✥

 

Light stretched down from heavn'

Voice cut through 'at dream

Said "sir you can't be campin'

not overnight on public streets"

Shame you're second in line, to decide

Where I can and cannot sleep

So if I'm due a ticket

Write it out to 'Josephine'

 

Oh now Josephine

We sure did have good fun

Oh now Josephine

Ain't never known a better run

But it seems we've hit an end, ol' friend

Took a damned long while to see

One more drop of Josephine

could all but finish me

​

Watched 'em almost dropped 'at tea

When 'ey found out where I'd been

Introduce me to the street

When 'ey found out who I's hangin' with

I've said it's through 'tween 'Jose and me

But we've got that history

Now my bed's in the car, and I'm talkin to the law

Because of Josephine

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Oh now Josephine

We sure did have good fun

Oh now Josephine

Ain't never known a better run

But it seems we've hit an end, ol' friend

Took a damned long while to see

One more drop of Josephine

could all but finish me

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[instrumental]

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My baby don't like Josephine

Say whoah, no, no Josephine

Baby don't like Josephine

Say whoah, no, no Josephine

I know she ain't no good for me

Say whoah, no, no Josephine

Know she ain't no good to me

So officer I'm beggin, please

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Don't make me go back in there

Let a dead man rest in peace

Cause if you do, both me and you

risk murder in the first degree

​

Because of Josephine

Lord, did we have fun

You know, ol' Josephine

But now it's time to put 'er down

Cause it seems we've hit the end, ol' friend

Took a damned long while to see

One more drop of Josephine

could all but finish me

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[vamp]

​

Tomorrow swear I'll end it

Take responsibility

Till then just leave me in this car

To blame 'ol Josephine

​

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Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

Album: Dead or Alive

✥

​

Come listen to a melody

Where the sunshine meets the deep blue sea

Her spirit whistles 'long the breeze

Vibration sets you free

​

'For the dew drops fall from the emerald leaves

She'll start in the waves, spread to the streets

Carried by the wind of a morning breeze

On an island melody

​

Once the blues in the streets meet the notes of the sea

She raises up that bomba beat

To stir up the sound, turn up the heat

Lift up your bones, rattle your knees

​

'For the dew drops fall from the emerald leaves

She'll start in the waves, spread to the streets

Carried by the wind of a morning breeze

On an island melody

​

Let the music move your bones to the beat

As she stirs up the sand, runs through the trees

Carried in tropical harmony

On an island melody

​

That rhythm beneath us, carries us 'long 

To the beat of her drum, sound of her song

Waves in her voice brings life out of us all

Echos so free, even death dances 'long

​

[Instrumental]

​

Oh, let the music move your bones to it's beat

As she stirs up the sand, runs through the trees

Carried by the wind of a morning breeze

On an island melody

​

Oh music moves us all to the beat

When it starts in the waves, spreads to the streets

Carried in tropical harmony

On an island (x3) melody

​

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Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

Album: Dead or Alive

✥

​

It’s obvious, black and white

Can’t explain why it feels so right

Eighty-eight keys I learned how to play

Repaired my soul when the music slipped away

​

How do you carry something, without any weight 

Then when you put it down, you bend and you break?

​

 I slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Aint a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

Built us a fire, found us a lake

Six months later, same first date

I'm wrapped into you, you're wrapped into me

And just the water, the pines and stars get to see

​

How do you carry something, without any weight?

Just can't put it down, or you'll bend and you'll break

​

 I slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

Slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' onto somethin' I belive in

[that I believe in]

[that I believe in]

​

Whoah!

[Ain't a better peace of mind]

Somethin' I believe in

[finer place I've been]

Somethin' I believe in

[better peace of mind]

Somethin' I believe in

[whoah] Can't you feel, we're weightless?

​

Just look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

Slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

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Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

Album: Dead or Alive

✥

​

Screen door slaps, screen door swings

Grandma in the kitchen, music in the wind

Grandpa in his rocker with the TV goin’

Plays just like a movie, sings just like a song

 

Got you a ride, found you a honey

Got you some food, made you some money

Guess you got you a dream, got you a plan

So that screen door swings 

And that screen door slams

 

Screen door slaps, screen door swings

Grandma in the kitchen, music in the wind

Grandpa in his rocker with the TV goin’

Plays just like a movie, sings just like a song

 

Well ya ran out fast, ran out in a hurry

Till ya ran out of food, ran out of money

Now the car’s in the fill, job's in the can

And that screen door swings 

screen door slams

 

Screen door slaps, screen door swings

Grandma in the kitchen, music in the wind

Grandpa in his rocker with the TV goin’ 

Plays just like a movie, sings just like a song

 

I still come on back, come on by

Though only in my head and only in my mind

Guess I’ll see you both on that other side

And will probably slam the door on my way to paradise

 

Hear that screen door slap, screen door swing

Grandma in the kitchen, thinkin' 'boy, where you been?'

Grandpa in his rocker with the TV goin’

Playin' like a movie, singin' like a song

 

Hear that screen door clap,  screen door swing

30 years and runnin' and I'm sure of just one thing

When this life is o'er, I sure won't mind

If there's a chance I'll feel your smile

Waitin' on the other side

​

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Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

Album: Dead or Alive

✥

​

If somehow I could ask you

I’d ask ‘do we go bald?’

Favorite place you've traveled?

Favorite thing bout Mom?

Are you a musician?

Or has music chosen me?

Were you stompin' around your own small town

Waitin' on eighteen?

​

Cause I'm playin' 20 Questions

'llectin' miles on this 'ol Jeep

If I pay it half attention

You're right there in that seat

Comin' up within converstions

Fallin' down a one-way street

Playin' 20 Questions with me

​

Have a favorite story

from that first place on your own?

Is it scary getting married

Is it scary growing old?

When you'd drive, was every window down

blasting music, feeling free?

And when June, it reaches twenty

Do you still remember me?

 

Yeah,  I'm playin' 20 Questions

'llectin' miles on this 'ol Jeep

If I pay it half attention

You're right there in that seat

Comin' up within converstions

Fallin' down a one-way street

Playin' 20 Questions with me​

 

I've done this drive

A thousand times

But still I just can't see

With all these signs

And painted lines

How lost a boy can be

​

Till we're playin' 20 Questions

'llectin' miles on this 'ol Jeep

I'll just pay it half attention

You're right there in that seat

Comin' up within converstions

Fallin' down that one-way street

I guess who you might be

Playin' 20 Questions with me​

​

Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

Album: Dead or Alive

✥

​

Done crossed through Colorado

In a chariot of smoke

Karmic winds of Kansas

Blew him straight out Oklahoma

Wadn't on good terms with Texas

So he sits in Mexico

Pinin' for that love from long time 'go​

​

Where ya gonna go? 

Where ya gonna go? 

Once you've crossed off every

city, state and country 'round this globe

Searchin for the back-home lover you already know

Just call her up, say ' Darlin', I'm comin home'

​

Well when ya left, to put it nice 

Things weren't quite ideal

Her credit dipped 200 points

Mercedes landed in the 'fill

Your pet raccoon done bit her dog

Her parent's nicked-named you 'the log'

Ain't that the way this hard life sometimes rolls

​

Where ya gonna go? 

Where ya gonna go? 

Once you've crossed off every

city, state and country 'round this globe

Searchin for the back-home lover you already know

Just call her up and ask 'can I come home?'

​

Let's go, c'mon now

 

[instrumental]

​

Oh where ya gonna go? 

Where ya gonna go? 

Once you've crossed through Colorado

Spain, Japan and Mexico?

Searchin for the back-home love that you was born to hold

Just call her up, say 'Darlin', I'm comin'

Call her up and ask 'can I come ...'

Call her up if she'll pick up that ...

​

[.... disconnected audio]

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Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

Album: Dead or Alive