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| Riviera (2002) |
| 1. Julianna |
Riviera is BHTM's wooly guitar rock with an underground tint of third world grunge. The songwriting continues the band's menu of blues based guitar rock, but with a latin flare. Songs like "Julianna", "Riviera", and "Again and Again" give one the feeling of romance and desperation at the same time. These songs are about people on the run. "Runaway Train" and "Freedom Fighter", as well as "Secret Mission" are ruff and tumble rockers, which have a tinge of early punk (think the Clash or Pretenders here). One of Riviera's most beautiful moments is the lush "Universal Mom", which is a thick environmental tapestry surrounding a lyric and vocal delivery that has the spirit of Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful world". A cult fan favorite. |
| 2. Freedom Fighter |
| 3. Hysteria |
| 4. Again and Again |
| 5. Runaway Train |
| 6. Wishing Well |
| 7. Jet |
| 8. Secret Mission |
| 9. Gary Indiana Blues |
| 10. Riviera |
| 11. Universal Mom |
| Julianna
It's been six days since your last hello
Empty space here - that's your pillow
It's a black night and the moon is yellow
Keep that shade high and the music mellow
Julianna I want you now
You are the woman who showed me how to be a man and make up my mind
Julianna I'm wasting time
Julianna why won't you believe? I'll be the lover you want me to be
You are the moon and the sun and the sea
Julianna don't set me free
I've been crazy, hang this head low
Touch my heart there, feels like brillo
Think I don't care, except for my, well, you know
Shine your light on this weeping willow
Chorus |
| Freedom Fighter
Dance under the missile glow, over the eastern sea
Gunshot by the side of the road - highway scenery
Revolution got no goals, except keepin' the family together
Dang chains isn't sweet on you
Freedom fighter, don't let 'em get you alive
You won't change a damn thing that is true
Freedom fighter, keep your head on tonight
Take me on with you
Take me along with you tonight
She came late for the tank parade with her emancipation song
She plugged in a guitar and played, and sang of Spanish bombs
Jackknifed inside and prayed, the world has come undone!
Yeah, whatever...
Damn chains look good on you
Chorus
Sagittarius rising low, may he follow you
Shine on you and take you home, over the eastern sea |
| Hysteria
Nine O'clock turn it on, turn it on and your spellbound
It's a t.v. movie and it isn't a letdown
Now "The Killer" is on, and they're nearing the takedown
Did you see her shoot one man while she was funning another?
What she conveniently reveals, as she is running for cover?
Now the killer is on the town, the avenger is at the shutters! Chorus
Eleven O'clock and the news is making me sorry
There's a killer over there, but you don't have to worry
- about all the bad things going down
Going down in a hurry
Chorus
She is taking the weight of the world and making it hollow
She touched my hand and made me a knight in her Harlem
She wants me to tell her
I mean to be silent
I see you smile half innocent
Add seduction, some blood, and then you don't feel anything
(you can't feel everything) - except hysteria |
| Again and Again
She takes my hand
Takes it around her as she listens in her car
Misunderstands as her eyes fall like a star,
she says she needs just a little more
It's almost dawn and the talk is getting slow
Time to cut through the lock on the door
You could have got away, but you just had to steal some more
You tell me "I want to leave you again and again,
but I don't want to leave you again
" Something I said must have hit her like a flashing red light
Give her the reason to fly on me
She's dancing with the girls tonight
Three A.M. and she wraps herself around me and says,
"I want to leave you again and again, but I don't want to leave you again" |
| Runaway Train
I keep wishing you'd fly away
How can you hold yourself down?
You carry on like this every other day
You're turning into the sound...
You've got touchin' on the line, but leaving is on your mind
You tell me everything is fine - just fine
On a runaway train tonight
You say "I love you in another way"
You say you are leaving this town
Drive me up to your hideaway, as you were burning it down
Chorus
Now I need a reason to keep away, or get up off my back
I can't stop it or turn away until I run out of track
I got touchin' on the line, but leaving is on my mind
I'll tell you everything is fine - just fine
On a runaway train tonight |
| Wishing Well
Missy may you listen to your heart.
Missy may you listen to your heart.
Missy may your drifting take you far.
It's the same with everyone. Cut off chasing the western sun.
I took a chance to make it better, ended up drowning in a wishing well.
I ain't likely to see you again, but God knows I still think about you now.
Chorus
She wasn't able to save the story so... we skidded out in a melted glory.
Pushing off for the promised land, ended up stranded on the desert sand.
Hey, think on you, well... the hell about it is the someone in your room.
Chorus
Ended up drowning in a wishing well. |
| Jet
I'm changing now the wind is at my back
And I'm so ready to go
And I cannot sleep tonight for tomorrow
Ain't gonna get to you tonight
Like a wild jet plain arrives - forgiven
See that your time wasn't a waste
Don't you let her leave you tonight,
you know she can't be sorry for affectionate lies
She's so sweet for her crimes
Like a wild jet plane, fly - forgiven
Now you'll never catch me looking back,
though I've still a long way to go
Don't you count on me tonight
You need to find your own way home
Like a sinking ship dives, like a wild jet plain arise - forgiven
Secret Mission
I once knew a woman,
she put a curse on me that eventually came true
She was a head on wreck,
on a mystic ride (you know the kind)
- among the visions and the ruins
She was my unsuspecting secret mission
Leftover passion and desire - they only deepen the wound
But you must admit that the pain is sweet
It makes you howl at the moon
I guess you are my unsuspecting secret mission
Every eleven days or so
I get a message from you
Invisible ink on invisible paper
But I can smell the perfume
I guess I ain't your unsuspecting secret mission
No
You aren't my unsuspecting secret mission |
| Secret Mission
I once knew a woman,
she put a curse on me
that eventually came true.
She was a head on wreck,
on a mystic ride (you know the kind).
Among the visions and the ruins.
Yeah, she was my unsuspecting secret mission.
Leftover passoion and desire
they only depen the wound.
But you must admit that the pain is sweet.
Makes you howl at the moon.
I guess you are my unsuspecting secret mission.
Every eleven days or so.
I get a message from you.
invisible ink on invisible paper.
But I can smell the perfume.
I guess you ain't my un suspecting secrt mission.
You know you aren't my unsuspecting secret mission.
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| Gary Indiana Blues
Turning like a hurricane
Sleep inside this junkyard train
It's cold and I'm loosing my covers
She won't take me any further south, than Gary Indiana (blues),
I never learned the easy out
Cracklin' chain and silver spoon
I shot a man for stealing food
He got caught with his gun on the table
Mother quit your cryin' now
Think of the sisters and brothers who never learned the easy out
Dancing to the midnight moon
Snowflake in my whisky too
Hear a knock on the door and some screaming
The eviction man is in town
Here's to the sisters and brothers, who never learned the easy out |
| Riviera
Just a little bit gun-shy, with a criminal mind
She came in like an animal and left like an innocent child
Now I'm stranded on empty, across nation lines
Clear night like a rosary against a dashboard light
Driving to you, Riviera
How long can you run?
Now the moon and the pavement are like noon daylight
Smokestacks and the gambling signs along the black horizon line
I once had a sister like you, lost on the other side
You run because you have to, from the firing lines
Shot into you Riviera, how long can you run?
Ain't it strange how the ones you steal, they keep you alive
How she could make you feel like you never been high?
I can't remember what was real - like a killer in denial
Careful to conceal every last line leading to you, Riviera
I deliver to you- the Riviera! How long can you run? |
| Universal Mom
You can't try to keep what you've given away
Oh, be still
Watch them, still, let them fall down
You're wasting your life trying to rescue the day
All your steel, iron will won't break this frozen ground
I know you're needing the time
Love has something for you let yourself take it
Oh my lady, tonight I want to sail to the moon and we're gonna make it
But I'm gonna need your help
You're head's somewhere else,
but you're wanting to stay
Helplessness, wordlessness, why do you let yourself worry this way?
So let there be shelter to make some mistakes
I will, you will, never control what we create
Chorus
But I'm gonna need your help
I'll tiller the soil if you tend to the bloom
Heaven flower, sun shower, let the earth move
We'll light up the world if you give us the room
Off that dress and smile to set the children of the world to rest
Chorus |
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