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Johnny Lament

from I Want to Hold It So Close by B Pictures

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Radio’s been barking again
In your cold and empty room
I heard it talking death and sin
Just like Mr. Gloom
Saddest tales of the world
How many promises have you heard?
Despair and reasons, never why
How long can you work?
And I’d love to say
I cannot stand another lament
Truth is my heart is heavy
As cement

An old town sleeps tonight
So silent in the dirty fog
Tell me now, can you
Where have the long nights gone?
I awake out of touch
With this face in the mirror
And nothing ever seems to get
Ever any clearer
And I’d love to say
I cannot stand another lament
Truth is my heart is heavy
As heavy as cement

Radio’s been barking again
In your cold and empty room
I heard it talking death and sin
Just like Mr. Gloom

credits

from I Want to Hold It So Close, released July 29, 2022
voice, keyboards – jeffrey bright
guitar – jim harper
bass guitar – paul payiatis
drums – kevin fennell

words – bright
music – harper, payiatis, fennell

c) 1984–1985 B Pictures
p) 2022 JABMA
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

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B Pictures Dayton, Ohio

Featuring future members of The Pleasures Pale and Guided by Voices, B Pictures made a brief but vibrant mark on the mid 1980s Dayton OH indie music scene. BP's sound grew from post-punk and neo-psychedelic movements of the period — a la Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen and Dream Syndicate — and eventually stretched into territories inhabited by literate song stylists such as The Smiths. ... more

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