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good afternoon

by bad manion

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    initially i set out to make a country album, but i'm not sure really sure what this ended up being?
    i recorded way too much music over the last year and am in the process of trying to put a couple different albums together...
    good afternoon is the first one.
    i hope you enjoy it!
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1.
hey patty, how you doing? i haven't seen you for some time i hear you're dating some guy well i'm jealous but i'm not surprised cause you're so damn pretty and you still make me dizzy and i'll never get you outta my mind and even if i could i swear to god i never would because your memory is all i've got i guess i didn't think this through it's just... i still love you hey patty, how you doing? jessie said you still talk of me when are you coming to california? remember that? you said you'd visit me i've changed in many ways but still i'm just the same i'm a lover. i'm a friend. i'm blue. and if you feel it too you know i'd see to you and make sure you're never alone i guess i didn't think this through it's just... i still love you what am i gonna do?
2.
dinner 02:58
dinner alone just me and my stove i can eat whatever i want i can drink whatever i want dinner for two what would you like to do? we can go out anywhere well almost anywhere dinner for three good golly what should we eat? i know you don't like that but i didn't know that you liked that! dinner for four can we make room for one more now it's dinner for five but who's going to drive? i don't care where we go seriously, i just want to eat! dinner for six let's drive out to the sticks and have a rustic feast of hunted forrest beast dinner for seven holy lord in heaven! they only seat groups of six! will we ever find a place that fits?! dinner for eight i heard this place was great but the lines out the door! i don't wanna wait anymore!! dinner for nine and we're way past supper time i should've stayed back home this is taking far too long!!! i don't care where we go seriously, i just want to eat! i think there's a food truck somewhere close can someone look up a place on their phone? i don't know... i'm not really in the mood for that alright, enough, I'm going back! dinner alone just me and my stove i can eat whatever i want i can drink whatever i want dinner with me my favorite company i can eat peacefully and then crawl off to sleep
3.
when the clock strikes 9 it's time to rise and shine get out of this bed with you or maybe stay for a while i recognize that smile we can call out of work soon too and we will spend our day the way we ought to babe doing nothing really, cause we've got love we can go for a walk and have a lovely talk or listen to some tunes... so i glad i'm here with you no place, no how, nothing i'd rather do darling, it's true when the clock strikes 2 it calls for me and you to remind us of all we need we could have a drink and hear the bluebirds sing their ancient springtime love song and we can spend our day the way we ought to babe doing nothing really, cause we've got love would you like to dance come here and hold my hand now slowly with the groove... so glad i'm here with you no place, no how, nothing i'd rather do
4.
landlord jim 04:43
landlord jim was a mean old son of a gun kicked me on my ass, sent me out on the run he's so damn greedy, so damn needy for his cash and he wants it fast all he wants is his green but lately silver dollars ain't been coming to me landlord jim was a mean old son of a gun he told me no drinking, no singing, no fighting -- no fun he's so damn joyless, i better hurry up and record this before he's back and has a heart attack all he wants is quiet and peace but my guitar never weeps gently -- nah man it screams! so fat and greedy a needy old meany landlord jim! ... she told me that she didn’t dream said i don’t think there’s any truth in that she spent her time daily broadcasting all of her misfortunes and past sins holding onto mother’s gift holding onto father’s regrets meet me at the rustic inn we’ll drink until we can forget she told me that she rarely thinks i said i didn’t think much of that she met there wearing irish sunglasses covering her mascara’d lashes i don’t wanna know anymore about how this is killing me i don’t wanna know anymore about how this is killing me but if there’s truth if light that means there’s truth to life she was holding onto a flower song in retrospect, she did nothing wrong
5.
let it be said i loved you then but i understand you now all that’s left besides some regrets is not to forget but move on what was meant by tears and protests? just children finding god reveries a dance upon the beach and that smile… when reason fails the devil helps what guile! let it be said i loved you then but i understand you now left yourself less need to grow. need to egress focus only on you we’re all oppressed but remember what was said i am that i am reveries a warm october breeze and that smile… when reason fails the devil helps what guile! let it be said i loved you then but i understand you now
6.
lost on a highway stopped at a strange hotel now i've been in dives in troubled times but this was something else the strangers strangers sipping on their glasses in the dark and an old man tapping on a piano with a couple cutting a rug they said, "hey young man won't you sing us a song? see the jukebox needs to be fixed" well, i ain't got the smile i used to child but i can still play a lick and i just want to honkeytonk and i can honkeytonk so well yeah i just want to honkeytonk at the honkeytonk hotel! well they laughed and cheered and bought me pitchers of beer and asked if i'd like to stay i said, "my home is the road and i'd best to be going but i'd sure to be back some day" well, they cried and wailed but they understood they'd seen plenty come and go "but one more time, please mister i'd love to hear some honkeytonk!"
7.
been drinking michelada til the wee hours of the morn gambling my dollars coked up my heads a storm been fixin on a vixen who's been shooting holes in my heart got another lousy hand and a ciggy burnin apart oh michelada set me free! i've got a long ride home and no one waiting for me oh michelada set me free! i was an outlaw once and i guess i always will be been shooting off guns just for fun while the devil runs free can't let that man take a stand and buy this country been hearin awful tales, shouting, wails, and prayers for peace but nothing gets to me except a drink and a summer breeze oh michelada set me free! it's been a long days night but i still don't want to sleep oh michelada set me free! put the spice in my beer with a lime and let me be
8.
I ain’t tryin to find another lover thought i found a pretty good one in you and i know we’ve had hard times you said that you hate me but i really don’t think that you do cause you aint tryin to find another lover no one can put up with you and i know i can be something awful but the loving part is something that we both know how to do00000 and heartache’s for lovers just like like me and you and you’ve got to remember it’s just another side effect of loving ooh no we ain’t tryin to find other lovers got all we need here in us two we know there are nicer people out there but nicer people don’t make us feel the way we doooo yes it’s hard. ( it’s so damn hard!) to see someone you love fuck up. (and they always do) take your heart. smash your heart. tear your love apart (smash your heart apart) it's also hard just to find someone. (it's so damn hard to find someone. ) So you hold on, hold strong, for good! and heartache’s for lovers just like like me and you so you’ve got to remember it’s just another side effect of loving ooh yeah heartaches for lovers not just me and you and while were together we’ll take the bad with the good. cuz the good is so damn good
9.
i took a ride on a train back home didn't mind that it took too long when you're going home they're ain't a care in the world there's a girl sitting next to me looking out at the passing trees in our window without a care in the world well, if you came home with me our life i can already see we'd live each day in peace and i'd make sure we'd be without a care in the world i asked her name and where are you from? what do you do? what's your kind of fun? but i didn't hear a word i was busy falling in love with her at the next stop she stood right up she said, this is me but it was nice to talk now was the time! i had to say something i couldn't let her go! well, if you came home with me our life i can already see we'd live each day in peace and i'd make sure we'd be without a care in the world how can i ever say that i love you when after all i've only just met you but how does anyone fall in love it has to start somewhere i trust don't get off this train take it home with me let's give a chance to something new i wanna start a life with you take this train back home
10.
i've been drinking today on a porch in la and i've been thinking namely about you again and how i can't write a song about a pretty girl can't write a song about a pretty girl without-- falling in love baby with a girl who's away sip a bottle of old whiskey on a porch in la and think about how i should take it slow but knowing this time i won't take it slow because i love you and i need you and i want you but i can't have you cause you're still away and i'm just here on a porch in la i've been writing today pretty words to say over clean chords maybe if i can find a way to put out what you really mean to me play a little song of what you mean to me because i love you and i need you and i want you but i can't have you cause you're still away and i'm just here on a porch in la i'm not asking you to change no i don't want to change your mind i'm just asking you babe that you come on back over someday and sit with me on a porch in la
11.
i don't really know where you’ve been or where you’re going and to be honest i don’t care cause all i need is a love that’s bittersweet and a little space i can call my own oh baby will ya set a place for me? will ya pour a cuppa tea? will ya hold my hand and tell me its alright? will ya spite when I’m wrong? will ya sneer at my love songs? will ya leave me in the night before the dawn? oh, baby please tell me the truth do you love me or hate me what do I need to do? to make you all mine, until the end of time i don’t really want a tempestuous heart i just want someone who somewhat cares cause all i need is a love that can dream of days that we can both share oh baby will ya stay up waiting for me? 
will ya hold me when i sleep? will ya make me smile even if i’m blue? will ya mock me when I’m down? will ya wish i’m outta town? will ya leave me waiting, when your in your gown?
12.
the future 06:37
13.
held out her hand to touch the tree branch didn’t see me standing inside went on her way to find that garden she hoped existed in this town… another day i’ll count the hours maybe someday i’ll lose track and my mornings are done with my coffee but tomorrow might bring that girl back or am i just wasting my time will i ever see her again or my friends, is this the end? stop ! singing your sad song come on man no one cares stop singing that same song no one knows it and no one cares no one knows it. no one cares la-ti-da she trilled and she whistled it must lie beyond the very next hill but if we’re wrong we’ve still got the day to explore and think of our sins

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released May 26, 2017

special thanks to:
sarah for the album cover photo
landlord jim & everyone at budlong
gordo the cat on the collar bell

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