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Stalking in the night I don't know what to do
Looking through the window I am waving at you
Then you see me and I can feel all that you feel
You know it's not the first time I'm snooping around you
Don't be scared in the night
I want you to stay
Walking in your tights I don't know if it is right
I'm sure we've got so much to share together tonight
Why you're always slipping through the hands of your dreams
Let me have a look in your room, where is your bed now
Don't be scared in the night
I want you to stay
Don't you know I want to come in come in
Just because you are too fine
So warm, too fine
So warm, too
Count the days 'till my conviction life behind bars
Russell didn't bank on this when he wrote my stars
Oh maybe should I learn to keep my love in my pants
Or not because within the stalker always around you
Don't be scared in the night
I want you to stay with me baby
Don't you know I want to come in come in
Just because you are too fine
I'm walking in your tights
I don't know if it's right
I'm sure that we have so much
To share together tonight

Bass : Frédéric Van Linden @mokeit 
All other instruments & vocals : Christophe

Baby, I'm a Stalker

Baby, I’m a Stalker

I broke a leg bone (femur) in May of 2022. I wrote the song as I lay in a hospital bed and sedated with a mild dose of morphine. About a week after the operation, a physio nurse had come into my room to go over some exercises. To be honest, she was quite pretty and she seemed a bit suggestive with respect to "if I would be up for some exercise".  Probably just the morphine but it got the lyrical part of my brain turning and from that came most of the verses.  I managed to type them into an email on my phone and send it to myself. I had to make some alterations but this is gave me a solid start.  The music came later, as did the final changes to the verses. The outro just came as an inspiration during the recording.  It might have sounded better if I had done the 3 parts about a dozen times but I left it the way it was on the first takes. 

There were a lot of small events which gave the final direction to this song, including an interesting road sign just south of High River, AB.

Rough Road  (a.k.a. The Broken Femur Blues)
==========

[INTRO]

Ya  it's a shame, too late in the game
To find any thunder in this lightning bolt.
It'd be a nice surprise, but by the look in your eyes
That’d be all she wrote.  Ya, it’s a long, rough road.

Still I remember . . . lying there in pain,
Unable to stand, my face in the dirt.
I just couldn't decide , was it really my pride
Or my hip that was hurt.   Ya, it’s a long, rough road.

[SOLO]

[BRIDGE]
They say there's no gain
Without a little pain
The plan was never to gain a lot.
Just sing me a song and then move on and be happy with what I got.

So I ended up . . . in an ambulance ride
And a surgeon ready to cut in.
Some x-rays pics and sister morphine doing her tricks
A lag bolt and steel pin . . . Ya, it’s a long, rough road.

I walked with 4 wheels then I walked with a cane (asking myself)
Will I ever be the same again?
Well it took me seven months to stand on my own.
If life was easy, it wouldn’t be such a long, rough road.

[OUTRO]
Without the pain . . . without the pain
Without the pain, it wouldn’t be such a long, rough road.

Words and Music copyright Rick Engler
Photo and Reproduction copyright Rick Engler
Mixed in Cuckos Reaper on a PC
Audio Input using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd gen)
Vocals and Harmonica: Shure SM58
Acoustic Guitar: direct input using amp modelling VST
Keyboards: Casio with Addictive Keys VST

Rough Road

Rough Road (Original)

Birth of a Ninja (Prod. STL NiNjA)

Agnes

Ch1
Nothing happens, down in the fields
Imagination is not what it seems

V1
In the winter of our discontent
When the money's gone and when my bodies spent
In the spiral of denial
Fall into the looking glass
Found you staring at the grass

Ch2
Nothing happens, down in the fields
Imagination is not what it seems
Whirling in circles on this crazy spinning wheel
Conversation, has to be real

V2
An alternative of hope
A new dimension where your mind will just explode
Are you ready, hold on steady
Cos I don't have
Another lifeline

Ch3
Nothing happens, down in the fields
Imagination is not what it seems
Whirling in circles on this crazy spinning wheel
Conversation, has to be real

Down In The Fields

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Merry Christmas!!!

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Image "Natalie25".

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