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Stolen Kisses & Other Thefts (14 songs)

by Bill Mallonee/Victory Garden

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1.
Bank 05:11
it's been known for a train to jump its track it's ok so you'll know most the time they come back and it's ok to lose your life when you finally see your birth it's ok to say i love you figure sometimes it's gonna hurt don't forget to bring kindness don't forget to say thanks don't forget to spend your love no it will not break the bank don't forget to bring some empathy for the saints and the sinners don't forget to bring encouragement yeah we're all just beginners up here under par cans or down under the load how i got from a to b well God only knows me i talk a real good game practiced till i got it right but most of the crying you'll do it's inside most your life yeah i done you wrong and i hardly know why i hope that you will remember the more or less better side i hope the Cross is big enough when your sins reach to the sky hope the arms are wide enough to embrace one such as i
2.
Otherwise 04:38
i guess i was expecting better from myself always this nagging feeling i should be somewhere else home well now there's the rub mine could stand a shine now there's a thousand miles between some motel room and a back porch swing of what used to be otherwise i was living under the colored lights they're now breaking monochrome i fractured blessed images i once made and then owned and home i made a good one once there was no disguise now there's a thousand miles between a heartbeat and a back porch swing of what used to be otherwise so i'll play you a certain card every time my mind gets loud but it'll never sweep the hand when my heart's gone so far south and i'll roll you a couple of dice every time i'm dying to live you can read it in the gambler's eyes but it's speaking in his fingertips i have this dream quite frequently where i am blind and lame stumbling through forgotten cities looking for my name and home well i became one once under those clearer skies
3.
Out On The Weekend (free) 04:28
4.
Rationale 04:02
well there's an empty space it's the place at the table where we would start each day if i could quit shaking long enough i could almost hear you say oh my love oh my love yeah i wanted to get for you just a small gift but all my pocket change was taken then i wanted to become for you your favorite gift then my heart got close to breaking tear it all down tear it all down what's there left to say tear it all down tear it all down turn around and walk away walk away it's a flimsy reason at best but a reason's a reason none the less and i need one to hold on to this wheel and if i hold my breath long enough honey a kiss is what i want to steal through the lies of facts that we marshall to attack each other's wounded little hearts and then comes the hard sell you try to make to yourself but kid you know it's your own fault yeah and for all that you learn you're still a sad piece of work and there's just no getting around the world's just victims and we're playing fast and loose but now you know the real truth
5.
one to get my tongue loose and two for a broken heart three for all of that wreckage that we left in the dark so one more yeah the neon's getting fuzzy two hey pal can you help me find my keys three if you could point me in the right direction well i might get home again and i'll tell you frankly what i think about it from this bully pulpit barstool everybody's nodding but nobody's listening to to this fool fumbling for some loose pocket change to spend at a pay phone in the rain to say i'm sorry a thousand times again yeah and your heart kid seem to be open but 'round here tonight it's closing time and that lame ass way you have of coping you can read between the lines there is a very old saying known by every boxer in the ring you tell yourself when you're cut and bleeding you don't feel a thing
6.
Resplendent 04:52
yeah i remember the dark clouds raining dust for days on end blew all the earth out to california and just left us here with the wind in desperate times you know everybody's part but it's your own lines you're like to forget 'til what you were meets what you've now become grins and says "hey, haven't we met" lost my firstborn that winter and my wife on the first day of spring and so i poured my sweat into the earth yeah to see what that harvest would bring and i remember howling fury just like a plague of locusts egypt's punishment for sins of pride is that now what has come over us how much of this was meant to be how much the work of the devil how far can one man's eyes really see in these days of toil and trouble honey we're all resplendent yeah honey we are all thrift store i'm like a wino with a twenty dollar bill yeah forever and eternally yours i can make you promises if you don't expect too much yes and i will run the distance if you'll please please excuse my crutch how much of this is failing flesh how much the course of retribution my my how loudly we plead our innocence long after we've made our contribution
7.
i'm so long overdue for me to tell you i love you girl and baby thanks people sure buy a lot of what doesn't make 'em happy but our love is money in the bank too close for most one brick shy of grandiose i'm high yeah i'm high again i'm in love but i'm so lonesome yeah i'm high i'm high again i'm in love but i'm so lonesome you really oughta tidy up those loose ends of your life the ones you keep hangin' on the fence people seem to want substantial periods at the end of my every sentence so be it was all she wrote with a flair for the dramatic and the grandiose there's always someone coming 'round to tell ya' when you're dragging someone wants to fix your wagon but my wheels they've got a trick that they were taught when you get one fixed another falls off thank you for this place to fall honey would you be my all in all
8.
one more lonely trail one more busted guardrail one more safety net shot to hell you'd have thought after the last time i'd have learned to read the road signs maps they are of no use to the blind your cab speeds away in the rain but there's a guest that will soon be showing up again i recognize her all-too-familiar face here comes heartache who knows how we got this far a black leather jacket and a fast car wasn't it always written in the stars you'd have thought after such a common thing the books and pills and the distractions i'd have found a way back to the start you delivered your goodbye with many a tear academy awards await you dear one for the best supporting fake it was your movie from the very start you needed a lead so i tried out for the part forgot all my lines so i gave you my heart i got a review that you wrote i keep it in the pocket of an old coat what am i supposed to do with any of this and the whole thing hits like a tidal wave the pain the shame the fear and the rage when that wall hits the beach and we break
9.
i should have kept kept that shot of you turning up that bottle of scotch and all of these rafts and pontoons shimmer beneath normandy moon here is where the voice leaves off lungs collapsing sputtering cough and as our crafts hit the shore and we scramble to remember what for always one more never the last fresh off the farm into a bullet's path another sad letter another grim post another november ghost you can touch the face of fate when your blood saturates the beaches were never fully cleared dropped it into fifth when the clutch gave up i was too high to die but down on my luck never saw your pain when i was twenty five it's the curse of youth to be so blind always one more never the last fresh off the farm into the looking glass
10.
Solar System 04:11
come in here and have a taste yeah what's one more hopeless case when your short wave dies and there's no one to listen and the stars going cold in your solar system well her lips were red and her hair was brown yeah feeling like the luckiest kids in town she said "i'll follow you boy to the ends of the earth" said "i'm not going that far for what it's worth" and i really love to see you like this the moonlight dripping off your fingertips off your fingertips well put all your love where it hurts the most expect a little visit from the Holy Ghost but when your short wave dies and there's no one to listen the stars going cold in your solar system
11.
well look over there just past the stones in the riverbed those sunset rivulets well they beckon me to come the guardrail's all twisted it's rusting ribbons and memories and then followed by the plunge secrets are the things that you keep inside till they cry out back down the way down the dirt road a little bit was the blind curve that she missed radio was loud and i remember thinking in her condition it was all too fast for the girl and ten miles over the limit it makes all the difference in the world i must have died forty times or more in an effort to free her from that jam-locked door car bolt upright and descends rapidly diminishing oxygen and i can still hear screaming i could still catch myself cold sweat waking up with a shout and wondering why the hell she wouldn't pull up the lock me i got out what you don't know can kill you killing's never very far and the dead are always more alive than you think they are
12.
hand on the wheel again king of nothing son all your loyal subjects betrayed you every one to these grave reservations cut to the bone marrow sensations you're like a compass with no true north you're blown away or off course underneath the engine hum road noise delirium since nothing showed her pretty face it was nothing you embraced hand to the plow again man's glory is fleeting hand to your heart to see if it's still beating the breakdown wasn't temporary here's your cell solitary and in these veins of dust kid it's time that you do business hand on the wheel again sweet kingdom come i'm all lost in the Christmas snow and tired of going numb
13.
yeah i'm heading out west with no dreams to rule my heart you take a shot of courage for the one you'll take in the dark sure it is a dirty job kid why did you sign on leave a better part of you a thousand miles from home speak so i can hear you open up my eyes make my heart beat in time with yours so i'll know you haven't died the clang and bang of twelve string there was joy in the air but sometimes the ride on the passenger side feels like an electric chair and the stories you are writing they are never what you think and the things you open up tonight well they bleed invisible ink oh to put the burdens down and we take off our disguise oh to speak aloud of things we now just whisper through our eyes athens cold and gray i hear it's warmer way out west sunlight should be peeking through ah but she ain't got here yet girl you know i love you you're all i've ever loved but these days i'm so dismayed with my own flesh and blood
14.
nothing like the rain to bring you down nothing like a train to take you far away leaving here without a sound yeah should have been gone yesterday it was the diamonds i remember yeah right there behind your eyes i'm captured once again and seen through honey your camera never lies nothing like the leaves 'round your front door and the stages and the pages you've been in love before and the things you feel inside these bones and those that won't leave you those that won't leave you those that won't leave you alone you can map the lay of the land yeah you can describe the sad terrain let us survey all the borders yeah but it all still looks the same when you find there's nothing special yeah about that big hole in your heart 'cause everybody's got one with precious little time to talk about it here's another song for brenda yeah another tune for josh and joe another postcard from the highway my God where do these days go

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This recording gleaned from recent work and acoustic renditions of material we were doing in our set at the time, prior to a 2006 UK tour.

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released September 10, 2006

Bill Mallonee: guitars, vocals
Muriah Rose: piano, vocals

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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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