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from WRACK &RUIN (2017) by Joey Carbo

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{Carbo}
Joey- acoustic guitars, vocals, bass, drums
Michael Juan Nunez- electric guitars, dobro
Logan Davidson- piano, organ

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Did your father let you down? Did he leave on your birthday?
Or did he pile up the pinkslips and just blow out his brains?
Did your mother let you down? Did she shoot up all the rent?
Did she fuck your friends and did it cost you your innocence?

Yeah, I could’ve been somebody if only I wasn’t me.

(Because) I was a born hair-trigger with one foot up in my grave
and I would tell you right quick I got no soul to save.
I waited on the cars of the men who looked for boys
and my hatred ran just as deep as my scars.
If you don’t know of all the ways a misunderstanding can kill
then you go right ahead and judge me; I’ve had my fill.
I had a belly fulla lies and my back burned from your eyes
and anyway I’ve known since I was born –I ain’t one of you.
And so I wake up and get bent and fill my veins with cement
And you would think before long I’d have figured out what to do.

Yeah, I could’ve been somebody if only I wasn’t me.

Now the cell that I’ve got is a hell of a lot,
a hell of a lot warmer than my old bed.
And I sit and I wait. I read and I masturbate.
But mostly I stare at the walls and I wish I was dead.

‘Cause, I could’ve been somebody if only I wasn’t me.

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from WRACK &RUIN (2017), released April 2, 2017
IF ONLY
{Carbo}
Joey- acoustic guitars, vocals, bass, drums
Michael Juan Nunez- electric guitars, dobro
Logan Davidson- piano, organ

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Joey Carbo's solo work as well as the albums he made with both his bands -
"Yes, it's dark. But Carbo isn't intending to scare folks away from darkness, I don't think he ever is -- he's no stranger to writing songs about hopelessness and anger. He's done it with precision here, communicating specific turns of emotion, sans generalization." -C.M. Hall ... more

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