That Lonesome Lad - Feat. Bonnie Blossom & Pedro Antunes

JOHN MERCY: Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Piano, Banjo, Mellotron, Hammond B3, Bell, Wurlitzer 200A, Sound Design, Electric Harmonium, Claps, War Drum, Tambourine, E-Bow
BONNIE BLOSSOM: Vocals
PEDRO ANTUNES: Bass, Vocals

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at the Blue House Studio by John Mercy

Video: A Page Of Madness (1926)

Released via Lux Records
LP - The Murder of Harry (2023)

Lyrics & Music: John Mercy

[That Lonesome Lad]

I awoke with your breath. Your hand pressing on my chest.
A sudden gush of wind ‘round my neck, while the floor was running wild.
That’s when the fever broke, and I became that lonesome lad, without voices in his head.
And how I miss them, how I dearly miss them

Like a bird without wings, or a fish with absent fins I lost the north to the wolves and the south to colder dreams.
Madness takes its time then it lasts forever. It lasts Forever

Underneath the shallow dreams of old, there lies something to be told about the words I heard her speak about the apocalypse.

But it wasn’t what she said, it was how she spoke to me: an old confession professing belief; a revelation beyond my grief.
Madness took its time and I’m not that lonesome lad without voices in his head.
They keep me company, they keep me company
Madness, take your time and stay forever, stay forever. Stay Forever.

“But remember this”, she said, and don’t forget it, she spoke: that I won’t be your friend, and I am not your lost flame.
You’ve been told Harry, it was you who called on me when you sold your soul down the river.
Those were your chains, not my hands that brought us close and enslaved us both to the devil
down the river, oh down the river
down the river, oh down the river I became your slave. Your slave
And how I miss those days those long black days when I became your slave
now I miss those days those long black days when I wondered and wondered
how I miss those days those long black days when I became your slave
now I miss those days those long black days when I wondered and wondered
how I miss those days those long black days when I became your slave
now I miss those days those long black days when I wondered and wondered
how I miss those days those long black days when I became your slave
Oh down the river, down the river

2023 Rossio Music Publishing