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Don't Lose Your Beauty

by The Bop Fi's

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1.
Empty Pockets And Shore Changed Love (Leger) Empty pockets and shore changed love I've got my health but I'm down on my luck Holes in my stories Holes in the glue This town distrusts a go getter Hates a recluse Jugs full of comfort and blackberry lies Garbage trucks and attic trunks Dave Dudley and hanging dice The clouds can change any minute And my mood swings with the sound Cobwebs for the forgotten Flashlights for the found The singer and his acting coach Spending hours on the magic and the right wardrobe Pancakes at four in the morning With cheap beer on the side I did that last thursday Four years ago The Golden Griddle open all day and night Horse races and borrowed cash Put it down on Number 7 It's done well in the past Give me one more night on your sofa And one more meal of gin The sun and moon don't care where I'm going Or if I'll ever be back again
2.
The Ghost Was Me All Along (Leger) The ghost was me all along Haunting myself Creaking the door Howling through the pipes Waking up the stairs Scarying up the past I assumed it was Love's dangerous friends Twisting the night away Fooling dedication Each night I would try to startle you But you weren't you Yelling into the mirror I punished my sight What a terrifying thing A haunted house everywhere The hunter haunting the hunt Haunting himself No bookends No hunger The old hag The shadow My dismissal Your loathing My life is knowing That I haven't forgotten her She comes around To torment a drunk Make a heartbreaker eat the dead leaves And drink wounded blood Cackling through the nightmare I sleep with one eye blurred And the blues hit me Off of a broken piano Manic notes stagger And fall to a slow death Insanity clouding Will tomorrow let me in Is this tomorrow Was that tomorrow Are you tomorrow Will you keep me as a ghost
3.
The Piano Went Frantic (Leger) The piano went frantic The bass was getting out of here The guitar followed But was lured back With a taste of wine soaked minutes The sax played through the misunderstandings And soon found everything had gone mad For the same madness The feeling was climbing The barroom was empty While the broom swept off time Flirting with brush strokes Upon the skin and the shimmer It was dark Except for the dim lights Bouncing off of the bottles And ashtrays The piano sang quietly Trickling down the spine Of the cracked plastered walls Someone got dizzy Fell onto the lowside Guitars laughed The sound was here Ordered a tall one Started up a conversation With the saxophone Then the organ got jealous Blew kisses and showed some leg Smoke was dancing all through The madness It was a mad scene Drums were coughing The whole room kept breathing it in There was a knock on the door Come on in If you can that thing come on in If you can't Just play it anyway Play it Man Play it
4.
She Walked Away Through The City Steam (Leger) She walked away through the city steam Midnight on her like a dress of "up to no good" I wasn't sad to see her go Just sad that I would have fill in the time Chasing skirts was never my idea of a good night Playing games to end up on a stiff mattress With tired pillows and empty passion I think I was happy to see her go Now I'm looking for a number Deep in my pocket At least she left me with motivation My head hurt the same way As it always did in the morning But it felt like I had left a jacket behind The air was stale My own coughing woke me up And I killed the last bit of whisky I had I stole the paper from the coffee shop next store Filled in the crossword randomly I thought of her and her skin satisfied Waking to her protector I found a forgotten bottle under the second hand soaf And planned my day Let's see, let's see It's a big city That's good I'll find someone who looks like her But gives me silver and gold attention It's a big city Lots of birds That's good I'm such a fool I let her go
5.
Someone Is Thinking Of You (Leger) You got me excited I would do anything now Hand on the gun My darling Just show me how But some things They never come true Some dreams are left Waiting on you You got both fists Up in the air You're waiting For the fight to come You will be swingin for years In the spirit Of World War Two And everyone is counting on you I can hold your hand Until the end of the block Never see each other again Never talk They're looking down From hotel rooms I guess everyone here Is worried about you They tracked you To the other side of town A man on each corner Looking around Don't want anything To come between The walls and the truth Oh someone is desperate Someone is thinking of you Did they know you way back You were skipping along Nothing to worry about Nothing every could be wrong Then the call came To an old weathered tune Hey Kid Someone must be thinking of you At the table She made up her face Powder was dancing Frantically all over the place The alarm rand loud Above the back door frame Everyone ran out But we were asked to stay When we got up The noise went down We punished our visions Like hands on a plow What's behind the deguise Who around here Breaks the news Give me your bullets She don't want you
6.
Don't Lose Your Beauty (Leger) Don't lose your beauty In the unfair clouds of uncertainty Where models of attention Powder their faces And sustain their timbre I'll be looking at only you Across the way In your red and silk Don't lose your beauty When under attack Stirring the sugar Drinking from the dollar store mug Eyes through the morning window Bouncing off of the air Feeling everything around You leave without a smile for tuesday Don't lose your beauty As war ravishes the memories Of boyhood and his love for your eyelashes Sacrifice steals the spaces Poetry makes this romantic Crows fill it with mystery And what to do with your tears Where to find you in your heaven DOn't lose your beauty Even when it sounds like New York our there But it looks like a movie set As I walk I hear the sound Of buzzing fluorescence And greedy observations Dictators and reciters Someone is breathing down your dress Don't lose your beauty While the years change your looks The devil xomes around To laugh at what we lose What we lose in ourselves The candy tastes better After the compliment The wedding dance is eaten by the wolf The child is left on the doorstep For vultures or the compassionate Don't lose your beauty to the empty girl And the nervous smoke She's naked for the attention But closes up in the darkness A ballroom pin up She's scattered and shuffled You sway along the old oak boards Commanding and enchanting I want you I need you Don't lose your beauty As the doubt kills some of the beauty SOme of the days You can't remember now But I loved those days Stealing fruit from the castles Your hair done up high On New Year's Eve Your face happy in the end of the year Don't lose that happiness
7.
Kill The Underground (Leger) Don't you think we should try Never slow it down Paint big cities All over little towns Look up into the air Fly away with the sound Punch the desperation Kill the underground No more poets No more songs Artists die starving Can never belong I'm gonna add up the numbers Take you out for a nice meal Buy us a castle And million dollar heels Gonna shave my face You'll be proud To hold my hand We can use every letter Then throw them in the grabage can Photographs are so empty Let's burn them on the hill Rip apart stories written Until the heartache fills Big breakfasts On the porch by the lake The trees cut down Get them out of the way Do you feel free No need to be upset Stand and take pride In the lives we've led
8.
Your Fingertips (Leger) The ghosts tell me That you come here after dark Searching for the lost children in yourself You skip down a pathway That leads to a slanted home It's sketched along the wise branches And clinging leaves You don't see your reflection in the window The roof is frowning The story your mind tells Makes your cheeks soft with tears The wind's hand grips the door knob Opens without proper invitation You walk on in its dream cloud The smell of coffee conversations And a new deck of cards face down like a fold A mother and her children By a table lamp's flame The youngest plays tricks on the wall He has the confidence of a traveling magician The scene looks familar Like acting out a home movie But something's off Your right eye twitches In anxious denial The father rips into doomed flesh And drinks the blood of the farm The lungs of the home breathe in and out You ask if this is your dream or theirs The mother looks up and smiles Wrinkles make her look more beautiful In experience than she would think She talks out a blood soaked cloth Wraps it around your left hand A weakness overthrows you You fall to your bare knees The flame is suffering The children are gone The wood is rotting A small crooked tree reaches for a savior Ripping off the bark Undressing together Naked under the strange sky You rest your wounded body In front of the roots of God Turning you see your mother Are she disappears Like dust falling in faint light The ghosts tell you of her kindness Feeling guilty living in this world Without a heartbeat I figure you're somewhere further away now I'm waiting for dreaming to become a journey Even to find your fingertips
9.
In Beauty's Ditch (Leger) The make up smears The monster builds the fears The imagination steers In beauty's ditch The day will walk again In tomorrow's clothes and Stetson Looking for a bargain In beauty's ditch Cigarette smoke A rich man's joke The beggar provoked In beauty's ditch Fidget with the key Motel with one vacancy Too drunk to dream In beauty's ditch Fly on the wall Stalker on a call Cinderella is having a ball In beauty's ditch Shooting up in the dark Never missing the mark Feast or starve In beauty's ditch Rock 'n' roll shoes Honky tonk blues Howling at the moves In beauty's ditch How did it get so loud Accident gets the biggest crowd Killing to stay proud In beauty's ditch
10.
Just The Night Birds (Leger) Just the night birds And the drinkers remain Early morning show down At the imaginary saloon Cowboys and cowgirls junkies and beggars The lonely and the desired The hungry still get their fill They'll let you smoke your smoke Once they lock the door And dim the lights Hell, You can have a piece of the surprise If you like Howlin Wolf shadow boxes In the the jukebox On the other end of the ring And Betty Lou has a new pair of blues she'll let you wear them If you love her til the sun Holds her unselfishly Same town with a different name The ballerinas are doing the twist High off of that Tennessee sour mash Getting dirty in the dance hall They drop their heroes For the aimless wanderers Hitch hikers Adventure ignitors The pale horse and its riders Maybe tomorrow or maybe today Maybe the next set of lights The flat top skids along The fresh summer asphalt Ribbons fly fall from strawberry curls In a chevy bel air And the drunks sing their lullabies To the tune of "This land is your land" I believe it is

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released November 18, 2016

Empty Pockets And Shore Changed Love (Leger/Allen)
The Ghost Was Me All Along (Leger/Zemaitis)
The Piano Went Frantic (Leger/Mock)
She Walked Away Through The City Steam (Leger/Sullivan)
Someone Is Thinking Of You (Leger/Zemaitis)
Don't Lose Your Beauty (Leger/Roberston)
Kill The Underground (Leger/Kenemy)
Your Fingertips (Leger/Kenemy)
In Beauty's Ditch (Leger/Barker)
Just The Night Birds (Leger/Barker)

Words: Jerry Leger
Music: The Bop Fi's

Jerry Leger: voice
Alan Zemaitis: piano/organ
Dan Mock: bass/guitar/percussion
Julian Nalli: sax
Andrew Barker: guitar
Kyle Sullivan: drums
Aaron Comeau: electric piano/piano/organ/drums
Jason Kenemy: electric piano/piano
Wesley Allen: electric piano/drums
Nichol Robertson: guitar/organ
Jesse Boxer-Meyrowitz: bass

Recorded live off the floor Friday September 30th, 2016
at The Trailer, Toronto, Canada
Engineered by Aaron Comeau, assisted by Wesley Allen
Mixed by Aaron Comeau
Mastered by James Paul
Photography by Laura Proctor
Front cover artwork by Jerry Leger
Back cover layout by Eric Brombacher
All songs, SOCAN, 2016

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The Bop Fi's Toronto, Ontario

A mixture of poetry and jazz, spearheaded by singer-songwriter, Jerry Leger. Concept is a branch out from the spontaneous rock 'n' roll collective, The Del Fi's. 'Don't Lose Your Beauty' was recorded live in the studio Friday September 30th, 2016 in the East End of Toronto. ... more

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