Fourth track on a loose concept album I did for the RPM challenge 11 years ago. Walking Song sees our protagonist wandering the wastelands in search of music and hope. 

We have destroyed society though some horrific mechanism, perhaps nuclear war, and our protagonist travels the wasteland with his guitar looking for other musicians, hope and a chance for some of us to start anew. I used a pretty convoluted recording process, but I like the songs, I hope you do too.

The Pact

Walking Song

Lonesome Hours

A remaster of the original from 2022.

LYRICS

Johnny was looking for another girl. 
To make everything seem alright.
But, he's not getting any younger and the nights are lasting longer, and he's losing his will for the fight.
His size 30 jeans are getting tight at the seams, he looks like Del Boy when he's stood at the bar.
With his trilby hat, his stomach formerly flat, you can see that he won't get very far.

Come on now baby won't you.
Come home with me?
I'll tell you anything.
I'll make false guarantees.

Come on over honey let the dog see the Queen.
I'm gonna put another dime in this record machine.
Oh, I forget that we're in a pub in England. 

I'm gonna put The Rolling Stones on.
I'm gonna dance to my favourite song.
I'm all about living free.
Wanna spend the night with me? yeah?

All the guys from his school who used to think he was cool they now avoid him on the Saturday nights.
Because what works when you're young doesn't last very long, even if you think you're doing alright.
Oh, the years have a way of blowing up in your face, you gotta move if you wanna stay the same. 
Stuck in the same place, need to develop some taste, Because drinking is a younger man's game.

Come on now baby won't you.
Come home with me?
I've got a tiny flat.
With a giant TV.

Come on over honey let the dog see the queen.
I'm gonna put another quarter in this record machine.
I'll play the whole album from the beginning.

I'm gonna put Bob Dylan on.
I'm gonna dance to my favorite song.
I'm all about living free.
Won't you spend your days with me? yeah?

Now Johhny can't see, things as clearly as he, should be able to because he's not bright.
But the years on the gin, and giving into the sin, have not  progressed him very close to the light.
You see he thought he had made it when he had a new baby in the summer of two thousand and three.
But the bitch up and left him when he didn't stop betting and spent all the electric money.

Come on now baby won't you.
Come home with me?
I'm only drinking for
Crippling anxiety.

Come on over honey let the dog see the Queen.
I'm gonna put another dollar in the record machine.
We can sing and pretend that we're winning.

I'm gonna put John Lennon on,
I'm gonna dance to my favourite song.
I'm all about living free.
Imagine that you got with me, yeah.

Oh, though the days are the same.
Only memories remain.
It can't go on much longer.

But then, there's beauty in some things.
Like a blackbird that sings.
You begin to feel stronger.

Time has a way of healing.
It's a wonderful thing.
Only the good things linger.

And love can appear just for you.
Coming out of the blue, 
For every jukebox, a singer. 


Johnny's Jukebox

Sleep on it - Ron Snyder

Chill melodic beat with deep bass after rain music,

Petrichor

Solitude

AT Jazz

Music by The Rooms 
Written, arranged, and produced by João Gonçalves 

Dilson Peter D. Groove - Drums 
Abolaji Collins - Lead guitar 
João Gonçalves - Guzheng, Guitar, Bass.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at H.S.Studios, Lisbon, between the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024. Produced by João Gonçalves and co-produced by Neo.


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Ka Bali Pena (The Instrumental)

Leather

Drive

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getting by with some help from friends.

Sleep on it - Ron Snyder

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