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Truth Is Broken

by Rodney Owl

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    Compact Disc of Rodney Owl's 2023 album 'Truth Is Broken'

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1.
Woke up this morning everything that I must do weighed me down Before I thought of you The search for happiness led us up the garden path, blind to mystery and death Your tongue betrays you as it slips from your mind, selfish fears entwined with heroes and half truths Born to kill for peace on earth, opinion breeds contradiction Through the day I burn the night, I like to twist it into something I can fight The birds in the trees are smarter than me, and we forgot to paint the roses You brought your spear and your showman's ear, not all love is kindness So let me tip toe around you, your highness As I read the ghostly hand, the shadow of a whisper Everything that we don't understand, never happened at all Oh your melancholy eyes are too glamorous, But your melancholy eyes don't do amorous Well you know I haven't had a revelation in a while, but I'm open to suggestion I lay my head down I accept the sacrifice, another day of consolation A voiceless siren cries a song through my eyes, it's called the truth is broken the walls are falling around me, and the waves rush in.
2.
I want you to know that I'll always win I was already raging before the world started to spin I'll pick at your eyes I will scrape at your bone With a smile like a knife I will cut out your tongue CHORUS Now your first love is second best, it's hard to get that off your chest We'll have to make up some pretty lies, to keep the tears from your pretty eyes It's like the rain on a wave I'm not selling out cause I didn't buy in and all that I've given isn't all I could've been I'm a lover disguised as a murderous glance And I'm hanging my fears for the future in the past CHORUS Now your first love is second best, it's hard to get that off your chest We'll have to make up some pretty lies, to keep the tears from your pretty eyes It's like the rain on a wave
3.
And all at one once you’re all alone, don’t know how far that distance goes. You never lost just left behind, you never found that change of mind. Well now it’s time to raise your head - and not believe a word that’s said, cause it’s all tangled, torn in shreds and the simple truth is all pretend when it’s all up to you Chorus 1 The sad little people with the happy pictures Sitting on the fence thinking with your fingers 30 years later still it’s now or never You’re gonna die thinking you can live forever I’ve been waiting for you to make some sense, that’s but a joke at my expense. I listen close I never hear, but still I know the sound i fear. Well now it’s time to show your face - Cause all you do is all you waste and how you live is how you fake and what you fixed did never break, I’ll leave it up to you Repeat chorus 1 All at once I’m not alone, I know how far that feeling goes I never lost just changed my mind, I never felt so far behind Well now it’s time to raise the dead - I don’t believe a word that’s said, cause it’s all tangled torn in shreds and the simple truth is complicated when it’s not up to me. Chorus 2 The angry little man with the void opinion, sitting on his hands and pointing fingers, 30 years ago I would live forever. I guess I’ll die thinking that it’s now or never. I’m gonna die thinking I could live forever
4.
Waiting 04:31
We're going out tonight, we'll have a real good time I don't care what they say I've always been a good boy Nothing to do with me, I live my life care free I never cause no pain I've always been a good boy Waiting... To wake up... To the news that it's all over The economic slave, believes that he is brave His biggest fear is change he's always been a good boy Enjoy your holiday somewhere far way Get on that big jet plane you've always been a good boy CHORUS This is the timeless time we get to know time (no time) This is the final time we have to know time (no time) Came like a tidal wave, we'll never be the same There's no one else to blame we've always been such good boys Waiting... To wake up... To the news that it's all over CHORUS This is the timeless time we get to know time (no time) This is the final time we got to know time (no time) This is the finest time we have to know time (no time) This is the timeless time we have to know time (no time)
5.
OK Boomer 02:58
Why did you just attack me out the blue? Simply because I corrected a mistake committed by another Loved by lots of sister brothers Just because I was born before you dear I won't be part of your bone idle crew Wallowing in trivial delusion while the ship is sinking In a sea of backward thinking Well I guess you haven't got a clue dear A chance on the inside, you barely cast a shadow x 4 Oh please forgive me for telling the truth In this world of make believe and general bewilderment No room for experience Maybe one day you'll be older too dear Maybe
6.
He doesn't worry about the time knocking on his door He's not a detective He's getting ready for the deepest blue that you'll ever see Can't get his head up off his knee CHORUS 1 Did you lose your wonder, chances that we squander Sometimes fear is all we have seeing us here A life misleading Nothing is written in stone or in the stars That's the noise of distraction Forget your mother, we've got equality to tear us apart Who turned the lights out in your heart? CHORUS 2 Did you lose your wonder, opportunities squandered Sometimes love is all we have to cut into (in two) A life misleading Oh and it doesn't matter, it's just the deepest blue that you'll ever see It's just the deepest blue but it doesn't matter
7.
Love Is 04:26
Love is an ever changing thing, lift you up in your life just to let you down again Love don't care about the pleasure or the pain, don't go fooling yourself CHORUS Takes you down the road like a melody of old Leaves you standing there, wondering how to get back home Love is a never changing thing, don't try to get hold of it Love, love, love and the trouble that it brings Lift you up in your life CHORUS Takes you down the road like a melody of old Leaves you hanging there, wondering how to get back home Love don't care, I see it in your voice I hear it in your face And the remedy is in the bitter sweet debris Don't go fooling yourself
8.
One fine morning as I lay sleeping, heard a knocking on my pane See that devil at my window, he's been hanging around again Causing trouble, thinking evil, calls himself a friend He says that he's my friend I lost my darling, she found her freedom, took her chances when they came But I just cannot forget her, wrap myself in chains I wrap myself in chains Oh I wrap myself in chains Stand in shadow, lurk in building, cloud the waters, that's my game If you see me please don't bother tryna change my ways Don't try to change my ways Cause I like to roll that way
9.
A face that waits for sometimes, bones that break the day Blood that bleeds like sunshine, from flesh cold and grey You always had to take what they put in front of you The devil hitched a ride home, the money's all been burned Drifting on a feeling, but feelings never learn A hand in your sleep is a hand in your glory That fortune you seek is the terror you fall on The kid you nearly remember has left his breathing space The lid you tried to keep on is slipping out of place
10.
Loser 02:46
Tie my hands a little tighter, now we know who's the loser Cause I've been to see my friend again Ten years ago He told me to wait right here and visit my brain Now it's time to escape escaping, renegotiate Cause you could die from a heart attack Find yourself when there's no turning back Work yourself into a nervous wreck I've been watching this girl all night, packing her bags and she's right Cause I've been to see my friend again I guess that's all I need
11.
Sooner or later it'll all come tumbling down We'll smile as we kill her, watch her bleed into the clouds Her face is on fire, kiss the breeze and disappear You think that you know me, should've thought twice about coming here The trick of disaster working so well on the screen Pulls at your heart strings, cause that's what you want to see Now you can feel good and happily deceived Spend it away, never think twice Kyrie eléison x2 Sooner or later it'll all fall into space I'll be there laughing with the baptist and the snakes Nothing to live for but get me out of here Something to kill for... that would be nice If you want to go where the cold blood lets Disaster Heart will get you there x3
12.
So be careful what you say, Cause lies never go away So be careful what you say. For all my one true loves x2

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released April 13, 2023

Producer: Alex Borwick
Engineered & Mastered by Liam King
Album Art by David Boland
Inside Photograph by John Margetts

Special thanks to Agustina Taborda, Jack O’Grady, Jenny Groarke, Flossy Ferguson, Peadar King, Matthew Jacobson, Caimin Gilmore, Liam King, Peter Berrill, Matthew Berrill, David Boland and Aidan Curran. Extra special thanks to Giorgia & Emilia.

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Rodney Owl Galway, Ireland

Evocative yet elusive, filled with abstract lyricism and musical dynamism. Quirky and whimsical Electric Folk.

Recently released (April 23) 2nd album Truth Is Broken on Black Gate Label.

Currently lives a quasi-reclusive life with his family in rural west of Ireland, inspired by his surroundings - an ancient Celtic rainforest, dogs, cats and a multitude of feathered friends for company.
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