buckaroo rendez-vous (Nova Epress 10119) - © 2007

 

 

01- For You, Everything Will Be Allright (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 

 

02- Vacuum & Broom (Thierry Magnière)

 

I clean my room
A quick vacuum and broom.
I clean my room
And I feel no gloom.

 

I remember when dust
Was the only thing I trust.
An endless way was a must.

 

I still see you stormin’ out jealous.
The shambles you left furious
Were a little too obvious.

 

And now, I clean that room
A quick vacuum and broom.
I clean that room
And I feel no gloom.
‘Cause I know before I meet my doom
A lot of flowers & girls will bloom
On my way outside this room.

 

 

 

03- Walkin Down The Road (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 

 

04- What Girls Said (Thierry Magnière)

 

I remember what they said to me, to me!
I loved them all pretty well it’s true! It’s true!

 

I was yearning for each of them
Dreaming of crazy sex and love
But young girls only fall in love
With teachers or seniors older than me



Seemed to be starry-eyed for them
Never leered like a lady’s man
And yet I knew all the good moves
Just needed some practice for real to improve

 

Bridge
Girls trusted me, confided in
Telling me their pain and secrets,
Driving knives in my wounds.
I spent the lonely nights
With my guitar instead of teen tits & lips.

 


05- I'll Give You Lovin (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 

 

06- Sunshine over you (Thierry Magnière)

You walk in the street
Rain falls down in sheets
To you it feels sweet

 

‘Cause nothing can’t stop you
You’ll be on time to rendezvous
With that girl you find so fine
She reminds you of the sunshine … over you.

 

You’re in a state of grace
You move as though space
Your feet begin to race

 

She’s a lifeline in your prayer
You want to quickly sink
To dive inside like a tiger in the ring,
Ring of fire, of desire.

 


07- Heade Home To Texas (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 


08- Uncle Henri (Thierry Magnière)

 

A breeze came from nowhere
Sweetly brushing the face
Rather a cool embrace
Than a cold breath of air.

 

A breeze came from nowhere.
The wild grass and the leaves of the grove,
The clouds in the sky, there was nothing that moved.
Preacher said it’s a sign of Jesus
We can’t see but feel Him ‘round us.

 

A breeze came from nowhere.
Grand Ma explained that sometimes
The soul of the dead say goodbye to their folk
If they had lived all the free of crimes.
They do it ‘fore Purgatory walk.

 

A breeze came from nowhere.
Could it be Uncle Henri?
Yeah, Yeah!! ‘Cause it was in November.
A breeze came from nowhere, yeah, yeah!!

 

 

09- Summer's Day (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 

 

10- Should he try? (Thierry Magnière)



(He’s) getting tired
Every thing changes but him.
(He’s) like an old vampire
Through the ages so lonely
No chance to see the sun again.

 

(He’s) feeling lost,
A misfit against his will.
The fate of a ghost
Who roves lazily ‘til
He finds the light, to release his pain.

 

bridge
Should he try to stand it up?
Should he try to break it up?
The first step is the hardest!
Just one more to reach the next!

 

 

 

11- Under The Gypsy Moon (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 

 

 

12- Civil War Widow (Lyrics: Cynthia Gayneau – Music: Thierry Magnière)



One last time we'll climb this hill together
War and death have parted us forever
Came the enemy
Did you think of me in widow's weeds?
What were you thinking of?
Now rest in peace, my love
Rest in peace, my love
Rest in peace, my love...

 

 

 

13- Everyone knows love (Thierry Magnière)

 

Love! Please love come no more!
She knows sorrow follows you across the door.
“Stay away from me” she swore
Things will be no better than they were before.

 

Babe, everyone knows love,
Babe, for each of us it’s different.

 

Time! Protect her heart and mind
Give her mercy from the memories she’ll find
Of lies, cries and grief that made her blind
Teach her that all men aren’t a traitor to their kind.

 

Tears of bitterness fall no more!
She gets sweet fortitude and warmth to her heart’s core.
Hope! Stay beside her as a friend
So just as once her troubles came they’ll go back in the end.

 

 

 

14- Ma tout’ bel’(Shalala song) (Thierry Magnière)

 

Oh ma tout' bel’
Viens dans mes bras
On va danser sous le ciel
Dans les bayous
On restera
Pour s'aimer là com' des fous

 

Ton père me cherche
Ma pauv' mère pleure
C'est vrai qu'on est dans la dèche
Pour l'essentiel
Ma tout' p'tit’ fleur
Notr' amour c'est du lait et du miel.

 

Shalala
Lalalala
Shalalalalalalala
Shalala
Lalalala
Shalalalalalalala

 

Oh mon beau Jean
Marions-nous
Mêm’ sans prêtr', sans robe ni voile
Dans les bayous
Sous les étoiles
Je porterai ton enfant

 

Mon père te cherche
Ta pauv' mère pleure
C'est vrai qu'on est dans la dèche
Pour l'essentiel
Mon joli coeur
Notr' amour c'est du lait et du miel.

 

 

 

15- If A Man Answers (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 

 

16- Don't Feel Like Talking (Cynthia Gayneau/Thierry Magnière)

 

Don't feel like talking
I'm just walking
Shuffling my shoes
Going nowhere
What do I care
(I'm) just trying to beat the blues
The crazy world we're living in
Has got me down
And I'm searching for a way to come around
Get myself in tune
I've got to get my feet back on the ground

 

The sun is sinking
And I'm thinking
As I'm watching my feet
So many places
So many faces
That I'm likely to meet
If I could change the shape I'm in
Know where I’m bound
Maybe shift the steps I take and turn around
Find myself in tune
I've just got to get my feet back on the ground

 

 


17- I couldn’t save our love (while the planet warming) (Thierry Magnière)

 


Looking out from my window
Roofs coated with a remnant of snow
Hangin’ on eaves but doomed to melt drop by drop.

 

It’s like watching our love,
Vanish tear by tear but how long?
Did it try to hang on the edge of your heart?

 

(Bridge)
If I only could bring from the Pole
Enough cold and pack ice
To keep the weather and snow on ice.
I’ve just opened the cold storage doors in vain.

 

(verse three)
The radio speaks about
The warming of the Earth in the future:
Snow won’t stay. It may never, ever come back.

 

 

 

18- Les Routes de Memphis (Cynthia Gayneau)

 

 

 

19- Waltz For A Funeral Procession (Thierry Magnière)

 

 


 


The Bucks Are Loose (Nova Express 10093) - © 2005

 

 

 

01- TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME (the forties crisis) (T. Magnière)

 

Sometimes he surprised
His mirror image
As if he realized
They were'nt the same age
« How can this face look
So different from me?
I read it like a book:
Disillusion,
No commotion »
Said he

 

In time the years shape
A man but for some of us
The mind have an escape,
From them, so miraculous.
Sooner or later
Hard will be the awakening
Showing a new feeling
Of depression
And deception
After.
Then in vain we try to make up for lost time

 

 

 

02- THE SUN WAS BRIGHT (Cynthia Gayneau/Thierry Magnière)

 

Yesterday the sun was bright
We made love through the night
We believed in the right
To invent our own life
When we were young

 

But we were so naive that we lost it
Never saw the writing on the wall

 

Our gold was in the sun
Our new world had just begun
Peace and freedom were won
And our love would always be
Forever young

 

I don't know where it went
All our resources spent
Corporations intent
On draining what is left
From our young

 

I want my children to grow
To be watchful and know
That each seed they will sow
Must be tended with care
While they are young

 

 

 

03- This Train (Tradionnal/The Buckaroos)

 

 

 

04- A GOOD DAY (In A Psychiatric Hospital) (Thierry Magnière)

 

It's a good day!
And the night was so tender.
Such a good day!
He has a lover.

 

She vanished early in the morning
Like the dew under the summer sun
He still feels her tremblin'
Her sweet lips making him hum.

 

Doctors say « too much excitement ».
They give him stronger treatment...
But he doesn't lie!
She'll come again tonight!
When they switch off the lights,
His fancy will fly...

 

 

 

05- TWO DOLLAR SONG (Thierry Magnière)

 

Time flies so fast with you
Your fourteen and you look so fine
Now you escape from me
Little by little
You have changed your liking
Maybe you think your daddy's wrong

 

Listen to my two dollar, two dollar song
Two two dollar, two dollar song
Two two dollar, two dollar song for you
And all your girlfriends
Maybe your boyfriend too

 

Love will hover 'round you
Your sixteenth year will shine
The heart will open wide
Little by little
You'll have changed your looking
Maybe you'll call your friend « honey »

 

 

 


06- GOT TO GET HOME BEFORE... (Cynthia Gayneau/ Thierry Magnière)

 

I've got the wheel gripped tight, the engine strained
Driving hard into the rain
Pedal to the metal, I'm not looking at my speed
One clear break is all I need
To make up time

 

Got to get home before
You're not there any more
Baby, please, please don't go.

 

Last time I pulled off the road to telephone
I could have sworn you weren't alone
You sounded kind of cryptic, I'm already feeling bad
I said a lot of things to make you mad
I didn't mean.

 

I know you've heard it time & time again
But I swear this is the end
One last load just to put me in the clear
That life we're looking for is almost here
Wait for me.

 

 

 

07- Greetings From Monterey (The Buckaroos)

 

Instrumental

 

 

 

08- IS IT WORTH BELIEVIN'? (Thierry Magnière)

 

I try to put my trust in you Lord,
So merciful, wiping out guilt and not destroying.
I try to put my hope in your word
But my soul still waits for the morning.
I know you're great, above all gods:
In heaven, on earth, in the sea and all the great deep.

 

But lord! God who works miracles:
The blind don't see
The lame don't walk,
What's dead stays that way.
I ain't expectin' you to work wonders
But where are your deeds in this world for today.

 

LORD, turn to us, we pray;
Listen to our cries
Look down from above and see.

 

 

 

09- DO I FAKE ? (Thierry Magnière)

 

Please! Oh please!
Heal me sister
Of this disease.
It's eating me through
Now and ever

 

Like a river my heart won't abate
Blindly killing without hate

 

Please! Oh please!
Heal me sister
Of this disease
It's eating me through
I'm the same
I couldn't take
things as they came
It's eating me through
Do I fake?

 

Like a river my heart won't abate
Blindly killing without hate

 

 

 

10- SHE'LL COME BACK ('cause she needs me) (Thierry Magnière)

 

I'll be in front of my TV
When she comes back home.
Nothing will have changed
Not even the mess 'round me.
My friends won't tell me again
I lose everything I ever get
With her beside me again
I won't cook for myself anymore.

 

I'll have another beer in one hand,
When she comes back home,
A blue mag in the other
It's so easy to read
Bye bye to loneliness
I know she'll come back to me
With her beside me again
I won't need to fuck anybody else.

 

What did she want to try and prove?
Why did she feel she needed to move?
How could she miss me in her groove?
Right here in my boots I stand waiting for her

 

 

 

11- I CAN LIE (Cynthia Gayneau/Thierry Magnière)

 


You want me to swear
That I always will be there
Well, I can lie
So stop your crying
I can try to pretend that I love you when
I'm a man alone

 

And that's all that I have known
As for love, it comes and goes
But, I can lie
So stop your crying
I could say that all that I believe has changed with you
And I always will be true

 

Maybe time somehow
Will change my mind, but for now
I can lie
So stop your crying

 

 

 

12- ERROR OF YOUTH (Thierry Magnière)

 

I know what it's like to be lost
You know it now at what a cost
How long will it take to forget
I can't tell, with this song accept
Love to ease your pain

 

You'll know songs sometimes tell the truth
I know that, me and my big mouth
Don't lay the blame on your shoulder
I trust you, it was a blunder

 

From now on I 'm standin' back a bit
I swear I've thrown my last fit
At the time I wasn't prepared
To face up to what I most feared
How long will it take to forget
I can't tell, with this song accept
Love to ease your pain son
To ease your pain son

 

 

 

13- LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I SAW THE GHOST OF ROBERT MITCHUM SURFIN' NEAR MARGARITA (Thierry Magnière)

 

Instrumental

 

 

 

14- CUDDLY CHILD (Thierry Magnière)

 

She 's a cuddly child
Neither bad nor wild.
She wins with her smile
What is worthwhile.

 

Her mood is so good and true
Able to lift you when your blue

 

Well she spends her time
She's jumping for joy
Whistling a tune
To her favorite toy

 

 

 

15- BURNING LOVE (Thierry Magnière)

 

I'm so afraid
To fight fire again
Tryin' to hold waters in my hands
While it all burns down

 

How can I find
The strength to build it anew
When I'm standin' naked among ashes
Wich still smell of burning

 

I'm so afraid
To fight fire again
Tryin' to hold waters in my hands
While it all burns down
Only I know how much I have lost
Only I know what I have lost

 

16- QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY (Bob Dylan)

 

 

 

17- SWALLOW MY PRIDE (The Ramones)

 

 

 

18- MOST BEAUTIFUL WIDOW IN TOWN (Mark Linkous)

 

 

 

 

 

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Masters Were Devils (Outside Records – OUT 580 012 ) - © 2001

 

 

 

01- The New Flood (The winterdays) (Thierry Magnière)

 

Four weeks that rain is falling down,
As if water would all drown.
The springs of deep & the windows of heavens
Were never stopped up, in all conscience !
Maybe God has forgotten His convenant ?
It’s the kind of surprise He could foment.
It’s bad stuff to feel this sadness around.
Another guy for the “Needy Time” highway is bound.

 

The downpour still falls from the skies,
In that way wintertime dies.
In this sad barren old Country,
A man’s already being crazy.
Workin’ hard to build a new ark,
While the sky keeps on getting dark.
But one day he’ll get real true job,
Then a rainbow up from the flood will bob.
He’ll get a real true job,
Up from the flood he’ll bob.

 

 

 

02- Anything Could Happen (Kilgore, Kilgore, Scott)

 

 

 

03- At a Father's Bedside (Thierry Magnière)

 

Wan neon light in a corridor
And different names stamped on each door.
The echo of my footsteps on the floor.
I knew it would come to an end.
Then why had I made as if it could never, would never happen.

 

I find my name and push the door.
You lay on a bed in a room full of bore.
I remember having seen that for grandpa before.
All this rubber tubing in your body
As strings givin’ life to a puppet,
I can’t bear it dear daddy.

 

Why had I been waiting so long
To confess you my twenty four years of love
Why between you & me
Was there only manliness ?

 

 

 

04- Wrong Place, Right Time (Thierry Magnière)

 

It goes back to his birth,
Birth in painful strife,
End his cry for life
Was his mother’s last breathe.
Later when he’s barely ten,
Ten but workin’ on a farm;
He lost one arm
In the oat grinder ‘cause of playin’ with a hen

 

He was in the wrong place
Wrong place but at the Right time.
He was a man born ‘der a cursed star,
A slave of misfortune and sordid nightmares.
He got nothing to win
To stand against the wind.

 

The night he loved that girl,
Girl named Linda Chearl.
He didn’t know she was true
Like some blessed rescue.
In less than a year of regret,
Regret of the choice he’d set :
He met her again, three months pregnant
With a guy hand in hand.
He went nearby to the station
&’ cross the rails, he lay on.
But the D Train didn’t come
‘Cause of a lightning strike.

 

 

 

05- Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Aye (Thierry Magnière)

 

Workin’ as hard as we can bare.
Ridin’ bent with the heat of the day.
Sleepin’ in our frozen slickers on a cold rainy night.
Like some say, it’s a weary, dreary life.
It was being written in most songs with no lies.
But I know now, they talk about paradise.

 

Come all you living people and listen,
Don’t be afraid of the ghost I am,
I’ll tell you of some troubles happened into me
And all my cowboy friends, all dead too.
This story has never been told in song before.
But I know how looks the behind its door.

 

Whoopee-ti-yi-aye ! We were the cattle.
Whoopee-ti-yi-aye ! Masters were devils.
Whoopee-ti-yi-aye ! Each day those same rituals.

 

For all injuries we have done to human or beast :
Rape, gunfights, robberies, brandings & castrations.
It’s too late to pray, no redemption or any pardon,
Into the shaft of hell, we live our crimes a hundredfold.
It couldn’t be described in neither lyrics nor song.
‘Cause no words exist however the tongue.

 

We’ll be seeking deliverance from all,
But death ran away from us.

 

I implore you then – I, a prisoner of Satan,
Take great care, then, of how you behave :
Be humble always and gentle, and patient too.
Please, take no part in the barren deeps of darkness.
I request you to learn some Bible’ songs.
Now I go back before they see I was gone

 

 

 

06- To Sing Aloud About You (They show us the way : Folkrock !) (Thierry Magnière)

 

A batch of songs run ‘round in my head
And most of them blink like a blue led.
They put new heart into my mind
Since they’ve opened my eyes when I was blind.
All the lost paths you lefts behind
I mark’em out for someone to find

 

To sing aloud ‘bout you
To sing aloud ‘bout you
To sing aloud ‘bout you, yes I do !

 

The birds of prey fly high above
And proud beasts creep just down below.
In between you float, & you revolve
About mankind’s futility, victory to crow.
Business is full of men like Falstaff
And one day, they’ll use all your drafts
That day I will not share my laughs
Hangin’ a wreath : “Outlaw for Peace”, your epitaph

 

 

 

07- Battleship Chains (Terry Anderson)

 

 

 

08- Knick Knack (Thierry Magnière)

 

Hey Mister ol’ man, do you remember me
When you came rolling home to play with me.
All together, singin’ your children song,
Words & numbers, sometimes versified wrong.
You give a dog a bone,
Played knick-knack, patty-whack,
Two for a shoe, seven with heaven.

 

Hey Mister ol’ man, I’m randy boy now,
I keep on your own way of doing your game.
With the girls, singin’ your children song,
With the girls, I’m always strong.
She don’t get a dog.
I erect my knick-knack
For a lovely whack and be in seventh heaven …

 

 

 

09- The Cowgay's Lament (Thierry Magnière)

 

When I used to ride under the sun
Yellin’ my cattle call, Owh !
Most of the time, I’ve missed my blue foggy mountain.

 

When I used to sleep beside my gun
Dreamin’ of the snow, Owh !
I’d never thought my return home could involve such pain.

 

Till the day of my distress,
You took me by the hand and told me :
“Let us drown ourselves in a night of love, my friend !”
It’s a life to spend alone without women.

 

Now I’m back home like a prison
Waitin’ at the window, Owh !
You on the trail, will never see my pain.

 

 

 

10- Marchin’ band for you (Those who'll come after us) (Thierry Magnière)

 

To stop the rise of a virtual world,
I strike a chord
And feel my real guitar sounding, round me !
Against the web and e-mail dump,
Friend beats your drum
To send our "tom-tom" grievance, hurry !
Even if it cannot make a change (We know !)
We stand up, our music tools clenched
To play for you ...

 

To refuse their transgenic food
Pipe up your flute
Like they've done in Seattle, yeah !
To prevent any clone perspectives,
Shake your percussions seeds
To sow our father's legacy, hurray !
Between a flashback and what's forthcomin'
We play the strings
To step back and think it over is what we need !
Behold ! Your son will be your judge
So clap your hands and budge
Now or never, for the sharing we'll take heed !

 

 

 

11- All is Said & Done (Thierry Magnière)

 

It’s too late to say the world could be one day in tune,
Since a long time.
Prophets wail and cry aloud in the storm
Like dust blown before the wind.
Everybody gives advice and all get the truth
But all is said & done

 

It’s too late, since a long time
All is said & done !

 

Some people live a life dreamed by everyone,
Since a long time.
Money runs from purse to purse : banks get it all,
Like streams run to the sea.
Poetic lyrics mean no more than songs foregone,
All is said & done.

 

Here’s a child with her mockin’ smile,
Promises in her eyes.
She does her hair with her hand
Sayin’ : “Later, I’ll be a school teacher”.

 

Rising generations put hope in their youth,
Younger faces take the places.
Learned Society teach’em selfishness,
Selection makes failure.
People trust improvement, progress digs human graves,
All is said & done.
Sorry friends, I’m gone …

 

 

 

12- Louise, Roy & Elvis (Thierry Magnière)

 

Well in nineteen forty seven
Louise and her friends
Spent all the weeks ends
In front of a silver screen;
Watchin’ “singin’ cowboys” movies & dreams.
Dreams will come true,
She’ll see in through.
A single ticket to L.A. then Hollywood.
Her life was a long setback it’s time to make it good.

 

Sky’s always blue in California,
Nothing to grieve over Louisiana.
Every night she walked down Sunset Boulevard
Waitin’ for a fancy actor and those words
“You are the sunshine of my life”.

 

Years turn to fifty six,
Louise in a real fix
In RIALTO CITRUS CO,
Back home she wanna go.
But so far away the MAGAZINE CINEMA in MAGAZINE AVENUE.
ROY RODGERS is obsolete,
So easy to delete
With ELVIS and the rock’n roll run.
But she knows that ain’t nothin’ new under the sun.

 

 

 


13- Little Girl Lost (Talkin' song) (Thierry Magnière)

 

I’ve found and bought a house in the hills
Among vineyards & clouds of sparrows after the harvest.
The kind of place, where you can still
Your mind and find yourself in the end of your quest.
After ten years, the house was changed for the better,
And me too. The roving man I was, got home,
Children & wife, nothing else matters.
Nothing ever happened and every day I have to regret some.
I saw T.V. news as fiction movies telling stories.
Urban violence looked like John’s visions.
Sure, I lived in the twilight zone or in loss of memories.
And so far away from this world altough politics made devolution.
Till yesterdays, my eldest daughter came back from school,
Weepin’ bitterly, she was broken down and scared :
Her friend, our neighbour, was missing in the bus, poor Dollydoole
Where could she be ? Someone said she was gotten in a car.
Somebody saw her with a stranger at the end of the class.
A girl-friend said she was running away, but she’s only nine
This morning the searches went on, chances of return pass,
Police dogs in thickets, a chopper in the air, volunteers getting into line …
All in vain ! I’d listened to the words of a policeman, who said :
“It’s always the same story, we’ll never find the body !”
I think the mother has heard too, a heartrending cry
Ran round amoung the stones of that wee village and it will never fade.
It won’t ever fade.

 

 

 

 

 


We Shall Get No Reprieve (Nova Express10034) – © 1998

 

 

 

01- Only Holy Lovely One (Thierry Magnière)

 

Who can find a good wife ?
Who can raise her name ?
One of heedless life
Who has nothing th shame
Who is there like you ?
Who may dwell in your bed ?
One of blameless life
Who speaks the truth from his heart

 

She's clothed in Strength & Dignity
Can afford to laugh at tomorrow
In her right hand is honesty
In her left hand are Shield & Weapons against sorrow

 

She remains in the background
Working hard to leave me my idleness
Three children to forget the daily round
Three little angels provin' and shovin' our true hapiness
Only Holy Lovely One, she's mine !

 

 

 

02- Ease Back Now (Roussiaux/Magnière)

 

I still remember that girl of my own
She had got the real strength for a big passion
She was so graceful I was a snary prince
Lord I never knew such an eager witch
I used to try'n reach a faraway dawn
Leavin' apart that girl of my town
Well I didn't know how to keep it safe
Slidin' away from that burning secret

 

I wanna ease back now
I'm so desperate and low

 

She was a fairy-like, cristallin girl
But I couldn't stand being her angel
I kept on a walking that long dizzy track
Seeking for her kindness like a hoppeless poor wretch
I wanna ease back now
I'm so desperate and low

 

 

 

03- What Do I Wait For ! (Thierry Magnière)

 

About my friends :

 

It’s so hard to be faithfull
When life it hunts us down
Some of them could become an enemy
I want to be the same, I try
I know my laughs blow through their heart
Maybe some of my dreams are lost in their mind
what do I wait for, my Lord !

 

About my wife :

 

It’s so hard to live a love-full
But why doubt could’ve grown
How deep could we sink in misery
Over the clouds we’ll fly
I know my love beats through her heart
Maybe some of my pain is lost in her mind
What do I wait for, my Lord !

 

About my children :

 

It’s so hard to look cheerfull
So easy to frown
I’m blind when they need me
And deaf when they cry
I know my blood flows through their heart
Maybe some of my thoughts are lost in their mind
What do I wait for, my Lord !

 

 

 

04- Fault To Expiate (Thierry Magnière)

 

Before the clouds return with the rain
May I alleviate your pain
And when the sun rises again
May I be home and remain

 

But for now and that day
I have to pay
(God knows) the cost of my fault

 

judged me and passed their sentence
Without listening to my defence
With his lies that friend deceived them
As it did me, too late to stem

 

But for now and that day
I have to pay
For the cost of my fault

 

 

 

05- Keepin' The Faith (Magnière)

 

Well I trust in my wits
They do not fall yet to bits
You can tell I’m full of myself
Of your choice, you try to convince yourself
Or to put your blames me on
All your hate I live on …

 

So I’m keepin’ the faith
Yes I try will all my strength
You try to damage my reputation
Your life’s to spread desolation
You’re so aware to beware !
Listen and hear : I don’t care …

 

I believe in my fate
May I ever be fortunate …
You only like what is named
But each style can’t be tamed
Your squabbles are on a downhill slope
Give you my tune ; high hope …

 

Now, I saw it my dreams
Like a blade it gleams
You greedily dissimulate your swindling
In the wheels of your rules tangling
And your mean tricks sing discordant notes
I don’t bitch ‘cause I don’t vote
Listen and hear : I don’t care
All your hate I live on

 

 

 

06- Never Be Back In Your Arms (Thierry Magnière)

 

You know gal you creep like a snake
Yeah ! Yeah ! Yeah ! Now I’m gone
With the conviction the choice I take
Will never be one more mistake

 

Even in lonely nights
I’ll never be back in your arms

 

The end happens on a new lease of life
Yeah ! Yeah ! Yeah ! ‘cause I’m gone
And I know you can’t feel any pain
While I’ll be way down with that south bound train
Through the lonely night
I’ll never be back in your arms

 

Perish the day I’ve met you
And the night you danced in this honky tonk
We strolled along the lazy river banks
Huming a pop song
Yeah ! Yeah ! Yeah

 

 

 

07- The Divide (Thierry Magnière)

 

Time’s watching me and you
Passing by and our infants too
We’ve fought against every day life
But in vain
How can I explain ? How can I tell you ?
Can’t you see ?
My heart begins to draw a divide
For a brand new love again

 

Forget the reason
Understand my treason
Where can unfailing love be found

 

Past and future belong to you
My dying day too
Now I’m so ashamed of hiding the present
Each goodbye as good lie seems to be
Betrayal kiss, please have mercy
But what can hold me now at home
When I feel this divide in my heart

 

 

 

08- Margot And Tom On The Trail (Thierry Magnière)

Instrumental

 

 

 

09- The Day Abraham Took His Son (Thierry Magnière)

 

A voice was callin’
With the wind it was blowin’
Weavering like a river
A message to deliver

 

The day Abraham took his son
He said “Thy will be done”
For three days they’ve gone
To find in the mountains the place
Of which God had spoken
And he looked up and he saw
The Shrine will be named
“The Lord will provide”

 

The day Abraham took his son
What his mother’s done
Did she fall beneath the sun
Implorin’, prayin’, cryin’ for mercy ?
Did she try to save your life
Or did she agree there to kill you on
The Shrine will be named
“The Lord will provide”

 

The day Abraham took his son
Did the boy never moan
Speachless, but for one question :
“My father, a murderer
As mother’s chasing my halfbrother”.
And the answer to see you could be
The sheep to slaughter on
The Shrine will be named
“The Lord will provide”

 

 

 

10- Rufus Buck's Dream (Thierry Magnière)

 

In the year of eighteen ninety six
A man was waiting for his dying day
he went down a sinned wrong way
Now the jail was the end of his fix
The last prayer he wrote it
Behind his parent’s portrait
Rufus Buck must pay
The letter would stay

 

“Well I dreamt I was in heaven
Alone among the angel’s fair
I’d hear, seen none no handsome
That twine in golden hair
They looked so neat and sang so sweet
And played as well the golden harp

 

I was about to pick an angel out
And take her to my heart
But the moment I began to plea
I thought of you, you my love
There was none I’d seen so beautiful
On Earth or Heaven above
Goodbye my dear wife, my mother too
Also my sisters, remember me.”
The law was blotting out the harm
Peace could be back here in Fort Smith

 

As the July sun rose so warm
The last prayer he wrote it
Behind his parent’s portrait
Rufus Buck still hangin’
Now the letter still livin’

 

 

 

11- Atlantic City (Bruce Springteen)

 

 

 

12- Marshal And Deborah (Thierry Magnière)

Down came the marshal from the town
Riding his tawny horse
Down came the marshal from the town
Unknowing taunts
What’s him haunted
No plunder of silver did he take

 

The marshal came and he fought
Then fought the lawman
The marshal came and he fought
At her feet he sank
He fell and lay prone
At her feet sank down and fell
Where he sank down, there he fell
Done to death

 

 

 

 


Gloom From Yestertimes ... (Nova Express10014) – © 1996

 

 

01- It Won’t Be Long – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

I sure missed the point
I even can’t move on
It won’t be very long
Before I cross that point

 

Feel sickening smokes
Of a huge town afar
Feel an urban slough
Crossing the night soil

 

I sure missed the point
Cruising the hillslope down
But it won’t be that long
Till I do cross it beyond

 

Feel sickening smokes
Of a huge town afar
Feel an urban slough
Crossing the night soil

 

 

 

 

02- My Yesterday’s Sweetheart – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

At the crow flies
The road sometimes
It’d turn aside
In the late moonshine
Of a cold winter night
Back to Yesterday’s Sweetheart.

 

As the years go by
The hobo sometimes
He’d make up his mind
And turn his way back
To the sweet pretty pearlies
To my Yesterday’s Sweetheart.

 

But you once walked by
Swore you’d be mine
And stayed by my side
As your delights’ n smiles
They had already died
Within the wisdom lights.

 

Girl I learned the way to dive
And when it’s my time
I feel no distress
But only quietness
Coz on the other side
In the fare golden land
An old friend of mine
Holds out his hands
To my Yesterday’s Sweetheart.

 

 

 

03- Gonna Let Down My Old Guitar - Final Theme (tradionnal/Thierry Magnière)

 

 

 

04- Little Tough Guy – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

That was a Little Tough Guy
Once he fought and twice he died
‘For ain’t nothing could stop him by
When far in the midwest lands he sang no lies

 

Now ya boots ‘re gonna fall on one’s back
Give a try, give a try! You ain’t gonna lose…
Wipe out! The dirty mud spread on ya beautiful shoes



Bleak old Ma threw youg dum out a day
Rash she was but faithful she stayed
‘For hard enough was her pain with the clumsy gangster
Whose thrill pounded out in an endless summer

 

Young dum came back some day of’an o’time
He hoisted to the show of lost pale Ma
‘Dodged rutted fields ‘n wheeled thru’ criminal thoughts
drove along misery within pathways of his mind

 

His very aim walked along the border line
Once he grappled bullets with a shaky wine
Times he flunked blank shots with strikes
But twice he howled out wild, wild, wild

 

 

 

05- Psalm For A Renegade (Thierry Magnière)

 

(Inwards) I’m burnin’, I’m burnin’
Even rain falls from my heart
I’m runnin’, I’m runnin’
Till I get out off the dark.

 

Like David with a sling and stone
Fought Goliath, on the ground falling prone
I slung and struck my own enemies
To come up in this world

 

Like Moses who saved and led his nation
Delivered The Laws for our salvation
I brought up my blessed family
To live in plenty

 

Like Jesus, lost on the Holy Cross
Called his father, doubt to his mind
I sworn: -“Promise, Fate and Destiny!
Why have you forsaken me?”

 

Like Judas, the Traitor have sinned
Bringin’ them an innocent blood
I’m ‘bout to give my surrender
Fearin’ neither God nor Man

 

 

 

06- Song For Willie – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

Willie was on his very way home tonite
blowin’ out a smile, drivin’ down the ride
Hey Jukes ‘n gals every thing will be awright
Willie’s got a chome wheels cadillac
So don’t cha feel ashamed to R’n’R so quick
A lusty vicious riff slips into the district

 

Bye, bye, bye… Willie guy…
Bye, bye, bye… Willie guy…
Bye, bye, bye… Willie guy…
Bye, bye, bye… Willie guy…

 

Meanwhile they started for a new land
Ridin’ south thru’ lazy Fredo’s ranch
The nighthawks become a real good band
Got the finest Duck’s Ass all around
No foresight, no hinderance to come thru’
Just a set of light gauge tunes to stew

 

When awaking, Willie come to a cave nearby
And he played guitar for a long’n score cry
Played nothin’ but a few songs so fine
Howling thru’ the deep’n creaking night
From this long while Willie went to be mine
In the deep mourning of his woful life

 

 

 

07- The Prairie Law – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

You may wish someone to care about you Butch
could be you, could be just enough
To prove you ain’t so wrong somewhere
When you think nothing is easy to share

 

And it’s raining in my mind
Paining right behind
We’re bound for treachers’n howls
Won’t turn aside the Prairie Law

 

You’ve been on the way thru’ the stormy days
Hopin’ for a big deal to rise anyway
But you say: -“ Ok, welcome to the saddle!”
This is no lie butch, one’s still live in the jungle!

 

I’m sure you get a chance to manage a smile
Swabbin’ your last challenge in such a strife
It’s time to aim for the best wiping off your tear drops
We’re caught in the battle’n we won’t give up no hope

 

Nothin’ tops your regret like your denying behavior
When are we gonna scrape the rust on the way?
Best of human being lies in his tenderness
So we’re sorry for you to be worried

 

 

 

08- Fare Thee Well (Bob Dylan)

 

 

 

09- Deep Sorrow Land (Gilles Roussiaux)

 

Once had a girl
sweetheart of mine.
She’s flown away,
Gone through the shades.
You weary girl,
Beyond the dark,
Gone for the bright side
Of the deep sorrow land.

 

Deep sorrow land…
Deep sorrow land…
Deep sorrow land…
Deep sorrow land…
Once had a girl
Sweetheart of mine.

 

You fire-fly girl
sweetheart of mine.
There‘s no big fate
You knew it all
But it’s too late,
I mourn for my dear
And thousands of dark skies
Would lead me to you.

 

 

 

10- Lonesome Traveller (Eliott Theme) (Gilles Roussiaux/Gilles Roussiaux)

 

 

 

11- Losing behavior – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

Again another day will dawn
But the Junk B’s down the hole
Very close to the danger zone
One’s standing on the hill slope
With that hollow cheeked child
And his love that’ll never die

 

Started on the heyday of my life
Was a renegade without a knife
Just a kid droping a suspicious
Look on a hoopin’ coughing fool
But still a kind of behavior
Would lead me near to the lord

 

Chasing the disgrace
The only one to face
Losing the behavior
I’m a great warrior now

 

My tombstone walls are collapsing
You’re a very hard man to reach ,Jim
Nowadays nothing matters much
I’m not afraid of such
Coz Jesus overbears defamers
As God wud have promised earlier

 

I see lightnings on the way
You just walked by, sweet Wooley
I feel something is going on
There’s nothing much to rely on
Jesus knows we’re just goin’ thru
As anybody else would do

 

 


 


Night Ramblers In A Slickers (L’Art Inédit – A.I. 001)-© 1991

 

 

01- The Barn Dance Drubs – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

On the time I got shot by this dam’joint
Got torn down and abused for a real
Caught ‘n thrown as a criminal could be
But whiped off and ran soon from that point
Woke up as some a-kind of jailbird
Back in time to the barn dance drub
As long ago O’Dixie did

 

And it’s a long, long journey
To walk through the coal wood dingle
Pointing up to that sights of freedom
And shine wise high land for my poor honey
Whose songs are none but a dream
Whose breath is none but a scream
As long ago O’Dixie did

 

My boots met a lone vaudeville guy
That talked me about the Great OPRY
He once did somewhere in Tennessee
Handled his spirit with a good guitar
He was a poor migrant along the wood
He was a poor lovely tough buckaroo
As long ago O’Dixie was

 

 

02- Grubs In The Burial Ground – (Gilles Roussiaux)

 

I’m gonna wander along the Colorado Heights
Just gonna soak my wine’n wheeze thru’ the Shire
I wanna quit this world’n sidle down the notches
Leaving the freight train blues roll to the west

 

I’m gonna learn how long for the grubs
To come and laugh in my burial ground
I’m gonna implore the wise owl
To cool down the mankind waves around
Mankind waves around
Grubs in the burial ground
Mankind waves around
Grubs in the burial ground

 

I’m gonna take the easy way out to my hometown
And maybe soon the Red Wingw Bikers’ll cross that swamp
Say all the chicken breasts who chasten all the green horns
Will someday get buried right down in a moor

 

 

 

03- Callin' You - (Hank Williams)

 

 

 

04- Ruin’n Rust – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

This rain might never drip no more
One year, two years: distress is just a bore
And now, boy, now you’ve got to learn
Our three square miles are dry’n burnt
And I remember my Daddy’s eyes, bright in the dawn light

 

This storm has brought us ruin’n rust
One buck, two bucks: ain’t even got that much
Comon son, all is gone for now
This has been hurricane wasting task
Seems that it won’t be no more buckwheats tide

 

Bad luck is standing on the rear
There once, even twice yet: harvest gathers no lucks here
Keep in mind, boy, now you’ll be the boss
And roll against that dross
And I wish to prove in anyhow that… bad luck

 

How could I do to leave no stone unturned
A stone of no doubt about Ma’s memory
Ma’memory I ain’t got no reckless side
I’ll drive on urge to bring back her aim
Her aim’s still rambling along the wild hayride
Is a wild hayride a miracle for a vannish dope?

 

Oh! This train I wanna ride somehow
In three days, four days long: that one’ll carry me out
Comon Dad, I know you’ve gone astray
You wallowed in mud’n swallowed your pain
But I can’t stand to cover your shame

 

 

 

05- Jessie – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music: Gilles Roussiaux /Thierry Magnière)

 

Used to ride my horse thru the Midwest in the Highlands
Came from Cheraw Town and pushed down to the valley
Old bleak Jim came down from the Blue Ridge Parkway
Once we met in Brasstown and headed for the River Land

 

Jessie came along, Jessie came along
Jessie came along, Jessie came along
He’s gonna ride, he’s gonna ride
He’s gonna ride, he’s gonna ride

 

Few months later on Marlon came on our way
Providence came around, we soon reached Bowling Green
Was on summer time ‘n most of us hit the Far East
So we pushed backwards straight to West Virginia

 

Fronted the Kings Mountain North of Berkley Charleston
Groovy plains and ridges were our victory
Once we reached the Weston side, Northern Rocks ‘n Gateway
Knew that it was a story of our lands

 

 

 

06- Larry J – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

Larry J.’s a boozy poxed goose, a real good friend
Soakin’ wine ‘n blaspheming sneaks, leeps’n saints
But that fifty year behind-hand cow puncher
Is crawling down the tablestakes all over
But that worn-out guardian he just knows
He ain’t no more horse backin’ the booth

 

Larry handles a steely sword, a fire gun
Such a kind of a dangerous game, no good fun
But that fifty year behind- hand cow puncher
Is crawling down the tablestakes all over
But that worn-out guardian he just knows
He ain’t no more horse backin’ the booth

 

 

 

07- Sarah, She Rags The Time (Thierry Magnière)

Intrumental

 

 

 

08- When I Have Fears (John Keats - Thierry Magnière)

 

 

 

09- Sitting And Praying – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

Cats mewing in the dark
Far in the warf quay yard
Puzzling brakes ‘n wrights
Yell’n bark in the night

 

I’m sitting in the front seat
Of a sturdy glaring old Buick
I’m sitting and praying in the heat
Of a very close zone in the district
Having a grudge against the one
Who shaped a chance that didn’t come

 

Hobos strolling for the habour
Feeling so sad getting so poor
Train whistle roars
As night shuffle coming worth



I’m sitting in the front seat
Of a sturdy glaring old Buick
I’m sitting and praying in the heat
Of a very close zone in the district
Putting the blame on the one
That has forever gone

 

I drive alone in the rain
Feeling so bad bearing the pain
Will I met her again
Sometimes on the night train

 

I’m sitting in the front seat
Of a sturdy glaring old Buick
This has to be my last ride
In the heat of the twilight
I wait alone in the darkness
Glancing backwards over that mess

 

 

 

10- Let’s Call It A Day– (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

Well I’ve seen some of your friends jack
Down by the café close to Brady’s Park
Told me that you become someone in health
Going to any length

 

Me plus Jack we’re such a set of gents
But hand in hand
Broke apart in the desert land
Now let’s call it a day

 

Then I met another guy called Ponce
Guess he’d been some of your conrad once
Spoke some jingle pucky paining words Jack
They sounded so black

 

I just come out from Benzedrine cruise
Getting through each ‘n every pain’n ruins
Knew a lot about doubt ‘n manners
Since we did separate each other

 

 

 

11- Jesus Made It – (Lyrics: Gilles Roussiaux / Music:Thierry Magnière)

 

There’s a window thru’ which I used to crow
There was so many words I love to throw
Nowadays everything I cannot buy
Surrounds me every place I find
My troubled soul’s got a bilhoes
My troubled man ain’t no heroe
Coz Jesus made it a foggy day
He made it forbidden to play

 

There was a pantomimic love I had to face
And I stood like a proud man able to brave
Nowadays everything I cannot buy
Surrounds me every place I find
My troubled soul’s got a bilhoes
My troubled man ain’t no heroe
Coz Jesus made it a foggy day
He made it forbidden to play

 

And I felt so bright glancing to the Gogo’s
When those luxurious women they did bow low
Nowadays everything I cannot buy
Surrounds me every place I find
My troubled soul’s got a bilhoes
My troubled man ain’t no heroe
I’m still having my foggy day
For all of that I gotta pay

 

 


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