Produced by Gentleman Alchemists 
Mastered by Steve Baughman
Lyrics: Ruby Friedman
Music: Ruby Friedman, John Fryer, ColinMcGuiness

30 irons in the fire
30 years of night
Fall through your hands
When there's no light
50 miles to Heaven 
50 miles to Hell
You could go either way
But you can't tell

I've sown my seeds and let the lanterns fly
I've prayed for rain when there's no sky
Try not to quit while flying blind
Some miracles come one minute to midnight

Your Fate is calling
Our Time is coming
Stick to your guns all through the night 
Your train is humming
Ride that destiny and hold on tight
Let's journey on a bullet

Been walking on razors, blood everywhere
The wheels fall off and you despair 
Everybody needs help
No one hears you beg
"Everybody gets a break"
Someone else said 

Something's gotta change
But life's not fair
It's so hard to keep fighting
Go back upstairs 
Open up the window
And look outside
Some flowers only bloom
One minute to midnight 

Who's on the way?
Light the candles
Who's on the way?
Lead me out out of the catacombs...
Lead me out!

Your Fate is calling...

Journey On A Bullet

Journey On A Bullet (featuring Gentleman Alchemists)

"Modern vintage sounds that will make you laugh and cry and dance like there’s no tomorrow, Ruby Friedman is an electrifying performer and songwriter"-- KCRW, Gary Calamar  
“You don’t need to know Ruby Friedman’s life story to get a sense of who she is. Just hearing her, and better seeing her perform, tell enough. Her voice and manner are as bold and brash as her flame-red hair. But she’s telling you anyway, with ‘Fugue in L.A. Minor,’ the opening song of her long-in-coming first album, Gem…It’s quite the curtain-raiser, fitting as what follows has some theatrical punch, Vaudevillian in some spots, Brechtian in others. Well, really it’s Vaudeville-y and Brecht-y, not fully either, or any one thing at any time. Bluesy also applies. Jazzy maybe. But brassy, always…another highlight is a last-minute addition to the album, the powerful ‘Ballad of Lee Morse…’ Friedman sings the tale with a kind of force that can only come from someone who sees something, or a lot, of herself in it. It’s part celebratory, part cautionary. And all Ruby Friedman.”
--Steve Hochman, KPCC (NPR Affiliate)
"One hell of a frontwoman with a completely unique and transfixing voice laden with passion... {Gem} is a necessary addition to your music collection." --  POP MATTERS, Sarah Zupko  
"Songs of Quiet Devastation - Gem is full of intense emotion, dark and menacing, full of violent frustration and shattered expectation"  -- MAGNET MAGAZINE, J Poet

Journey On A Bullet (featuring Gentleman Alchemists)

Ruby Friedman Orchestra