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Rougarou
The debut album by Adoniram
Tracklist
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Stories
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That Old Song (Resolution)
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Rougarou
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Alchemist's Lament (Summer Bends)
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Relegated
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Gilded Age
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Cabaret
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Amphetamines and Yay
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Roll Again
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Learn To Love Your Work
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Garbage Blues
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Sisyphus
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All Alright
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Mephistopheles
Stories
It’s just muddied staines outside my window,
They’ve travelled on a stream of light,
A shudder, a click, there goes the aperture
Like another view could set it all right.
It was something I missed, in the mist.
Lost, or left behind.
Really must insist I exist.
I don’t have much time.
These waves are following my wind flow.
Watch them carry through the night.
The scenery is just an overture,
Every searcher will try to indict.
It was something I missed, in the mist.
Lost, or left behind.
Really must insist, I exist.
I don’t have much time…
And I can’t make it rhyme…
Well I lost my mind…
Everyone stop, go.
Backwards, one two step,
I don’t know nothing yet.
You’re just another actor,
focus, avert disaster!
Everyone stop, go.
Backwards, one two step,
I don’t know nothing yet.
You’re just another actor,
focus, avert disaster!
[instrumental]
Now, they’re just stories you ought to know.
Stories you ought to know.
I’ll tell you stories you ought to know.
Alchemist’s Lament (Summer Bends)
Well apocrypha spills when there’s a rope around your throat,
That’s something between the truth and a joke.
It’s like from solid ground, I’d started to float -
Just tethered to earth by my unopened notes.
I’ve play a prisoner, a lawyer
A hangman, a warden.
Everyday and I guess it’s just boredom.
There I go again. Got my: Summer Bends.
I’ve never been found, ready or able
All the love I can promise you is only a fable.
I’m in my holy shade, sacred sable.
Can’t see myself sitting across the table.
I’ve play a prisoner, a lawyer
A hangman, a warden.
Everyday and I guess it’s just boredom.
There I go again. Got my: Summer Bends.
[Vocalising]
I find it funny how you throw in, all of your work
Trying to proselytize, sentient dirt.
You’ve got to give it up,
You can’t fill no half full cup.
I swear there’s no way on Earth, for you to convert
No alchemy that cures, intrinsic hurt,
You’ve got to let it go.
God only knows, why we play:
Prisoners, a lawyers
Hangmen, and wardens.
Everyday and I guess it’s just boredom.
Well apocrypha spills when there’s a rope around your throat,
That’s something between the truth and a joke.
Cabaret
Welcome my friend.
Welcome to the end.
It’s all over now.
Just as every star must fall.
Death comes to us all.
Yet you made some sort of vow.
Ohh.
You’ll turn it upside down.
You don’t want to live.
You don’t want to die.
You want to run away.
You hang your head, you start to cry.
It’s all gone astray.
How you pray there will come a day.
When your life will be the cabaret.
So…
Welcome to the show.
Welcome to those who know.
Welcome to my upside down.
Just as every empire falls.
Death comes to us all.
Yet I live some sort of vow.
Ohh.
I’ll escape it all somehow.
I don’t want to live.
I don’t want to die.
I want to run away.
I hang my head, my god! I can’t even cry!
It’s all gone astray!
How I pray there will come a day.
When my life will be the cabaret.
Learn to Love
your Work
Well I wasn’t born with everything.
But it ain’t like I was born with nothing.
But if I wanted anything,
My parents didn’t come up running.
They said: “Find it for yourself,”
“And son, everything hurts,”
“But if you want to be happy:”
“Learn to love your work.”
Well fuck the good life,
Give it to me raw.
I’m gonna find a good wife,
And tell her what I saw.
We’ll run around together.
We’ll take each other's names.
We’ll weigh in lighter than a feather.
Once we know each other's pains.
She’ll bring about a future,
In which I might smile.
First thing in the morning.
Hell, even once in a while.
I’m talking through the mirror.
I’m speaking to the core.
I’m gazing in and gettin’ weirder.
I wake up sore.
Because I find it for myself,
And everything hurts.
But if I want to be happy:
I’ve gotta learn to love my work!
[instrumental]
Everybody does something,
Me - I ain’t a clerk.
I work line in a kitchen,
And I’ve learned to love the work.
I cook like a savage.
I’ll leave you in the dust.
Yeah, toss me another cabbage.
I’ll peel away the rust.
Down in the barrow.
We all know to sing.
You dig into your marrow.
And wait until it rings.
I’m taking any advantage,
I’m finding my way.
I’m climbing to a higher vantage.
At the end, I’ll say:
Learn to love your work.
If I want to be happy!
If you wanna be happy
That Old Song (Resolution)
In the morning just past dawn,
I wrote a new, and terrible song.
I just had to put it down,
And wandered out, from my hometown.
A new song had to be sung,
To clear my mind, of that old one.
So carefully I started to chant,
And I spun up, a hopeful cant.
I sang: This ain’t no cry for help,
It’s just another resolution.
I’ve got to stoke the fire of my,
Personal revolution.
This ain’t no cry for help,
It’s just another resolution.
I’ve got to stoke the fire of my,
Personal revolution.
I’m on the road around high noon
And I’m shaking off, all my youthful gloom
I stretch my body and my soul
And conjured up, what to me meant Rock and Roll,
Rock and Roll.
This ain’t no cry for help,
It’s just another resolution.
I’ve got to stoke the fire of my,
Personal revolution.
This ain’t no cry for help,
It’s just another resolution.
I’ve got to stoke the fire of my,
Personal revolution.
But I hear that Old Song:
“I’m always lonely,
I guess that’s just my price, to pay,”
“Sad and homely,
I always saw myself that way.”
Headed home for the dusk,
And I felt the build up: that familiar rust.
I stop again to do my part,
And sang that new song, straight from the heart.
From the heart.
This ain’t no cry for help,
It’s just another resolution.
I’ve got to stoke the fire of my,
Personal revolution.
This ain’t no cry for help,
It’s just another resolution.
I’ve got to stoke the fire of my,
Personal revolution.
But I hear that Old Song:
“I’m always lonely,
I guess that’s just my price, to pay,”
“Sad and homely,
I always saw myself that way.”
But I hear that Old Song:
“I’m always lonely,
I guess that’s just my price, to pay,”
“Sad and homely,
I always saw myself that way.”
Relegated
Sorry I made fools, out of both of us.
There was just no fixing, broken trust.
Still I find myself, wanting you near.
Even after everything, nothing is clear.
I miss all the aeching, I felt in my chest.
The involuntary shaking, thought I knew you best.
Still I find myself, wanting you close.
You’re my favourite story. I still miss you:
But the Future, came too fast.
Now you’re relegated, to the past.
[pause]
There are so many moments, I can’t put down.
Swimming in my memories, I just might drown.
Still I find myself, wanting you near.
Even after everything, nothing is clear.
Holding on so hard, I start to bleed.
There were so many warnings, I chose not to heed.
Still I find myself, wanting you close.
You’re my favourite story. I still miss you:
But the Future, came too fast.
Now you’re relegated, to the past.
But the Future, came too fast.
Now you’re relegated, to the past.
Amphetamines
and Yay
I’ve known you since round you first came here.
Doesn’t seem so long ago.
When I first saw your smile, my heart stopped for a while.
And it’d never stopped once before.
Now I know that you’ve got your own life.
Believe me, I’ll never interfere.
It’s a world of your own, so I’m happy all alone,
Till the day comes you’d rather be here.
But I drink. And I smoke.
Don’t you know, it’s how I learned to cope.
Amphetamines and yay, used to blur my days away.
But your smile makes me sober, once more.
[short instrumental]
Yeah I drink. And I smoke.
Don’t you know, it’s how I learned to cope.
Amphetamines and yay, used to blur my days away.
But your smile makes me sober, once more.
I said, Amphetamines and yay, used to blur my days away.
But your smile makes me sober, once more.
Yes, Amphetamines and yay, used to blur my days away…
But your smile…
It makes me sober…
Once more.
Garbage Blues
Everyday, I break my back
Here on the line, can’t you see?
That like decent pay, there’s something that I lack,
Down deep at the heart of me.
I’ve been working for nothing.
I’ve been playing for keeps.
I’ve been praying that something,
Can get me out of this scrap heap.
All my sins can’t make no patch,
For the hole that’s in my chest.
I try to get ahead, but there’s always a catch,
Keeping me far from the best.
I’ve been working for nothing.
I’ve been playing for keeps.
I’ve been praying that something,
Can get me out of this scrap heap.
I’ve been working for nothing.
I’ve been playing for keeps.
I’ve been praying that something,
Can get me out of this scrap heap.
Can get me out of this scrap heap.
My god, get me out of this scrap heap.
Mephistopheles
It’s been a while,
Since we last spoke.
I miss your smile,
But I’m still broke.
[rest]
Call me honey.
I’ll be right there.
Run to be darling!
And we’ll run nowhere.
I’m dying to reach ya,
But I can’t make a sound.
I’d die just to meetchya,
Won’t you take me down!
And what will they call me?
But Old Mephistopheles.
You bring me down to my knees,
Won’t someone melt the ice for me.
I really want to make you care,
Aren’t I worth a little romance?
I do hope that you’ll be fair,
Ain’t I worth the taking a chance?
I’m dying to reach ya,
But I can’t make a sound.
I’d die just to meetchya,
Won’t you take me down!
And what will they call me?
But Old Mephistopheles.
You bring me down to my knees,
Won’t someone melt the ice for me.
And what will they call me?
But Old Mephistopheles.
You bring me down to my knees,
Won’t someone melt the ice for me.
Rougarou
Climb the stairs made of holly.
And find the old questant’s folly.
Make a ring out of twine.
And you’ll finally be mine.
You hold it down in the deep end.
Soul zombie, vampire on the weekend.
Maze run, oh ‘aroo’ you old rougarou!
Run straight at horizons, you’ll break through.
It’s threaded up out of all you revile.
The oldest shape, your downward spiral.
Your inner child and its broken smile.
Architect of the downward spiral.
You hold it down in the deep end.
Soul zombie, vampire on the weekend.
Maze run, oh ‘aroo’ you old rougarou!
Run straight at horizons, you’ll break through.
Climb the stairs made of holly.
And find the old questant’s folly.
Make a ring out of twine.
And you’ll finally be mine.
Gilded Age
Hear me near, or hear me far.
You’re not as alone as you think you are.
The gilded age has long been done.
So climb aboard, we’re off to find the new one.
The world won’t care if you’re not quite ready,
Not a one of us was born walking steady.
Me I found mine in the notes,
Of every song I ever wrote.
True right now like it was back then:
In the darkest of times, you need a friend.
Well, you’re gonna die anyway.
Maybe you ought to stay.
Hear me near, or hear me far.
You’re not as alone as you think you are.
The gods themselves contend in vain.
So you and I will always be the same.
Still don’t care if you’re not quite ready,
Not a one of us was born walking steady.
Me I found mine in the notes,
Of every song I ever wrote.
True right now like it was back then:
In the darkest of times, you need a friend.
Well, you’re gonna die anyway.
Maybe you ought to stay.
Well, you’re gonna die anyway.
Maybe you ought to stay.
[Instrumental]
Roll Again
The rain calling out your name, once again.
Off on your quest. Doing your best.
But the game seems the same and so you refrain.
It’s some kind of test. More of a pest.
It’s been something for nothing, got no gain,
it’s just a place I go to hang my chain, before I roll again.
Hey snow floating back and fro, have you been in the know
Just want more, don’t know what for.
I watch you feign, dip and trip, oh you just stay the same.
Show you the door. The only way I ever found off the killing floor.
Something for nothing, got no gain,
it’s just a place I go to hang my chain, before I roll again.
The rain calling out your name, once again.
Off on your quest. Doing your best.
But the game seems the same and so you refrain.
It’s some kind of test. More of a pest.
It’s been something for nothing, got no gain,
it’s just a place I go to hang my chain, before I roll again.
before I roll again.
Something for nothing, got no gain,
it’s just a place I go to hang my chain, before I roll again.
before I roll again.
Sisyphus
Find me down hip deep in water,
Saying I’ve been trying to get dry.
Beheld every prodigal wanderer,
Who wanted to live, wanted to feel
Fly or die.
Who got hung up on what they were supposed to be.
Forgot how to set themselves free.
Call me old Sisyphus, I work it all away,
And I know all my troubles are here to stay.
Trying to read those shift augers,
And I felt myself getting pulled below.
Ease my hurt with the heat and the cauter,
As though that’ll get me back on my ebb and flow.
Running off trying to be what I wanted to be,
Oh, *tsst* *tsst* didn’t you wanna get me?
Call me old Sisyphus, I work it all away,
And I know all my troubles are here to stay.
Call me old Sisyphus, I work it all away,
And I know all my troubles are here to stay.
All Right
Fee Fi Fo, a little bit of fun
I tried to dance on my hand,
But baby, I’m all thumbs.
It’s all alright! All alright!
I ain’t going down without a fight.
I hope you understand
Just how I became the man I am.
It’s all alright.
Set me on my rambling way,
You save me every night,
But haunt me through the day.
It’s all alright! All alright!
What I do in the dark,
Always serves the light.
All the times I’d propose,
But baby, I’m still waking up in my clothes!
It’s all alright.
Let’s go home, I brought you your love.
I might be from below,
But I’m climbing above.
It’s all alright! All alright!
I’m climbing up to an incredible height!
Be that as it may,
I can’t get rid of my dismay!
It’s all alright.
Fee Fi Fo, a little bit of fun
I tried to dance on my hand,
But baby, I’m all thumbs.
It’s all alright! All alright!
I ain’t going down without a fight.
I hope you understand
Just why I became the man I am.
It’s all alright.
To be fair:
Like I care!
Like I care..