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2007: Born Again

by Tim J Rowe

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Everything & Nothing 04:12
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Lyrics: Nobody says it all comes easy without having worked real hard Nobody says the world don’t know me ‘cos my world is in my heart You’ve got to hold every memory in case you let something go The first time I heard ‘I love you’ and the last time I told her so. I’m sitting here with my eyes turning red Trying to find a note to follow every word in my head Open your eyes and realise Everything and Nothing at all. I’ll always be near to guide you Even when we never talk I’m watching while you walk And in every thing you do. Now I know why I’m sitting at the piano with my eyes going red Trying to find the note to go with every word in my head Open your eyes and you see I’m Everything and Nothing at all. The clouds roll over the mountains, the wind blows through the trees, The sun bounces of my shoulders as the rain bounces off the leaves. I roll up my second smoke and remember days on the sea, But now my boat’s sitting in the garden and my dog is lying next to me. The day of change could be a day away But I’ve talked about that in a song before. I close my eyes and realise Everything and Nothing at all (solo) There’s something I’ve got to do and I just hope that Kev don’t mind: I’ve never named her by name but Gemma really changed my life. I may have got some stuff wrong, I apologise for the pain I’ve caused. We all knew the group would change but memories are forever more. I’m at the piano with my eyes going red Trying to find the right notes for all the words in my head, And what has changed? Everything and Nothing at all.
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B2B 03:46
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Don't Cry Wolf 04:18
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Lyrics: If you think you’re right check again. There’s always ones who fall, they’re the ones who never heard. With every day, every twist of fate, There’s always lessons to be learned. You go through your life like it owes you a favour. Your favours were used up long ago, And don’t pretend that you don’t know. Why do you go through your life taking your love for a ride. One day you’ll turn around and she won’t be behind. She’ll come back once or twice but not for the last time. Don’t Cry Wolf She’s never coming back. You tried to twist her round your finger but she’s wiser than that. You’re playing with her heart and messing with her mind. Too many times you cried wolf and now you cry. You can go through life on a wing and a prayer. You meet people and call them friends but they never really care. As the closing years approach you realise you don’t really know Anything that means anything. But your everyday is exactly the same as your love-life. You don’t value women to make them wives and don’t pretend that you do. Why do you go through your life taking your love for a ride. One day you’ll turn around and she won’t be behind. She’ll come back once or twice but not for the last time. Don’t Cry Wolf She’s never coming back. You tried to twist her round your finger but she’s wiser than that. You’re playing with her heart and messing with her mind. Too many times you cried wolf and now you cry. Don’t Cry Wolf
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Rubbin' 04:01
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Lyrics: You know I know you don’t you? I see you inside out. You see you winning living, but I see you scream and shout. I may have fallen fighting, but it’s higher here on top. I thank the one’s who caught me but still you never (stop) The wrong way to treat me is by beating me down. I know I have all your answers but I’m leaving this town. The day of change is on you and I’ve guided you far. It’s time to realise your minds are deeper than you are. You just rub it… You just love it… Don’t you know you’re pissing me off And there ain’t much more to say! There must be a reason why you’re rubbin’ me up. Well here it comes… YOU FUCKED UP ‘COS NOW I’M BACK TO TELL YOU SOMETHING STRANGE, ‘COS I WROTE A SONG ABOUT A MAN WRITING SONGS ABOUT RUBBIN’ HIM UP THE WRONG WAY! You think you know me don’t you? You see I’m inside out. You see me losing living. You see me scream and shout. You know I’ll write a line to the one you know I knew. So if you know me so well, tell me: Is it worth it? Do I deserve it? Or is it just that I think too much? Do I drink too much? Can I smoke enough to hear the rhythm of life? Or am I looking for answers to make it alright to put you On your knees in the dirty dog style while underneath your girlfriend works a number 69? Flip you over, pin you down by your arms. But don’t be scared - daddy won’t do you no harm. You’re/I’m just a dirty down hoe with a dirty down past! You like it soft and slow but you love it hard and fast! Vicar tried to help he said “get on your knees and pray”, You nodded at the alter and you blew him away! You’re rubbin’ me up. Just rubbin’ me up the wrong way! Don’t you know you’re pissing me off...
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Social Pariah 04:01
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Lyrics: You know that it don’t come easy. You’ve got to work harder clearly, but nobody ever gets near me. You’d better step down. I make you feel that you need me, you need to see that you feel me, You feel the need to see in me but you need to step down. They say that seeing in believing, but if I saw me I’d be leaving. Some up-tight lady-lumps are heaving but you don’t step down. Cos I make it look so easy, so you try but you just won’t beat me, so when I’m done I’ll release me so you can all get down. We only move as quickly as the person indirectly in front of us, and if that must be me then let it be so I can lead the world as one, have some fun…and let the war be done. We live to live a little higher, get a job to become a high flier. If you don’t you’re a social pariah and a liar for calling me a liar. Boss says put your hand in the fire, you wanna tell him he’s a dickhead messiah, but you do it so you don’t get fired… No wonder you’re tired. You thought you were hearing another big-dick-rock-star-wannabe with a rock chick., another two on the side who wanna get rich quick. You’d better step down. I get to put a noise to my thinking, make a sound so I know that you’re listening, Judge a book if you want but you’re missing why you need to step down. I spend every day just musing on the way you go on choosing their world over what you’re losing. You need to sit down Don’t look for a gun for affection. Take a stand and pay fucking attention. There’s a bigger battle fought through intention so shut up and sit down. I don’t believe in lessons that pressure into confessions are necessary to better what we see as present day. We see horizon and we like to think we’re looking ahead, but the horizon was around before we even had legs. The day owns you. You know this, don’t you? You don’t take ownership over something you don’t know, Like technology. Are you fucking kidding me? There’s a battle lost way before it was even begun. Ha! They say that seeing is believing but how much do you need to see to feel the need to take a leaf out of a past that’s coming back way too fast, til at last life bites back and we’re coming last. The race rules state fools make god’s out of men, but the question was never why or how it was when? We couldn’t start soon enough. A dog-eat-dog world born out of blatantly disregarding the law.
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Escape 03:27
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Lyrics: I’ve been running round, lost, trying to find a way back through To the home I knew before I was thrown into the blue. I guess we live and learn but first we all gotta wanna breathe, And be happy with the world so we still wanna be. I can’t give a reason why I’m standing when I should be underground. It’s a simple case of proving I can last another round. Don’t you try and push me further cos I made up my own mind. It’s up to me to be done with this when I’m done with my life. When I’ll fly up on high… Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin’ for to carry me home. Swing low sweet chariot. Comin’ for to carry me home. It’s like a game you love to hate me, try to make fate take a hand, But I’m waiting for a day I get to make you understand That I’m not an angry person and this ain’t about revenge. It’s just helping you to see I’m a friend to my friends. Swing low, sweet chariot… This is a message to people who don’t get me, For all the rest you know who I am. I’m the same little boy who bust his shin on a rock. I’m not lost, I ain’t mad… I just see all the love I’ve had. Swing low, sweet chariot… (Take me away) sweet chariot (I know you’re) coming for to carry me home (yeah) (Take me home, take me out of here.) (When are you) coming for to carry me home?
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Around The Next Bend 03:50
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Lyrics: I don’t want you to wake up in my bed, And I don’t want you to play games with my head, And I don’t need you to tell me right and wrong. I don’t need this from a girl who knows less than anyone. And I don’t need love from a heart that isn’t strong enough To warn the demons away. I don’t like pain, even though it can only teach us When it all comes up again so the bad parts don’t reach us, And you don’t need me to tell you that it’s wrong. You already know so why do you go and carry on? And you can be touched, when the ice in your veins Will put out the flames of a heart full of fire for your love. Baby, close your eyes and watch your life. Don’t tell me you’re not scared Of where you’re going to be standing When it all comes to an end; On his right as a wife or left to make amends? Don’t lie back because the great descend is Around the next bend. And don’t pretend you’re happy, And don’t pretend you’re sad. Don’t pretend you’ve got any feelings at all! And don’t pretend you’re not going to fall… I don’t like me when I don’t understand, And I don’t like seeing love crumble in my hands, And I don’t like life when I’m not in control. I don’t want to find my eyes wander round when I’m getting old. And you have to try to find it inside To say goodbye when guys come over to play. You have to warn the demons away. Say ‘no’ when you know it will cause me pain. Baby, close your eyes and watch your life. Don’t tell me you’re not scared Of where you’re going to be standing When it all comes to an end; On his right as a wife or left to make amends? Don’t lie back because the great descend is Around the next bend.
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Number 10 03:43
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Lyrics: People come and people go but everywhere we’re running all alone. With bigger people over your shoulder Trying to dry you out of house and home. It’s all about the money, people don’t see soul, But some people see people foe persons in their own: Like the man with the wife and the life they made Doesn’t matter next to how much money they make. You get a job to retire with pride And maybe get easy entry on the other side, But the only thing easy is the doubt in your mind. But you know inside that you could have done more to help the helpless. You could have made a wrong thing right. You could have tried to spend more time with your son Instead of working all that overtime. We put our faith in those that don’t understand, And how I know this is I’m the same as you. Why would a man take the life of another man When he doesn’t know a thing about him? And why does a man with a gun have to be a bigger man Than the man without one? Calling Number 10! Calling on The Whitehouse! Calling on Bin Laden! We’re all gonna find out! People come and people go but everywhere people walk scared. Everybody fights for their rights but the problem didn’t start there. It starts with the Government playing games: Who’s got the power to devour us all? Whoever’s got the biggest set of balls in the class, But they’re all small! Fuck ‘em all! Time to fight back! We put our faith in those that don’t understand, And how I know this is I’m the same as you. Why would a man take the life of another man when he doesn’t know a thing about him? And why does a man with a gun have to be a bigger man than the man without one? Calling Number 10! Calling on The Whitehouse! Calling on Bin Laden! We’re all gonna find out! Calling number 10!
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I Don't Care 03:51
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Lyrics: Take a little look at all the hookers around you! Took everything you said when you never meant to surround you With a lot of tighter, hotter little riders of cock And they’re getting better than you got! You should’ve listened in your lessons but you were messing about! Could’ve been better than wetter whenever a school test fell second best to a man on a bike Now you suck dick better than you read or you write! Take a minute to finish and wish it was me Taking your blindfold off so you can finally see How many people are paying in white powder and green To watch an underage girl taking deep throat! I know money and fame is the name of your game And the shame came late to a girl in the same way A bird of prey feeds on the dead everyday. You ain’t the first death! I just wanted to say: I don’t care if you won’t go down on me! Your sister always will, then your mum can suck on my nuts While you sleep! I don’t care if I push in too deep! You didn’t think about that in school when you used to bully me! It all started ‘cos you pissed me off! Take it from the top to the bottom, from the blowjob to the sodomy. In your straddle-academy there’s a battle inside of me: “Do I be what I wanna be or be fucking the night?” I’ll be smoking a doobie while you be smoking the bone. I gotta get it together and you can finish alone. You’re a slam-hound, corn-holed charity lay, and I’m getting to steppin’ and I ain’t gonna pay! You live you life just like a broken arrow: no direction. I won’t name names but you know who you are… I’m only nasty cos you were much worse but didn’t see it, and now it’s gone this far I just don’t care!
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Pride 04:12
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Lyrics: Why are you doing what you do, knowing what you know? How is it good to see the ‘could be’? Should we ever grow? Do you understand what they’ve planned? Do you need them so that you waver fact for the act? Friend it’s all a show-time ticks Pricks make decision round a boardroom table tops fill of pots, pans, food for the kids School taught fools talk to a stranger. Danger never changed, just the pay. How can you be fine knowing why you’re trying to smile? When it ain’t easy to watch the circle of life break down. If we name the stars and fly to put a flag on the moon Then we can rule them all… But why would we want to? How can you learn to live alone loving only dreams? (Why are you doing what you do, knowing what you know?) Why do we lay down and die? Is it in our genes? (How is it good to see the ‘could be’? Should we ever grow?) When will you wake up and take on the trouble that you’ve seen? (Do you understand what they’ve planned? Do you need them so…) Who made the rules to dictate where you go and where you’ve been? (…that you waver fact for the act? Friend it‘s all a show!) How can you be fine knowing why you’re trying to smile? When it ain’t easy to watch the circle of life break down. If can name the stars and fly to put a flag on the moon then we can rule them all… But why would we want to?
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Giving 03:38
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Lyrics: Why don’t they all see me and everything I can do? All that I need is a window to give me a chance to prove That I am what I am and I do what I can Though I’m fully aware of what I can’t do. So I don’t even try, I just lay down and die But that isn’t the kind of life I want to be living The kind of life where no one is giving. Why don’t they all see why some people can never leave All that I need is a door to the scene where the system gives me a name But for now I’m a number and a personal lumber Cos I haven’t got a job or a fast car Oh, I held on to my dreams so I don’t have those you see But that isn’t the kind of life I want to be living It’s the irony of giving up being me. Oh, why do I feel that I have to please all the people around me? We’re not in school any more So why are we still mocked for being different Colours and faces, Religions and races, People and places…? PLEASE! For fuck’s sake listen to what you’re missing! Put me up on that stage so can bring a day of change! I completely believe, and I don’t know why, That I can stop wars with these words of mine. But it starts with myself and my family’s wealth, Then with those that made sure that I kept my health, Then when they’re all ok I can start on this day of change; And that’s the life I wanna be living. The kind of life where I’m always giving.
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Born Again [feat. Kev Round] 03:58
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Lyrics: Fucked up young! Some love for fun. Some work hard and never love anyone. Some love love and make love, And some love come and fuck young so it’s over and done. The problem, friends, is your desire to listen Is overridden by a need to speak, so you’re missing me. Escaping to die became dying to stay And now I write with a passion that’s ripping the page. You know it wasn’t that I missed someone It’s that I missed being someone. I missed the sun. Curtains are drawn no more. Born again. Torn from depression and booze by Ben. Han had gone back to Kent full of intent And I was trying to write these lyrics all over again, But my head had gone numb and my soul was asleep. Cos while my sister was busy loving living what happened to me? Mum’s making a life, Dad’s taking a wife. Benny did a year in a fortnight and then appeared here Cleared shit in my room, sorted my head. It’s like I said: I’m born again. I wake up and seem to be Somewhere I’ve never been. Seen it in a movie scene Read it in a magazine. Watched it on the T.V Heard it on a CD Blow away an enemy Do the dirty, keep it clean. Breathe slow, breathe deep Schizophrenic inner peace Driving on pure green Filled her up with gasoline Wonder how to plead Easy, I’m guilty. I killed him in a wet dream. A dream? Fuck me, I’m dreaming of being a thug slug-fest cold killer, And a woman I lost. She’s so real I can feel her. When I’m sleeping I’m keeping repeating times of my life in my head, But instead of staying alive I was dying or dead. This was the first sign that times had to change. I’d started disowning myself instead of owning the stage. I was out of control, had a dance with the devil, But now I’m born again…and on a whole new level. You won’t ever make a bitch of Timmy Cos I’m so rich with the love inside me. If you wanna play you can play alone cos I ain’t got time for ‘I don’t know’! (Ha ha ha ha!) (Gentlemen, what we’ve got here is a classic case of psychotic denial.) (What? No, it’s not that, it’s just…) I’m born again.
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Memories 04:54
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Lyrics: You can say what you want about me But I know where I am and I know where I’ve been. I’ve been torn into pieces but I’m still standing strong, And my legacy will live on. I’ve worked hard to become what you all want to see And I thank the ones that held me. How have we laughed and cried so many, many times Knowing what we know inside. I’ll hold you in fantasy. You’re all and more I’ll ever need, And just because you don’t know me doesn’t mean I’m not here. I’ll watching you forever, and I don’t know how I know, But I’m always in your memories. It’s impossible to say what I wanna say While I hide behind the bars of a rhyme. It’s even harder when you don’t even try To care enough to hear me sing these lines. There’s so many ways I could take this… I could talk about the future and the things you’re gonna miss. I could sing about the past and how you didn’t understand, But there’s nothing I can do about that. I’ve worked hard to become what you wanted to see. It wasn’t easy and it won’t ever be, but I won’t ever stop to cry, leaving everything behind. I’ll come back for you. I promise you I will never leave your mind. You’re all and more I’ll ever need, And just because you don’t know me doesn’t mean I’m not here. I’ll be watching you forever, and I’ll tell you how I know: Cos I’m always in your memories.
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Born Again - Album Preview 02:25
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All songs by Tim J Rowe. Copyright control.

Guitars on 'Everything and Nothing' and 'Born Again' performed by Kevin Round.

Vocals on 'Around The Next Bend' performed, recorded and produced by BRo.

© ℗ 2000 - 2007. Copyright control.

'Born Again' is a collection of songs mapping the change in and around my group of friends at the time, and signalling the arrival of my ever-faithful Korg X50 synth.

Titled to convey my need for a new start in 2006/7, we meet guitarist Kev Round for the first time, and is the first real album I created by myself where I knew the songs would become part of a specific collection. As I was working on each track, unless they would fit in this album theme I didn't finish them and they ended up unfinished or on another album.

We also reach a point here where I was finally able to record full versions of a couple of the original acoustic tracks from 'Here I Am' the way I always heard them but wasn't able to display, and marks the beginnings of experimenting with song form, samples, sounds, editing, programming and all that hidden 'techie' stuff that makes easy songwriting complicated and conviluted. Ha! Fun to play about with the 'rules' though.

There's all sorts on here - so have a rummage, hopefully enjoy at least some of them, and thanks for listening.

Tim

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released January 1, 2007

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The honour of creating a soundtrack to moment or memory is one I hope to achieve with you somewhere here in these 13 albums. I've enjoyed living all of them. I hope you will as well. Much love.
Tim

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