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The Opening Act

by Ryan Sobb

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1.
i don't know jesus but i'd be willing to meet him if he kept the conversation light and his hands where i can see em its a cruel little world we find our selves upon ridin' on i'm an eager little cowgirl i'm some busted sort of saint i'm too high on a monday morning to keep my story straight and nobody gives a damn as long as the band has got the look and the songs've got a wordless hook (oh ohhh) and everyone i know is getting married or getting killed the sun is just a cancer some hellish ferris wheel with a wheeze and a stagger here i'lll make my stand against the snack machine at an economy inn i don't know jesus but i'm sure he knows about me all the grief i caused his daddy, the state, my friends and family oh, I've been working hard just to drag my ass back home to a tv dinner i'll eat alone i don't know jesus i'd be willing to meet him
2.
Shine a Duck 03:09
we'll sneak down to the lake shine flashlights on the ducks dad, well he's six beers deep, I'm sure he won't give a damn if we run off its nearing dusk thought the north woods would be quiet but all i hear are loons those evil looking bastards are persistent with their summertime-ending tunes and there's a strange blue moon have you thought about where you'll go when you graduate this spring the house will sure feel empty and i'll miss hearing you sing oh, i'll be you and you be me i'll be starting high school when we get back to detroit i'll be back with all my friends for friday night games and high school boys the rest is noise quit tugging at my hair i'll tell ma if you don't stop did you sneak yourself a beer you lied and told me all you could get was a pop goddamnit stop we'll sneak down to the lake shine flashlights on the ducks dad, well he's six beers deep, I'm sure he won't give a damn if we run off its nearing dusk and CUT
3.
Birmingham 03:59
seems to me the sun rises and sets no matter what i give and no matter what i get and the thunders out gunned us with six or so trumpets hell, john wayne rode off and they rolled in them credits like a crook from college hills that storm stumbled in didn't matter who you were didn't matter what'd you'd been like dorthy's kansas the now meets the past won't leave you with no prayer, at least, none that'll last i forgave what i could the hell you say, i'll keep what i can't heard that old song bleeding through the stereo don't let my mother know i'm just another victim of circumstance twenty miles past nowhere outside of birmingham now wasted potential's blasting through buster tweeters stunk like so co and so-cal and something beneath us if god can stop the weather and the ringing in my ears maybe these skies are tinted, he can't see me down here oh, I'm somewhere dark, I'm somewhere damp here those brake pads screeching, like southern rock vamps i thought about the sky so far from the ground saw them stars turn to glass, tried my best to pull them down i forgave what i could the hell you say, i'll keep what i can't heard that old song playing on the radio god knows i know i'm just another victim of circumstance twenty miles past nowhere outside of birmingham i was humming softly a fragile ode to times had in a candy apple beater with out of state tags the way their eyes shifted thought maybe i'd hit salem another yankee gone rouge from the land of lincoln
4.
Tired 02:37
5.
i want to trade in for a brand new song you see i've been think up the words as i was rolling along made them up all right here on the spot maybe thats why everything's in the pawn shop mare in the map like varicose veins, these rivers run through the midwest valleys and plains dirty blood flows from the glacier ice washing over our prairies' churches and towns and somehow i'll stay behind so leave me now i cannot make it, anyhow i can't say why i feel this way there's just too many reasons i can't begin to say just too many reasons i'm afraid to take the blame i've seen the rain fray the edge of this town i've been sick with indecision kept me ear stuck to the ground the plains stretch further with every falling sun i ain't asking, i ain't desperate i've left no song left unsung i'll stay behind so leave me now i cannot make it, anyhow i can't say why i feel this way there's just too many reasons i can't begin to say just too many reasons i'm afraid to take the blame
6.
Got a hundred dollar habit and a fifty dollar show singing all of my songs for folks i don't know in a state where they still fly that goddamn flag well i ain't from here and i don't pretend to be so if i die tomorrow on my way to pell city won't you slap one of my band's stickers on the body bag and send me home and send a prayer to your god, to my mother, to the moon, hell, i don't care cause i'm stretched tighter than a telephone wire pulled taught across the plains and like a flower in a drought, don't think i'll hold out long enough to ever see it rain well she never meant to hurt me i was never meant to see that pal i caught her with left some blood on my sleeve there ain't a lock or friend in this world you can trust and my next paycheck is a fragment of sentence i could say if i hadn't studied guitar instead of business now that stain on my sleeve is starting to rust so send me cash, you can keep your prayers i ain't asking for, pal, whatever you can spare! cause i've been thinking it might be time for me to starting writing hits forget the songs it ain't a wonder i hit the bottom! its a wonder it took so long Got a hundred dollar habit and a fifty dollar show singing all of my songs for folks i don't know in a state where they still fly that goddamn flag

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a collection of songs recorded in 2015 through 2016 in Birmingham, AL.

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released June 16, 2017

Produced by Les Nuby at Ol Elegante Studios
Mastered by Jason Hamric
Band: Ryan Sobb, Daniel Raine, Tommy Bowen, Devonte Hutchins, Mary Katherine Seabury, Taylor Hunnicutt, Les Nuby, Davis Johnson

Artwork by Andrew Colunga

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Ryan Sobb Birmingham, Alabama

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