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diff --git a/album/ulterior-motives.yaml b/album/ulterior-motives.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9239316 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/ulterior-motives.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,769 @@ +Album: Ulterior Motives +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman +Date: July 20, 2022 +Date Added: January 1, 2023 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ulterior-motives +- https://open.spotify.com/album/1cYkQBPDKHcU4SycXp5dAn +Cover Artists: +- Lucas Adelman +Color: '#a7aeb2' +Groups: +- Michael Guy Bowman +- Beyond +--- +Track: Bombs Away +Date First Released: July 14, 2022 +Duration: '2:53' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/bombs-away +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDEpl-DRBpk +- https://open.spotify.com/track/61EazNtrmuRStPStBTrjjR +Lyrics: |- + Fell in love with the girl + With the ash in her eyes + Of the weight of the world + And her government ties + + Well I'm down on my knees + And I'm kissing her calves + In the land of the free + Because she's all that I have + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go + Oh-oh-oh! + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go + + Fell apart at the touch + Of the girl in the jet + She was pulling the clutch + I was breaking a sweat + + Well she painted my face + With the blood on her heels + I could not walk away + Because it's all that I feel + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go + (We're ready to go) Oh-oh-oh! + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go + + Bombs away (Bombs away) + Look out below (Look out below) + Ready or not (Ready or not) + We're ready to go (We're ready to go) + + Fell into the abyss + And I never got out + She was blowing a kiss + I dissolved in a cloud + + At the top of the hill + With the plane in the sky + When she went for the kill + I was ready to die + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go + Oh-oh-oh! + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go + We're ready to go! + + Bombs away + Look out below + Ready or not + We're ready to go +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDEpl-DRBpk)) +--- +Track: Criminal Mind +Duration: '2:32' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/criminal-mind +- https://open.spotify.com/track/2bCtzRNdNTc1NhfFvOk93E +Lyrics: |- + Stand back, I'm a criminal mind + I keep running, and I feel just fine + Don't stop when they're reading my rights + You won't see me when you turn on the lights + + I'm always moving, 'cause the city's so restless + I keep my eyes open when I'm asleep + I only take what can fit in my pockets + I drop it all if I feel the heat + + Ooh, it's a slippery road + Where the people are liquid and ice + Ooh, it's a poisonous world + Where the pleasures all come at a price + + Stand back, I'm a criminal mind + I keep running, and I feel just fine + Don't stop when they're reading my rights + You won't see me when you turn on the lights + + I walk tall, but I keep a small footprint + I never call from a telephone twice (Hello?) + I keep a stash in every city I've been in + I'll take a trip if the weather is nice + + Ooh, it's the sweat from your hands on the dial + When you're cracking the safe + Ooh, it's the part of the plan where you walk + And you don't leave a trace + + Stand back, I'm a criminal mind + I keep running, and I feel just fine + Don't stop when they're reading my rights + You won't see me when you turn on the lights + + I'm a criminal mind + I'm stepping over the line + Watch out! + + Stand back, I'm a criminal mind + I keep running, and I feel just fine + Don't stop when they're reading my rights + You won't see me when you turn on the lights +--- +Track: Girl Like You +Duration: '3:10' +Contributors: +- Bijan Eghtesady (drums) +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/girl-like-you +- https://open.spotify.com/track/6o22nf0MOuFLHNWji3m9b5 +Lyrics: |- + You're paranoid from the waist down + You're paralyzed with the ways you waste your time + You want to move, but you just mime + And you get nowhere + + You pack it in for the weekend + You pick it up and you move in a straight line + And you say you're just fine + When there's no one there + + I could fall in love + Fall in love with a girl like you + I could change my life + If you want me to + + I would give it all + Give it all for a night like that + If it's what you like + If you loved me back + + You put it off for a long time + You put the next episode on your TV + And you think about leaving + But you're not so sure + + You hear a sound out the window + You aren't sure what the band is playing + Or the words they're saying + While you lock the door + + I could fall in love + Fall in love with a girl like you + I could change my life + If you want me to + + I would give it all + Give it all for a night like that + If it's what you like + If you loved me back + + If you loved me back, if you loved me back + What would life be like if you'd just do that? + Take ahold of what's inside + Your broken heart + + If you took my hand, if you took my hand + Would it be so hard to understand + How the world was before + It fell apart + When it all seemed new + For a girl like you + + I could fall in love + Fall in love with a girl like you + I could change my life + If you want me to + + I would give it all + Give it all for a night like that + If it's what you like + If you loved me back + + I could fall in love + Fall in love with a girl like you— + I could fall in love + Fall in love with a girl like you— + I could fall in love + Fall in love with a girl like you +--- +Track: Communion +Directory: communion-ulterior-motives +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '2:24' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/communion +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3njO513VMqxzODwWMTt6iP +Lyrics: |- + (Hands up) + + Hands up for the highwayman + We're headed to the Holy Land + It's low and loud + We're going down + + No knock, turn a friend to foe + There won't be a second show + You're bleeding out + You're screaming now + + Take away my body + Take away my body + Give me back my fever dreams + Give me back my everything + + Operator, operator, we've been dying on the dance floor + We've been dying on the dance floor + Soon or later, soon or later, you'll be getting what you came for + You'll be getting what you came for + + Operator, operator, there's a fire in the flashing lights + For the blood of communion + Just a taste to remember you by + + (Hands up) + + Hands up for the hit parade + We're headed to the Golden Gate + So say goodbye + We leave tonight + + Hail, hail, to the rock 'n' roll + This bop ought to break your soul + Right open wide + It's such a ride + + Take away my body + Take away my body + Give me back my R&B + Give me back my, give me back my + + Operator, operator, we've been dying on the dance floor + We've been dying on the dance floor + + Soon or later, soon or laterm you'll be getting what you came for + You'll be getting what you came for + + Operator, operator, there's an iron in the ebb of time + It's a kiss out of heaven + Just a piece to remain when you die +--- +Track: Sabotage +Directory: sabotage-ulterior-motives +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '4:08' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/sabotage +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0yOXG9LaYzemTQQ7OvIHlD +Lyrics: |- + I'm an agent by trade + I'm a vandal at heart + I find the weakest piece + And pull it all apart + + I've been on every side + You know they're all the same + You recognize my face + But you don't know my name + + Sabotage + You want to get into the entourage + You've got to use a little camouflage + If you want to break into the scene, oh yeah + + Sabotage + You take a hammer to the fuselage + You wish them all a little bon voyage + And you never say a thing, oh yeah + + Sabotage + And when they're firing off a grand barrage + You disappear into a thin mirage + + I'm right in front of your eyes + I'm living under your nose + But you don't know I'm there + Until the bomber blows + + I wear a hat and a coat + I wear a suit and a tie + I'm looking just like you + And you pass me right by + + Sabotage + You want to get into the entourage + You've got to use a little camouflage + If you want to break into the scene, oh yeah + + Sabotage + You take a hammer to the fuselage + You wish them all a little bon voyage + And you never say a thing, oh yeah + + Sabotage + And when they're firing off a grand barrage + You disappear into a thin mirage + + Sabotage + You want to get into the entourage + You've got to use a little camouflage + If you want to break into the scene, oh yeah + + Sabotage + You take a hammer to the fuselage + You wish them all a little bon voyage + And you never say a thing, oh yeah + + Sabotage + And when they're firing off a grand barrage + You disappear into a thin mirage + + Oh don't you hold me down + I don't want to stay + Your walls won't contain me + I always get away + + You think you know it all + But you don't know yourself + You've got it all together + Until it goes to hell + + Sabotage + You want to get into the entourage + You've got to use a little camouflage + If you want to break into the scene, oh yeah + + Sabotage + You take a hammer to the fuselage + You wish them all a little bon voyage + And you never say a thing, oh yeah + + Sabotage + And when they're firing off a grand barrage + You disappear into a thin mirage + + Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah + Sabotage +--- +Track: When I Think About You +Duration: '2:51' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/when-i-think-about-you +- https://open.spotify.com/track/1amFGTvdhzWymSnnP7NXTf +Lyrics: |- + When I think about you + On the way back home + Take away my blues + When I'm all alone + Flicker of your smile + In the evening air + Through the highway miles + I can feel you there + + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + + When I think about you + Wonder where you are + Look around my room + Open up my heart + Let it all come free + When the night is long + Take a walk with me + 'Til the world is gone + + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you + When I think about you +--- +Track: Interlude +Directory: interlude-ulterior-motives +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '0:53' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/interlude +- https://open.spotify.com/track/1Kewb2N6YWCzAsqkM8p68O +Lyrics: |- + (Strange, the way time goes by.) +--- +Track: Mechanism +Directory: mechanism-ulterior-motives +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '3:00' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/mechanism +- https://open.spotify.com/track/1d2tiZ8InTYpXTyNyhXII3 +Lyrics: |- + Forces acting on a point + Every pivot of the joint + Feel the friction when it starts + The mechanism of the heart + + What you see in all your dreams + Replicated by machines + This is what you really are + The mechanism of the heart + + With the turning of the hands + See the universe expand + They're the dancers in the dark + The mechanism of the heart + + Pull the cables in the ground + Every wire full of sound + This is ripping me apart + The mechanism of heart + + Little pieces, little pieces + Wind up and we wear them out (Wind up and wear them out) + Heavy metal, heavy metal + Heaven knows what you're holding down (What you are holding down) + + Now we're shifting into gear + As we burn away the years + You will finish what you start + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + + The mechanism of the heart + The mechanism of the heart + + Little pieces, little pieces + Wind up and we wear them out (Wind up and wear them out) + Heavy metal, heavy metal + Heaven knows what you're holding down (What you are holding down) + + Fully loaded, fully loaded + Watch out when the spring unwinds (When the spring unwinds) + Now or never, now or never + No warning, we're wasting time + + Forces acting on a point + Every pivot of the joint + Feel the friction when it starts + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) + The mechanism of the heart (Mechanism of the heart) +--- +Track: Saint +Directory: saint-ulterior-motives +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '2:41' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/saint +- https://open.spotify.com/track/7BbNOdlgOiBqlczls0ptoB +Lyrics: |- + Be still, my love, I'm a fool for you + I'll do anything that you want me to + Take the old church road to the edge of town + Feel the wind whip up on your wedding gown + + I'm a saint, I'm a saint, I'm a saint 'til I see your eyes + Want to faint, want to faint, want to faint at your knees tonight + + Relax, my love, I'll be good to you + I need someone to surrender to + Take a midnight ride in the pouring rain + See the fog grow thick on your windowpane + + I'm a saint, I'm a saint, I'm a saint 'til I see your eyes + Want to faint, want to faint, want to faint at your knees tonight + + Be still + Be still + Be still + Be still +--- +Track: Identity Thief +Duration: '3:36' +Contributors: +- Bijan Eghtesady (drums) +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/identity-thief +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-4-nC-Dim4 +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3w2NHxK46az3Ltk1YPaOWS +Lyrics: |- + I've been pulling favors out of privileged hands + I've been taking credit where the credit's due + Stole the name of someone from a foreign land + You're the only one I've ever told this to + + Gave away the total sum of who I was to now become + The man who stands before your eyes today + Living in the limelight of a fancy turned to full-time bluff + Still waiting for the sting of my disgrace + + I stole my identity from another man who looks like me + And I don't know what he knows (I don't know what he knows) + But I know he knows my name (I know he knows my name) + And I have myself to blame (I have myself to blame) + Do you think he's in here now? (Do you think he's in here now?) + Do you see him in the mirror? (Do you see him in the mirror?) + Do you think he knows I'm here? + + I've been filching francs from banks in Switzerland + I've been cashing traveller's checks in Cameroon + Drank at the Mirage and dried up at the Sands + Never thought of what this might be coming to + + Thought for sure that he was dead and I might take his place instead + Become the man I always wished to be + Never knew the men he killed or asked how all the vaults were filled + But now I fear he's finally come for me + + I stole my identity from another man who looks like me + And I don't know what he knows (I don't know what he knows) + But I know he knows my name (I know he knows my name) + And I have myself to blame (I have myself to blame) + I can hear him coming now (I hear him coming now) + I can feel him in the air (I feel him in the air) + And I know he knows I'm there + + I stole my identity from another man who looks like me + And I know that I will not go free + 'Cause there's only room for one, you see + + And I don't know what he knows (I don't know what he knows) + But I know he knows my name (I know he knows my name) + And I have myself to blame (I have myself to blame) + I can taste his bullet now (I taste his bullet now) + I can smell his blood-soaked hands (I smell his blood-soaked hands) + I could not forget this man (I can't forget this man) + + I am trying to escape (I'm trying to escape) + But there's nowhere left to run (There's nowhere left to run) + For I know now what I've done (I know now what I've done) + I have laid inside his bed (I've laid inside his bed) + Stood before his vanity (Stood before his vanity) + And I know that man is me +--- +Track: Powerline +Directory: powerline-ulterior-motives +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '2:43' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/powerline +- https://open.spotify.com/track/1mwreS3z4o5dK67Q2nhwCU +Lyrics: |- + Powerline + I feel the static when your hand's in mine + One little spark and we'll be intertwined + Come get electric with me now + Oh-oh + + Powerline + Just like a thunderbolt into your spine + One little shock and it could blow your mind + Come get electric with me now + Oh-oh + + It's the feeling that you give me + Just like déjà vu + I'm already so nostalgic + For this moment with you + + I can feel what you're thinking + And I know just what you want + You've got that real live connection + That can really turn you on + + Powerline + I feel the static when your hand's in mine + One little spark and we'll be intertwined + Come get electric with me now + Oh-oh + + Powerline + Just like a thunderbolt into your spine + One little shock and it could blow your mind + Come get electric with me now + Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh + Come get electric + + It's a little bit magic + How we lose control + With our bodies in motion + While we share the same soul + + We are human machinery + And the contacts are live + So come on and close the circuit + Use the power that's inside + + Powerline + I feel the static when your hand's in mine + One little spark and we'll be intertwined + Come get electric with me now + Oh-oh + + Powerline + Just like a thunderbolt into your spine + One little shock and it could blow your mind + Come get electric with me now + Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh + Come get electric +--- +Track: Utopia +Directory: utopia-ulterior-motives +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '3:20' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/utopia +- https://open.spotify.com/track/6bdUtMW4rDNVPfvPMjWQuy +Lyrics: |- + There's a moment yet to come + When we'll learn to live as one + Every second in the sun + Will be wonderful + + Spoke the poet and the priest + "They will rise among the least" + It was wisdom from the east + Kept you comfortable + + Now the highs are looking low + For the people that you know + Selling tickets to the show + That never opened up + + For today you're not so sure + What you're really waiting for + With your face slammed in the door + Of Utopia + + There was time enough at last + You discarded all the past + We remolded in the cast + Of our victory + + With the future full of light + We would rage against the night + Ever certain of the right + Side of history + + Now the skies are looking gray + For the weary castaway + Feel the waters of the bay + Crashing over ya + + While you wander like a ghost + With the ones you missed the most + When you washed upon the coast + Of Utopia + + Time wasted + I've tasted + One too many tongues in my life + + Ideals + So real + One push and we fall on the knife + + Love is not enough for you + It's a point of view + It's a program + + Years in the dark are alright + And you won't catch the sight + Of your own sham +--- +Track: Back To Start +Duration: '3:01' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/back-to-start +- https://open.spotify.com/track/6cjOxe7arGigMVI2uVuCDX +Lyrics: |- + I know it's just a game we're playing + But when you walk away, I wish that you were staying + It's a crazy thing to do, getting all caught up in you + When I'm not so sure I still contain the room within my heart + To put away the pieces when we circle back to start + + It's always easy when we're joking + Act like we're little kids, but really we are growing + At the ending of the day, when we're out of things to say + Would you tell me you were happy just to be here when we part + And we wouldn't have to wonder when we'd circle back to start + + Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh + We're going around and round + Round and round + + Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh + We're going around and round + Round and round + + And when I see you in the evening + I'll walk beside you because I am also leaving + There's a pause before we do, like you very nearly knew + What the looks on both our faces were betraying in the dark + While the actors take their places and we circle back to start + + Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh + We're going around and round + Round and round + + Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh + We're going around and round + Round and round |