1. |
The Losing Game
04:00
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "The Losing Game" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
To all you old rounders and all my bad weather friends
And all the dreams that never came true
There's this road and she's laying so pretty
And I'm going to see her through
When they ask you why I ain't around
Tell 'em all I skipped town
Left them city lights in the rear view mirror
I'm tired of the losing game
Stuck with these small town blues again
Oh people here all they talk about is change
Ain't it funny how things just stay the same
All the broken lovers and the long lost verses
I once put down on paper
Tonight I'll tie up these highway laces
And watch 'em all burn to vapour
When they ask you why I ain't around
Tell 'em all I skipped town
As that old sunset just disappears
I'm tired of the losing game
Stuck with these small town blues again
Oh people here all they talk about is change
Ain't it funny how things just stay the same
I'm tired of the losing game
Stuck with these small town blues again
Oh people here all they talk about is changing
I think I'll try my luck somewhere new baby
I'm so tired of the losing game
Stuck with these small town blues again
Comes a time in life when you gotta up and leave
For something better and brighter I believe
There's something better and brighter I believe
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2. |
This Ain't Love
04:00
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "This Ain't Love" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
Little vagabond
Bloody knuckles in the rain
When we're too far gone
And our dreams feel like a train
Like a rose and thorn
Beauty hurts all the same
You were stuck in a rut
Trying to make tomorrow pay
Come down St. Augustine
With the windows broken
Slam the door in my face
What made you the one who was chosen?
I miss the tumbling all over
I miss the struggle and strife
You don't come round here much anymore
Sometimes I wonder if you're still alive
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
This ain't love
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3. |
Hey Anna
05:13
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "Hey Anna" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
I remember that show we played
It was on New Years Eve
I think somebody drugged me
I woke up in a strange world
Yea my head was in a knot and my heart was caught
Little girl you were my whole world
But I blew it baby, with the kiss of death
Hey Anna, hey Anna, hey Anna
What's wrong with me?
Hey mama, hey mama, hey mama
What's wrong with you?
Now I'm on this plane and I got these pills to help me sleep
But I haven't dreamed ever since that night
Are you somewhere in the astral plane floating up in space
You know I always thought you were light years ahead babe
Before I, before I come down I need to know
Hey Anna, hey Anna, hey Anna
What's wrong with me?
Hey mama, hey mamama, hey mama
What's wrong with you?
Now the sun's just shining down on the pavement
And I'm in some foreign place
Sometimes I feel like when people look at me
They just don't know what to say
Hey Anna, hey Anna, hey Anna
What's wrong with me?
Hey mama, hey mama, hey mama
What's wrong with you?
Do you remember that show we played
It was on New Years eve
I can't seem to remember…
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4. |
Heartbreaker
04:25
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "Heartbreaker" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
Here comes the night
With all its violence and passion
Cigarette sky
Waiting on something to happen
And all of the racket
That tries to fill the void
I still can't crack it
Those secrets in your eyes
It ain't nothing new
Now you're acting like a stranger
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
And all the speeding cars
Rushing out to somewhere
Twinkle little star
With your Coca-Cola hair
Trading saliva in the backseat
Kinda feels like danger
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Should I turn out the lights
Go searching in the dark
Where no one can find
The key to your heart
You don't wanna talk
Well we could just lay here
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
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5. |
Killin' All Them Radios
03:06
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "Killin' All Them Radios" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
I've been thinking about you mama
Killin' all them radios
I can almost hear you now
Comin through in stereo
Ain't no telling what this mean old world's gonna say
I just go on rambling in my way
All the crops left to plow
All the seeds left to sow
Where are you now
Maybe I ain't meant to know
Ain't no telling what this mean old world's gonna say
I just go on rambling in my ways
Summer's just around the bend
Heaven's in the deep dark blues
I got all new strings
I'll play 'em just for you
Ain't no telling what this mean old world's gonna say
I just go on rambling in my way
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6. |
Hardwood Floors
02:12
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "Hardwood Floors" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
I'm living in the city
Don't know if it will last
I'm flirting with the future
And still dating the past
You looked so pretty when I saw you last
I heard somebody tell me you were back
Well I've missed your melody
Ever since you've been gone
I'm still blind to all the mysteries
Writing these songs
But it's too late for singing now, I lost you long ago
Still by a thread I'll be hanging out around your back door
And it's too late for dancing, I can't twirl you no more
You won't be dressing up for anything
With my heart on your hardwood floor
Yea we are older, but I still feel young
As I watch you leave my shoulder to lean on another one
I'm living in the city
Don't know if it will last
It's hard to flirt with the future
And still date the past
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7. |
My Old Marie
05:47
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "My Old Marie" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
Ain't tonight just like the moon
It's so easy for us to lose ourselves too soon
And if I could be honest with you
Then I'd have to be honest with myself too
I used to see you standing in the rain
You were nobody's baby, you were free of the chains
My mind only saw your body
I was blind in some love triangle game
Now tonight your eyes see my pain
I'm drowning in your name
My old Marie
What is it you want, don't say nothing that can't be true
I'll go out and find anything for you
You know I'm not some thief, just a lone wolf
And if I were to leave would you follow
A heart so hollow
That your beauty just swallows
My old Marie
When I think back on sweet Melanie
And our love was so elementary
For reasons of security
I stayed with her and she stayed with me
Time is so vicious and I'm the victim of my mind
Trials of convicting me of committing all these crimes
Just as guilty as your touch was on mine
Once upon a time
My old Marie
So will we stand in these shadows
In the deep ends of forever
Hiding behind our friends
In the shallowness of never
Trying to piece it or put it all back together
Well I surrender
My old Marie
Ain't tonight just like the moon
I could break right down on the floor of this room
See these chances come and chances gone so soon
Just as delicate as my love is for you
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "Roll and I Tumble (Voice Memo)" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
I roll and I tumble, I cry the whole night through
From Philadelphia all the way back to you
I can't remember the last time I slept clean
The nights get longer when the road gets mean
And when I get back you know I only last awhile
Seems wherever I go things just go out of style
I found this jacket from a thrift store in Michigan
Don't say I never gave you anything
Every town feels like a fret on this guitar
Twenty so cities bouncing between the bars
Don't know where I'm going, know where I belong
Home for me seems to live inside a song
I love you baby, you know I really do
Just not in the way you want me to
And I hope you find what it is you're looking for
You deserve it and so much more
Roll and I tumble, I cry the whole night through
From Philadelphia all the way back to you
All the way back to you
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "I Don't Have to See You Anymore" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
Time's a funny thing, the way it's bringing us back together
It's getting on spring, the geese are coming back for the weather
If I don't do something real soon, I'm gonna regret it
So I'm sending this warning out to you, I hope that you get it
Years fly by like the North Saskatchewan river
I don't get high I just kinda get into whatever
When things go wrong around here it seems
I just sing my songs that come to me in dreams
It's cool, it's all cool
I know you found someone new
It's all cool, it's cool
I don't have to see you anymore
Anymore
I feel like smashing out some lights
Behind the movie theatre
I'm always catching the tail end of the nights
She gives me the fever
If I don't do something real soon, I'm gonna regret it
So I'm sending this warning out to you, I hope that you get it
But it's cool, it's all cool
I know you found someone new
Yea it's cool, it's all cool
I don't have to see you anymore
Anymore
Anymore
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10. |
Princess of Dawn
04:08
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "Princess of Dawn" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
Princess of dawn are the flowers gone from your summer curls
Was I the one to capture the sun inside your little world
I don't know where the summer goes
But I hate how it goes away
For me I guess I just couldn't be blessed
Enough to stay
I know it hurts but you must go on and I must go too
Your love will shine all in good time
You are so young
Princess of dawn
When the snow falls at your door and winter closes in
I hope you have a blanket so warm against your skin
It's hard to say that it's better this way
You know I was just doing what I had to
I often wish I wasn't born at all like this
Unchained by true loves vows
I know it hurts but you must go on and I must go too
Your love will shine all in good time
You are so young
Princess of dawn
I don't know where the time goes
But I just hate how it goes away
For me I guess I just couldn't be blessed
Enough to stay
I know it hurts but you must go on and I must go too
Your love will shine all in good time
You are so young
Someone will wait inside the shade
Of your perfect light
Princess of dawn
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Lyrics to Joe Nolan's song "These Old Familiar Places" from the 2022 album Lost Verses:
These old familiar places
Still triggering the trauma
I miss all your faces
And I still wanna
Get myself checked in
And get on the straight and narrow
There's special providence
In the fall of a sparrow
There was a time when we were innocent
We had the music in our veins
And all that shit we'd use to poison it
Some of that bad blood still remains
I found me a good place to hide out
To keep me clean and dry
And if you're ready to find out
Well come on inside
It's sure a fine line
I heard old Neil say
Rock 'n roll can never die
So write it on my grave
And these are my pages and this is my pen
I haven't spilled the ink in ages
From these shaky hands
And if we never make our masterpiece
That's alright you know
And when you see me back on the streets
I hope you say hello
I found me a good place to hide out
It keeps me clean and dry
And if you're ready to find out
Then come on inside
Leaves round here are changing colours
It always comes with the fall
Still love you like no other
And I'm so sorry for it all
So I'm taking my time
With keeping in touch
I got a handful of rhymes
You know it's my crutch
And some folks still have questions
They may search their whole lives
Like when I lost the directions
To the answers in your eyes
I found me a good place to hide out
I'm keeping clean and dry
And if you're ready to find out
Well come on inside
I know love is scary
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
I go to the cemetery
Where I used to drink and write
They call it dirt city
I think I know the reason why
I visit the old cemetery
Where the sun still shines
I visit the cemetery
Where the sun still shines
Where the sun still shines
Where the sun still shines
Where the sun still shines
Where the sun still shines
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Joe Nolan Edmonton, Alberta
Cry Baby's 10-song collection is a trip through melancholic madness, touching on darkness & depression, broken relationships & endless booze-fuelled evenings. Yet at its core is Nolan’s unwavering strength as a lyricist, & his wounded-heart delivery that reminds us of our humanity. It's, in essence, Nolan unapologetically sharing his story, & through that finding a second chance & a new beginning. ... more
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