NERVE

by Shotgun Language

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    NERVE is a collection of lo-fi recordings 2008-2009 by Shotgun Language, and it's completely free to download. NERVE is also available on limited edition cassette, contact for more info/orders.

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Written, played and sung during cold and poor times. All of it recorded on a philips stereo audiovisual d6920 tape recorder at my home.

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released 13 April 2010
All songs, lyrics and music by Gustav Berry.
Ludvig Kennberg plays drums on Carrier.
Patrik Torsson mastered.

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tags: alt-country country-alt lo-fi swedish indie alt pop rock lo-fi rural swedish Sweden

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Well. It's a love story.

It's me and this piece of land and everything that inhabits ... more it.

Clouds and grass, people, lost cats, feelings and empties thrown by the roadsides.

It's a map. A map I live by, that I find my way and that get lost by.

I've always been here, beholding. And here I tell. less

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Track Name: real gone
Every night I run this down, walk the gravel road, watch the city glow. I got a hunch but I don't want to let it on but there sure is something big here pushing on out of order

I wanna bust an escape on shifty wheels, don't do no turning just steer and leave out on everything that ain't real.

Because sometimes I'd just rather be gone than to stay here in the lowlands kicking dust for too long, yes sometimes I'd just rather be gone rather than to stay here in the lowlands just gathering rust for too long

Rid of trusty things there can be only road, miles to knock down and a horizon big enough to swallow you whole

Sometimes I'd just rather be gone than to stay here in the lowlands gathering dust for too long, yes sometimes I'd just rather be gone than to stay here in the lowlands kicking rust for too long

I wanna bust an escape on shifty wheels, don't do no turning just steer and leave out on everything that ain't real.

And stay real gone.
Track Name: sad song radio
I got all these nails I keep hanging my hope on and all these words I've written while walking down to see roadside eyes, flashing lights and all the things that turned on me, all and everyone that turned out wrong just like everything standing still for too long but if you're a leaver I could be your lover just tonight

Then I'd head back to keeping track on everything that never happens, I'm still water I got no current, I got no flow. But somehow I still keep breath and tend to my waiting for all the better things to come, yet to leave me and shove me off

Now I'm trying to hear clear through the static lost transmission I'm picking up here but I can't make out any words just a suspicion telling me that you just could be all that what's missing if you're a keeper then I'm your lover, bur you're a leaver and I'm a sad song radio.
Track Name: stand down for the lightning
I tend to take to higher ground, get up hills and watch the going ons just to state the world still flat and not round. I know all these roads but I can't go down

Cause I don't want no trouble with that gashouse gang, cause they got blades stick-shooters and chains and I've heard that they've been passing my name behind the tin shack by the stockyard gates. So I'll stand before the lightning tonight

You take a step out and you pay with blood that's your own cause such is the law in this one horse town. Cast no shadow just take a bow, don't lay no bets don't never turn no deal down

If you don't want no trouble with that gashouse gang cause they got blades stick-shooters and chains and I've heard that they've been passing your name, behind the tinshack by the stockyard gates, so stand before the lightning tonight

I am a homegrown son spun off. I am a car crash on an icy road. I am the nighttime where all highs are lows. I am the night stop's steady glow,

and I don't want no trouble with that gashouse gang, cause they got blades stick-shooters and chains and I've heard that they've been passing my name behind the tin shack by the stockyard gates. So I'll stand before the lightning tonight
Track Name: the last train that rode the rails
Chains on the gates and whirlwinds rattle hearts hung in trees. I came down on palm sunday to walk empty streets, love left riding on the last train that rode the rails

That was youth and yesterday somebody said, just up and left not coming back around here again, come bring your shovel everybody's digging their graves

Long sleep and the reaper sits waiting tonight if you don't turn and run all the way back to town, we've dug a hole in the meadow are you in or out.

Now nobody passes by and nobody calls, we gather dust and rubble, look for fallen stars for love left riding on the last train that rode the rails

Somewhere down along them tracks lay the motion we had but she's done gone off and left everyone sad, they send me looking for youth and yesterday

And before I leave I hang my heart on a tree, say goodbye to the reaper and the chains on the gates, go looking for youth and yesterday
Track Name: the one you never asked to dance
Candy, I'm the one you never asked to dance and my heart is still where you put it, buried back on the top shelf, behind the canned beans and whiskey bottles I drank by myself after you told me I stood without chance

Betty, I'm the one you never threw an eye and I'm still laying in pieces scattered over the grounds owned by your father who shot at me when I started to run. I took a bullet for a love that never even begun

Cindy, I'm the one you could never stand, and Sandy, I'm the one who stole your wedding band out of wishes I never should've let myself have
Track Name: shaking the ether
Betty you always write me off as a drone in your distance, some slow choking sound with the best parts missing, a cut-off cord transmission, but honey I'm singing out a heart full of blisters for you

it's just that I've seen one to many hearts get staked on that sawtooth horizon, the one we hung our hate and love on and always seeing them cuts will make you old girl

So now I'm here trying my damndest to shake the ether, trying to amplify the missing of all our bygones and never dared kisses they'll all be heard hollering cross the acres tonight

Cause I've sold some stuff off and hooked us up girl so call the others and get em' down dancing. I got some wine and seven handfuls of that stuff that numbs the rough cuts, so shake it.
Track Name: towrope
Well I got a towrope boy and I'm thinking we should tie the world up at the end of it then we drive down and drown it in the abandoned quarry.
It's just five miles out from here in that pitch black country where stones get thrown at passers and you know I've gone so low and damped down lately and so I've dug out the last change out of my blue jean pocket now, bought us this rope and half a gallon and if she burns or if she sinks now I don't care just as long as we get to end some of what's beating like a nine pound hammer hitting at the insides of me and hollow me out like a vessel that I just got to fill up somehow, with just about anything as far as it's liquid and you know she quit me just like that and all these things just got up and left me and I don't know but something sure deserves a hanging so I got this towrope now and we ought to use it brother, tie up something, do something, hang something. Just anything
Track Name: slow dance for the offbeat
Slow dance motion sets, it's high stakes and all in for the kill cause life's a ready dealt hand and it's on the tables tonight. Everybody's playing it tonight and there's chance in this damp room honey, under these dim lights for you only

There's this one song they'll be playing before we go,
and I was meaning to ask you to take a chance in this damp room honey, under these dim lights with me only
A slow dance for the offbeat and lonely

I've heard it told on the radio, that an arm's just an arm until it's been wrapped around a shoulder so would you please share a dance with this low boy, a slow dance for the offbeat and lonely cause there's chance in this damp room honey,under these dim lights for you and me only
Track Name: sell it all
I got a homestead on the family farm and a duct-taped, spare part heap of a car. I've come down here boys to sell it all

I don't want your wires and I don't want your talk it's just yack yack yack go break my back. I'm in the dark now and I ain't coming back. If you don't believe me you can count my track

Heads up down at the hardware store where all the young love, knife fights and stray cats go. Here's 22 years cutting against the grain and saturday night's a blow up. No fixed games

So gather up all wrenches and hammers cause this night we're gonna swing at the suckers
Track Name: a girl in the night
Met a braided angel on a roadside ditch saying you young boy I'll go riding with. I guess I lost my head to her once the lights went low, the road ran narrow and her words were slow

I was just about gone and out of sight and she, she was just a girl in the night

We rode along the levee on that two-lane route, switching from small talk on to rythm and brews. She played me a song on a tape she'd made, saying go on Johnny speed and don't be afraid

I was just about gone and out of sight and she, she was just a girl in the night

Well I pulled the throttle and I spun her wild, she just emptied a bottle and said slow down for a while, but I just kept speeding until I knew we'd spin. There ain't a thought that'll help you once your heart caves in.

I was just about gone and out of sight and she, she was just a girl in the night

Hey little low and lonely put a lighter to your sin, if you knock hard on heaven they ought to let you in.
Track Name: the only mod in mantorp
Hey Dana I must've gotten your number wrong cause everytime I call you there's someone crying on the other end of the phone

And Dana I ain't seen you coming down to hustle the vending machine with the local boys on saturday nights back home

They say you drove a bruised up trans-am last time they saw you around. Out by your motorhome you dug up three hundred dollars. Fucked fate and stayed gone

I know you had a lover who beat you to much, he was kind before he picked you up in a pick-up truck and broke that heart of yours.
Track Name: you share men
Got some three or five cases of beer in my plastic bag and babe I'm combed to kill. Gonna slip so easily with the truth tonight, how you share men and I keep to myself

It was all roses then dancing 'neath a lightbulb in your kitchen our lips all purple from the cheapest wine, they're gonna slip so easily with the truth tonight. You share men and I keep to myself

And it was a blood chase, I had my name on yours but I don't no more and all them suckers are gonna know it tonight. I'm gonna slip so easily with the truth tonight. You share men and I keep to myself.
Track Name: all the stayers
I got a right hand swinging strings and a left hand that makes 'em sing but still somehow I'm waist deep in mud and shut out cold

I run myself to ruin on these cold county roads, getting no more real I'm just getting old and still somehow I'm waist deep in mud and shut out cold

And now my feet are sinking and sinking and sinking in my step and honey I'm no better than dust at my best

Well you know that stayers got the saddest brow, they're still somehow waist deep in mud and shut out cold
and there's killing being done tonight, 'neath the ripe night sky of us still somehow waist deep in mud and shut out cold

and now my feet are sinking and sinking and sinking in my step and honey I'm no better than dust at my best.
Track Name: the rapture
I saw God in a headlight beam on a saturday night shred the holy night sky and I've seen all the young lovers drown eachother in that black drainage ditch all over and over but tonight's a full rapture shaking the ground, as hard hearts drive slow on searching for where love hangs around

And I'll be in the backseat livid, all dying to meet her
and I'll be on the downside straying cause tonight I got to be where hearts clash like thunder and kill the lights tonight

My dear Betty I've got knives growing out of me like thorns and I'm waste so quit clutching to me while you still got good years left in store but hey tonight's a real rapture shaking the ground so search the floorboards and your heart to see if love can still be found

And I'll be in the backseat livid, all dying to meet you
and I'll be on the downside straying cause you know I got to be where hearts clash like thunder and kill the lights tonight
Track Name: carrier
I'm a carrier of millstones weight of trouble
A brokenhearted boy's love and messed up rubble
I threw all I had down the wishingwell

I wear my heart on the outside of my best shirt,
So you can tell my aim and run down and tell her
that I threw all I had down a rusty drain
I threw all I had into what I thought was a wishing well. but I just got ripped off by a tried out tale
You can tell her that if you catch her. I want no other

I'm a carrier of ten times rundown heartaches
I'm half a leaver and half a lover and a little bit eager
and I threw all I had down the wishingwell

I'm carrier of dreams that died in fire
When I said baby go, love don't stick around downers
So I threw all I had down a rusty drain, threw all I had down what I thought was a wishingwell
But I got ripped off by a tried out tale
You can tell her that when you see her
I want no other
Track Name: our love & your car
If I wasn't so shy I'd show you the night stop with them pretty lights and oh I loved you when you danced last night
I just hope you did not figure out that it was me standing outside your house, all the best of tuesday night
throwing rocks at your door, screaming at your son that he was a whore, I know I said I wouldn't drink that stuff anymore

How come you ever saw a lover in me I don't even make up for a shadow of what you dream. I wish you'd never want to see me again. And you know how a place like this talks, it grinds good boys down like they're a piece of chalk, and what if they'd catch me now as I'm stealing your car

There was something that knocked me up just when I came to where the state highway ends. That's where I tumbled then it all got dark again.
Track Name: I ain't rough (Baby I'm steady)
Well I don't talk tough. I ain't been around that much.
I just keep coming around now to tell you that I'm playing for keeps. I ain't rough, baby I'm steady.