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Tonight

by Pure Nonsense

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1.
Fire 02:34
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I've made peace with all the gods Tore my heart out, burned it up Amplified forgotten cries And lit the fire in your eyes Cut the lights and start the show Spark the fuse, strap in tight to hell we'll go I am the king of all that is obscene of disenfranchised lives and broken dreams Tonight I am gonna to make a scene And set fire to all the modern machines I am ready to make my stand To hold the ashes in my hands To free the people from their hell of kneeling before, the gods and kings and their own damn selves Rise my army of disarray Light your fires, we're gonna slay dragons on this day Chorus Don't stop, to the limit rectify, don't forgive it outcry, things are changing We're history rearranging Tonight I won't stand by, deny Line up, hold tight, green light, black knights
2.
Something to Lose 04:01
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I am scared Unrehearsed and unprepared I've got a fire in my heart and my legs feel like they're made of stone Wait a beat Than I'll get to my feet Yea I'll stop and I'll stop and I'll stop and I'll stop than let's go please And I breath And I fall to my knees And I pray to whatever above will head to my pleas I'll take a chance do a modern rain dance than I'll walk and I'll jump and I'll run than I'll stroll my way home All at once it occurs to me that I'm pretty bad at everything I shut my eyes, take a deep breath and slowly realize I've got something to lose..TONIGHT What it takes I'll do what it takes Be it hard, be it wrong, be it pain that leads to heartbreak In my hands I've got it all in my hands got a head full of noise and of weight and a million demands free Oh mistakes I've made a million mistakes I've got lost, I got proud I've had gold and I've thrown it away I'll take a stand be an army of man hellbent on a mission to swim through all the quicksand All at once it occurs to me that I'm pretty bad at everything I shut my eyes, take a deep breath and finally realize I've got something to lose..TONIGHT I am lost, I am scared, I am underprepared I am slow I am cold I am going nowhere Take a chance, take a stand, be an army of man make it good, make it right, I've got something to loose tonight
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Trouble 04:22
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I keep forgetting to remind myself to breathe Everything is getting harder than it's supposed to be I keep hearing that I'm hard to be around Just a king burning down his own ghost towns I've got a head floating out into space Bright lights keep me from staying in place I keep setting fires to keep others at bay now there's not any bridges left to carry me away Trouble on the outside, I'm falling in love alone tonight I blame my head, I blame my heart, I blame my pride Never's a promise and you promised to never say goodbye Now I'm all used up just feeling like I've died, alive I keep trying to make myself a name just desperate children playing grown up games I try everything to make myself a man It's so much harder than I've been led to understand I keep running when it's better to stay Everything broken comes down someday Just another recovery stage on the dead end road of middle age Trouble on the outside, I'm falling in love alone tonight I blame my head, I blame my heart, I blame my pride Never's a promise and you promised to never say goodbye Now I'm all used up just feeling like I've died, alive Breath out Breath in Fall Down Get up again Reach out Hold tight Bring on Bright Lights I can't Abide this heart of mine It breaks to hard to long Tonight Trouble on the outside, I'm falling in love alone tonight I blame my head, I blame my heart, I blame my pride Never's a promise and you promised to never say goodbye Now I'm all used up just feeling like I've died, alive I'm alive Tonight Alive Tonight
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Old Soul 04:12
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I WAS RAISED ON BLOODY NOSES AND SKINNED KNEES FROM GOD KNOWS WHAT, FREEDOM TOOK THE FORM OF A ONE SPEED BIKE WHERE THE CLOCKS WERE STREETLIGHTS AND FATHER WAS RIGHT, YOU NEVER START ONE BUT YOU BEST DAMN FINISH A FIGHT ALL MY FRIENDS HAD DIFFERENT NAMES BUT WE WERE FAMILY JUST THE SAME A BUNCH OF FOOLISH KIDS ALWAYS WOUND TOO TIGHT WE ALL DROVE TOO FAST IN CARS, AND SPENT OUR FORTUNES ON GUITARS WE KNOW THE BETTER TIME THE SEEDIER THE BAR PLAYING OUR FOLK SONGS WITH LOUD GUITARS AND I COULD BE SOMETHING BETTER AND I COULD TRY A LITTLE MORE TO LEARN ALL THE NEW SONGS, RIGHT ALL THE NEW WRONGS BUT I KNOW, I'LL ALWAYS BE AN OLD SOUL SEEMS LIKE IGNORANCE IS STRONG AND IRONY IS GONE PLAYING SOUTHEASTERN ON MY LIQUOR RUN AND WHEN THINGS ARE WORTH THE FIGHT, WE SHOUT “LETS FILL THE STREETS TONIGHT” WE KNOW IT'S EASIER TO MAKE THINGS WRONG THAN RIGHT I MISS ROCK AND ROLL, WHEN DID MUSIC LOOSE IT'S SOUL KIDS ARE PLAYING COMPUTERS INSTEAD OF GUITAR SOLOS SO I'LL WRITE ANOTHER LINE BEFORE IT'S QUITTING TIME I SAY THE BETTER TIME THE SEADIER THE BAR PLAYING OUR FOLK SONGS WITH LOUD GUITARS AND I COULD BE SOMETHING BETTER AND I COULD TRY A LITTLE MORE TO LEARN ALL THE NEW SONGS, RIGHT ALL THE NEW WRONGS BUT I KNOW, I'LL ALWAYS BE AN OLD SOUL NONE OF OUR HEROS WOULD CALL THEMSELVES STARS WE WRITE ALL THE BEST SONGS ON BEAT UP GUITARS WE'VE GOT DIRTY HANDS AND DIRTIER CARS AND SPEND OUR EVENINGS WITH SCOTCH AND CIGARS OUR BACKS ACHE FOR WORKING HARD ALL DAY WE NEVER LISTEN TO WHAT POLITICIANS SAY AND GOD DOESN'T CARE IN WHICH WAY YOU PRAY ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT YOU LIVE THE RIGHT WAY
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Bitter Ends 03:06
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Radio play a song for me Sitting here is hard you see I need to break up this air I breathe Starts again with jealousy Same old game again you see Playing out in misery And this could get really bad With these two best friends I have Gasoline and cigarettes When everything’s gone too far We don't remember who we are And who we were before the more and more and more And we're breaking up again, breaking all the rules we bend living our lives through bitter ends And I think that this is killing me, you're making a mess of me You're the very worst part of me Yea, she's gonna make a stand say it's time to quit the band tell me none of my friends are right and you're not going out tonight so sit on down and talk to me this is the best your gonna be I'm ready for the fight This is my town now, tonight I'm gonna make my stand Alcohol can make a man A giant with a masterplan And now we start again We take the gloves off to begin Come on down for one last round and I'm gonna win
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Spaceman 04:39
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Broken hearted, looking up at the stars Shimmering so far away I just can’t stay here alone Underneath their glow I’ve got my helmet on I’ve got helm control Uncharted destinations and nowhere else to go Spaceman take flight Blasting off tonight To a city of blinding lights (so far away) Spaceman take flight At the speed of light For a chance to make things right Climbing higher, 15 stages of love Fall and burn away so brightly It’s all behind me now It’s one hell of a show I’ve got my helmet on I’ve got helm control Uncharted destinations and nowhere else to go Spaceman take flight Blasting off tonight To a city of blinding lights (so far away) Spaceman take flight At the speed of light For a chance to make things right (SOLO) Flying Higher, rockets fire Interstellar traveler Just a stranger, no intelligent life Greets me where I waste away Through time and space alone Into the unknown I’ve got my helmet on I’ve got helm control Uncharted destinations and nowhere else to go Spaceman take flight Blasting off tonight To a city of blinding lights (so far away) Spaceman take flight At the speed of light For a chance to make things right
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Sarah 04:22
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Another night living on the corner of the bed Screaming at the silence in your head Bathing in the tears falling from your eyes That comes from telling the world ‘say goodbye’ And the newsreels on the TV hum along Telling another story of love gone wrong It’s in that brief moment that you sigh And look down at your diary and write Why do we do the thing we do And go through all the shit that we go through And why must every single night Become another tragedy, another drawn out fight Well you run from all your headaches And ya hide from all your fears You must be living in tomorrow Cause your never quite right here Goodnight, goodnight The songs about tomorrow are never right Goodnight, so go do what you want to with your life Tonight, tonight is the night to say Sarah, everything is gonna be alright I know what’s wrong so tell me what is right I need more than a simple goodnight. Cause you don’t understand the pain I feel You don’t understand what is real Pre-chorus Well you think about your reasons That never are quite clear And you keep saying that you’re leaving But you’re still grounded here Chorus Chorus
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Someday 03:51
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A bit too hard to take me Much too hard to break me I think it's time we burn the bridges to the ground Maybe someday I'll find out you're wrong But it's not time for that song Tonight is just about saying goodbye So goodbye Someday when the smoke clears You'll see the world you left behind Someday when it all comes down You'll wish you never crossed that line So turn around and face me Did you think that you could change me Did you think that I was that weak all along Maybe someday I'll find out you're right But I don't think it's worth the time To search for something that was never there Never there Someday when the smoke clears You'll see the world you left behind Someday when it all comes down You'll wish you never crossed that line And as you watch me walk away Knowing that there's nothing left to say Don't you cry Cause the last thing that I need to see Is more of you're false sympathy So let this die And knowing for the first time That this will be the last time I have to lie and say that it's all right When it's not all right Someday when the smoke clears You'll see the world you left behind Someday when it all comes down You'll wish you never crossed that line
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Tonight 03:20
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Tonight This is a call to action We can’t sit along the sidelines anymore After watching all the fall out From a modern-day disease As the Crippled Nation News plays on repeat Well they keep us in the dark Someone has to light the spark For the future generations, hear the call It’s time for a correction Point me in the right direction Either turn this thing around Or else we’ll burn it to the ground tonight Tonight Disregard misinformation Sick of losing, Sick of winning so let’s fight Well we’re taking back control and I might not make it home I’ll to anything I can to make it right Can’t you see the storm is coming No more hiding and no more running I’ve had all that I can take I can’t sit this one out there’s too damn much at stake
10.
Innocent Man 03:02
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ANOTHER NIGHT UNDER BLOOD RED SKY ANOTHER FIGHT IF WE WIN THIS ANOTHER SCENE, ANOTHER HOPELESS DREAM JUST HOPING SOMEONE WILL FEEL THIS SCREAMING OUT AT THE TOP OF OUR LUNGS SCREAMING OUT AT THE DISTANCE SCREAMING OUT TO EVERYONE JUST HOPING SOMEONE WILL FEEL THIS WE'LL BE SCREAMING OUT TONIGHT SCREAMING FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES STAND UP, STAND UP STAND UP FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN SCREAM OUT, SCREAM OUT SCREAM OUT WHAT YOU ARE FEELING ANOTHER NIGHT TO BE LIVING OUR LIVES ANOTHER NIGHT TO GIVE IN AND HOLD ON TO WHAT YOU LOVE HOLD ON TO YOUR REASONS WE'LL BE SCREAMING OUT TONIGHT SCREAMING FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES SOMETIMES IT TAKES OUR WHOLE LIVES TO FIND SOMETHING TO BELIVE IN I WONDER EVERY NIGHTW WHY WE KILL, WHY WE KILL, WE KILL THE INNOCENT MAN WHY WE KILL, WHY WE KILL, KILL THE INNOCENT MAN
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She Wanted Cowboys 03:43
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She said it's raining again this morning Seems like every day it's pouring Hard for the sun to shine when it's stroming You see we fall apart in stages Each piece we give they age us Till there's nothing left to save us She's standing on the ledge Inching closer to the edge She needs careful hands to hold her She says it feels right when things to wrong Maybe a mess is where I belong She only ever liked the sad songs She used to live upon the stage a beauty of her age Now at the edge of 33 All that's left is “what used to be” In the valley of the fallen stars It's not who you were but who you are With all that's come before She doesn't believe in hero's anymore She only dated schoolboys She wanted cowboys Throughbreads for tomboys And like horses, life it broke us We started to loose focus And everything seems so hopeless She keeps reaching for the stars But the always seem too far And they burn too bright It's hard to put up a fight With a battered broken heart tonight She took the midnight train from the station Going somewhere southern bound She's going to make some new connections She's going to make her family proud
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Best of Everything 03:39
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15 minutes on the midnight train out of motown For 15 years I've been waiting for the trip that I'm on now Sometimes it takes a little longer, to get a little farther from where you've been to start again...and again Hearts bloom in autumn rains And I hope mine will do the same I'll mark each careful step along the way And make each day a brand new day I've got stars in my eyes now they wash away everything I've seen I've got hopes and dreams again, a chance, a place to start again Tonight, I'm gonne live for me, the best of everything I have used up all my chances had my share of bad romances I've done things that we don't talk about Medicate it out So I'm going to shoot for a change While my heart is still in range Show this town what I am all about Shoot it out I am loaded locked and ready Something to lose but I hold steady Just hold your breath and fire clean I'll make a scene, just wait and see Chorus Work, I'll work a little harder and each step takes me a little farther away from everything I'd come to be My cage is open, I am free... solo Chorus Gonna live a fantasy Be in the magazines Biggest you've ever seen

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This is the Great American Rock Album

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released September 17, 2021

Cevenova - Album cover and song covers

Tonight was mixed and mastered by Chris Flores at Sonar House Studios

Pure Nonsense are:

Mark Kowal - Noise

Dick Darling - oh's, la's, and screams

Scott Brooks - Bam! Crash! Thud!

Tonight was produced by Mark Kowal and recorded mostly at his house.

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Pure Nonsense Detroit, Michigan

Pure Nonsense was birthed out of my desire to record and release songs I've written over the last 20+ years which haven't appeared elsewhere. The group is made up of Mark Kowal (songwriter, music) and Dick Darling (Vocals). Scott Brooks assisted with ideas for the programmed drums. We are currently working on the second album (with real drums!) which is going to be awesome. ... more

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