Darleen's Backside

by The Lawsuits

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Most of the Album was recorded in a Basement in New Hope, PA.

Some of the Album was recorded in a garage in Lyons, PA.

The acoustic version of Say, I Love you was recorded in a bedroom in Kutztown, PA.

Mostly mixed by Brian Dale Allen Strouse
Partial mixes by Josh Aaron Friedman
Amateured by Brian Dale Allen Strouse


All music and words by Brian Dale Allen Strouse except:

"Leaves Turn Brown" - lyrics by Brian Dale Allen Strouse, Brendan Cunningham, and Jake Wells.

"Little Diamond" - Song and Words by Brendan Cunningham


B-sides for the album, "Darleen".

credits

released 01 June 2011
Brian Dale Allen Strouse - Guitar(s), Vocals, Song, Words, Harmonica, Aux percussion
Brendan Cunningham - Bass, Vocals, Song, Piano, Words
Josh Friedman - Drums, Aux percussion
Vanessa Winters - Vocals
Daniel Winters - Guitar on "One More Chance Blues"
Jake Wells - Words on "Leaves Turn Brown"
Mylo - Words on "One More Chance Blues", Percussion on "Little Diamond".

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Track Name: Say, I love you
We see our love
Like we see part time work
I struggle to hold, like a ladder
Battling your walls

Oh, but when your lips touch mine
The feeling gets reversed
And the sun comes out
In the middle of the night

I read your essay
On the 'Great American War'
Don't seem complete to me
Don't seem relevant no more

When I see you crawl inside yourself
And wait for words
Oh, it hurts
I'm gonna drink myself a wife

So I feel alright
Little low, but I feel fine
I may even out tonight
If you say I love you
Say I love you

Well, I see your look
I see your blue eyes
And your face
I don't wanna stare too long
Honey, I don't wanna look away

But, when I see your fists clench up
With love or twisted rage
Oh, honey don't you beat me up tonight

Well, I got a mattress
Its got the cotton and the springs too
And, I think of almost everything
Before I think of you
And, I think of almost everyone
Before I think of who:
Depends on me to be in their life

I wanna feel alright
If I'm low, then I'm feeling fine
I may even out tonight
If you say I love you
Say I love you
Track Name: Little Diamond
Instability
Is a quality
I tend to search for
In a lover

The more you shine on
It makes me wanna come
And hold you, little diamond

The more you shine on
It makes me wanna come
And hold you, little diamond

Well, the blank stares seem to bind
The countless hours of my life
The only difference I can find
I feel no sense in trying
I feel no real sense in trying

Credibility
There's no shred that I can see
And I have searched for it
In a lover

The more you shine on
It makes me wanna come
And hold you, little diamond

The more you shine on
It makes me wanna come
And hold you, little diamond

I keep my mind in bed
Went down to mexico
Tried to find out...
Just like my father said
You will never find yourself
If you keep searching

Instability
Is a quality
I tend to search for
In a lover

The more you shine on
It makes me wanna come
And hold you, little diamond

The more you shine on
It makes me wanna come
And hold you, little diamond
Track Name: Shooting Star (acoustic)
When you wish on a shooting star
Does your luck ever comply?
Do you wish for a new love?
Or do you wish that you could feel some?

When you wish on that shooting star
Does my name ever cross your mind?
Are you sick of making wishes to the dark sun?
Or do you feel no longer the lucky one?

Oh honey, I gave you all my money
But you turned right around
And gave it to a gambling man
Yeah, soon you will learn
What you give won't be returned
So, I’ll never fall in love again

When you wish on a shooting star
Does your memory change it’s mind?
Do you recall the lonely one?
Do you still fall for that setting sun?

When you wish on that shooting star
Do the colors of your eyes
Change like the chords of our song?
Cry like the day that you were born on?

Well, oh honey
I gave you all my money
But you turned right around and gave it to a gambling man
Yeah, soon you will learn
That what you give won't be returned
So I’ll never fall in love again
No ill never fall in love again
Track Name: Talk You Down (acoustic)
Well, the red door you sit behind is burning
It's an awful mess
My inside stomach keeps turning
But i know it'll be o.k.
Because one time in my dream
My skin resisted the heat from flame
Well, i figured out what's wrong with me
I met you

Don't it always feel like i'm takin a shot?
Like i'm always trying to bring you down
Now, don't it always feel like i'm taking a shot?
Ah, but I just wanna lay you down
Yeah, I just wanna lay you
I just wanna lay you with your feet near the fire
We can burn the damn house down

My night life has come to an end
If I could go back I would not do it all over again
Although, I know exactly what you drink
I wouldn't have to try very hard
No, I wouldn't stop to think
No balacning books on my head
No jumping through hoops on a moving sled
Oh, I love you honey
Ain't that enough said?
I love you so much I'd die

But, Don't it always feel like i'm taking a shot?
Well, I'm not
I wanna be your friend
When the sun gets cold and the moon gets hot
Well, I'll love someone else instead
Track Name: Leaves Turn Brown
We started to decay by the end of June
And I can still see our reflection in the moon
You know these things never do come down to fate
We knew the answers they would come
They just came too late

All the leaves turn brown
All the leaves
All the leaves turn brown
It'll be soon
Ah, the leaves turn brown soon

In the summer sun I can see you're still alive
It was hanging by a thread now by and by
When I think about it
It still makes me quake
We knew the life support would come
It just came too late

All the leaves turn brown
All the leaves
All the leaves turn brown
It'll be soon
Ah, the leaves turn brown soon
Track Name: Shooting Star
When you wish on a shooting star
Does your luck ever comply?
Do you wish for a new love?
Or do you wish that you could feel some?

When you wish on that shooting star
Does my name ever cross your mind?
Are you sick of making wishes to the dark sun?
Or do you feel no longer the lucky one?

Oh honey, I gave you all my money
But you turned right around and gave it to a gambling man
Yeah, soon you will learn
What you give will be returned
So, I’ll never fall in love again

When you wish on a shooting star
Does your memory change it’s mind?
Do you recall the lonely one?
Do you still fall for that setting sun?

When you wish on that shooting star
Do the colors of your eyes
Change like the chords of our song?
Cry like the day that you were born on?

Well, oh honey
I gave you all my money
But you turned right around and gave it to a gambling man
Yeah, soon you will learn that what you give will be returned
So I’ll never fall in love again
No ill never fall in love again
Track Name: The Sound of Reality
Walked around when the ground was soft
Saw the conversations I sought
Held the hand of someone true
When I fell in love with you

We don't need no second chance
Give our hearts one song to dance
Take me back to the sound
Of I'm in love with you

You turned pale like a ghost insane
Oh, I can hear you think my name
You're as long as a twisted maze
That I'm still running through
Take me back to the sound of you

See the sky?
It's brand new
You wonder why your curtains move...

Love falls in and out of itself
If not a moment would change
There'd be no point to the soul
We are a hole in ourselves
Fantasy is inspiring
Inspiration hangs itself in the presence of reality
Track Name: Anna
Anna girl
You know my words
I spoke, you heard
I leaned in, you turned

To stage my love for you
Is not what I intended to do
I am foolishly hurting you
The only thing in my life that's real

Don't study my mind
Don't worry what I'm doing
Don't fear in your heart
Cause your chest will/may be burning

Let your life run its course
Have your father say what's best for you
When it's cold in the north
Have your mother buy new clothes for you

You're sweet
And you're young
This road leads you further from home

Don't enlist with me
You have stranger years to come
I can't take care of you
I can't take care of myself
We'd both starve neath the rising sun
I didn't know it then
But i've learned so much from love
Let me see your eyes one last time
They were the prettiest that i've ever known

I have become ill
I don't know if it's for real
We'll, my chest it burns
And my head keeps on spinning

Anna lives in my memory
She inhabits my sleeping dreams
And represents a source of concern for me
Nobody else has come that close for me

I think I hear her talk
When I hold up the telephone line
There's no one there
I've been told
But I've been fooled
One too many times

So, I take a walk near the pond
Where the energy gets thick as blood
I see the lovers holding on
Holding hands like they're bronze

You're sweet
And you're young
This road leads you further from home

Don't enlist with me
You have stranger years to come
I can't take care of you
I can't take care of myself
We'd both starve neath the rising sun
I didn't know it then
But i've lost so much from love
Let me see your eyes one last time
They were the prettiest that i've ever known
Track Name: One More Chance Blues
Well, If there ain't nobody for you
then there ain't nobody for me
and this huge hole inside my lung
ain't really what I'm dying from

And I will show you a side of me that's fun

I spend too much time inside my head
But Annie Oakley wouldn't shoot me dead
Aw, Honey give yourself the bible
and just-a-one more chance to read it
just-a-one more chance to eat it
just-a-one more chance to digest it
just-a-one more chance to eat it again

If there exists nobody but you
and there exists nobody but me
then we can exist together
apart from one another
promoting individuality

and i will show you a side of me that's free

I spend too much time inside my bed
but Annie Oakley wouldn't shoot me dead
aw, honey give yourself the bible
and just-a-one more chance to read it
just-a-one more chance to eat it
just-a-one more chance to digest it
just-a-one more chance to eat it again

If there were a farm outside my house
And a house outside your farm
Then we could walk through the farm
to a cornered room
and discuss the great paint job that's been done

And I can show you a side of me that's mild

You can end all suffering
in the upper workings of my head
I can do most anything
but reality says I can't
Yeah, reality says I won't
Reality says I have no chance
Track Name: Roses
It's right to feel wrong
To feel nothing
As your heart starts beating
To stand in the rain near someone
Move out of the way for something
Sketch yourself, and hate your art

We are bound to see far
Disillusioned
Now, the ancients knew nothing
Now is as present as it can be
Luck for the future that will be
Fight to stay a lie and well

As far as my Virgo knows
Ill meet you with a bouquet of roses
I’m at one with the powers that be
I think they’re o.k. with me

Farewell pharaoh
What have you been hiding?
Gotta feel bigger than something
Now, do your prayers go to no one?
Its better to be dead than not living
Be heard by someone that no one knows

I don’t wanna stay here at all
Can’t seem to
Prevent death on a one-lane highway
Focus on the now and not nearly
Come home to where you should be
Break none of the rules that you give me
Feel blessed more so than I should feel
Age less in my mind and body
Go to work till five on a Monday
Then you can gather for warmth in my arms

As far as my Virgo knows
Ill meet you with a bouquet of roses
I’m at one with the powers that be
I think they’re o.k. with me
I think that they are o.k. with me
Track Name: Suddenly both of us were Stoned
Well, ain't nobody there
When you need there to be
And there is no proper way to react
The heat that creeps around your tall sturdy tree
Will soon orchestrate its attack

Put the bed inside the kitchen
And the stove inside your room
Put the list of to do's on a shelf
Demenstrate your goodbyes to your family for kicks
And move right along as you please

I feel like i'm on top of this world
And you're still looking down on me


I swear I think I heard I know I said what i thought
Beware of the walls inside the moon
She always claimed to know what my private thoughts were, and I always seemed to come home too soon

While her pennsylvania mind slowly went back to goop
Her town had elected a new mayor
May her jewish man and her Buddhist dog prevail
She prayed to herself
In her room

I feel like i'm on top of this world
And you're still looking down on me
Track Name: Sex and Wine
I met with my old friend Sable
I asked her what's on her mind
She said, love ain't important any other time
And um, I got what you needed
And your needs have changed
I'm now a God fearing woman
You need a sex machine

Everything comes natural
Everything is fine
As long as...

Sex and Wine
All of the time
Sex and Wine
All of the time
You gave me the worst
I gave you the best
Bottle of sex and wine

Met with my old friend Mable
Asked her what's on her mind
Love ain't important any other time
Well um, got what you needed
Your needs have changed
I'm a God fearing woman
You need a sex machine

Everything comes natural
Everything is fine
As long as...

Sex and Wine
All of the time
Sex and Wine
All of the time
I gave you my word
I gave you the best
Bottle of sex and wine
Track Name: Say, I Love You (acoustic)
We see our love
Like we see part time work
I struggle to hold like a ladder
Battling your walls

Oh, but when your lips touch mine
The feeling gets reversed
And the sun comes out
In the middle of the night

I read your essay
On the great American war
It don't seem complete to me
Don't seem relevant no more

When I see you crawl inside yourself
And wait for words
Well, it hurts
I'm gonna drink myself a wife

So I feel alright
Little low, but I feel fine
I may even out tonight
If you say I love you
Track Name: Locomotion
Hey baby!
Won't you stay out late?
This train has the locomotion
Into the wild frontier tonight
Forget the time
Just remember your glasses

And if your daddy don't mind
We can do what we like
And if your mama don't mind
We can do it all night

We'll take a red-eyed flight to new orleans
Where we can hop on a bike
And meet some gypsy queen
And if she says something that you don't wanna hear
We'll take a grey hound bus back to Philadelphia

Well, the moon in the sky is gone ...no it died
Now, i'm lost as you're free
To take full advantage of me
When it burns in my heart
To think that we're so far
Far from heaven, like in dreams
You know your love remains a foolish game
Your love remains a foolish game
And yet your love remains