Crooked Letter John
Album: We Were Wasted
Recorded during the Summer of 2011 at the Delta Music Institute in Cleveland, MS. All songs written, played, and recorded by John Patrick Roach with some help from Lance Vaughn.
“I Don’t Sleep”
Lyrics:
I don’t sleep without you at night
Without you here by my side
No I don’t sleep without you at night
I don’t dream without you at night
With you here by my side
No I don’t dream without you at night
So I take my time and I count my sheep
While I toss and turn ’cause I can’t sleep
I don’t know how I’m going to survive
Yeah I’ll play, I’ll sing
I’ll do most anything
For you to come back to me
“Invincible”
Lyrics:
We are invincible
Mostly indefensible
No need for combs or makeup
We don’t give a shit where we wake up
Through puffs of cigarettes
We talk Lynch and Cassvetes
On a porch in mid-December
Can’t regret what we can’t remember
We sleep around and we sleep too late
Drink early because we couldn’t wait
Making sport of inebriation
We turn a fight into a celebration
Broken bottles and ripped up jeans
Are common props for our common scene
We’re overjoyed and we don’t know sorrow
Kill today because there’s no tomorrow
We never want to go to sleep
We only want to be redeemed
“Mississippi”
Lyrics:
Oh those days with Mississippi
With our summer tan lines
We were tracing freckles on her face
To see what pictures we could make
Mississippi
Where there is no sense of time
Running barefoot through the Delta fields
No ups and downs, no threatening hills
Oh those nights with Mississippi
When that summer breeze would blow
We were tracing every start in sight
To see what stories we could write
Mississippi
When there’s nowhere else to go
Driving circles in a pickup truck
We sing a long with lady luck
When all I have
Is blues and rags
You’ll find me
In the heart of Miss Mississippi
I’ll never leave Mississippi
As long as it’s summer here
Mockingbirds in skies so blue
Heaven in her eyes so blue
Mississppi
Yeah you know she is my dear
‘Cause she is so go to me
I love Miss, Miss, Miss
Mississippi
Who What When Where
Experimental Sessions
Written and Recorded with Ricky Figueroa
“An Apology”
Lyrics:
Our sons and daughters
Will die as martyrs
Against the sins of you and I
We’ll say we faltered
Upon the alter
But they will never see us cry
“Oh, Sister”
“Pony Express”
“Rockin Dood”
Apache Valentino
All songs written and performed by Apache Valentino with Ricky Figueroa on guitar and vocals, Benji Orlansky on bass, Charlton Roberts on piano, Andy Paul on guitar, and Patrick Roach on drums.
“Lights”
“Abortion”
“Progeny”
“Baby Little Mr. Mississippi”