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Rhythm of the Roads

by Mark Rogers

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Fifty Dollar Fine 05:25
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Fifty Dollar Fine If they catch you on the road It’s a fifty dollar fine And they won’t leave you alone It’s written up on that sign But the thing you want to remember If you’re coming into town There were many there before you Who laid their money down I was standing on the pavement Just beyond the spoken word I was listening to something Can’t be sure of what I heard And came upon me quickly But it took off just as fast And the message that it left me Says its never meant to last I --- wanna fly I --- wanna fly If they catch you one road It’s a fifty dollar fine And they won’t leave you alone It’s written up on that sign I --- wanna fly I --- wanna fly
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Waiting For Maria 04:44
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Waiting for Maria We’ll be waiting for Maria Could be there for quite some time Why doesn’t anyone believe her When she says she’s changed her mind Ah but I was there to hear Nearly everything she said Now I’m waiting for Maria With her singing in my head There are words placed on the table In the pages left behind Underneath a stack of letters There for someone else to find Ah but that was long ago Back when everything was new Now I’m waiting for Maria Don’t know what else I can do Where is the sweetness I’ve waited so long Who took the ease of her day Where is the pale morning light of her song Why did she hide them away Next time you see Maria With the sunlight in her eyes If her world should turn in circles Let that come as no surprise There’s a restless in the wind That comes up thru the night And now I’m waiting for Maria Trusting everything’s alright
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Every Once In A While 03:18
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Every Once In A While Every once in a while Any fool gets what he wanted Every once in a while Who can tell you when dreams arrive Once in a lifetime Once in a blue summer moon All the little pieces unin-tentionally fit together Every now and then If a breeze comes thru the branches Every now and then In a filtering sunlight It could be morning It could be late afternoon Doesn’t really matter just let it happen and dig the weather I remember the day I found you a long long time ago (I remember the day) That’s a lot to believe or reconcile (I remember the day) I remember the way you led me to things I didn’t know I remember the mischief in your smile Every once in a while Every once in a while (Every Once In a While) When the music comes ‘cross the water Every once in a while (Every Once In a While) Take a breath and I’ll close my eyes Once in a lifetime Once in a blue summer moon Yeah Yeah Every once in a while (Every once in a while) Every once in a while (Every once in a while)
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Just So You Know 04:03
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Just So You Know Just so you know Everything is fine Everybody seems to be improving Just so you know The fruit is on the vine We were paralyzed but now we’re moving And all this worry Doesn’t seem to matter much at all And all our pleasures Are dancing in the daylight with the shadows on the wall Just so you know It isn’t what it seems It’s always bundled up with such confusion Just so you know That never in my dreams Did I for once believe in this illusion For all these reasons We organized to find another way From these deceptions Divisions and dissentions and distrust in what you say Just so you know And all these people Stand in line Have come together In Memories and harmonies and particles of time Just so you know We were on the run We were on the verge of revolution Just so you know There’s so much to be done We’re searching thru the maze of our solution And every moment It takes until we’re finally in the clear Moves us closer To recognizing all these different colors That stream across the early autumn sky And gather on the lips and in the words That form the sounds of our goodbye Just so you know Just so you know
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Rain Parade 04:29
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Rain Parade You and I have felt the weight of rain Tracing over our skin You and I can turn away the pain Shut it down or bring it all back home again You and I lead the way You and I lead the rain parade Wouldn’t that be the way to go Pageantry on display Wouldn’t that be the greatest show Strike the band let the music blow you away You and I set the pace You and I lead the rain parade You and I lead the way You and I lead the rain parade Faded rays of light Mixed in grays Faded days and night It’s just a phase Blue weighted in gold Three trumpets and 14 tambourines We do as we’re told We march in our symbiotic dreams You and I lead the way You and I lead the rain parade You and I never fade You and I lead the rain parade
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Shake It Down 03:30
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Shake It Down Somebody’s singing and it’s Try a Little Tenderness and I’ve been winking but she doesn’t even look my way And there’s nothing I can say Don’t worry baby cause I’m Going to make it easy for you Don’t waste a second contemplating what could never be But if it were up to me Chorus: When you build that wall I want to shake it down When you turn to leave I want to move you around I wonder what it takes To break this simple combination uh huh I know I’m thinking she’s just waiting there behind the door But I’ve been wrong before When you build that wall I want to shake it down When you turn to leave I want to move you around I got your number baby I know your name I get the feeling things are never gonna be the same Though we play the game Chorus Repeat Chorus
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Strange Anticipation 03:44
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Strange Anticipation Love is in the daylight Sun fills up the room Love is like a hazy lazy afternoon It can take you back Or it can leave you all too soon You’re older now baby It’s time you ought to help yourself You may want to blame somebody But there’s really no one else You’re a little undecided It’s easy now to make you cry There’s a longing in the distance And a flicker in your eye And all these doubts you had this morning They’re only telling you more lies The louder that they call you The more you realize The headlights on the highway The rhythm of the road The blues is what they’re playing on the late night radio They can take you back Or they can lay you way down low Yes you’re older now baby You’re a thousand miles against your will There’s a moral to your story But you know you love her still And all these changes in the mirror It hard enough to make you smile But if anyone, if anyone can do it You ought to let her stay a while Whoa oh oh… There’s calling in the moonlight There’s a calm out on the sea There’s a strange anticipation that’s falling over me
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Leaving 05:08
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Leaving Falling like angels Right out of the sky You didn’t see this happen Neither did I It’s hard to remember That far back in the past If it wasn’t our first time baby It wasn’t our last But it comes back slowly And it feels like its new And you hold it closer Like you used to do Chorus: I’m not leaving you alone I’m not leaving you alone I’m not leaving you alone I’m not leaving you alone It’s out of the question And into the blue I wasn’t thinking clearly Neither were you And I couldn’t see beyond these Things that I know Who’s got directions baby Where do we go But it comes back slowly And it starts to reappear But you make it easy When I hold you near Chorus Into the ether Straight out of my head If those were the last words spoken That we ever said And all this pain Is like a hole in my heart How can you help me baby Where do we start But it comes back slowly And it seems to be alright But you make it better When you hold me tight Chorus
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Joking 03:13
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Joking If that’s what we’re saying If that’s what we’re trying so hard to define If that’s where it goes then anyone knows That’s where it’s been the whole time Well I was just joking I was just running away with my pain I was alone, nobody home I was just trying to explain There in the fields lie to seeds of deception Glistening dreams under threatening skies If that’s what we’re saying If that’s what this whole thing is really about If that’s how it goes then everyone knows That’s how we figure it out There in the fields lie the seeds of deception Glistening day dreams and threatening skies Yeah, I was just joking I was just playing a game with myself Must have been blind, out of my mind I thought I was somebody else Must have been blind, out of my mind I thought I was somebody else
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Flying 05:06
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Flying Waiting anxiously For all the world to see If I Can get this right But if you hold my hand I see no better plan To try Tonight Rhythms in my head Voices that have spoken Words that we have said Blues are on the radio Burning bright Laying low Coming home I’ve been flying down this two-lane highway There’s nobody else in sight And if you think that things aren’t going my way Well…You’d be right It’s been raining now for three straight hours I’ve got nowhere else to go But if these storms are only summer showers Then I…already know

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Of the many roads one takes in life, being a songwriter isn’t the easiest. Mark Rogers started his musical career in Los Angeles in the fall of 1982. While his Paisley Underground contemporaries were fusing punk with pop, Mark and his band delivered their rawness with a Cosmic American twist. It was good. They should have stayed with it. But the incessant synth-pop of KROQ eventually did him in and Mark retreated back to Virginia. Songwriting would take a backseat for many years.

Mark’s musical rebirth happened sometime around 2015. The pop melodies he had immersed himself in as a child simply wouldn’t wait any longer. The harmonies that had intentionally been suppressed all those years ago, reemerged. But this time with a hell of a lot of life’s baggage. Here comes Mark’s second LP “Rhythm of the Roads”. A folk rock-infused commentary on a life lived. A reconciliation. Trials and Errors. Love lost and regained and learning to live with the two. Mark Rogers hasn’t taken the easy road. His songs wouldn’t be this good if he had.

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released October 1, 2021

Produced by: Mark Rogers and Rob Ulsh
Recorded and Mixed by: Rob Ulsh, Master Sound, VA Beach, VA
Songs written by: Mark Rogers
Songs Published by: Circle Seal Publishing/BMI

Musicians:
Drums: Powell Randolph
Bass: Jimmy Masters
Electric Guitars: Larry Berwald
Electric Guitars: Alan Parker
Acoustic, High-Strung Guitars and Mandocello: Bill Gurley
Piano: John Toomey
Hammond B3: Jamie Lewis
Harmony on $50 Fine and Joking: Lori de los Santos
Acoustic Guitars and Vocals: Mark Rogers

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With his new LP "Laying It Down", singer/songwriter Mark Rogers cements his place in the indie folk pop scene as not just a reliably strong composer, but as a sonic force to be reckoned with. "Laying It Down" features a certain cinematic texture in lyrical delivery that makes his work flow much better than most.--- Mindy McCall, No Depression, 2019. ... more

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