Working the Long Game

Credits and Lyrics

(2018) Spyderpop

Vinyl & CD available via https://billlloydmusic.bandcamp.com/

CREDITS

1. SATELLITE (LLOYD / FREEDY JOHNSTON)

Criag Krampf played drums Dave Pomeroy played bass

Kenny Greenberg on slide guitar Bill : guitars, mandolin, piano, vocals

Doug Kahan recorded overdubs & mixed @ Kow Tai

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Trouble Tree (BMI)

2. WORKING THE LONG GAME (LLOYD / BUDDY MONDLOCK)

Keith Brogdon played drums Mike Vargo played bass

John Deaderick played piano & organ Bill: guitars & vocals

Basic track recorded at Blackbird Studio by Dave Thoener

Jonathan Bright recorded overdubs & mixed @ J.B.’s Shack of Rock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Fire Of Change Music (ASCAP)

3. MAKE THAT FACE (LLOYD)

Bill: drums, bass, guitars, piano, percussion & vocals

Brad Jones played vibes, recorded & mixed @ Alex The Great

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI)

4. WHAT TIME WON’T HEAL (LLOYD / GRAHAM GOULDMAN)

Keith Brogdon played drums Mike Vargo played bass

Pat Buchanan: slide guitar Bill : guitars, mandolin, piano, vocals

Basic track recorded at Blackbird Nashville, TN.

Doug Kahan recorded overdubs & mixed @ Kow Tai

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Union Square Music

Publishing/BMG (BMI)

5. WAKE UP CALL (LLOYD / JAN SCARBOROUGH)

Bill : acoustic guitar, vocal, keyboard strings

Jon Vezner recorded and mixed at Minnesota Man Studio

EMI Blackwood Music Inc./ Okay Then & Bar Jan Songs (BMI)

6. ‘TIL THE DAY THAT I BREAK DOWN (LLOYD/ DAVID SURFACE)

Bill: drums, bass, guitars, mandolin, percussion & vocals

Jonathan Bright recorded and mixed at JB’s Shack of Rock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Angel On My Table (BMI)

7. GO-TO-GIRL (LLOYD/AARON LEE TASJAN)

Martin Lynds: drums Doug Kahan: bass Seth Timbs: piano

Bill: many guitars & vocals Basic tracks recorded at

Blackbird Studio by Jeremy Cottrel

Jonathan Bright: recorded overdubs & mixed at JB’s Shack of Rock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Tasjan Music (ASCAP)

8. YESTERDAY (LLOYD / TOM PETERSSON)

Bill: drums, guitars, percussion & vocals Tom Petersson: bass

Jonathan Bright recorded and mixed at JB’s Shack of Rock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Tom Petersson Music

Administered by Do Write Music (BMI)

9. INTERRUPTED (LLOYD / SCOT SAX)

Bill: drums, bass, guitars & vocals Kevin Boggs: overdubbed drums, 2^nd 12-string electric, tambourine Kevin: recorded and mixed at New Kitchen Asheville, N.C.

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & ScotSaxSongs (ASCAP)

10. MERCH TABLE (LLOYD)

Martin Lynds: drums Doug Kahan: bass

Bill: many guitars & vocals

Basic tracks recorded at Blackbird Studio by Jeremy Cottrel

Jonathan Bright: recorded overdubs & mixed at JB’s Shack of Rock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI)

11. MIRACLE MILE (LLOYD / PAT BUCHANAN)

Bill: drums, guitars, percussion & vocals

Jonathan Bright/Mike Boggs: handclaps

Jonathan Bright recorded and mixed at JB’s Shack of Rock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & PatBMusic (SECAC)

12. SHINING (LLOYD / JOHN PEPPARD)

Bill: drums, guitars, bass, piano, percussion & vocals

Doug Kahan recorded basic tracks @ Kow Tai

Jonathan Bright recorded overdubs and mixed at JB’s Shack of Rock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Jolipep Music admin.

by Rio Bravo Music, Inc. (BMI)

MASTERED by Jim DeMain at Yes Master Nashville, TN.

COVER ART : Dan Zimmer

THANKS to all my talented co-writers and the musicians who helped on this collection.

TO: Jonathan Bright, Doug Kahan, Brad Jones, Kevin Boggs, Jon Vezner, Jeremy Cottrel,

Rolff Zwiep, Dave Thoener, Kevin Becka & Blackbird Academy for making recording such a pleasure

TO: Keith Brogdon, Mike Vargo, Pat Buchanan, Martin Lynds, Jim Hoke, Doug Kahan, Brad Jones, James “Hags” Haggarty, Marc Owens, Byron House and Kyle Frederick for the live gigs. Playing original music in a live setting is still a soul quencher.

TO: Spyderpop for the musical brotherhood.

LYRICS

SATELLITE

CH
Like A Satellite She keeps comin’ round

Comin’ round ..comin’ ‘round..never touching down

Like A Satellite She keeps comin’ round

Comin’ round and around and around

She’s the light that brightens up my day

She passes by and I can’t look away

I’m in her orbit ..drawn into her sway

Here and gone..I can’t get her to stay

CH (repeat)

Like the sun and moon she puts me in a spin

She goes away and comes right back again

I never know where it is she’s been

It’s a game she plays that I can never win

(she’s like a)

CH (repeat-solo)

I’m in a state whenever she arrives

It throws me off , it’s always a surprise

I float away as I look In her eyes

She gets her way..she’s got me hypnotized

CH (repeat) X2

Freedy Johnston / Bill Lloyd

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Trouble Tree (BMI)

WORKING THE LONG GAME

You’re livin’ with your mother A dog, a cat and one-step brother

You won’t take on a lover But you still take my calls

Karioke Wednesdays Sudoku on a Sunday

That’s fine for now but one day I’m comin’ over the wall

CH
I’m Working The Long Game

And I.. I know your sayin’ it ain’t no thing

So I got nothin’ to lose

Now I’m working..I’m Working The Long Game on you

You used to go to night school

You had ambitions for the steno pool

I taught a course in power tools But I was never on staff

We started talking in the parking lot I was thinkin’ you were so hot

You were thinkin’ I was so not But I still made you laugh

CH-REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE

I used to be a little impatient

I had a bad habit of changing the station

But this is not just my imagination..

I’m fallin’ in love

Tonight you’re looking so fine

I’m gonna’ take that as a good sign

But will I ever see the finish line…

CH-REPEAT CHORUS

Bill Lloyd/Buddy Mondlock

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Fire Of Change Music (ASCAP)

MAKE THAT FACE

I hate it when you Make That Face

The kinda’ face that tries to put me in my place

I might have it comin’

but you know I can turn it around

I love it when you catch my drift

Loosen my screws - careen off a cliff

Pick up the pace.. I wanna’ watch you

Make That Face

Scrunching your mouth up

You know just how lucky I am

Narrowing eyes may criticize me

But I get a pass

‘cos you understand me

SOLO

BR2

You scrunch your mouth up

I know just how lucky I am

Although your eyes may criticize me

You give me a pass

‘cos you understand

I love it when you Make That Face

The one that says you’re gonna put me in my place

There’s history we can’t erase

We know we got no time to waste

If I forget we’re in a state of grace

I count on you to Make That Face

Bill Lloyd Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI)

WHAT TIME WON’T HEAL

You lost your friend She took you down

And broke your heart so bad the pieces can’t be found

What Time Won’t Heal - Love will repair

And if you open up your heart you’ll find it there

You should have seen the writing on the wall

The times that you betrayed her but never can recall

Time don’t care The weeks turn into years

So let the light shine in on you before it disappears

Take a stand or you can take your turn

If you can’t find that spark you’re sure to feel

What Time Won’t Heal

She laid you low The world spun on

We all had lives to live but you felt yours was gone

You can wait it out but time’s not your friend

And if you don’t get left behind this might not be the end

Time don’t care The weeks turn into years

So let the light shine in on you before it disappears

Take a stand or you can take your turn

If you can’t find that spark you’re sure to feel

What Time Won’t Heal

(SOLO)

Time don’t care The weeks turn into years

So let the light shine in on you before it disappears

Take a stand or you can take your turn

If you can’t find that spark you’re sure to feel

What Time Won’t Heal

What Time Won’t Heal Love will repair

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Union Square Music

Publishing/BMG (BMI)

WAKE UP CALL

it's 6 a.m. in some hotel

and i'm not sleeping very well

i just keep staring at the wall

waiting on my wake up call

i cannot shake these dreams of you

they followed me into this room

i'd move my bed out in the hall

if it wasn't for my wake up call

sleepwalking through my life

i let the best things pass me by

without a thought

while a voice here inside me's saying

wake up

i did not want this king size bed

but it was all the desk clerk had

it leaves me feeling very small

while i'm waiting on my wake up call

sleepwalking through my life

i let the best things pass me by

without a thought

while a voice that's inside me's saying

wake up

it's 6 a.m. in some hotel

the drapes are drawn, it's just as well

when i lost you..i lost it all

i never heard my wake up call

it's 6 a.m. in some hotel

Bill Lloyd / Jan Scarborough

EMI Blackwood Music Inc./ Okay Then & Bar Jan Songs (BMI)

‘TIL THE DAY THAT I BREAK DOWN

Every day I get in line
start my engine one more time
Take it to the road once more
like I did the day before

I will run a thousand miles
any day to see you smile
Keep these four wheels turning round
‘Til the Day That I Break Down

The spinning earth keeps piling on

The list of things I can’t get done

So I drive to that special place

Salvation in the sweetest face

CH2 (repeat)

The process can be brutal

Sometimes I’m stuck in neutral

But just a smile can throw me into gear

Baby, let’s get out of here

(solo)

CH (repeat chorus)

David Surface/Bill Lloyd

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Angel On My Table (BMI)

GO-TO-GIRL

She’s always been my Go-To Girl

The girl I go to for advice

The girl I go to for the truth

When the truth don’t sound so nice

That easy smile may mask her guile

She never gives nothin’ away

Those pretty eyes turn cold as ice

When anything gets in her way

Shallow talk and empty phrases

Have no place in her world

That’s the reason why I go to my

Go-To Girl

No funny business with my Go-To Girl

She’s here to tell me how it really is

She puts it out there shootin’ from the hip

No need for over-analyzing this

Her voice so calm and cool

Delivering truth that would cripple a fool

Best taken with a hit off a joint

She never fails to get straight to the point

(REPEAT CHORUS )

Bill Lloyd (Fourel Songs adm BMG/Chrysallis) BMI /

Aaron Lee Tasjan Tasjan Music (ASCAP)

YESTERDAY

Wake up Break up Go to fade

Here’s what happened to me

Yesterday

Corn flakes Mistakes Right away

This all happened only

Yesterday

BR #1

One day before What lay in store

Was unforeseen.. But there’s more..

SOLO / INST. BRIDGE #2

BR#2

Here's the world I lived in

I guess I should have slept in

But still I wrote a song called..

Yesterday

High stress Big mess Led astray

I won't miss a day like Yesterday

Show up Blow up Bombs away

It’s not like any other day

Everything got blown away

That's what happened to me Yesterday

Bill Lloyd / Tom Petersson

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Tom Petersson Music

Administered by Do Write Music (BMI)

INTERRUPTED

You sent me an MP3

It came buzzin’ out my phone like a honeybee

Oh yeah.. Interupted

The chorus got cut when the call came in

I never got back to listenin’..oh yeah..

Interrupted

I ain’t got time to think I ain’t got time to speak

If you could send a link I might get back next week

Interrupted Interrupted Interrupted Interrupted

I was talking to you

‘Bout something honest and true

Only every other word ever made it through,

oh yeah.. Interrupted

My heart stopped when the signal dropped

I had the answer but I forgot

Oh yeah, Interrupted

I ain’t got time to think

I ain’t got time to speak

If you could send a link

I’ll get back to you next week

Interrupted Interrupted Interrupted Interrupted

SOLO> REPEAT

CHORUS>OUT

Bill Lloyd/Scot Sax

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & ScotSaxSongs (ASCAP)

MERCH TABLE

You’re asking me, “Why do you still do this?

I thought by now you woulda’ had your fill.”

There’s a thing that happens in the moment

When it’s real

Now’s not the time to talk about tomorrow

There is no promise that I’ll still be here

I just hope there’s someone riding shotgun

When the coast is clear

Meet Me At the Merch Table Tonight

Meet Me At The Merch Table

Meet Me At the Merch Table Tonight

Yeah I remember back when we first met up

We had matching baggage for awhile

I was already in the early stages of my denial

It’s been a decade since you bought new music

You got rid of all your old cd’s

You don’t wanna’ clutter up the house

With new songs like these

Meet Me At the Merch Table Tonight

Meet Me At The Merch Table

Meet Me At the Merch Table Tonight

Bill Lloyd

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI)

MIRACLE MILE

The last time I saw you

You looked brand new

All sequence and see-thru

Throwaway

Our eyes never met then

Never again

You fell off the deep end

Blew away

On the Miracle Mile

The nightlight never stop burning

It keeps you returning back again

to a game you’ll never win

But you’ll go down with style

Out on the Miracle Mile

Your signal got scrambled

took a gamble

You thought you could handle

Everything

Your ground eroded

You’re overloaded

The sugarcoated

melts away

CH (repeat chorus)

Bill Lloyd / Pat Buchanan

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & PatBMusic (SECAC)

SHINING

I keep circling ‘round

To where it was you found me

Lost in my head

Hung by a thread

Of hope that surrounds me

You were like a light

Pushing back the dark side

Sweeping the past

Out with the trash

Making it all right

All turned around and confused

My only constant was you

Like the evening star you are forever

Shining Shining

I’ll always find my way whenever

You are Shining Shining

Shining on me

Looking back I tried

To fill that hole inside me

The ghosts that I chased

Your love was a grace

You never denied me

When I was there all alone

You pointed me home

Repeat Chorus

SOLO

Repeat Chorus

OUT

Bill Lloyd and John Peppard

Fourel Songs admin. BMG/Chrysalis (BMI) & Jolipep Music admin.

by Rio Bravo Music, Inc. (BMI)

Credits and Lyrics

Working the Long Game - 2018

CREDITS

LYRICS