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Rough Charms

by Wooden Ambulance

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1.
Eager enough to reel at 5 am But I’ve got no calmness that my grandfather had Broken spirit in those ol’ boots Let the ache now take you there soon I’ve been trying, but I’ve been told That I’ve been nothing, noting good evermore In this sky, in this scope, in this town Where I’ve been held down for too long There’s no need to count the costs Through this water there’s unseen blue light Frozen ground and goose bumps Wash your cheek we can still make it out I’ve been trying but I’ve been told That I’ve achieved nothing, noting good evermore In this sky, in this scope, in this town Where I’ve been held down for too long Eager enough to reel at 5 am But I’ve got no calmness that my grandfather had
2.
Allowance 05:06
Where did I lose you again ‘cause I went blind You were reckoning there all the time While I went through shit But nothing for nothing comes, yeah I suppose That’s why my best wasn’t good enough If this screams for allowance of love when the end is near Oh I don’t care If this cause panic pure or makes a ghost of me Still I don’t care If this screams for allowance of love when the end is near Oh I don’t care If this cause panic pure or makes a ghost of me Where did I lose you again ‘cause I went blind We should accomplish our do or die And not instead Pretending we’re okay while we're diggin' us a shallow grave So suddenly your best love became parade of regrets If this screams for allowance of love when the end is near Oh I don’t care If this cause panic pure or makes a ghost of me Still I don’t care If this screams for allowance of love when the end is near Oh I don’t care If this cause panic pure or makes a ghost of me If this screams for allowance of love when the end is near Oh I don’t care If this cause panic pure or makes a ghost of me Still I don’t care If it takes pocket knife of your love to finish me Oh I don’t care If this cause panic pure or makes a ghost of me
3.
Rough Charms 03:30
Living life is easy. You wanna hear another bull shit? But when I’m with you I get along any shit just okay I’m gonna sit on a side walk and wait for you to come out from work Oh, but when I’m with you then the small town heart burns easy But with these rough charms I just start to feel cozy And our love is our plan so why should I be so worried Again gone from bad to worse and there is much more to go through Plus when I’m with you then the small town heart burns easy I got no friends in this town, and this town got the worst out of me Plus when I’m with you then the small town heart burns easy But with these rough charms I just start to feel cozy When our love is our plan why should I be so worried? Yeah, with rough charms I just start to feel cozy And when enough is enough I’m just startin' and I’m not good at letting go off you Oh, I stayed up all night and I cried myself out ‘couse when I’m with you then the small town heart burns easy And I’m tired of dancing alone and I’m not that much into dancing tunes Plus when I’m with you then the small town heart burns easy But with these rough charms I just start to feel cozy And there is love as our plan so why should I be so worried Yeah, with these rough charms I just start to feel cozy And when enough is enough I’m just startin' and I’m not good at letting go off you Living life is easy. You wanna hear another bull shit? Oh but when I’m with you I get along any shit just okay
4.
Stay Lost 04:14
It’s funny how this came out But I had to find a way to do it So I spent last money on the train Oh you were the sweetest squirrel And we had lot of catching up to do But we had only three hours to make out in your mothers flat Oh, it’s not like that It’s just I don’t know how to do this When I love you this much You should be running wild, you should say something, you should start your bitching part Rather than just stay lost Stay lost And I didn’t called you first few months I just didn’t had guts to do that But I called my ex twice We dived into secret world of mind blowing mails and chat rolls And I sent you too many text messages too many times drunk While the snow fall with my gloves off Oh, it’s not like that It’s just I don’t know how to do this When I love you this much You should be running wild, you should say something, you should start your bitching part Rather than just stay lost Stay lost I know mess when it’s neat, yeah I know how to blow things Yes I’m good at fucking it up But I forgot how sad this is Holding on false hope, spinning on a same old dream While I’m thinking girl how you should explode Oh, it’s not like that It’s just I don’t know how to do this When I love you this much You should be running wild, you should say something, you should start your bitching part Rather than just stay lost Stay lost
5.
Sidewalk 03:29
And you are about to fuckin’ break me And I just thought you were giving up off me ‘cause I’m nothing special like you can see But you have plenty time to see that not just this And you can go girl with this on and on Or you can try and use someone else as sidewalk ‘cause I’m not that usable, huh, I’ve never been So there is a pattern now to fill Hell I’m still in love and that pain is real But love wasn’t here to save us or heal So mess me up with your soft hands And I will look for our bitter end And even if I could, still I can’t see ‘cause you always feed me with night air and tears So mess me up and drive back again And be in love with your past, not with me And as far as I can see And as far as goes my believe that this is real And that I can live long enough in this image I’ve created And in the summer I am laying down on the floor Attached by the thoughts of (possible) joy That you’re here For real and skin to skin Hell I’m still in love and that pain is real But love wasn’t here to save us or heal So mess me up with your soft hands And I will look for our bitter end And even if I could, still I can’t see ‘cause you always feed me with night air and tears So mess me up and drive back again And be in love with your past, not with me
6.
With hands in a pockets and low economy I went down to a friend who’s saner than me He’s in his 50’s and he throws that back to me While drinking the schnapps and smokin’ the weed So don’t follow me I have no plan Can’t buy you gifts I lost my job And flat tire is on my bike It’s long ride back to your heart He’s probably the sweetest guy you’ll ever meet And I’ll be his roommate and we’ve already picked the most silliest name For the band we’re starting just to fill our time Between watching the shows and playing Sudoku So don’t follow me I have no plan Can’t buy you gifts I lost my job And flat tire is on my bike It’s long ride back to your heart
7.
Hold on tonight, yeah hold on you While sparkling starlight crawls into your room With your legs crossed and those sweet dimples in your cheeks In your favorite pj’s and that ol’ baseball shirt It doesn’t matter if this ends or begins You’ll find it easy how wonderfully it hits the ground It’s always like this when I come this close Oh, it’s nothing it’s just hope against hope Hope against hope Come on now, come on you While crumbling chalk draws silence in this childish room We’re meant to cover each other’s ass, but tame melancholy with its breath filled our gloom And I can see nothing, but stop me if I try to clear my view It doesn’t matter if this ends or begins You’ll find it easy how wonderfully it hits the ground It’s always like this when I come this close Oh, it’s nothing it’s just hope against hope Hope against hope Hope against hope Hope against hope Hope against hope Hope against hope (With my legs crossed while I’m sitting alone in this room In my favorite pj’s and that ol’ baseball shirt We’re meant to cover each other’s ass, but tame melancholy with its breath filled our gloom And I can see nothing, but stop me if I try to clear my view)
8.
From both sides long distance swimmer I kept looking for black holes in whitest sky I’ve been capturing snapshots of a lucid dreaming Haunting echoes of your bathroom walls And starting to count in my mind your sweet earrings While resting my head on your tummy so soft and warm Yeah running off your feet feels like some borrowed feeling or alike Yeah running off your feet feels like some borrowed feeling or alike I’ve been terrorizing I’ve been terrorizing my own love Stuffing her with suffer so good, so bad I’ve been terrorizing I’ve been terrorizing my little one Tracking down every piece of mind Running off your feet feels like some borrowed feeling or alike Running off your feet feels like some borrowed feeling or alike I’ve been terrorizing I’ve been terrorizing my own love Stuffing her with suffer so good, so bad I’ve been terrorizing I’ve been terrorizing my little one Tracking down every piece of mind Running off your feet feels like some borrowed feeling or alike Running off your feet feels like some borrowed feeling or alike.
9.
Oh Dear 02:51
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear My best, my sweetest dear I beg you with my heart You can do what you want But you better don’t fade on me And she’s the best woman I’ve ever seen And there is nothing that could come and stand in between But every breath goes out And I wish that I could leave behind this dull living in a daydream And if you ever want all your nights and days just for yourself Well I’ll never come and darken your doorway again
10.
Drunken nights sketched down Your face form, your eyes (That) I’m drowning in And I cannot see it all from this edge of dream I stretched my arms I broke all my fingernails But I just can’t hold on how it is And I just can’t hold on what will be And it’s all the same but it’s not Petals bloom, fall and die And in that fall there is a hideaway Mask from love that I claimed I broke my back I kissed every sound of your name But I just can’t hold on how it is And I just can’t hold on what will be Stumble and slide through these nights Wrestling with lonely days Last time when empathy was checked Oh I worried myself to death
11.
Division is belted and underneath there’s the wet sand, same as it was in a childhood days And I forgot how to live so I tried to go there again and shake off this shade Another dozen years, another crack in teeth, as I stubbed my fists in Wish you could have seen me dozen years ago You would love me then. You would love me then a lot. Wish you could love me; wish you could love me my whole life Hooked by a tear, standing here upon pile of fears But at the end of the line I know it’s good enough just like this Well u dried my tears and put a smile back on my face deer And every single moment with u is a lifetime spent in space No tombstone no soil no army o' worms will b too hard on me baby Coz I'll always know that u made me lovin' u crazy an' saved my troubled soul You used to love me then. You used to love me a lot. Wish you could love me; wish you could love me my whole life And not instead going up with vacant days, apart, tangling us in mess Wish you could just love me, wish you could love me my whole life Now I can almost see you from the back, riding your bike into a sunset, sinking in sand
12.
I’ve been shot to the stars but I had nowhere to go I thought something is going on and that I had lot to show But now I see that I’ve gone from bad to worse And there was a feeling that I had lot to give But maybe I’ve been just the one who had lot to take Bringing down the moist and walk away So, if I were you If I were you If I were you I wouldn’t be saving up like that Oh c’mon girl we’re just holding up the show You always act like you know something that we all don’t know Searching through the pieces always craving for more So dim you were always looking for my lowest price And I think I cry almost every day and night But this time this all just went too far So, if I were you If I were you If I were you I wouldn’t be saving up like that If I were you If I were you If I were you I wouldn’t be holding back like that I would drown this town tonight I would drown this town tonight I would drown this town with my tears tonight Empty handed and ass broke all the time A little princess with the pair of saddest eyes We’re about to leave another shitty year behind Yeah I can live with all the scars and holes inside But I just can’t be left alone in this dark Without my li’l one embracing starlight So, if I were you If I were you If I were you I wouldn’t be saving up like that If I were you If I were you If I were you I wouldn’t be holding back like that I would drown this town tonight I would drown this town tonight I will drown your town with my tears tonight
13.
Ain't got no reason to be detached from smile for months But crooked wisdom kept sharing her shadow around And I could fall asleep like a puppy with these thoughts But instead I get restless keeping my eyes on her night sky paths It’s not a bad joke to talk to her it’s more a must do thing But that kind of swamping is just more than my chests can dig So pack up all your tears and ride them outside this town There is still a sunset and there are fields of no sound These are not the bad times you have promised me Yeah, these are not those kinds of the bad times And look I will lay my hands down on your knees Hey I have another lonesome summer to live with And I feel how hatred breathes and nothing seems right But I kept promise I will live for love so here we are These are not the good times you have promised me Yeah, these are not those kinds of the good times

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All songs were recorded as a live session on 18 & 19 January, 2014. Additional instruments and voices were recorded afterwards in several recording sessions during January, August & September of the same year.
Recorded by Vladimir Grubor, Igor Hadžalić & Goran Grubišić.
Mixed by Goran Grubišić.
Mastering by Vladimir Grubor.
Everything was recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio 11 (Subotica, Serbia).

Wooden Ambulance:
Tibor Takács - clarinet, saxophone, bell
Boris Čegar – piano, organ, backing vocals
Davor Bašić Palković – bass guitar, backing vocals
Srđan Terzin – guitar, accordion, keyboards
Goran Grubišić – vocal, backing vocals, guitar, banjo guitar, xylophone, glockenspiel, shaker, hand claps, harmonica
Rudolf Kovács – drums, tambourine
Bernadett Brestyánszki – cello, flute
Dína Brestyánszki – violin

Special guest:
Anamarija Tumbas - vocals

All songs by Wooden Ambulance.
Lyrics by Goran Grubišić, except 11 by Zoran Trklja & Goran Grubišić.

Front cover photo by Filip Rađenović.
Drawings by Luka Zerdav.
Feather tattoo photo by La Prunette.
Cover design by Viktor Juriga.

We would like to kindly thank: Gruja, Anamarija, Viktor, Luka, Filip, Rijo, Coca, Hadža, Audio Solution, Zlaja, Lonče, La Prunette, everyone at Studio 11, our families and all people who helped, supported and inspired us.

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released December 27, 2014

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Wooden Ambulance Subotica, Serbia

Wooden Ambulance will crush your heart. No doubt about it.
And you will still ask for more.

After years of laughter and tears, love and drunken nights, broken strings and fingernails, Wooden Ambulance write with the intensity not many musicians have. Far north, where the vast planes meet the horizon they open their souls to play you rough chords that will charm your days to come.
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