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how things are supposed to be done

by Rob Nichols

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1.
loch fitty 05:04
loch fitty, 2nd december down in the shadowy glen we loved long and hard in the amber but night always had to descend she has a house up in anniesland down a little back road you can tell her i'm back but don't tell her all that - she doesn't need to know breeze blowing through the cathedral it's like a song on the bell i don't claim to be a believer but i was for a spell a little faith in a promise, sir it just never took hold you can tell her i'm back but don't tell her all that - she doesn't need to know here's a drink to the future as we watch it go by here's a drink to those memories we just had to let die and here's a drink to your fairytale that i have to let go you can tell her i'm back but don't tell her all that - she doesn't need to know out by loch fitty in december well, it's a nice time to go you can tell her i'm back but don't tell her all that - she doesn't need to know
2.
this place is nothing but rubble the tired face with the stubble forever turned away she's only looking for trouble but i've had more than a couple and it's the usual display the money's there, i could take it and run so it's straight down to business but there's always a witness - depends who you know and outside in the city it's looking even less pretty after the money goes but underneath god's burning sun someone here must know how things are supposed to be done i'm just sitting at the ready while the engines run she went away in the winter but i try not to remember whatever else she said she's got a house up in dollar i made a promise to call her but then i never did but underneath god's burning sun someone down here knows how things are supposed to be done i'm just sitting at the ready while the engines run there's the moon at the finish but where's the rest of the promise we lost along the way there's the love that i wasted but where's the blood that i tasted on that fatal day and where's the faith i started from where's the man who knew how things were supposed to be done underneath god's burning sun someone down here knows how things are supposed to be done underneath god's burning sun someone here must know...
3.
let's make the best of a bad situation it's not like it's never happened before and the last train is leaving the station so we'll call it a night see, i'm traveling lite and i've still got a way to go it was made as an honest suggestion there's no way that anybody could know but deep in my heart was a trembling question that i had to set right so i'm traveling lite and i've still got a way to go well, i knew that i'd have to be leaving i just had to get away from my home looking to find someone who'd receive me where their faces are bright but i'm traveling lite and i've still got a way to go now we go back to before the beginning and i lose you to the rest of the world it's just now and then when i notice it spinning that i have to hold tight but i'm traveling lite and i've still got a way to go
4.
there you are of a sudden - shuffling along with the crowd i was hoping you could tell me what i said last night -hope i didn't say it too loud did some things that i shouldn't and there's always someone looking at me tried to let her in but i couldn't go and let her see the monster in me and say hello to jayne for me and tell her if you do that wishing for a god up there, well, that won't make it true it shouldn't be this hard but there's these things i can't undo i guess then, i'd just rather stay here drinking in the afternoon here we are of a sudden - don't know how we got through the door i've been bruising on the shoulder from a slip i made last night or the night before but let's turn this blood into wine, baby, and make an early start on the day lay your sins next to mine and maybe something down here will help us wash them all away and say hello to jayne for me and tell her if you do that wishing for a god up there, well, that won't make it true it shouldn't be this hard but there's these things i can't undo i guess then, i'd just rather stay here drinking in the afternoon drinking in the afternoon
5.
i returned to the village of a long lost friend we used to play together spent like the echo of a howling wind that's been and gone true to the image i had, more or less allow for age and weather all that was missing there was something else that's been and gone a picture fades - all washed out with the rain i had to make it new again i lay down a tear to a passing chance i thought would last forever but i can laugh, i can put it down to circumstance that's been and gone but time's the tide that carries me away i'd have done anything to stay now i'm leaving the village of a long lost friend we used to play together if she calls, if she ever even knows i came, just say i've been and gone
6.
i'm sitting by the window watching the scenes as they change but this car is just rolling - there's no-one controlling this train i wrote her name in the frost on the glass that hides the world outside we've both lost and it happened in an instant but we both sat watching it dying we pretended not to notice like everyone else at that time but if you hear me repeating her name it's just one last prayer to keep me from feeling the pain i know you look ready but i hear that you're new to this game you can keep all your money because down here we're only gambling rain and anything else that you save, well it's worth no more than the price you paid on your way but a man up here told me that his biggest mistake was the help he'd have done better with nobody, he'd have done much better by himself but if you hear me repeating her name it's just one last prayer to keep me from feeling the pain i'm sitting by the window watching the road slip away i've no thought for tomorrow and i'm not even sure of today but if i ever wasted your time, you could have it all back if i thought you'd take some of mine but it happened in an instant but we both sat watching it dying we pretended not to notice like everyone else at that time but if you hear me repeating her name it's just one last prayer to keep me from feeling the pain
7.
today's the last day, we knew we'd see it some day we feigned our indifference but more or less we all knew the same way but you made up your mind and now the deal is done you wanted your freedom so why don't you go out and tell everyone but one day you'll look around and see i can't be found and when you wish upon a star you bring your own sun down a house of cards collapse with every chance you pass and when you wish upon a star you bring your own sun down so you've got a new man - He never told you His name He gave you that umbrella and He told you to stand in the rain so we all get bad news and i heard mine today you choose your own poison but more or less we all die the same way and one day you'll look around and see i can't be found and when you wish upon a star you bring your own sun down a house of cards collapse with every chance you pass and when you wish upon a star you bring your own sun down so today's the last day, we knew we'd be here some day we make the same promises - more or less it all ends the same way and one day you'll look around and see i can't be found and when you wish upon a star you bring your own sun down a house of cards collapse with every chance you pass and when you wish upon a star you bring your own sun down
8.
you said you know and walked out the door you said, you and me - we just couldn't be because you'd been there before it's all gone to plan like you knew it would do but you'll never know the difference i wanted to make to you i never reached for the silver or gold i got in my car, i moved out of park and i just let it roll you know what you want and you know what to do but you'll never know the difference i wanted to make to you right from the start, playing games with my heart honey, please - why don't you every thing you can see - talk it all off of me honey, please - why don't you take it from me why don't you take it from me why don't you never again will i knock on your door i read what you wrote, now my heart is broke it's sad and it's sore for you it's all done - what i'm still going through but you'll never know the difference i wanted to make to you you know what you want and you know what to do but you'll never know the difference i wanted to make to you
9.
north 04:10
some go down fighting some just sweep it to the side some escape, but me - i'll never make it out alive but it's my choice it's the position i assume these days i try to catch the moments as they pass but that don't get you back... cold and lonely it's the first day of december the things i can't forget inform the things i half remember old box of tickets in the corner of my room i draw the blue to black across the union jack but that don't get you back... there's the tide i see it's rolling home again i know the game, it always leaves, returns and leaves again it got me once but now i'm just about immune but sunlight through the cracks of cloudy, tinted glass the fire as it crackles - it almost makes me laugh these moments go so fast these moments go so fast i watch them as they pass but that don't get you back that don't get you back... some go down fighting some just sweep it to the side some escape, but me - i'll never make it out alive

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Recorded live during April-May 2012

All songs by Rob Nichols © 2012

with:
Dominic Moore - piano
Chris Bobwag Newiss - electric guitar, slide guitar
Stephen Patterson - drums
Tobias Quinn - Organ
Michael Sterrett - bass guitar

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released August 5, 2012

Recorded and produced by Rob Nichols. Co-produced by Chris Newiss, Stephen Patterson and Michael Sterrett.

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