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1.
Into The Shadows ---------------- dancing on the stage like a broken marionette drink and dope away the pain desperate to forget the wretched parody that everything became misguided by liars who lead you astray Refrain: into the shadows I go, Into the shadows I go dead dreams line the broken road with vultures picking clean the bones into the shadows I go stomach quickly sinks below buckling knees arsenic laced taste of impending defeat tear stained strained face, air too goddamn harsh to breath shaking faith gives way - nothing left to believe Refrain scratching at your skin, dig until you bleed your heart beats weak, stricken with disease anesthetize your mind, but the poison persists Seems there's no end to Feelings Like This
2.
Withdrawals 03:35
She doesn't have the spine To say she moved on So instead she left in pieces until one day she was gone It left you wondering what the hell you did wrong anxious and uncertain - so completely withdrawn Chorus: goddamn all this loneliness Sharp withdrawal pains goddamn all this loneliness While the poison leave your brain The worst of this is how she got you to believe That she would be the one who wasn’t going to leave And now you’ve got to face all the empty space and every single place that you still hear her name Chorus You try to keep your head held high But it's a goddamn lie On the car stereo, Lucero’s Tennessee the score to a scene you hope you don’t repeat a cold and broken moment, pleading up to God that you would do anything just to make it stop Chorus x 2
3.
Another night lost underneath Fluorescent city light switchblade tucked into my pocket, boots are laced up tight if we get found we’ll get shut down cause they don’t like our rebel sound no more shows allowed if the cops coming around Deep beneath the radar high above their laws let’s have a damn good time, just make sure you don’t get caught Three minutes to be free in the pit Walk on through a basement door and proceed to make your way through a crowd where everybody seems to knows your name It’s so more than just escape when the band takes stage it’s blood we share from ties that bind a testament of faith it’s somewhere to go, its the life that we all chose This is our moment, our chance to explode Three minutes to be free in the pit a moment of sanity a moment of sweet release a moment so sacred a moment to believe the singer preaches over a three chord litany The basement is swings and surges to the frantic beat salvation found in what we make in every space that we reclaim we’re stealing it all back every god damn thing they take it’s a war that we wage against our corporate chains in a dark twisted world that lost it’s goddamn way Three minutes to be free in the pit
4.
This City 03:16
Stuck’s the worst kind of curse a verse of the devils words that line about waiting around to die The feeling you can’t escape A future going Up In Flames and you won’t be get out of here alive This city is quickly killing me This city is quickly killing me I won’t last one more year year if I don’t get out of here this city is quickly killing me Crab mentality caused mortality All done for pride and family they grab on and drag you down the undertow pulls you below Fills your lungs with blood and smoke until you give in and drown This city is quickly killing me This city is quickly killing me I won’t last one more year year if I don’t get out of here this city is quickly killing me this war can’t ever be won so why not just pack up and run? head out west with no regrets there’s gotta be something better yet drive off into the setting sun you try to really give a damn and offer up a helping hand everyone is right there to take but when your hands are the ones turned up, cause life got so goddamn rough the bastards spit in your face This city is quickly killing me This city is quickly killing me I won’t last one more year year if I don’t get out of here this city is quickly killing me
5.
Bottled Crime ------------------- The cops are looking around my neighborhood again Asking for Jonny, if they know where I've been The landlord’s calling me a squatter he says I've got to go even though I pay my rent and this place ain't up to code I know he wants me gone so I don't turn and rat well, maybe I should pay my rent with a BASEBALL BAT I’ve got bottled crime on my mind Well, it’s back to being homeless like so many times before but before I’m nailed for vagrancy It’s time to settle the score I went back to my old place was in the dead of the night I pried open the window with my boot knife Stripped out all the copper Broke all the locks and as I left I smashed his windshield with a CINDER BOCK I’ve got bottled crime on my mind Watch it all fucking burn All these words reflect the fucked up world that I see How can you still call this the land of the free It's the front lines of a class war and It ain't been going well The rich live in luxury The poor a living hell but I ain’t going down, and I ain’t giving up when will you finally say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH I’ve got bottled crime on my mind
6.
What happened, where did you go? There’s a frigid hell in the place of the town I call home and anger replaced camaraderie selfishness instead of community sixty hour weeks to stay afloat overworked desperate and broke You stole it all from us Clearly - you’ve sold your soul It’s in with the new and to hell with the old and greed is thoroughly embraced we’re getting priced out while the landlords celebrate what will the families do? their neighborhoods are being removed You stole it all from us Where will we all go? We can't even afford our homes Everything we love Is being swept away And we don't We don't have any say You bastards, how do you sleep at night? you know goddamn well that this isn’t right this fight… I don’t think we can win more and more money keeps flooding in and towers continue to rise at the price of wrecking all of our lives You stole it all from us
7.
Broken 02:54
Broken --------- You knew exactly what this was cause nothing ever lasts But Who could know the bulb would blow The light would fade so fast All of your dreams have Smoldered into ash And In the dark no one could see The impending collapse The traitor with a knife for your back My life is broken - It’s falling apart When you hit the bottom No one will be there If there’s nothing left for them to take Then no one will care And what about the loyalty? The vows you broke You said you were blood, when push turned shove You left me on my own Forsaken - it’s all I’ve known My life is broken - it’s falling apart I’m losing any sight Of meaning in this life I keep sinking down No I’m not alright I found a dead angel once, strung from a tree Left as a warning to me, sadistic blasphemy A scar upon my heart, a mark of the beast So I know those demons are coming after me One day they might finally get to me My life is broken - it’s falling apart
8.
How Long 04:24
How Long ---------- from the rotting teeth, cough and a rash, constantly poor I try to keep my head up even though I wonder what the hell for pushing a broken car through freezing winter rain and how bills can I take before I break from the strain I'm struggling with the undertow, trying to stay afloat But the waves keep growing bigger they're gonna flood the boat and with each passing day, more feeling slip away From a drunk and stoned novacaine I’m stumbling and fumbling to make an escape I've got to do something before it gets too late I've got to do something before it gets too late Chorus: it's getting old how my blood runs cold, and I hate to feel this way It's everything that I don't want to say, in a tired well worn cliche And somewhere in this mess, I do my best to try and carry on I struggle to survive and try to stay alive but god, oh god... for how long? but nights like this the truth stares hard, and I can't turn away uneasy about the decisions I’ve made but now there's no other way My mind's going million revelations a minute, I don't have any brakes I'm dragged by the wrists, face first in the dirt and caught up in its wake All this uncertainty, is slowly killing me if there's an end to this it's one I cannot see another dead dream, another way to bleed another pin prick another reason to scream despair is in the air, I'm more than worse for wear what disturbs me the most? is I just don't care I just don’t seem to care it's getting old how my blood runs cold, and I hate to feel this way It's everything that I don't want to say, in a tired well worn cliche And somewhere in this mess, I do my best to try and carry on I struggle to survive and try to stay alive but god, oh god... for how long? How long can you keep pushing on when you hate to be alive Going through the motions is such a shallow lie Pain laced days of scorn and hate, anxiety and doubt It takes everything to keep the gun out of your mouth it's getting old how my blood runs cold, and I hate to feel this way It's everything that I don't want to say, in a tired well worn cliche And somewhere in this mess, I do my best to try and carry on I struggle to survive and try to stay alive but god, oh god... for how long?
9.
Good Goddamn 03:24
Good Goddamn -------------------- I won’t deny it’s on my mind I know you’d agree It’s a premonition of things to come like autumn’s falling leaves and I won’t pray for forgiveness to your god, I just don’t believe so take up arms beside me or you’d best let me be I don’t give a good goddamn anymore I don’t give a good goddamn. I’ve stared into the coming storm in fates judgemental eyes the threat of rain, hail or flame won’t change my steadfast mind I’ll keep pushing forward I’ll give it all I’ve got there ain’t no turning back now the road back home been lost I don’t give a good goddamn anymore I don’t give a good goddamn. Maybe I’m losing it Maybe I’ve gone insane From dealing with the hardship the loss and the pain but I’ll raise my fists and blaze my guns every single time before the break of day gives way I’ll take what’s rightfully mine I don’t give a good goddamn anymore I don’t give a good goddamn.
10.
The Reason 03:34
The Reason --------------- I grew up a bastard, a manic scofflaw soul, underneath the yankee’s watchful eye that puritan fist it barely missed those damned judgemental hypocrites but some how I made it out alive Im not here to feed your all consuming greed I’m a dreamer stuck among the damned I tried to build on these old hills, but your fist grew stronger still and blood stains these desperate lands Chours: You’re the reason there are always bullets in my gun You’re the reason there’s a knife at my side You’re the reason why I live this life outside of the lines You’re the reason the reason I won’t stop until I die I’ll rather die on my feet than live on my knees So I made the decision, I’ll take what I need outlaw is as outlaw does, forever shall I rise above I armed myself and made for the streets black river bandit, burning gasoline these miles, they changed my stride The only time I ever find any kind of peace of mind Is when I leave the world behind You’re the reason there are always bullets in my gun You’re the reason there’s a knife at my side You’re the reason why I live this life outside of the lines You’re the reason the reason I won’t stop until I die theres a price you’ve got to pay if you want to live free and let me tell you that it’s a high price indeed one mistake is all it takes, nothing can be left to fate there’s just so much here at stake and I’ve got some words for all my enemies you ain’t seen the last of of me I’m around the corner, and past the bend, I’m every place you’ve ever been you will pay dearly for your deeds You’re the reason there are always bullets in my gun You’re the reason there’s a knife at my side You’re the reason why I live this life outside of the lines You’re the reason the reason I won’t stop until I die
11.
Carry On 04:29
Carry On ------------ Apathy soaked lost in despair a carousel ride at the misery fair the weight of oppression this burden you bear muscles stretched taut beginning to tear Anxious and desperate is no way to live but try as you might but nothing will give we medicate symptoms and not the disease anesthetized we live down on our knees after a while we start to believe the lies, hate, anger, and greed and that's what they want, to dehumanize subjugate hope and devalue our lives There’s , always a place in the face of the storm where we can all gather and keep warm From Tales that we tell, the bread that we break the wine in our blood, the hope that we make We share what we have, enough to get by and Rekindling the spirit that keep us alive From the fire in my heart we will carry on Carry on from darkness until dawn We'll carry on through trying times we will survive we will carry on We will carry on - we will survive

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All Songs written by Jonathan 'Swagger' Natale
Produced, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jonathan 'Swagger' Natale

Rob Black: Second guitar on The Reason and Mandolin on Carry On
Jonathan 'Swagger' Natale: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Mandolin, Bass
Jessica Pietrzykowski: Accordion

(c) 2011-2018 Outlaw Waltz Publishing
ASCAP. All Rights Reserved

Album Cover by Jane Lurch

This album is dedicated to the angels and devils of this life, past and present:

- to the ones who burn brightly for all to see, lighting the way for us all; My gratitude and thanks.

- to the dearly departed; May your light ever onward through our cherished memories.

- to leeches, traitors, and anyone else who steals the light; Your time will come.

None shall be forgotten.

In particular, there are a few cherished souls that I wish to name for doing more for me or this album than I can ever put into words

Buck Boswell
Denise Vertucci
Erik Petersen
Griffin Sullivan
Isaac Onigman
Lamaine Lewis
Meaghan Casey
Nathan Maynard
Rob Black
Scotty Theunissen
Tiffany Beyer
Tim P McCarthy
Timothy Scrimmy Bouchard
Wee and Mighty Dawn Williams
Wyatt Peterson

Thank you.

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released November 11, 2016

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Tail Light Rebellion Kenosha, Wisconsin

Rustbelt Folk and Roots

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