From the E.P entitled "The Heart, the Head and the Long Since Dead" - Music and Lyrics by Rob Corcoran

Produced/Recorded by Mark Estall www.marketstallrecording.com 
Copyright - Rob Corcoran 2015

Rob Corcoran:  Guitar, vocals, harmonica and percussion
Basia Bartz:  Violin, accordion and string arrangements
Lyle Zimmerman:  Mandolin, Bouzouki and Ukelele Bass
Danni Nicholls:  Backing Vocals
Mark Estall:  Percussion

The sake of a song - Lyrics  

‘Accentuate the negative’ you said
‘Draw out the darkness from your head
But keep it close so you can use it’.
‘No great art’, you say, ‘can be derived
From any heart in love with life’
And you can list of names to prove it.
But your heroes are all dead men long since gone
Who left their quills in that sullen ink too long
And went laughing and crying, living and dying
All for the sake of a song.  All for the sake of a song

Well go on, break another heart
Break your own so you can start
To lament the things that made you
Oh and what a song you’ll write
Of thoughts that haunt you in the night
And how you’ve no-one now to save you
But think of all those bridges that you’ve burned
The champion cuddlers you’ve spurned
As you go laughing and crying, living and dying
All for the sake of a song.  All for the sake of a song


Sake Of A Song

From the E.P entitled "The Heart, the Head and the Long Since Dead" - Music and Lyrics by Rob Corcoran

Produced/Recorded by Mark Estall www.marketstallrecording.com 
Copyright - Rob Corcoran 2015

Rob Corcoran:  Guitar, vocals, harmonica and percussion
Basia Bartz:  Violin, accordion and string arrangements
Lyle Zimmerman:  Mandolin, Bouzouki and Ukelele Bass
Danni Nicholls:  Backing Vocals
Mark Estall:  Percussion

IT HURTS ME TOO - LYRICS  

It HURTS ME TOO

Say what you like to me, most of it’s true
I’ll take the blame for what’s happening you
If you wanna hate me, I’ll have to accept
Tell me again all the things I’ve wrecked
I don’t intend to steal your claim
To the shoulders of friends and the worst of the pain
This might sound strange to you
This might sound strange to you
But it hurts me too
It hurts me too
It hurts me too

Each day I wake at the scene of the crime
No more absolved by the passing of time
I think of you now at the end of each day
Lying alone in your bed far away
Or shielding yourself in a rebound romance
Do you think that my life’s been a song and a dance?
This might sound strange to you
This might sound strange to you
But it hurts me too
It hurts me too
It hurts me too

There is a 3rd verse which I cut out long ago.  Here it is as a special bonus for you 

Today I watched my own dangling hand
The same one that etched out the line in sand
It fumbled and fidgeted, groped at the air
Imagining your little fingers were there
Where did we lose it, where did it go?
Though it’s no consolation I need you to know
This might sound strange to you
This might sound strange to you
But it hurts me too
It hurts me too
It hurts me too





It Hurts Me Too

From the E.P entitled "The Heart, the Head and the Long Since Dead" - Music and Lyrics by Rob Corcoran

Produced/Recorded by Mark Estall www.marketstallrecording.com 
Copyright - Rob Corcoran 2015

Rob Corcoran: Guitar, vocals, harmonica and percussion
Basia Bartz: Violin


Lyrics:

Black Hearted Man

I’m a black hearted man and one day you’ll learn
That believing in me’s gonna get you burned
Kind hearted woman, can you not see
The danger for you in this darkness in me
The danger for you, in this darkness in me
Go ask the woman now baring the scars
She’ll tell you I promised the moon and the stars
Give to me, darlin’, your delicate hand
And lie in the arms of this black-hearted man

It’s a coward’s admission, an insomniac’s perk
To whisper these words that should never be heard
I’m a black hearted man and one day you’ll learn
That believing in me’s gonna get you burned
Believing in me will get you burned
My heart’s great beguiler take heed of my fears
Where today there is laughter there’ll one day be tears
At the mercy of things that I don’t understand
Are the life and the love of this black-hearted man.  

Copyright - Rob Corcoran
ISRC - ZZ - A0B - 15 - 00003 

Black Hearted Man

From the E.P entitled "The Heart, the Head and the Long Since Dead" - Music and Lyrics by Rob Corcoran

Produced/Recorded by Mark Estall www.marketstallrecording.com 
Copyright - Rob Corcoran 2015

Rob Corcoran: Guitar, vocals, harmonica and percussion
Basia Bartz: Accordion 
Lyle Zimmerman: Mandolin, Ukelele Bass
Danni Nicholls: Backing Vocals
Mark Estall: Percussion

Lyrics:  

Train Songs

Moonlight over switching yards
Riding rails in old boxcars 
The freedom that those old-time hobos knew
Big-smoke-bound migrations
Jilted lovers at each station
Every train song in my head I sang for you

If there’s a light let it shine
Let it heal and undermine
The ravages of age
I can sing all night long
These old train songs
But I can’t turn back the page

Country boy, where have you gone
I thought about it for so long
And sought the signs to ease my despair
Life too often beat you down
But still you knew where you were bound
And that your loved ones waited for you there

If there’s a light let it shine
Let it heal and undermine
The ravages of age
I can sing all night long
These old train songs
But I can’t turn back the page

On the street the world keeps racing on
Too fast to notice what is gone
I go down to the tracks to be alone
The cross-ties have been overgrown
The trestles long since crumbled down
There’s no whistle and no bell to lead you home

If there’s a light let it shine
Let it heal and undermine
The ravages of age
I can sing all night long
These old train songs
But I can’t turn back the page

Copyright Rob Corcoran 2015
ISRC - ZZ - A0B - 15 - 00004 

Train Songs

From the E.P entitled "The Heart, the Head and the Long Since Dead" - Music and Lyrics by Rob Corcoran

Produced/Recorded by Mark Estall www.marketstallrecording.com 
Copyright - Rob Corcoran 2015

Rob Corcoran: Guitar, vocals, harmonica and percussion
Basia Bartz: Violin and string arrangements
Lyle Zimmerman: Slide bouzouki 

Lyrics:

Boozer’s Lament

I was a boozer, you were a barmaid.  It was love at first pint
Your pub was no good but for love I came back every night
Glances, winks and innumerable drinks crossed the counter between you and me
On your only night off we’d make love, breathless and free

You served them up and I knocked them back
We were in love but you must’ve known from the start
My drinking you see, it brought us together you and me
So don’t go complaining that it tore us apart.

Maybe there were some things I could’ve said that might have convinced you to stay
But I was dead-set on a life of regret and you would’ve stood in my way
So now you’re back having fun in the Mexican sun, laughing and dancing and pure
I lie in the cold, bleary-eyed and alone, the wind whistling hard at the door

You served them up and I knocked them back
You say I let you down but you must’ve known from the start
My drinking you see, it brought us together you and me
So don’t go complaining that it tore us apart.

I don’t like coffee at all but now I drink it by the gallon
Since the doctor said ‘Rob, get yourself back on the wagon’
So I spend all day in this sterile café and I write
How the nights are so long, how I know I was wrong and you were right

You served them up and I knocked them back
You say I let you down but you must’ve known from the start
My drinking you see, it brought us together you and me
But you left complaining that it tore us apart.

Copyright Rob Corcoran 2015
ISRC - ZZ - A0B - 15 - 00005 

Boozer's Lament

Copyright Rob Corcoran - from the new album "Inverse Alchemy" out November 17th 2017

09 Ringing That Bell

An instrumental version of the album INVERSE ALCHEMY by Rob Corcoran & the Necessary Evils

The Pub On The Hill - Instrumental

Sake Of A Song - Instrumental

Joseph & Jesus - Instrumental

Hurts Me Too - Instrumental

Four In The Morning - Instrumental

Downtime Waltz - Instrumental

Distant Light - Instrumental

Black Hearted Man - Instrumental

Instrumental version of the song "Four in the Morning" by Rob Corcoran & the Necessary Evils

Basia Bartz - Violin / Rob Corcoran - Guitar  /  Anna Robinson - Bass  /  Jamie Shaw - Drums

Copyright Rob Corcoran 2017

Vist Rob at www.robcorcoranmusic.com or drop him an email robcorcoranmusic@yahoo.com

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