, America
Americacophony
Admin BMI published by: "Once More, This Time With Feeling" Music
released November 24, 2020
Bill Mallonee & The Big Sky Ramblers.
electric guitars, bass, vocals, drum loops
all rights reserved
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THRESHING FLOOR words & music by Bill Mallonee
admin by BMI c. 2021
published by "Once More, This Time With Feeling" Music
all rights reserved
There were 3 riders silhouetted
in a sunset painted gold
They've been tracking you for so many months
been on your trail since you were born
chorus:
I came to get what's mine
I came to render yours
Meet me at high noon
On the threshing floor
Horse & rider in hot pursuit
Do Love & Justice kiss at the final bar?
i could trace their outline up there in the stars
now it's crashing into real life
and you're just who you are
chorus:
I came to get what's mine
I came to render yours
Meet me at high noon
On the threshing floor
there ain't nothing you can give
nothing you can take
not all the gold in Ft. Knox
could pay for your mistake
all the diamonds in the world
locked up in a vault
just a prayer flung into the air
and hope you don't get caught
chorus x2
I came to get what's mine
I came to render yours
Meet me at high noon
On the threshing floor
credits
released February 1, 2021
Bill Mallonee song, vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, lap steel
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EVERYBODY DOES
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EVERYBODY DOES words & music: bill mallonee
You know I can't remember...where the transaction took place
Where the glad exchange & happy fault...smiled and embraced
She said: "you know I love you" & I believed her just because
I had some bad religion once, but then everybody does
Everybody does...everybody does...
I soldiered through East Texas to put my 2 years in
We were sent to solve the problem they called the Indian
I cut bait in the last battle; I felt not a lick of shame
I could not slay brother or sister in any God's Good Name
Everybody does...everybody does...
I was baptized in the Brazos by a medicine man
He put a stone with my new name on it in the palm of my hand
You might say my eyes were open when i lifted up the cup
You might say my eyes were open, but i hardly knew they were shut
Everybody does...everybody does...
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THE LOT OF EVERYMAN
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THE LOT OF EVERYMAN
words & music: bill mallonee admin BMI c 2018
The last thought that crossed your mind
before you drifted off
you held it like a diamond
till everything got lost
Lost within the shadows
always there to lend a hand
that wait on the periphery
the lot of everyman
Let us send for ancient visions
born on angels wings
every dream is sweetly freeze-framed
like flowers by a stream
Where people dwell inside their cells
fashioned by their own hands
What do you make of it,
the lot of everyman?
There was a fly that interposed
and a flood of dusty doubts
You opened up a keyhole
and there you drifted out
drifted out along the shoreline
where joy kisses the sands
the geography of gladness
the lot of everyman
Lost within the shadows
that seem to stalk this land
what do you make of it,
the lot of everyman?
credits
released February 14, 2021
Bill Mallonee: acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, 12-string guitar, bass, vocals
all rights reserved Admin by BMI c. 2018
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(THERE WE GO) OUT INTO THE BLUE
words & music by Bill Mallonee c. 2021 Admin BMI
published by "Once More, This Time With Feeling" music
First there's gettin' born
Then there's gettin' torn
losing all of your baby light
A lifeboat in such stormy seas
that's what I will be for you
There We Go
There We Go
Out Into The Blue
There's a story to be be told
and you're the only one who holds the pen
to make the strophes so bold
against the tapestry of days
Love's the only gold you hold
So never pay them with your soul
There We Go
There We Go
Out Into The Blue
Honey, you had every right
to shake your head at all I said that night
sometimes you gotta sleep with your knife
The waves within? They rose & crashed
Mercy's all I ask
There We Go
There We Go
Out Into The Blue...
released February 22, 2021
Bill Mallonee: vocals, guitars, bass, baritone guitar, lap steel, harmony vocals
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I THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW words & music bill mallonee 2020
published by "Once More, This Time With Feeling" Music. BMI c.2020
I suppose it couldn't last; outcomes can be delayed
and the tables are surely turned when you look the other way
I was trying, just trying to live a little more on the bright side
Hope is a friend...but sometimes drifting...and her smile it is elusive.
Took to the road; Took to the streets
I wrote it in the sky for everyone to see
You roll your eyes; You shake your head
You're not listening & it shows but I wanted you to know...
You sharp fedora-ed Bodhisattva; Ah, you little Aztec king
your eyes brimming full of kindness
"Truck-chita" skidding Sunday gravel
Took to the road; Took to the street
I wrote it in the sky for everyone to see
You check your phone just like a tomb
You're not listening & it shows but I wanted you to know...
Took to the road; Took to the street
I wrote it in the sky for everyone to see
You check your phone
Just like a tomb
You're not listening & it shows but I wanted you to know...
Took to the road
Takes a little courage, takes a little faith.
Sweetheart let's get to the bright side
credits
released October 18, 2020
Bill: all instruments, treatments, vocals
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BEST SEAT IN THE ROOM w&m Bill Mallonee c. 2021
admin by BMI
I'd just assume to let the whole thing ride
If it's all the same to you
if what you say falls on deaf ears?
Well there's not much you can do
You & Me
Staring down the gloom
Waters ripple beneath a blue moon
So much for all we tried...tried to hold onto
We've got the best seat in the room
Well, i came stumblin' in
I was scared, I was in flight
A little shaky, you might say, eyes darting left & right
I always come here as a beggar
with a heart just like a feather
I was baptized by the mountains,
the blue sky and the sea
ever since i began to crawl
The Spirit kissed my brow
beneath the waterfall
You & Me
Staring down the gloom
Waters ripple beneath a blue moon
So much for all we tried...tried to hold onto
We've got the best seat in the room
You & Me
Staring down the gloom
Angels smile at us in front of empty tombs
So much for all we tried...tried to hold onto
We've got the best seat in the room
Might be the best seat in the room
Might be the best seat in the room
credits
Bill Mallonee: acoustic & electric guitars, bass, lap steel
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Bill Mallonee
Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their
"Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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