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Wrong People
04:58
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Wrong People
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
What can I say about feeling this way
I’m looking for something that got away
I’m looking here, I’m looking there
I’m looking all around
I think that my life got up and left this town
I know where to go, I know what to do
I know the reason why I’m feeling so blue, blue, blue
I gotta sing the kind of thing
That makes me feel alright
I gotta search inside myself and turn the shadows into light
I’ve been hangin’ ‘round all the wrong people
I’ve been seen I all the wrong places
I’ve been talking to too many wrong people
Please help me find some smiling faces
I have neglected to be the one thing that I am
I have rejected the things that I feel in my soul
I have elected to compromise all of my friends
And I expected to be one of the chosen men
I’ve been directed too long by the wrong people
I’m gonna step into some brand new shoes
I’m gonna break somebody else’s rules
I’m gonna fight with all my might
And everything I say will come out right
Right as the stars at night
I’ll leave this place, I’ll leave this town
And catch the next train to New York City
It’ll make me or break me
But one thing’s for sure
I’m never turning back to where I’ve been before
You know I’ve been talking to the wrong people
You know I’ve been seen with all the wrong people……..
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2. |
You're My Obsession
04:01
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You’re My Obsession
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
When I was young and inexperienced
I tried to think of any way to get close to you
I used to sneak around the back and look over the fence
And I’d do anything just to talk to you
I guess I’ll have to admit to myself
You’re my obsession
Well I eat you and I breath you everyday
Now that I have you I just want to push you away
But I need you like a needle needs a good vein
Now that I have you, you won’t ever go away
You’re my obsession
I guess I should have listened to the twilight man
He said, “Be careful what you wish for cause it might come true”
Now there’s only one thing that I understand
And that’s the pain that I’ll feel if I ever lose you
I guess I’ll have to admit to myself
You’re my obsession
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3. |
Don't You Fall
03:58
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Don’t You Fall
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Once in a lifetime you will meet somebody
Don’t let them slip through your grip
You’ll meet a lot of folks who want your body
They like the way you move your hips
But don’t you fall for that
Don’t you fall for just anyone
Don’t you fall for that
Don’t you fall before you have begun
A man might say to you “I’ll make you big time”
With dollar signs in his eyes
Get you anything that’s in your pretty mind
I wouldn’t tell you no lie
It’s so easy to hear what you want to hear
Believe what you want to believe
See what you want to see
Do what you shouldn’t do
But when the right thing comes along
And the feeling doesn’t feel wrong
You’ll know you haven’t fallen
You know it’s where you belong
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4. |
Oh, Babe
02:55
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Oh Babe
©Kevin Mahoney, Feet and Powdy Music ASCAP
Way back in the day, and when she found me I'd say
I was a rudderless ship in a hurricane
In spite of her kindness I was comfortably blind. Yes,
it was easy livin' like I was insane. Insane, but no more
than any fool such as I before me
No more dwelling on it, 'cause it bores me.
It just bores me.
Now, I can say for sure I've never felt so secure
In fact, it's actually quite amazing to feel (for a change)
Quite unexpected, my head and heart connected
She respects it like she does, 'cause it's real
It's real all over. The pain and the pity all over
Well, what's come over me - she's got the best of me
Oh, Babe! So glad to be back in your arms
Oh, Babe! Can't wait to kiss you again
Oh, Babe! When you hold me I feel so sure
This is where I am supposed to be
Arm-in-arm and you and me
Flash like lightning through an evening tree
Rocks up in our beds and the voices in our heads
and our work and our play and all that day-to-day...
People always say just what they think you wanna hear
They stick it in your ear, but the message ain't clear
It's so easy-To get caught up in
It's so easy-although they're full of shit
It's so easy to laugh because I know where I fit
Oh, Babe! So glad to be back in your heart
Oh, Babe! Can't wait to have you again
Oh, Babe! When you take me, I feel so sure
This is where I am supposed to be
Hip-to-hip and you and me
Flash like lightning through an evening tree
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5. |
Year of Change
07:06
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Year of Change
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
When I look at all the things around me
The familiar seems to be the strange
It’s as if I never really knew you
In the year of change
All the things that seemed to me important
Make me smile before they fall from grace
And I wonder what is yet to happen
In the year of change
It’s the year of change
Say it like a prophet in the rain
It’s the year of change
Now that you are leaving, nothing is the same
In the year of change
Time is all that separates us
Now that you are everywhere
Still the sun keeps rising in the morning
And the sky still opens up with rain
Part of me remains forever lonely
In the year of change
It’s the year of change
Say it like a prophet in the rain
It’s the year of change
Now I cannot stop it because nothing is the same
In the year of change
I’ll embrace the feeling, I’ll embrace the pain
In the year of change
Now that you are leaving I’ll go on
In the year of change
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6. |
Sirens in the Night
04:22
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Sirens In The Night
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
I remember a life that used to run
Like a rolling river, like the rising sun
Part of the race to get to the top
I should have stopped now and then but I gave it no thought
Where is my house? Where are my friends?
Where is my wife who used to sing?
With the voice of a siren reaching out to me
Now it is silenced and there is only me
Well I wish the time would come
When you would call me to your side
I can feel your breath upon me
And it feels so warm and nice
I can hear your voice so clearly
Just like sirens in the night
The wheels are turning so slowly now
White ghostly figures making ghostly sounds
Where is my family? Where are my friends?
I’m ready siren, just tell me when
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7. |
Love Holds On
04:59
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Love Holds On
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
I know that someday my ship will come in
Even in stormy seas
Rain keeps on falling the flood waters rise
I float above with ease
Because love holds on to me
Because love holds on to me
When I am falling through black winter skies
You are my parachute
Dark forces calling to tell me their lies
My ears believe they’re mute
I am so glad that you’re here
When I need you to tell me
Everything’s fine
You know the buttons to push
When a smile is forgotten
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8. |
River of Sighs
02:59
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River of Sighs
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Well it’s cold out my front door
Everyday
And waking up from my slumber is such a bore
I wanna stay
In a place where my friends don’t die
And no one lies
And you won’t go away
Well I can float so far away
You won’t even know I’m gone
On a river of sighs
When it’s time to face the day, it’s good to know
Everytime
That I look in your eyes, they’re gonna show
Me just why
I should keep my life on track and not look back
And you won’t go away
If it’s got to rain
If it has to pour
I can shut the windows
You know it’s always worked before
Float me on a moonbeam
Dripping down from the sky
Rattle on your love beads
I don’t have to tell you why
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9. |
You're Not Alone
03:47
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You’re Not Alone
©Kevin Mahoney, Nancy Delaney, Kate Seavey-Feet and Powdy Music ASCAP
Some may say that life's a shame
It's a fixed race and a losing game
If that's all there is - hit me, I'll play
No one got much to hide behind
But if it's the truth, I guess that's fine
Heaven or Nirvana wasn't built in a day
You're not alone if ya got the blues
You're not alone if ya got the blues
Setting up and breaking down
Taking trips just to get around
Mood swings low - how can you fake it?
Pretty words for pretty thoughts
You're pulling crimes and you're getting caught
Don't take much to see that it's faceless
You can walk a thousand miles
You can wait a million years
You can scream about it all
Or you can cry a billion tears
Everybody's got a pair of
Shoes that don't fit
It's how you deal with it
Try to be real with it
Because you know it’s not exactly front page news
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10. |
Just Wait and See
03:08
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Just Wait and See
©Ruby Bird, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Not taking any chances on this broken highway
Just trying to find my way to True and Free
There’s a new road a coming up just around the corner
And I’m gonna get there, just wait and see
Well this old world ain’t getting any better
Spelled out to the letter in prophecy
But there’s a new way a coming just over yonder
And I’m gonna get there just wait and see
I can’t be good, at least not all the time
I can’t go it alone, need help you see…
But there’s a man long ago, He paid my ransom
And the least I can do now is just believe
We’re riding into End Time, signs all around us
But the next town over is called True and Free
And I’m gonna get there, gonna ‘round that corner
Though the road to True now don’t ever seem to cease…
I’m gonna get there, just wait and see
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11. |
Long Gone Blues
04:59
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Long Gone Blues
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
I’d like to sing like some old black man
Sittin’ on a Mississippi porch
I’d like to play like a white albino
Tearing up a Texas honky tonk
I don’t got no black cat bone
I don’t have to be rambling on
But I sure can feel the blues
It comes upon me whenever you’re gone
I get the long gone blues
Creeping up my backbone, what can I do
About the long gone blues
Maybe someday I can be long gone too
Set you down for a spell
As long as you’re here let’s forget about the past
I know it’s just as well
To put some space between us ‘cause we knew it wouldn’t last
Maybe for one night
We can remember the love from our long gone past
I might be walking on a tightrope
I might be falling on down to the floor
But I like to dream and I like to hope
That someday my baby’ll come back for more
I hear the rain and the black cloud’s thunder
I hear that Mississippi man
I hear the howling hounds down under
It comes upon me whenever you’re gone
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12. |
Freedom Soul
04:19
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Freedom Soul
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
I have been striving for that lucky pot of gold
And it’s no lie that I have surely sold my soul
Just who the owner is I haven’t got a clue
But a million dollars in my pocket
Won’t give me a love that’s true
I know I’ll find a life that’s empty as a shell
And I will try to fill the space with something else
The time will come for me to change the path I’m on
All the worldly things around me
Won’t give me a freedom soul
I have searched from near to far
And listened to the lies that are
Just spurting forth like steaming geysers
That’s not what I’m looking for
I need a freedom soul
That’s what I’m looking for
That’s what I’m living for
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13. |
Someone Like You
03:38
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Someone Like You
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Everybody’s knocking at your door
What am I gonna do?
I’m not trying to be the jealous kind
I’m not trying to make you blue
But all I wanted from the start
Was to make you feel it in your heart
So many times I thought to myself
That I needed someone like you
That I needed someone like you
That I needed someone like you to love
It would seem, yeah, that we are worlds apart
To a person who doesn’t know
But we’re really like a dream, you know
Taking things very slow
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14. |
The Future's Begun
05:56
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The Future’s Begun
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
There comes a time in life when friends are strange
And every morning seems to be the same
Down in the sandpits where we used to play
Is where the memories will have to stay
I’m tired of winter and the endless night
Dead end jobs that barely keep me alive
The only thing that makes me feel alright
Comes in a ziploc bag that costs a dime
Follow the highway, run to the sun
Then you will find that the future’s begun
Splashes of color hot as the sun
No need to worry the future’s begun
I’m at the borderline, I know I won’t go back
To living the same old way
And now I’m feeling fine, my mood is not as black
As when I began today
So I sold my 8-tracks and my records too
Trashed my box of memories of you
Said my good-byes to everyone I knew
I hit the highway and forgot my blues
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“…a cosmopolitan fusion…pop music in the most adventurous, inclusive sense of the term.” -The Boston
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