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You Were Always Trouble (for Jeb)

from SHIFTINGEARS by Rich Arithmetic

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"You Wrere Always Trouble" is a tongue-in-cheek song I wrote to one of my best-ever friends and longtime singing partner, Jeb, as a way of continuing the snarky joking and sometimes self-deprecating stage-patter of our college coffee house gigs. Although I have sometimes been compared to XTC, this is one of the very few songs I've written in which I actually attempted to channel the sound & sensibilities of XTC -- in this case, from their "Drums & Wire" era.

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YOU WERE ALWAYS TROUBLE (for Jeb)
words & music by Richard Horton © Hortones

CHORUS:
You were always trouble then
And you’re still trouble now
But still I’ll play your music
And as long as I don’t lose it
I’ll try to stay sane somehow

Racing through this life full speed ahead at ten thousand miles an hour
Strange as it may be, you want no sympathy from me, just my honor And a coupl’a dollars--
To buy flowers

(CHORUS)

Streaking through my mind full speed ahead,
you leave a thousand unanswered questions
Dropping names like atom bombs, I get no raves,
just honorable mentions
Of your inspections
Of my intentions

(CHORUS)

Even when we were kids, you were always kind of strange
But now that we have grown, I’m still playing your games
Your games ----

(CHORUS)

You bought me
You tried me
Now please don’t advise me

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from SHIFTINGEARS, released January 29, 2021
Produced by Richard Horton & James Nicholson
Acoustic & electric guitars, bass, drums & vocals: RICH ARITHMETIC

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Rich Arithmetic serves up power pop, psych-pop, and folk-meets-surf-and-sand harmonies that "eliminate the gaps between the ‘60s, ‘80s and the 2020's" - Steve Stav, stevestav.com

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