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Bad Penny Opera

by The Cherry Bluestorms

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    The Cherry Bluestorms' second album Bad Penny Opera comes with 13 songs on CD.

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We’ve been going head to toe We had bad seeds to sow And sowed them underground So much time, so much to know We learned to let it go And let it go another round Away, away you go tomorrow You stayed, you stayed a bit too long Okay, okay we’ll have no sorrow here You say, will I play you a song? And by your leave I will You better believe I will All our fears are in the past We went from first to last And lasted out the years Now our journey’s at an end But we can part as friends There’s no need for tears Away, away you go tomorrow You stayed, you stayed a bit too long Okay, okay we’ll have no sorrow here You say, will I play you a song? And by your leave I will You better believe I will By your leave I will You better believe I will You better believe I will
3.
It’s hard to start here at the end It’s hard to part with you my friend I want to shout and lay the blame But I still love you just the same I thought I knew you, more fool me But I forgot the mystery That hid away behind your eyes Until you said your last goodbye It’s alright, you spent the night Now you’re gone without a trace I hope you’re in a better place It’s alright, you spent the night and I’d like to think your grace Has left us in a better place here It’s hard to start here at the end It’s hard to part with you my friend I want to shout and lay the blame But I still love you just the same It’s alright, you spent the night Now you’re gone without a trace I hope you’re in a better place It’s alright, you spent the night and I’d like to think your grace Has left us in a better place here
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I tend to be a poor man for philosophy But I’ve been saving all your tears As they’ve fallen through the years And it’s made a rich man of me All the country ‘round Have heard about the blessed sound That comes pouring out of you Like everything that’s true Like blood spilled on sacred ground A true heart wears a thorny crown Here we’re near the shore And the wind seems to hear the roar Of the sea against the sky As the clouds begin to cry the rain begins to pour All the country ‘round Have heard about the blessed sound That comes pouring out of you Like everything that’s true Like blood spilled on sacred ground A true heart wears a thorny crown
6.
This is nothing for a king to pay This is nowhere if you know the way Now the innocents are going Where the angels aren’t worth knowing And we know they’re all hoping they won’t stay Tell me something that you never tell Tell me no one ever loved so well Can anybody blame them When the devils can all shame them By keeping all the secrets they could sell After all, we moved so fast That we could not keep the time we spent From living in the past But if you take all the time I gave And look it in the mouth You’ll miss me on a Sunday driving south Happy birthday to the Moon A silver candelabra lights your room The shadows dance and play there ‘Til the Sun chases them away Too jealous of their beauty to share After all, we moved so fast That we could not keep the time we spent From living in the past But if you take all the time I gave and look it in the mouth You’ll miss me on a Sunday driving south Driving down the road, passing Mr. Toad I can’t drive fast enough to get away From this gravity that keeps pulling me I want to hear those pipers play Arnold Layne and Purple Haze Ken Kesey’s on a busman’s holiday
7.
Hey now, parish man Tell me where you’re goin’ Give us all your heartsome news of pilgrims and fire Look along your garden gate Rusted through to ruin Can you see your legacy in the fate of your Empire? See the poverty you raised as son He’ll come to claim disaster While those who serve the both of you Still love their master We’re hunting the wren Drowning the witch The country man, the strawbed man Frozen in the Boxland Is cursing the sleepers as they lay on rhododendron So those fields of yours Are filled with rocks and rubble Still they yield a hearty crop of pathos and fear Smell the air, it’s thick with smoke From all your burning stubble Meet me at the country fair and I’ll judge you with your peers My potmetal pounds won’t buy your wares So I’ll say goodbye and be goin’ But you still haven’t said where you are bound Or don’t you know, then? We’re hunting the wren Drowning the witch The country man, the strawbed man Frozen in the Boxland Is cursing the sleepers as they lay While they’re on their holiday
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Yesterday I felt so sure Now I find I’ve taken the cure Everyone I seem to meet Is off their head and loose on the street How can you say it’s not that bad? Can’t you see it’s a world going mad?
9.
Now I see you through the doorway Do it my way or do it your way now, oh now Now I see you through the doorway Practice magic and the lore way Now I see you through the doorway, oh Now I see you through the doorway, oh Coming down there, all around there Can I feel you, can I sound there now, all around? Now I see you through the doorway Practice magic and the lore way Can I see you, can I feel you now? Can I see you, can I feel you now? Now I see you on the highway In the valleys or in the skyway now Hanging on a cloud Now I see you through the doorway Practice magic and the lore way Now I see you through the doorway, now Now I see you, it’s a sure way now Is it my way or is it your way now?
10.
Give us an ear before you go Then you’ll hear all you should know I bought all your gear and gave you fifty pounds I tried to stay here but It’s the same old town Goin’ round London Bridge is falling down It’s the same old town Goin’ round London Bridge is falling down on me Down in the yard I hear your name It’s a wonder to me to see you even came Your back’s to the river and you can’t see me But I can see you and It’s the same old town Goin’ round London Bridge is falling down It’s the same old town Goin’ round London Bridge is falling down on me London Bridge is falling down, falling down London Bridge is falling down on me
11.
Did you cry out loud with the cry of love? Did you put your hand into the velvet glove? Falling through the ceiling and Then crawling on the floor Now they don’t want you anymore I know you’re hesitating You’re just killing time You think to love you is a crime With the alligators licking at your feet Better take the elevator high up off the street Looking at the rooftops When you’re up skyscraper high You can float down to the ground Or you can reach up and kiss the sky I know you’re hesitating You’re just killing time You think to love you is a crime I know you’re hesitating ‘Cause you know you’re mine You think to love you is a crime
12.
Start Again 05:14
Is there nothing sacred anymore? No one knows what to use a bad penny for Hope and glories past now fade away Now everyone is saying grace But I can’t trace them Let it all in Let it out again Let it in your heart Then you can start To let it all in Let it in and out Never have to doubt If you have the heart to start again Have you seen the worm that stands to crawl? Have you seen him stoop to conquer all? With a mind of doubt and a heart of shame Now everyone is saying grace But I can’t trace them Let it all in Let it out again Let it in your heart Then you can start To let it all in Let it in and out Never have to doubt If you have the heart to start again
13.
Bad 04:02
My love is filth, it’s a fleabag hotel It’s a disease-ridden cell, it’s a drag You wouldn’t touch it if you knew where it’d been But you do and you did, that’s the snag My wit was lacking so you sent me packing A dead carcass ‘cross an indolent nag You called me back just to do it again A fool just thinking it was all in the bag My past is black, it’s a ticket to Hell It’s a poisonous well, it’s a shame You cooled my doubt like a fire in a drought You took me out back and shot me for lame My temper’s bad and it made you so mad that you punished me with logic and worse Your sticks and stones haven’t broken my Jones But the things that you say really hurt You make me feel so bad Your love is warm, it’s a port in a storm It’s a luxury I couldn’t afford You let me stay for a night and a day Then you evicted me just like a slumlord I called a cab. As he drove it away I wondered how I could have loved you at all When I got home I went right to the phone I couldn’t help it. I just had to call… You make me feel so bad

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Bad Penny Opera, an ambitious 13 track song cycle chronicling "Penny's" journey South to find herself, via the 1960's British Rock influences that inform the band's music. The album includes The Bluestorms' version of Donovan's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven". For an in depth review: www.liverpoolsoundandvision.co.uk/2013/04/23/the-cherry-bluestorms-bad-penny-opera-album-review/

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released March 25, 2013

Deborah Gee: vocals; Glen Laughlin: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards w/
Lucy Aycud: horns (3,4); Brittany Cotto: violin (12); Tommy Diehl: Drums;
Andy Duncan: horns (9); Arlan Schierbaum: Hammond Organ (2, 5, 12)
Produced & Engineered by Glen Laughlin; Mastered by Charlie Watts;
Cover painting by Peter Carpenter (after Paul Davis); Photography by Megan J. Carroll; Graphics & Design by David Tenczar
Thanks to: Benedikt Brydern, Steve Giles, Bill & Joni Holdsworth, Brian Honda, Brian & Jennifer Jelloe, Dan Kelly, Mikal Reid, Magic Alex Retumis and Michael Woodrum

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After discovering their mutual love for ‘60’s rock, ex-Dickies guitarist Glen Laughlin and Deborah Gee formed The Cherry Bluestorms. Their debut, "Transit of Venus" came in 2007, followed by the concept album "Bad Penny Opera" in 2013, and their 7" vinyl single, "See No Evil" in 2016. ... more

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