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Back to the World

by Jo Meares

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1.
The summer sun was beating down on Paris streets, I had been up all night on my feet I was taking one last line with an Algerian guitar player There were clothes scattered all about the place A girl all alone, in black rags, staring and giggling into space She sat down with us she looked like Isabella Rossellini except for her yellow teeth, and dirty black fingernails Happiness had gone it had passed her by I could see it there in her beautiful pale blue eyes Who did this? Can I help you? What’s your name? What’s your name? She just stared and she giggled She turned to me and said I love your songs She whispered 'I love your songs' she had never heard one Gently with trembling hands she took off her gold neck chain She handed it to me. She said ‘marry me’. Then she started crying What happened? where did it go? Did it all just stop? The love, the dreams, the whole goddamn lot? Did the film simply slip from the reel? Who hurt you? Who did this? Can you still feel? So gentle, and so mad, So desperate and so sad Is there nobody even left to care? When you're lost, all alone, rambling All the wheels have fallen off, is there nobody even left to care? Is there nobody? Is there nobody? Is there nobody even left to care? Is there nobody even left to care? I left her all alone she was smiling Sitting in the Sun waiting for me to return, waiting on a prayer Where she sleeps no one knows, Where she is from, or where she goes If I could bring back the woman, bring back Mika tonight, pull the moon from the night If I could bring back the woman, bring back Mika tonight, pull the moon from the night. *Cover photo by Jo Meares
2.
Diamond Bay 07:57
1/ I sail the ocean of love I hear the sirens scream I touch the horizon and every point in between I swim in the river of venus I drown in her tears I ride through the black mountains Alone without fear I burn with Saint Joan I bleed with Saint Simon I fly on the back of an eagle across the grand canyon chorus:- I return to Diamond Bay To the cliffs and the waves Those bright winters day At Diamond Bay At Diamond Bay love is so far away just cliffs and waves At Diamond Bay 2/ I was always dodging bullets running for cover hiding in shadows from lover to lover You only ever know I only ever felt it when I lost it when I let it go I travelled far and wide I spoke so many languages I had a clever disguise Nowhere to hide chorus 3/ I’m such a stupid man I let love fall through my hands I didn’t trust it I did not understand That storms will blow birds will fly away lovers stop loving each and every day All the leaves they fall days they get shorter those nights a little colder Diamond bay chorus *Cover photo by Jo Meares
3.
Rambo 04:49
It was over the other side of town down by the Reeper Bahn where beautiful women line the streets in fur coats and long leather boots they smile at you and try to drag you in they ask you weird questions like what do you want? Wo-oh wo-oh wo.... We came to a doorway full of graffiti vomit and blood we burst into a room full of smoke and black light there were some men in the corner slowly dying with a pipe A giant blonde woman with a German shepherd in a long leather coat... Wo-oh wo-oh wo.... The man with the white eyes he offered me a pipe he put it in my hand and I lit the light the German shepherd kept staring at me the giant blonde woman wanted to kill me Wo-oh wo-oh wo.... I wanted to get out there I wanted to run Rambo said sit still boy this deal is not done Just sit still boy this deal is not done sit still boy this deal is not done Wo-oh wo-oh wo.... They dragged me to little room said get down on your knees this won't take long if tell us as we please All I said was Rambo loves his mother All I ever said was Rambo loves his mother Wo-oh wo-oh wo.... *Cover photo by Jo Meares
4.
Lone Gun 05:20
I hide among the shipwrecks with all the broken misfits they tell me of lost dreams what might have been Down there at Lone Gun next to Rawhide I watch that girl dance with the devil green eyes …devil green eyes I got stingray boots a madonna on my back and she weeps I got a wolf on my chest I got gold in my teeth There is a switchblade in my pocket right next to my little stash but if you want a taste it’s cold hard cash ….cold hard cash I live on the wrong side of midnight I live with my only friend sin Every night we go out dancing on the head of a pin I got a slippery neck every time they go for the cord every time they summon up the lord I just slip right through If you see me on the horizon a distant murder of crows best you move right over to the other side of the road I hide amongst the shipwrecks All the broken down misfits they tell me about their lost dreams and what might have been …I don’t believe a word I don’t believe a God damn word… *Cover photo by Stu Spence
5.
There is no mercy Down in that place alone with a dead man in the room The door stays shut feel the cancer and rust howl at the wolf moon with a dead man in the room I felt her kiss touch my lips I felt a little sick with a dead man in the room The rustle of sheets floorboards creak silence shrieks with a dead man in the room (chorus) She was the wind blew down my house of cards The wretched winter sleet hitting my soul so hard The leak in the boat, a moonless night The thing you want to run from but holds you tight I can hardly breathe I can never leave It won’t ever stop with the dead man in the room We are alone together the ticking of the clock the faucet and the drop and the dead man in the room I'm afraid it is true There is no future Just me and you and the dead man in the room Come to me darling Don’t be afraid Lets laugh and play with a dead man in the room (chorus) *Cover photo by Jo Meares
6.
I just want an old dog and a shotgun I just want an old dog and a shotgun we'll watch the hills watch those birds fly away watch them hills watch the days fly away maybe a little whiskey and a rocking chair a rusty old cadillac and a lame old mare I'm going to bury my chains take off my hairshirt forget all the pain forgive all the hurt throw me on a plane any one will do get me on a train any one will do ride with me baby by my side saddle up honey lets go for a ride I was the only one out surfing today the waves were dangerous the water so cold the light was fading I was drifting the water became warm everything still and black except for the stars pulling me upwards I was the only one out surfing today *Cover photo by Jo Meares

about

This is Jo Meares' fourth solo album.
Recorded in Sydney and Melbourne over 2 years.
Incorporates many of the key musicians Jo has worked with in the past both live and on his last 3 albums.

More info and previous albums at:-
www.jomeares.com

credits

released May 28, 2018

Album recorded/mixed/produced/mastered by Colin Wynne
at 30 Mill Studios, Melbourne.

Tracks 3 and 5 recorded by Russell Pilling
at Damien Gerards, Sydney.

All violin and backing vocals recorded by Michael Bridges.

MELBOURNE BAND(tracks 1,2,4,6,7):-
Dave Milne(drums)
Trent McKenzie(bass)
Mark McCartney(guitars)
Jo Meares(guitars/vocal)

SYDNEY BAND(tracks 3,5):-
Kari Pihl(piano/backing vocal)
Justin Tauber(bass)
Murray Cook(guitar)
Marc Denis(guitar)
John Butler(drums)
Jo Meares(acoustic guitar/vocal)

Backing Vocalist:- Jess Cassar
Violin:- Michael Bridges
Piano:- Matty Vehl
Harmonica:- Reuben Alexander

Special thanks to Art Starr, Charles Jenkins and Stu Spence for their tireless support...

Cover image by Hayden Fowler, 'Brave New World iii', 2017

Artist image by Stu Spence

All songs by Jo Meares except 'Lost My Driving Wheel' by David Wiffen

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Jo Meares Sydney, Australia

Jo Meares will be releasing a LIVE album 19/08/2023.

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