Hammered:
Words and Music By John Campbell Whitelaw ©2016-2018
1. Lead Me On:
Now it all seems rosy but it’s oh so complicated
Things just get crazy somehow
I don’t need my lover to become my mother
Just really like hanging out with you
No matter how you take it lead me on
No matter how you fake it you turn me on
Now what got lost needs healing
All from too much grieving
But she likes me every once in a while
Been living six feet under and now were lost asunder
Divided now and falling apart
No matter how you take it lead me on
Please
And all this endless chatter
Now it just don’t matter
We can kick it round once in a while
You got your creature comforts
To shelter from what falters
Just really wanna see you smile for a while
No matter how you take it you turn me on
No matter how you take it lead me on
2. Every Time
When you run away you know I wont be far behind
And once you’ve packed it in given up say what’s what
I’m hoping that you find it
Baby cant you see what you do to me every time
We talked until were blue Confided in a few who do
And on my latest whim I take a swim in paraffin and set alight to you
Baby cant you see what you do to me every time, every time
Put down the gun and try and trace the sun
Like dolphin get to do
Its seems so hard just share a smile no way to reconcile
Why would I do it, why would I do it
So here I go again tear it up to dream it all again
And once I build it up I break it down to the ground
And curse it once you find it
Baby cant you see what you do to me every time, every time, every time
3. 16 Blows
Tool in his hand coward came up from behind to kill the man,
I got blood on my walls and I'll never ever really understand.
And they said, they said that he's dead mama
That's what they said, and they thought it was me mama, yeah
The Fed from downtown said he never even met the fucking clown,
How many more that we know you'll never ever answer for.
And they said, I said that he's dead mama
That's what they said, they thought it was me mama, yeah
And that’s what I said, bloods on your hands Fucker
That's what I said, that's what I said mama
4. PTSD……really?
You know I question in all what seems real
I keep it locked down buttoned up and sealed, yeah yeah
I think your fucking around
I know it’s bringing you down
Know you got me all stirred all up again
You know you got me all stirred on all up again
Now you can see how mean you can be, I’ll take you there
My latest trauma seems a total bore
You got me feeling, I’m a emotional wreak, yeah yeah
I’m always stuck beneath you at least a peg or two
Know you got me all stirred all up again
You got me all stirred on all up again
Try to keep cool plating the fool, I took you there
I can’t stop it
Early on you warned me you’d be gone
Your latest thrill don’t seem to last that long
I can’t stop it
You know you asked me to stay but that was so yesterday
Got me all stirred all up again
You know you got me all stirred on all up again
Now you can see how mean I can be I’ll take you there
I can’t stop it
I can’t stop it
5. What you want us to do ?
What turns the blackest sky to blue
And what’s inside that pulls us through, is it you
Laid to rest but come to find
Slipped through the cracks without your mind
So unkind
What you want us to do
How could this be
That’s what they said to me
Contained inside a jar of glass
Abby’s joke soon came too fast, what an ass
You held me close we watched the flames
Engulfed your thoughts we spoke your name
What you want us to do
Sweept up the dust inside your head
Now I’ve got to take you home
What you wanna be
What you gonna be
What you wanna be
Now Ill pretend that I’m not dead
6. Still Some Time
Kid your gonna run out of time
You know you gotta make up your mind
Go on and leave your troubles
Leave them on down the line
Cause kid your gonna run out of time
Could it be that I did it wrong
You turn around and then he's gone all gone
She told me theres no one waiting
Guess I didn't listen this time
So kid you better make up your mind
Tried but undaunted to find peace of mind
Derailed and still haunted
But I believe there's still some time
Gonna raise a glass to us all
And wish a Godspeed to who falls
God only knows how we'll make it
From behind this brick wall
Be sure and not miss your last call
You swore you’d never leave me, through it all
7. Skinny legged woman
You know you got my soul
She keeps me running to where I don’t know
She keeps me asking how’d far shell go
I keep me thinking that I’m wrong
She keeps me coming all night long
Skinny legged woman you know you got my soul babe
She talk words of wisdom she’s never wrong
Cause she said I told you so babe
I keep running down an endless mile
Oh such a woman, you know you got my soul babe
Skinny legged woman you got me out my mind
You’re a lovely woman I know I’d never find yea
I’ll give you all I got babe, wont you take it all
Watch her talk
Told me seven times……told me seven times
Keeps me coming, where I don’t know
She takes my loving she takes my soul
I keep knocking upon her door
Let me in babe you know I want some more
Skinny legged woman you know you got my soul babe
You know you got my soul babe
You know you got my soul babe
You know you move my soul babe
Skinny legged woman I love ya …….babe
Baby I’m a fool…………..for your love
8. Jimmy needs a 'Oliday
Jimmy's a man with a lot on his mind
So much to do and so little time
Can't go to mother
Can't tell your brother
Just take it a day, a step at a time
Jimmy hangs somewhere between the lines
Between all the rules and wasting time
Wishing peace on to you and the restless and sad
Getting hard to tell all the good from all the bad
Oh you keep running like the wind
Hammers of hell they've come they've come back again
Coming so fast I don't know where the f**k I've been
And Jimmy needs a O'liday
Glory days from where you stand
Get back on campus be the man
You're caught in the past now and what you believed
Are you feeling cheated are you felling diseased
Jimmy needs a O'liday
9. Just Getting By
What’s to keep all this from crashing down
What keeps good fortune from turning right around
Shattered dreams get lost and never found
And I’m deafened by voices that don’t make a sound
How could it be I’d been so wrong yeah
Been blinded by scars that leave no visible clues
And simple solutions seem so easily refused
I’m pacified with substance that leads to lame abuse
And surrender to all when there’s just nothing left to lose
Swear I never saw it coming
Still I keep on hanging on
And it makes no sense at all
Sold on a story that there’s some real reason why
No way that living means just getting by
I’m just getting by
Oh yea, it’s alright
Still I keep on hanging on
And it makes no sense at all
Sold on a story that there’s some real reason why
No way that living means just getting by
No way that living means just getting by
I’m just getting by
Ooh yea, I’m alright, ooh yea
10. Only Hope
We set out onto this dessert sea, no shelter in sight
When you turned your back on to me, I knew it was time
We made tracks for a better place, with no absence of faith
Wont you shine your light on to me, no matter how long it takes
I watch you spin in circles while it lays you down
Is it too soon to come around
There was a place………….Take me back to where it all began
And here was your face....Only thing that I knew of love
Take hold my hand………..Take me back, Take me back
To where we began……….You’re my only hope, you’re my only hope
I watch you spin in circles while I lay you down
Is it too late to come around
There was a place………….Take me back to where it all began
And there was your face….Only thing that I knew of love
There was this town……….Flipped me out and turned me back around
Then you came around……….You’re my only hope, you’re my only hope, hey!
Is it too soon to come around
11. 7 year Bitch
Mondays she’s my girl friend
Tuesdays she’s on the phone
Wednesday she can’t stand me
Thursday she’s buried the bones
Have you seen her, I’ve been searching low and high, my my
Friday’s girl she’s in a whirl
By Sunday she’s all long gone bye bye
Somedays she’s so restless
Can’t seem to talk her down
She needs to chill
She needs a thrill
She don’t need me hanging around
Have you seen her, yea yea, I’ve been searching low and high, my my
Too cool for school and never wrong and now she’s just all long long gone
Bye bye
Mymymymymymymymymymymymymymymymymymymymymy bye bye
Bleeding what she’s wanting
I know she’s got the itch
She’s lost all hope with too much dope
Now I’m a seven-year bitch
Have you seen her, seen her, have you seen her low and high my my
Always did just what she should but now’s she’s just long long gone
Bye bye
12. On The Run
Remember when it was way back then
No worries, we thought we knew
I dreamed a kiss while dancing in the moonlight
It’s all I wanted to do
With you, we got’em on the run
Now winds of change seem evident
And Echo what used to be
And what we’re saying isn’t what we’re meaning
As it comes down on me
You and me we got’em on the run
On the run
I’m not making a big deal, one heartbeat away from raging
Consequence now don’t seem real, so we can carry on
Just want me some solace, I’m just trying to lose myself in it
To try to deal with the unreal, so I can carry on
I got’em on the run, on the run
Now where we’ve been with my head stove in
And all of what we’ve been through
Misunderstood, reckless past the point of danger
Now it’s me coming too
With you we got’em on the run, on the run
