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Filament

by Buddy Mondlock

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1.
Filament 03:59
Filament (Buddy Mondlock) CHORUS The spotlight couldn’t pin her down She burned brighter Radio tubes couldn’t hold her sound She burned brighter Stars just fell in the river and drowned She burned brighter That was me in the wings I couldn’t see that a filament is a fragile thing She had talent from an early age The little girl who sang everyone off the stage She got groomed and she got signed Did she mind? No one thought to ask her at the time But…(CHORUS) Two hit records and a world tour A bad girl image the artiste du jour I got hired on to mind the road Make sure she showed So everybody got what they were owed But…(CHORUS) She came to me once in Amsterdam Makeup running she just took my hand Kissed me hard and said my name All that pain Looking for an eye in the hurricane The ambulance came to a stop She burned brighter Flashbulbs flickered, fried and popped She burned brighter The sun came up and my heart dropped She burned brighter That was me in the wings I couldn’t see that a filament is a fragile thing A filament is a fragile thing A filament is a fragile thing ©2023 by Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Perfect 03:23
Perfect (Buddy Mondlock) When I wake up next to you I feel a little shy Feel shy when I wake up I’ll tell you why When I wake up next to you And I see you lying there With your arm above your head And your morning hair You look perfect to me You look perfect to me When you look into the mirror Don’t make that frowny face When you see another year Around your waist ‘Cause every year with you Is a year that’s made of gold The way you feel in my arms Never gets old You look perfect to me You look perfect to me And when we fall asleep We’re close as we can be Then later in my dream It’s you I see And you look perfect to me You look perfect to me You look perfect ©2023 by Major Bob Music, Inc./Laughing Guy Music (ASCAP)
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Jackson Petty (Buddy Mondlock) The sun comes up like the sky is bleeding Then it’s all soaked up into the corn A Missouri dawn the Year of Our Lord Eighteen sixty four Yesterday the soldiers showed up At the Taylor place just down the road They took three cows and all the horses And the Taylor boy thirteen years old Lie down in the corn, Jackson Petty Do like your father told you to For the soldiers will come Taking every father’s son And children bleed just like the grown men do Jackson Petty wakes from a dream of summer Fifty years ago but fresh in his mind When the horses hooves beat the field to ruin But the soldiers did not find him When they rode away the barn was burning And his father laid out in the sun He did not forget the sound of his own scream He did not forget what war had done Lie down in the corn, Jackson Petty Do like your father told you to For the soldiers will come Taking every father’s son And children bleed just like the grown men do But that was long ago - now it’s nineteen fifteen And the call goes out to fight the Hun And in the fever dream Jackson saw the soldiers Come for his own son The vision drives him to his pistol Crazy from the wound that never healed Out into the corn - then a shot rings out And Jackson lies down in the field Lie down in the corn, Jackson Petty Do like your father told you to For the soldiers will come Taking every father’s son And fathers bleed just like their children do ©2023 by Sony Music, Inc./Sparking Gap Music (ASCAP)
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If You Will 03:17
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Sunlight In My Pocket (Buddy Mondlock) I got sunlight in my pocket My baby put it there So I can have a little summer To keep my hands warm in the freezing air She knows it’s cold where I’m going Out in the cruel world But you will not find me shivering You’ll find me burning for my Georgia girl I got stardust on my hat brim It fell out of the sky that stuff collects around my baby She was standing next to this lucky guy Yes I got the winning ticket Boys, you never know When that good angel you gave up on Will just start smiling on you down below This world ain’t put here just to suit me That’s a lesson and a half But all the bitter disappointments Disappear when I hear my baby laugh That’s the sound that says she’s happy I can go there with her too I got everything to win boys And a head full of the blues to lose That’s the moon over my shoulder Burning up the night So I can see just where I’m going Every step it takes to make it home alright You know, that moon is just reflecting Light from some other place I think it’s coming from my baby You should see the way she lights up my face I got sunlight in my pocket I got stardust on my hat brim That’s the moon over my shoulder Burning for my Georgia girl ©1998 by Major Bob Music, Inc./Laughing Guy Music (ASCAP)
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The Woman In the Window (Richard Berman/Buddy Mondlock) The woman in the window is standing there again Countless times I've seen her walking home at my day's end I don't know what she's thinking, I wonder what she sees Is she looking through the pane of glass or through her memories A young girl sitting on a stoop is called in by her mother A couple 'neath the street lamp all wrapped up in each other A jet plane crawls across the sky and leaves a vapor trail It's beacons blinking on and off as the light begins to fail Call me home lover Catch my fall angel Take me in stranger A picture in a frame is hanging in the room How often does she look back at the handsome bride and groom? So many years, so many thresholds crossed The woman in the window knows what’s gained and what’s been lost Call me home lover Catch my fall angel Take me in stranger (INSTRUMENTAL BREAK) Call me home lover Catch my fall angel Take me in stranger The woman in the window is looking back at me The past is always present, so many memories But now she disappears as I turn up the walk once more The woman in the window is standing in our door ©2023 by Richard Berman/Western Mass Music (BMI)/Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Come Back First (Buddy Mondlock) Two red tail lights are all that I see When I remember the last time you drove away from me You drove away and you didn’t come back Two red tail lights fade to black You been here and you been gone Then here again and so on Sorrow and relief - I don’t know which is worse But if you want to leave again you gotta come back first CHORUS Come back first Come back last Hey, you could just stay and save all that gas But I’m your love Then I’m your curse So if you want to leave again you gotta come back first I keep looking at the kitchen door And three Cheerios on the floor The clock just stopped - no, there it goes When did a second get so slow? All in all it’s all a mess And I’m just trying to do my best You might feel sweet, you might feel hurt But if you want to leave again you gotta come back first CHORUS Come back first Come back last Hey, you could just stay and save all that gas But I’m your love Then I’m your curse So if you want to leave again you gotta come back first If you want to leave again you gotta come back first Two red tail lights are all that I see When I remember the last time you drove away from me You drove away and you didn’t come back Two red tail lights fade to black ©2023 by Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Ticket Taker Blues (Buddy Mondlock) CHORUS Everybody’s going somewhere To me it’s all goodbyes and passing throughs Then I send ‘em down the line Sometimes I wish those bags were mine I’ve got a hard case of the ticket taker blues I know every route and every schedule inside out I can point you were you want to go But at my feet these tickets stubs are scattered all about Like the tails torn off of dreams I’ll never know (CHORUS) One time I thought this woman saw the distance in my eyes She asked me if I’d like to come away For a second there I almost bagged it all and hit the sky But then she laughed and it just seemed best to stay (CHORUS) For as long as I remember this is all I’ve ever done It’s my job and I’m good at what I do But someone told me once that you could fly into the sun And I’d sure like to find out if it’s true (CHORUS) TAG When I send ‘em down the line Sometimes I wish those bags were mine I’ve got a hard case of the ticket taker blues © by EMI April Music Inc./Sparking Gap Music (ASCAP)
9.
Weak 03:53
Weak (Nick Tibbs/Buddy Mondlock) Weak Nobody wants to look weak For death shall inherit the meek And I am the meanest ground pounder Downtowner Town downer Weak Sixteen weeks and sixteen days From boot camp to a pink haze Where the staff sergeant used to be As he waved us back from an IED Where a mortar’s just a random act Like a haircut or a joke you crack Now I’m the one who kicks down doors You kids there, get down on the floor Weak Nobody wants to look weak For death shall inherit the meek And I am the meanest ground pounder Downtowner Town downer Weak And then they just rotate you home You muster out, you’re all alone Your buddy bought it in Iraq And you’re guilty cause you made it back But the VA’s gonna fix you up Just swallow these pills in this cup Back from the land of us and them Giving Oxy out like M&Ms Weak Nobody wants to look weak For death shall inherit the meek And I am the meanest ground pounder Downtowner Town downer Weak So is this a problem? Nah, man, no I can handle it I’m in control I’m either high or I’m sick Either way I’m out of it And if the Oxy’s getting thin I can score some heroin Then some cop kicks down the door And I’m the one who’s on the floor (INSTRUMENTAL BREAK) Three days in then out on bail Re-arrested back in jail There’s a program if you plead There’s what you want or what you need Now I speak I sit in this circle and speak Where nobody thinks I’m a freak ‘Cause I’m not the only wall climber Less blinder Day at a timer I speak I speak ©2023 by MTR Healing Music admin by Me Gusta Music(BMI)/Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Problem Solved (Kent Maxson/Buddy Mondlock) God bless you Our Lady of Anesthesia You’re always there when I really need ya I love you and I hate you so But you’ll be with me when its time to go Life is fine in your domain Where nothing’s lost and nothings gained For gains will just get lost again Yes, life is good if you pretend. A note on the table that’s how I was told As the bacon burned and the eggs got cold She’d had enough of whatever we were Seems she didn’t love me but we both loved her Orange juice is good with breakfast and vodka And every sad song by Frank Sinatra An hour went by, then went by again As me, not us finally sunk in CHORUS: Then it all slowed down as time collapsed And now just crawled into the past The future waited uninvolved  Then finally left, problem solved So you tell me that she broke your heart You can feel the damn thing fall apart Is this how love’s supposed to work? And what have I got to kill the hurt Be careful when you make a wish Sometimes the easy way’s a bitch I envy you, that might sound dumb But at least you feel something, I’m just numb CHORUS: See it all slowed down as time collapsed And now just crawled into the past The future waited uninvolved  Then finally left, problem solved Problem solved Problem solved ©2023 by the Karat Patch/Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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The Dark 03:01
The Dark (Guy Clark/Buddy Mondlock) In the dark you can sometimes hear your own heart beat Or the heart of the one next to you The house settles down after holding itself up all day Shoulders slump and it gives a big sigh And you hear no one's foot fall in the hall The drip in the kitchen sink marking time June bug on the window screen He can't get in but he keeps trying One way or another we're all in the dark Fireflies, sparks, lightning, stars Campfires, the moon, headlights on cars The northern lights, the Milky Way You can't see that stuff in the day! When the earth turns it's back on the sun The stars all come out and the planets start to run around They call that "day is done" But really it's just getting started Some folks take comfort in that And how dark is it? It's too dark for goblins How dark is it? It's so dark you can smell the moon How dark is it? It's so dark the wind gets lost How dark is it? It's so dark the sky's on fire! How dark is it? It's so dark you can see Fort Worth from here… ©2002 by Sony Music, Inc./Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)

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released February 18, 2023

Produced & Mixed by Brad Jones
Mastered by Jim DeMain at Yes Master
Recorded at Alex the Great in Nashville, TN
Album Design and Layout by John Mondlock
Photographs of Buddy by Jeff Fasano

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Buddy Mondlock Nashville, Tennessee

Buddy Mondlock writes songs. He does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums. Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, and Janis Ian, to name just a few. You might’ve heard his song “The Kid” (recorded by David Wilcox, Peter, Paul and Mary and Cry, Cry, Cry) and maybe even sung it yourself around a campfire. He draws you into his world. ... more

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