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diff --git a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d921840 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,437 @@ +Album: Comfortable Bugs +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman +Date: December 21, 2012 +Date Added: February 12, 2021 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/comfortable-bugs +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQtx7uCpOsNFM-1-7GCFR4oW7XEfrFDYo +Cover Artists: +- Tavia Morra +Color: '#c3dcaf' +Groups: +- Michael Guy Bowman +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>A very cozy effort (as the title implies). A combination of classic rock sounds of the 70's and some modern electronic tricks to create the mix-tape you always wanted to hear.</i> + After spending part of the year doing a lot of different kinds music for commissions, I honed in and got personal on Comfortable Bugs. Flavors of Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, Roxy Music. I wanted the sounds time forgot. + This an album for you and the stereo. Get comfortable. + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> + (<i>original cover art</i>) + <img src="media/misc/comfortable-bugs-alt.jpg" width="350"> +# Additional Files: +# - Title: Album Credits +# Files: +# - credits_page.jpg +--- +Track: Hard Reset +Duration: '4:06' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/hard-reset +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kUE2vKhvsA +Lyrics: |- + It's been a long time + It's been a long run + I think I'm ready for some - a little + Hard Reset + + This is a new day + I've got a new job + I've got to tell everyone about a + Hard Reset + + Hard Reset + Caught you on the rebound + Hard Reset + Caught you on the rebound + + This is the right place + This is the right time + I'm telling you right now - this is a + Hard Reset + + I'm on a new page + I've got a new beat + I'm so glad to have you on a + Hard Reset +--- +Track: '69423' +Duration: '4:03' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/69423 +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zdjvvqFuME +Lyrics: |- + This train will make you feel pain, will make you feel pain + Tick tock trains - running on the fumes now + Turn it on, and how + Got to get high get down get lost come round + + This yarn will make you burn barns, will make you burn barns + Big black barns - quite iconoclastic + How long will you last + If you should trip the light fantastic + + And I'm not such an innocent kind of guy + 'Cause it all comes down to do or die + So I won't pretend that I never get high + + 69423 + Don't you blow your smoke on me + + This knot will get you caught, will get you caught + Get your soul bought - keep it on the outside + Take it on your stride + 'Cause you can't fall can't look can't run can't hide + + This brick will get you sick, will get you sick + Just a big brick waiting in the windows + Every good friend knows + That once they're open they won't get closed + + And I'm not such an innocent kind of guy + 'Cause it all comes down to do or die + So I won't pretend that I never get high + + 69423 + Don't you blow your smoke on me + I'm not crazy can't you see? + This is where I wanna be + + 69423 + More than just your fantasy + Chain them up, don't set them free + These bright stars belong to me +--- +Track: Bad Dudes +Duration: '2:45' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/bad-dudes +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0w54kvN0QQ +Lyrics: |- + Now that you have joined the cause + You act as though you're owed applause + Is this your fight or are these bragging rights? + + Don't pretend you really care + All you've changed is what you wear, + What you say, and who you turn away + + You think you're bad (so bad) + With the flag that you've been waving (so bad) + With the world you think you're saving (so bad) + Is it a fight that you are craving? + Maybe it's just food + + Are you a bad enough dude + To carry a torch, to ignite a feud + To change the whole world when you change your mood + It's hard to conclude + Are you bad or just rude? + + Can you honestly afford + To spend your life a sandwich board + Your thick skin is only t-shirt thin + + Your enormous sense of pride + Is just another place to hide + Let it go - your life is not for show + + You think you're bad (so bad) + With the people you've been taunting (so bad) + And the message that you're flaunting (so bad) + But is the change that you've been wanting + All just attitude? + + Are you a bad enough dude + To carry a torch - to ignite a feud + To change the whole world when you change your mood + If I might intrude + I think you're just some prude + + You think you're bad (so bad) + It could almost be inspiring (so bad) + But from you it's only tiring (so bad) + If it's attention you're desiring + Maybe you're just screwed + + Are you a bad enough dude + To carry a torch, to ignite a feud + To change the whole world when you change your mood + It's hard to conclude + Are you bad or just rude? +--- +Track: Looking For A Rock +Duration: '1:57' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/looking-for-a-rock +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckP1KrC1o3U +Lyrics: |- + Please forgive me - I was not privy + The words I needed I'd not heeded + Now I see that I've made a blunder + I'm looking for a rock I can crawl under + + I've enforced such a needless course + To a mindless goal that consumed my soul + But now that I've been torn asunder + I'm looking for a rock I can crawl under + + Don't ask why it took 'til now + Cast your stones, I'll take my bow + If you think you do no wrong + Then you've been under your rock too long + + Judge me as you would judge yourselves + We have all got skeletons on our shelves + If we don't let them fossilize + Our pet rocks will rule our lives + + Though it's an impediment + I won't turn to sediment + Before you bring your gavel down + Look at the gravel all around + + (Wait a minute, we're getting ahead of ourselves here.) +--- +Track: Comfortable Bugs +Duration: '4:41' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/comfortable-bugs +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HGVCc2yd7k +Lyrics: |- + We're comfortable bugs + And we don't really care what we're giving away + We live to laugh and love and play + Each magical day + + We live in the rugs + And the things that we need we keep close at hand + So if you'd like to join our band + You know that you can + + 'Cause when you climb on the walls and hide in the trees + It's so nice coming down, hanging round in on your knees + In the comfort of friends with time you can spend + Who you'll proudly defend from now 'til the end + + We're comfortable bugs living fun-loving lives in a wonderful world + Not a care for tomorrow, no pain, no sorrow, just boys and girls + We're comfortable bugs living fun-loving lives in a wonderful world + Without a care at all + + We're comfortable bugs + But we're not really sure quite which way to go + So if you think you're in the know + Come be in our show + + 'Cause when you climb on the walls and hide in the trees + It's so nice coming down, hanging round in on your knees + In the comfort of friends with time you can spend + Who you'll proudly defend from now 'til the end + + Say it again! + + We're comfortable bugs living fun-loving lives in a wonderful world + Not a care for tomorrow, no pain, no sorrow, just boys and girls + We're comfortable bugs living fun-loving lives in a wonderful world + Without a care at all +--- +Track: I'm Letting Go +Duration: '4:24' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/im-letting-go +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xgvhsPJgA +Lyrics: |- + All alone amongst the crowd a voice is in my head + "Is there something I'm supposed to do?" + Everybody laughing at the jokes I've never read + Am I still a member of the crew + + Tuning to the rhythm of the music in the air + Sounding out the words inside my mind + The decoration fails to make me even care + What was I supposed to find? + + I'm letting go + Of the chances I had but was always gonna blow + Of the beautiful people who never said hello + Of the life I'd have lived if I knew then what I know + + Every night I sit and wait like something's gonna change + I'll remember how to really smile + The waves of time against my mind leave me deranged + Can I make this worth the while? + + Your moves are fly but I'm a fly upon your wall + Look in my eyes and make me real + Teach me to dance when all the world's at the ball + Give me something I can really feel + + I'm letting go + Of the chances I had but was always gonna blow + Of the beautiful people who never said hello + Of the life I'd have lived if I knew then what I know + Of the need to pretend that I'm living in a show + Of the notion that I'd stay the same and never grow + Of the great desperation to move against the flow + Of all the errors I knew at the moment they were made + Of the times that I left when I really should have stayed + Of the secret inside that I'm still afraid +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xgvhsPJgA)) +--- +Track: Three Small Words +Duration: '4:04' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/three-small-words +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDaaxkUaik +Lyrics: |- + Say it isn't so hard to hear the things I have to say + Say that I'm just a fool to think there's something in the way + I can always call you + I could never call you + + Say I won't have to wait for some occasion to arise + Say the words I would say to you would come as no surprise + I can never tell you + I can only show you + + One small chance - One thin line + No damn way I can conceive to say what's on my mind + I love you - Three small words + Just the dumbest thing I'm sure that you have ever heard + Each time I try to call it feels absurd + + Say the truth deep inside your soul will only set you free + Say this kind of exposure makes you just as scared as me + I can hear my own voice + Rehearsing-all-lone-voice + + Say if you saw me at my worst you would not turn away + Say there's more to look forward to than wondering what to say + Something I believe in + I'd take such relief in + + One small chance - One thin line + No damn way I can conceive to say what's on my mind + I love you - Three small words + Just the dumbest thing I'm sure that you have ever heard + For now I guess the call remains deferred +--- +Track: Every Time I Look Into Your Eyes +Duration: '8:58' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/every-time-i-look-into-your-eyes +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IBWJebGEak +Lyrics: |- + If the air gets colder + Would you care to smolder + Here between my shoulders + Underneath the skin of my disguise? + + When the music's playing + What can be worth saying + Yours will leave me praying + Every time I look into your eyes + + For your own protection + Mind your eyes' reflection + Like a strange projection + You will leave your subjects hypnotized + + Radiant and dangerous + Though the act is painless + I go nearly brainless + Every time I look into your eyes + + Where do all of the walls go + When you walk in the door + You are the "and's" and the "also's" + I am the "either" and "or" + You look to me like an angel + I took to you like a drug + Bizarro heaven or strange hell + We both were comfortable bugs + + Like a born romantic + Mine are words pedantic + Left to my own antics + Nothing I have learned at all applies + + Things that I hold sacred + Tenderly invaded + I am nearly naked + Every time I look into your eyes + + I can't remember the lies + Why is it such a surprise? +--- +Track: Roll With The Punches +Duration: '3:56' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/roll-with-the-punches +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyVQk1oU5g +Lyrics: |- + Who do we know when we know who we are? + Who do we play when we're playing our part? + Why do we keep putting on disguises + Clinging to the cheapest of surprises? + + Clothes make the man, but the man makes mistakes + How to survive in a world full of fakes? + Why do we repress our on affections + Living by the code of our rejections? + + Is it always so damn hard + To learn to be happy with who you are + To roll with the puches + Admit that our hunches + Are the only truths we know? + + Why must our praise be indulged by a score? + How can we love when we live like a whore? + Where did we acquire these convictions + Guided not by joy but our afflictions? + + Why call the gaffes when we're all making bluffs? + Who says we're made of immutable stuff? + Why do we keep burying the layers? + Couldn't we admit we're only players? +--- +Track: Light Of Apollo +Duration: '4:11' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/light-of-apollo +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo_BSpf72xY +Lyrics: |- + The light of Apollo rises and falls across the sky + The cool of the evening slows your breathing to a sigh + Lost in the lake house on the beaten path + One broken camera snaps a photograph + + The pictures are gathered, gently slathered, fixed in place + The walls of the gallery, climbing, towering into space + Beckon you sweetly to forgotten sets + One million memories in a stranger's net + + Another golden hour - a needle in the sea + Another gift shop postcard - always close to me + The light of Apollo flows through all we see + + The faraway beach this tour bus reaches melts away + The thundering ocean casts erosion to the bay + No trace at all outside my shadow box + Printed and pinned up high behind the locks + + The dusk and the morning lull you, yawning, to your wrist + The light and the shadows churn as paddles through the mist + Life through a mirror might be forged of dreams + Just one more snapshot rough along the seams + + Another golden hour - a needle in the sea + Another gift shop postcard - always close to me + A friend I don't remember - a place we used to go + Someday it will heal us - someday they will show + The light of Apollo flows through all we know |