SQUEEZE, by Born Ruffians

SQUEEZE

by Born Ruffians

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1.	Sentimental Saddle 04:47	lyrics	buy track
You may make it out of here Sitting on a little sentimental saddle Riding on a wave of psychic radiation Clopping through a field of fungus and mud cakes Chewing on a stack of newspapers They’re wet and soggy and the ink does run Learning in the school of woolly courage Low placement in the rankings It’s a come back Catch a cat's eye Middle of the morning Catch a raven's eye Middle of the night Catch a snake eye Bitten with no warning cry Catch a needle eye Middle of nowhere Catch a cat's eye Middle of the morning Catch a raven's eye Middle of the night Catch a snake eye Bitten with no warning cry Catch a needle eye Middle of nowhere Yeah your young eyes see so far No you can’t help who you are So don’t ever be held captive by tomorrow I can’t help but take a stand I’m a sentimental man And I will not be a victim of the sorrow No I can’t help who I am But I still believe in us all But I still believe in us All right, all right But I still believe in us all But I still believe in us All right, all right And I wonder how that felt today? And I wonder how that felt today? Yeah And I wonder how that felt today? And I wonder how that felt today? Yeah
2.	30th Century War 03:36	lyrics	buy track
All filled up with emotional conflict Peace and understanding is so, so basic And I'm always looking over my shoulder or up in the sky Rub a rabbit’s foot, and the number seven And yeah, we all deserve our little slice of heaven But it’s getting pretty crowded in there I think I’ll get some air Feels like I've been here before Pour one out for the one you love Pour one out for the one you love Take two of these three times a day Should relieve ya And no, you can’t always just eat what they feed ya Yeah, you gotta look over your shoulder from time to time You can't preach from the choir Always stand inside the fire 'Cause the middle of the road isn’t safe any more In a 30th century war Feels like I've been here before Pour one out for the one you love Pour one out for the one you love Who got the feelin'? Feels like I've been here before But I don't care anymore I'll bang my head off the floor And then I'll do it, do it, do it some more Like a lock on a screen door You wonder what it was there for Inside this 30th century war And then we'll do it some more! Pour one out for the one you love (do it some more, do it some more) Pour one out for the one you love (do it some more, do it some more) Don't look down at the drowning bugs (do it some more, do it some more) Pour one out
3.	Waylaid (feat. Hannah Georgas) 05:16	lyrics	buy track
I was ending a dream, trying to find what it means I was grasping at memories And I reached out for you Not to wake you I knew that you weren’t there But still I reached I don’t want to spend another minute apart I don’t want to figure out the limits of my heart I don’t want to hear you tell me every single way you miss me Lightning strikes and I’m waylaid Feeling safer alone Feeling saner when low And it scares me, this comfort zone And my body has aged since you saw it I fade from magenta, to pink, to grey I don’t want to spend another minute apart I don’t want to figure out the limits of my heart I don’t want to hear you tell me every single day you miss me Lightning strikes and I’m waylaid I don’t want to spend another minute apart I don’t want to figure out the limits of my heart I don’t want to hear you tell me every single day you miss me Lightning strikes and I’m waylaid Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration
4.	Rainbow Superfriends 03:16	lyrics	buy track
The world is a big stage We’re chewing up the scenery We all want a bigger part We all want to play the lead Or, maybe it's a television And we’re flipping through the stations Bending those rabbit ears Looking for satiation Well, if you say you love me Forever-and-ever to the end Let’s hear the swell of the symphony For the Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends The curtain called out your name The spotlight claimed you I followed you wherever you went Wished you all the glory and fame, too But don’t go changing From bitter start to bitter end Belt it out real loud for me! For the Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends I am a dead pixel Floating on a computer screen Surrounded by beautiful colours Trying so hard to be seen Well if you see me out there In the forever-and-ever to the end Know I'll always remember you ‘Cause we’re the Rainbow Superfriends The Rainbow Superfriends The Rainbow Superfriends The Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends Turn on the Rainbow Superfriends
5.	Sinking Ships 02:26	lyrics	buy track
Promise me now at the end of your life You will watch the rising sun One last time, just for fun Yeah Long time, I know My oh my How time goes by the wayside of your ship As it sinks Slowly slips into It’s taking over Can’t blame no other Why will you not test the waters Sinking ships can take no orders Promise me now at the end of your life You will watch the rising sun One last time, just for fun Yeah Long time, I know My oh my, how time goes by the wayside of your ship As it sinks Slowly slips into the sea It’s taking over Can’t blame no other Why will you not test the waters Sinking ships can take no orders Come to me I’m sinking Sinking Sinking
6.	Death Bed 03:51	lyrics	buy track
When you’re on your deathbed and your maker waits to meet The eternal toil From the ocean’s boil Must we all recoil in the end Do you picture darkness never ending like I do? And the view point shifts To an empty bliss Every moment leads to this Did you live enough? Did you give enough? Did you take enough, make enough love? Have you given up being taken up? Did you ache enough, awake enough love? Did you live enough? Did you give enough? Did you take enough? Make enough love? Have you given up? Is it living up? You’re forgiven of aching of love La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la Did you live enough? Did you give enough? Did you take enough, make enough love? Did you live enough? Did you give enough? Did you take enough, make enough love? Did you live enough? Did you give enough? Did you take enough, make enough love? Did you live enough? Did you give enough? Did you take enough, make enough love? When you’re on your deathbed and your maker waits to meet
7.	Leaning on You 02:33	lyrics	buy track
I pissed your name in the snow ‘Cause I want you to know That I love you so much I got all the friends I need in you When you’re cut I bleed for you You prop me up and take a load off And I’m leaning on you Lean in I’m leaning on you Lean in You scratched my name across your arm When it heals there will be a scar Screaming in the rain, on a beach at night Can’t look ahead and you can’t look back Some days are grey some days are black You wish there was a colour for the way you feel When I’m leaning on you Lean in I’m leaning on you Lean in I’ll be leaning on you Lean in Leaning on you Lean in The burning thunder burst into a flame The bowered fortress fell into the rain I pissed your name in the snow ‘Cause I want you to know That I love you so much And I’m leaning on you Lean in Leaning on you Lean in I’m leaning on you Lean in Leaning on you Lean in
8.	Noodle Soup 03:23	lyrics	buy track
Appear to me this feeling Appear to me now, feeling Appear to me for a while I see you’re looking pretty awful I picked you up some noodle soup Well there’s an emptiness inside yourself Who, when you’re sick, takes care of you And now you’ve fallen in, too Appear to me this feeling Appear to me now, feeling Appear to me for a while The summer’s almost gone The kids are having fun Sweat-dreaming in the sun Asleep with nothing on I want nothing at all I want nothing at all I see you’re looking pretty awful Dirty dishes surrounding you And there’s that noodle hanging off your lip I’d suck it up if I were you Appear to me this feeling Appear to me now, feeling Appear to me for a while The summer’s almost gone The kids come later on Sweat-dreaming in the sun Asleep with nothing on I want nothing at all I want nothing at all Was it memory? Standing in ecstasy next to me, in love Thought I’d set you free Because you were meant to be not with me But oh, don’t go taking me at my word
9.	Albatross 04:27	lyrics	buy track
Albatross in the dead of night She’s fast asleep Floating It’s getting easier To play it softer now A little softer now She sleeps a little longer than before Yeah, but those were different times It’s getting easier To play it softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now Fly a little slower now Drift a little lower down Waves come crashing over you Pull you into the deep, dark blue Where they play it softer now A little softer now Softer now A little softer now Softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now Play it softer now A little softer now
10.	Waylaid (feat. Hannah Georgas) - Edit 03:43 video	lyrics	buy track
I was ending a dream, trying to find what it means I was grasping at memories And I reached out for you Not to wake you I knew that you weren’t there But still I reached I don’t want to spend another minute apart I don’t want to figure out the limits of my heart I don’t want to hear you tell me every single way you miss me Lightning strikes and I’m waylaid Feeling safer alone Feeling saner when low And it scares me, this comfort zone And my body has aged since you saw it I fade from magenta, to pink, to grey I don’t want to spend another minute apart I don’t want to figure out the limits of my heart I don’t want to hear you tell me every single day you miss me Lightning strikes and I’m waylaid I don’t want to spend another minute apart I don’t want to figure out the limits of my heart I don’t want to hear you tell me every single day you miss me Lightning strikes and I’m waylaid Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration Perpetual adoration, perpetual adoration

about

Well, hell, we’re guessing you’ve got a little extra time on your hands these days and, fortunately for you, the Ruffians are veritably bubbling over with new music at the moment. The spiky, psych-y SQUEEZE arrives on Oct. 2, 2020, a mere six months after the release last April of the bold ‘n’ brassy JUICE on Yep Roc Records. Rumour even has it there might be some more poised power-pop pulp to come somewhere soon down the line – catch a developing theme here? – but you didn’t hear that from me. Let’s focus on the present for now. Or at least distract ourselves from the ugly realities of the present with another wicked Born Ruffians record, the band’s seventh since guitarist/vocalist Luke Lalonde, bassist Mitch Derosier and drummer Steve Hamelin emerged as a fully formed trio of rock ‘n’ roll oddballs from a high school in Midland, Ontario, 16 years ago.

Not that SQUEEZE itself is particularly distracted from present-day realities. Although written well before the global pandemic lockdown with which JUICE’s spring release expertly coincided, the new album’s nine songs were birthed in the shadow of Brexit and Donald Trump and, as Lalonde puts it, “thinking about the end of the American empire and these massive global shifts that we’re seeing” and wondering, as the climate goes to Hell and cities erupt in fiery protests and the “One Percent” basically takes another collective shit on our chests every other day, “How long does it take for a full-on revolt? When do the prisoners realize we outnumber the guards?”

SQUEEZE, like JUICE, is still yet another document of Born Ruffians’ growing maturity into a less hyperactive and willfully eccentric version of their youthful selves. A concise, multi-stage epic like “Noodle Soup” doesn’t feel forced at all at this point but merely comes naturally to them now after 16 years of pulling off all those left turns and hard angles onstage night after night. As Lalonde coos over wafting brass on album closer “Albatross”: “It’s getting easier to play it softer now / A little softer now…” Born Ruffians don’t have to flaunt their chops these days. They can simply lean into the material and act like the confident and experienced and altogether singular rock ‘n’ roll combo they are without thinking too much about it.

credits

released October 2, 2020

2020, Born Ruffians Inc. under exclusive license to Yep Roc Records.

All songs written and performed by Born Ruffians.
Noodle Soup written by Born Ruffians and Daniel Woodhead.

Mitch DeRosier - bass
Steve Hamelin - drums
Luke Lalonde - guitars, keys and vocals

Anders Azzopardi - trombone on Rainbow Superfriends and Albatross
Hannah Georgas - vocal on Waylaid
Mike Lalonde - harmonica on Sentimental Saddle
Tom Moffett - trumpet on Rainbow Superfriends and Albatross
Joseph Shabason - saxophone on Rainbow Superfriends and Albatross
Graham Walsh - organ on Sentimental Saddle
Little Junior - backup vocals on 30th Century War
Noah Fralick, Roger Galvez, Hannah Georgas, Jessica Lalonde, Andy Lloyd, Jay McCarroll, Maddy Wilde - backup vocal choir on Death Bed
Additional overdubs of keys etc by Born Ruffians and Graham Walsh

Recorded in Toronto at Baldwin Street Sound
Additional recording at Palace Sound & Baskitball 4 Life

Produced by Graham Walsh and Born Ruffians
Mixed by Graham Walsh at Baskitball 4 Life
Mastered by Gavin Gardiner at All Day Coconut Studios

Published by Warp Publishing
Management by Noah Fralick at Huxley Management

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shows

Sep 14

Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC
Sep 15

Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC
Sep 17

The Palace Theatre - Calgary

Calgary, AB
Sep 18

Midway

Edmonton, AB
Sep 20

The Crocodile

Seattle, WA
Sep 21

Revolution Hall

Portland, OR
Sep 23

August Hall

San Francisco, CA
Sep 24

The Observatory

Santa Ana, CA
Sep 25

The Regent Theater

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Sep 28

House of Blues San Diego

San Diego, CA
Sep 29

Nile Theater

Mesa, AZ
Nov 5

The Pageant

St Louis, MO
Nov 7

The Echo Lounge & Music Hall

Dallas, TX
Nov 7

The Echo Lounge

Dallas, TX
Nov 8

Aztec Theatre

San Antonio, TX
Nov 9

Emo's Austin

Austin, TX
Nov 11

Buckhead Theatre

Atlanta, GA
Nov 12

Music Farm

Charleston, SC
Nov 14

Howard Theatre

Washington, DC
Nov 15

Brooklyn Bowl - Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA
Nov 16

Paradise Rock Club presented by Citizens

Boston, MA
Nov 19

Irving Plaza Powered By Verizon 5g

New York (NYC), NY
Nov 20

Irving Plaza

New York (NYC), NY
Nov 29

History

Toronto, ON

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