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Alice

by The Oh Wells

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1.
SOMEONE WALKS AWAY ------------------------------ Goodbye my sweet girl It's gonna be okay You'll be back in your mama's arms by the dawn Just go get on that plane Don't worry about me I will count the rainy days while you are gone Make 'em smile make 'em sing Revel in the joy you bring Even as our hearts are wondering what's in store And you left to make it right So gather love with all your might Go find the answers you've been looking for Phones ringing far and wide (Only you know the answer) From hopes to foolish pride (You made good on your plans) You went home and I'm out wandering this town But I know you couldn't wait (The wanderlust will lead you) And though the hour is late (Well are we meant to be) I will love you even if you let me down Make 'em smile make 'em sing Revel in the joy you bring Even as our hearts are wondering what's in store And you left to make it right So gather love with all your might Go find the answers you've been looking for Madness in the years Distance in the days There's treasure in the tears When someone walks away Make 'em smile make 'em sing Baby it's the joy you bring Even as our hearts are knocking at the door And you left to make it right So gather love with all your might Go find the answers you've been looking for Go find the answers you've been looking for Go find the answers you've been looking for © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
2.
YOU KNOW THE WAY HOME ---------------------------------- There's a place for us And it's everywhere We can laugh and cuss And live without a care And if you've got to stray Wherever you roam It's a brand new day You know the way home There's a sky thats wide (Beaches and oceanside) Grinning ear to ear (Nothing to fear) But it's cold inside (No love will be denied you here) And I wish you were here Since you've been away I feel love but I'm missing On a lost highway For us and for this thing I will be your prey You know the way... Kept like a secret like you're part of me Set free to be the way you want to be The die is never cast Our future needs no past There's a place for us And it's everywhere Little Miss Mistrust I will be right there So if you've got to stray Okay It's a brand new day I feel love but I'm missing On a lost highway For us and for this thing I won't be afraid You know the way home © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
3.
WARMER WEATHER ------------------------ A broken heart a failed attempt they saw you cry On the video that was taken on your cousin's wedding day And what a shame you should have known love would not fly What you believed was gonna soar became a burden of prey But you stood up head held high Sifting through the pieces where they lay Horizon resizing Who cares what they say Set your sights on warmer weather Ooh ooh ooh ooh baby I will hold On to you when we're together Ooh ooh ooh ooh And I know I'm not him but in time Maybe I will feel like home A fit of fear what is to come how will this play What is the price of being nice am I fanning a fire Nowhere to run under the gun above the fray Bittersweet do I retreat or do I dance with desire I'll stand up hold steady Even if the makings are a mess A rebound so profound But I'm yours to possess Set your sights on warmer weather Ooh ooh ooh ooh baby I will hold On to you when we're together Ooh ooh ooh ooh And I know I'm not him but in time Maybe I will feel like Home is where the heart is baby Home is when You set your sights on warmer weather Baby I will hold On to you when we're together Ooh ooh ooh ooh pretty marigold Set your sights on warmer weather Ooh ooh ooh ooh baby I will hold On to you when we're together Ooh ooh ooh ooh And I know I'm not him but my love Maybe someday I will feel Like home (4x) © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
4.
Blue Light 03:22
BLUE LIGHT --------------- Blue light in the black night And its 4:32 and I can't fight The notion of devotion How I still feel for you is an ocean I thought we understood us Mystery solved Brilliant but oh my goodness Chords unresolved Snow dancing on the TV And the noise is white But I'm burning red for you In the blue light Cold flame so we take aim And it breaks down into the blame game Our end I will transcend But how do you just let go of your best friend I thought we understood us Never misled Beauty but oh my goodness Words never said Snow falling on the TV And the noise is white But I'm burgundy for you In the blue light Fall down on my knees again The winds of change will break or bend I long to love you now and then But you're happy to be free my friend Fall down on my knees again (Never knew how to please you) The winds of change will break or bend (I had to just release you) I long to love you now and then (Never knew how to please you) But you're happy without me my friend (I had to just release you) Blue light in the black night And I still love you and its all right I thought we understood us Mystery solved But Baby oh my goodness Chords unresolved Snow fighting on the TV And the noise is white But I'm burning red for you I'm burgundy for you I'm furious orange for you In the blue light © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
5.
KISS THE GROUND ----------------------- I can't take it Worrying about the world out there When a circle is a square Will we make it Is there anywhere left to make it to Or left for me and you Calling it crazy insults the insane Might as well frost our cornflakes with cocaine Guess we should send every swamp down the drain But the sun is in the rain So let's take another breath Make our own summer Give our grief a little death And skip the wake When a wealth of broken dreams Has left you in the lost and found Throw your worries to the wind And kiss the ground I can't shake it The feeling that we could be unified Like the moon and tide Remake it There's still a canvas underneath the paint Down under what we ain't Differences made of our colors and clothes Between our ears is where this culture grows But we can always re-choose what we chose And everybody knows So let's take another step And hold our lovers Or let’s walk a solo mile Out to the lake We've been around the sun a thousand times Still the fox ain't caught the hound Let go your suffering And kiss the ground The eagle and the firefly Our laughter soaring through the sky A lust for life a playful grin Freedom within So let's take another breath Make our own summer Give our grief a little death And skip the wake And though we've failed and though we've cried Our hands are never bound So let go your suffering Throw your worries to the wind Let the new day begin And kiss the ground Yeah fire it up again And kiss the ground © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
6.
BLACK IN BLOOM ---------------------- When the road is rock and the fire is ash And the icicles on your mustache And you try to breathe but you only cough And you want to tell the whole world off Come on In your despair Climb with me to cleaner air We can wreck the recovery room You can shine even with Your black in bloom In the carnival you're the woeful clown And the walk-on-bys just won't sit down There's a part of you that is aching so And you need to let somebody go Come on With all you bear Climb up out of sin and prayer We'll erase the recovery room You can shine even with Your black in bloom So you say you're lonely You know you're not the only It's okay to say Nothing makes sense nothing makes sense The earth nor sky nor you nor I Within your pain life giving rain Come on I know that you care Climb with me and scream and swear We arrange the recovery room You can shine with your black in bloom You can shine with your black in bloom You can shine with your black in bloom We can shine even with Our black in bloom © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
7.
Devil Bride 03:54
DEVIL BRIDE --------------- You sold me the structure of my regret The tears and sweat and innocence lost A wolf in sheep's clothing that won't relent My knees are bent for fear of the cost But I run back to you with broken arms Dutifully by your side First you inflict then you heal the harms Every time I "backslide" Devil Bride I spit your mantras no words replaced A glass of grace to wash down the light Conjure the courage and stay composed The curtain closed but something ain't right (Judas! Drink from the well Let go of hell forever! He is around and above you We're just here to console Fear and control! Panic! Emotional murder! We love you!) But I run to meet you with wayward hands Believing you'll be my guide As you reveal all of heaven's plans Suspect and unverified Devil Bride Ain't it okay just to be? The sky's open and wide and free Could nature be the door That will lead me to a place With the song and the space I've been aching for Now I'm running from you to doubt and dismay Pitied or crucified Who'll be the judge of your judgment day There is no great divide (2x) Devil Bride (4x) Amen! © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
8.
Every Ghost 04:15
EVERY GHOST ------------------ I saw you yesterday For the first time in two months You were gentle but seething Your velvet backhand and your fronts So distant and different And not just your clothes and your hair Now it's diabolique When we speak we destruct and despair But I miss the drug and misery of holding you at night The tragic melancomedy of feigning it was all right But I hope hope will cut through To a girl I never really knew You run away with every ghost That's haunting you I never meant To burn down like a cheap cigarette It was subtle but brutal We both ran out of blood to let But props to your point That it's pointless to point and accuse I'm right and you're right And that's that and there's nothing to lose But I miss the camaraderie the dreams we drifted via Or perhaps it isn't us I miss but merely the idea But I hope hope will cut through To a girl I only thought I knew You run away with every ghost That's haunting you Every day a bridge to cross To one side peace and one chaos A free fall into love and loss And I hope love will come true And one day we both know what to do We'll run away from every ghost Get away from every ghost Hide away from every ghost Do away with every ghost © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
9.
Alice 03:20
ALICE ------- I ran to her on that day in mid-September Inconsolable a hard and hopeless stare She rocked me close singing honey don't you worry Alice will heal your hurt from this old rocking chair She packed our bags leaving all she knew behind her Headed west across the rolling plains of gold A church her children and a place to plant a garden But was this all she needed to be happy and grow old She said Jimmy take me back to that seaside town The place where my heart lives and I can pray on sacred ground And though I'll be with you whether we lose or we win Love won't you take me home again Jimmy take me back to that seaside town The place where my heart lives and I can pray on sacred ground And though I'll be with you whether we lose or we win Love won't you take me home again Love won't you take me home again © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI
10.
Oh Well 04:00
OH WELL ----------- I put my woman down Put her down 'Cause my arms were tired Really tired Bah bah da bah da bah bah die yah Slept all through the night Through the night (You can do what you wanna) 'Cause I was drugged I was drugged (This isn't marijuana) Bah bah da bah da bah bah die yah (2x) My mother told me not to be a jerk Oh well Had a friend for lunch He was good And my cousin dyed Dyed his hair Bah bah da bah da bah bah die yah Woman put me down Put me down (I want to scream and holler) Don't try to hold me up I am broke (Ain't got a single dollar) Bah bah da bah da bah bah die yah (2x) My father told me I should go to hell Oh well Let me tell you this Tell you this This this this this this This this this Bah bah da bah da bah bah die yah (2x) My mother told me not to be a wuss Oh well © & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI, Haunting Chad Music, BMI
11.
OPTIMIST PRINE -------------------- Well the mailman writes his tunes Have us howling at the moon Songs of growing old of love and then loving life And all the cool cats they sing along With the angel in his song We got no worries now everything's all right Sing your song We'll sing along Pour yourself a drink at that heavenly farm you bought And as you sit with your mom and dad Talkin' bout the funny words he had You made us proud You let us grieve You bring us as laughter as you leave Sing your song We'll sing along Pour yourself a drink at that heavenly farm you bought And as you sit with your dad and cuss Pickin' out a tune for all of us... Rest assured them Peabody boys are still in a fuss Yeah you know them Peabody boys are still in a fuss

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"Alice" is the debut full-length album by folk-rock / alt-country / Americana band "The Oh Wells".

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released September 9, 2022

All songs by The Oh Wells except “Oh Well” by Chad Hanson, Ira Merrill, and Brian Kerrigan
© & ℗ 2022 Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI, Ira Merrill Music, BMI, and Haunting Chad Music, BMI

All songs performed by The Oh Wells with Steve Gale on drums, and Ken Stringfellow on bass, keys, and percussion. Additional background vocals and electric guitar by Ken Stringfellow. Pedal steel on track 4, "Blue Light", track 7, "Devil Bride", and track 10, "Oh Well" by Patrick Porter.

Produced by The Oh Wells and Ken Stringfellow
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Ken Stringfellow at Mars Studio
Mastered by Levi Seitz at Blackbelt Mastering

The Oh Wells is:

Brian Kerrigan - Lead and harmony vocals, guitars
Ira Merrill - Lead and harmony vocals, guitars

For this recording:

Brian played acoustic guitar, Nashville tuned acoustic guitar, and octave mandolin. Brian sings lead on track 1, "Someone Walks Away", track 3, "Warmer Weather", track 5, "Kiss The Ground", track 7, "Devil Bride", track 9, "Alice", and track 11, "Optimist Prine" and shares lead vocals and harmonies on track 10, "Oh Well".

Ira played acoustic guitars, electric guitars, banjitar and mandolin. Ira sings lead on track 2, "You Know The Way Home", track 4, "Blue Light", track 6, "Black In Bloom", track 8, "Every Ghost" and shares lead vocals and harmonies on track 10, "Oh Well".

Additional musicians:

Steve Gale - Drums
Ken Stringfellow - Bass, Keys, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals
Patrick Porter - Pedal Steel
Andrea, Cian, and Abbey Kerrigan - Crowd background vocals on track 11, "Optimist Prine"

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The Oh Wells Seattle, Washington

The Oh Wells is a folk-rock / alt-country / Americana band hailing from the small towns of Sumner and Auburn, just south of Seattle, Washington.

The band features multi-instrumentalist / singer-songwriters Brian Kerrigan and Ira Merrill and sometimes Steve Gale on drums.
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