You & Me & Hell

Ramona Silver

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An off-kilter cluster of sweet and sour voices on the propulsive chorus of "Adapter," the first track on her promising, rough-hewn debut.

A seemingly endless collection of infectiously edgy, smart-ass tunes.

Powerful without the riot grrrl trappings or banshee wailings...the more you listen, the more you like.

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YOU & ME & HELL: TRACKLIST, CREDITS & LYRICS

TRACKLIST

  1. Adapter
  2. You & Me & Hell
  3. Tour Trauma
  4. Loner
  5. Jelly
  6. Simple Lie
  7. Medicine Man
  8. Tailpipe
  9. T.V. & J. Salvi
  10. Deranged
  11. Peace Sister
  12. Invitation to Your Ball (Shower Song)
  13. Wonder Woman
  14. 2x4

CREDITS

vocals, guitar, piano, organ - ramona silver.    guitar, slide and recorder loop and other crazy sounds - dan hallas.   bass, percussion - stephen flynn.  drums, percussion - jim weston.  produced by dan hallas and ramona silver.  executive producer - dan russell.   recorded and mixed by dan hallas at dls mobile in the jobarn, rockland, ma, 7/21-8/12/95.   second engineer - darron burke.  executive producers - chuck long, harold hallas and burke thomas.  mastered at mortal sound, charlestown, ma.  art design and layout by dan hallas and ramona silver.  photos by suzanne weston.  mr. orange's makeup by stephen flynn.   all songs written by ramona silver, copyright 1995, Tootsie Music and Recon Music/ASCAP, all rights reserved.    [Originally released on Fingerprint Records Inc.].  thanks to my family, friends and fingerprint. 

LYRICS

1. ADAPTER

Every time I sit down to do this I feel a little like I’m operating

Put the plug into the adapter, adapting my world with a little sound

And I finally found your voice

 

It don’t mean a thing without an attitude

Dare me to get up and over, tie your shoes

 

Every time I sit down to do this I feel a little like I’m lying again

Stick my head into somebody else’s, adapting my world with a little smile

And I finally found a voice

 

It don’t mean a thing, no it don’t mean a thing without an attitude

Dare me to roll over, tell you why I’m blue

 

See I’ve got this, I know it (know it)

I should be obliged to grow it (grow it)

Walk it around, see how it feels

Make it my own, doo doo doo doo

 

No, no attitude

It don’t mean a thing without an attitude

No, no attitude

Dare me to come over there and try your shoes

 

2. YOU & ME & HELL

Who taught you to hate me

What did their words say?

Can I rearrange them, show you that I can mend?

Rain is blanking out the sky

Locking me inside my eyes

Keeps me in my secrets

Just you & me & hell
 

I threw something at you

You played it like you made it

My boy intercepted, love like oxygen

All the verses in your control

And all the world will never know

You’ve been up inside of me

I can’t break from your hell

 

You drain me from energy

Please break me so I’ll be free

I can’t let my rivers run

My head’s up against the sun

Rain it blankets out the sky

It locks me inside my eyes

Keeps me in my secrets

Just you & me & hell

 

3. TOUR TRAUMA

I visit your garden to be where you’ve been

I hear where you’ve watered, I play and pretend

When I’m alone (with you, with you), when I’m alone (with you)

Do you think of hearing my voice in your head

Imagine I’m lying right there in your bed

When you’re alone (with you, with you), when you’re alone (with you)

 

You have the feelings I do every once and awhile

But you paint the ceilings light blue so I can see for miles

Why the truth comes in lies when you’re alone
 

Sandy man, you little jam, you’re the ram that makes me what I am

Love your tots and tell the truth

Truth in knots I’ll give to you

When we’re alone (with you, with you), when we’re alone (with you)

 

You have the feelings I want even when things aren’t right

But you color my glasses dark blue, turning the day to night

So that we can play amongst the stars

When we’re alone (when we’re alone), when we’re alone (when we’re alone)

 

4. LONER

She sits in parking lots watching the cars past

These lunch breaks are lonely talks with herself

She sleeps in bathroom stalls breathing the tile’s cold

Dreaming of a boy’s smile, feeling dreams getting old

 

It’s a buck and it sucks to need it

It’s a dream, not enough time to feed it

 

Sometimes at lunch she can hear the music play

Or the sweet soul of another birdie who is gay

Then she looks up, paint brushes upside-down

Each girl must dry tears out of her eyes

 

It’s a buck and it sucks to need it

It’s a dream, not enough time to feed it

 

5. JELLY

I’ve got a problem, a great big problem

I think I’ve fallen in love

You did it to me, you always see through me

I can’t say I’ve had enough
 

All the signs are there, jelly in the hair
 

What are you saying, you are always complaining

Still I think your morals are good

I can’t believe it, you’ve not yet received it

Even though you know that you should

 

Inside my small mind is just the waiting kind
 

What’s the use of fear?

It never brings me nearer to the fact of you

The fact of you, defacto

 

6. SIMPLE LIE

There is no simple lie

Either with or without pain

There is no target tide to beat

You’ll always run against the grain

It’s just another form of rain

 

There is no easy tie to me

I’ll lift you up to let you down

But if you stay alive with me

I guarantee I’ll stick around

Maybe wondering when we’ll meet the ground

 

I had this idea I could do something with what I was given

I had this idea but it stayed in my head until I met you and lit it
 

Babe, no, you don’t need to lie to me

We’re born into the same storm

And when you finally lie with me

And feel the weather in our bones

We’ll be on our way back home

 

7. MEDICINE MAN

Can you paint the ball you’re in

Can you purge your soul of sin

Minding all the fluff outside

Making up for it all despite

Seeing you, I can’t explain where it is I jumped this pain

Might I know where you come from

How you managed to burn the sun

Growing up is never easy

Going through a life you’re leaving

 

But I aint your medicine man

No I aint your medicine man
 

What you know and what you don’t

Can’t hurt until it floats

Make your bet, then make your will

Make sure you leave an open windowsill

Can’t help my attitude

Cause I can’t help I feel I loose

When you walk the hallways in your big caboose

When you walk your head into your own damn noose 
 

But I aint your medicine man

No I aint your medicine man
 

You can paint the ball you’re in

I’ve seen you purge

Still mind all the fluff outside

But you can make up for all of it despite

When I am your medicine

No I aint your medicine man

 

8. TAILPIPE

Don’t fix the tailpipe on the car, my love

It won’t get us very far

We’ll need more gas

And brand new brakes, my love

And we will still get where we want

So don’t fix the tailpipe on the car
 

It’s not about all this perfection (all this perfection)

It’s not about all that I want (although I want a lot)

You still can’t see

You rip apart all that I dream and still I fly

 

Don’t do the dishes in the sink, my love

Just let them pile up to the sky

We’ll dance around them

And let them fall and then we’ll eat our food off of the floor

Don’t really matter anymore

 

Sometimes I think you just can’t tell (you just can’t tell)

Probably because I put you through (enormous hell)

Can only say, I love you, hope you love me anyhow and way
 

Don’t fix that damn tailpipe, my love

Can only say so many times

It’s just a fake

We’ll new brakes, my love

And still the same, get where we want

So don’t fix the tailpipe on the car

 

9. T.V. & J. SALVI

I don’t mind if I don’t understand

There’s something bout little girls

I could find it if I had a map through bountiful world of curls

Inside them I live all that I can

Something bout the way they purr
 

Keep it even in my head

Polish up all my shoes and make it a tap dance

Wonder what she would look like

It won’t matter, there’s beauty, beauty by nightlight

 

I don’t mind if I don’t understand

There’s something bout little girls

Throw a rock if you can’t feel the breeze

Makes me want to jump off

 

You can find it in my world

Senses waiting for saviors from overload

And I can find it in my world

Senseless murder and babies

Satans in plaid shirts
 

I don’t mind if I don’t understand 

There’s something bout those girls

I’d be fine if I just had a map

Something bout this world
 

Wake up, you’re in a nightmare

You’re just watching the TV, feed you and feed

Wake up, you need a nightcap

Sink some poison and that’ll, that’ll be that

 

10. DERANGED

I, I had it made while I was still a boy

You, you played with shame when I became your toy

Although I’ll fight it, it is on a broken back


You, I think it’s funny you have not changed

You, I think of you and I think deranged

Inside this smallness I can find my own big bomb

Although you think I sold it, it’s in my back yard

 

You, I think it’s funny you have not changed

You, I sit and stare and still you’re deranged

I’d send a rocket but it’d leave us both behind

I might pretend that I’m alright but you’re just blind

 

11. PEACE SISTER

We haven’t seen the sun so long braid this beautiful backyard of ours

We haven’t felt the warmth of clouds as they make you run to each other’s arms

We only feel our weathered walls through it all, yeah

Through it all
 

Quiet it may seem to be in the eyes that gaze from below

But the hell is rumbling underneath all these plans that we’ll never know

Cause it seems your heart is letting go of all you know, yeah

All you know

 

12. INVITATION TO YOUR BALL

I can see mountains and I can see vales

Given the measure of your skies

I can tell lies, yes baby, I can tell tales

All this so soon you’ll realize

 

But you haven’t got a chance if you aint learned how to dance

And you haven’t got a chance if you haven’t been to France

No you haven’t got a chance if you’ve got no invitation to the ball
 

You think you’re tiny but I think you’re tall

All in the size of your eyes

We could mountains or we could do falls

Either way we’re bound to fly

 

And you have got a chance cause I’ve learned to see you dance

And you have got a chance cause you make up your own France

And you have got a chance cause you gave me an invitation to your ball
 

I wanna be

I wanna see

I wanna be

I see all

I wanna be

I see all

I, I plan to know all you’ll be

 

13. WONDER WOMAN

You might think I’m game staring the way I do at your goods

I just can’t get over, perfection’s got you covered from your head to your hooves

I lean on charm and hope the ride will take me to such truth

Then I wake to scars and all the things that keep me writing my book

Still I want…
 

I, I want wonder woman each and every working day

I forget wonder woman is hiding in the quietest place
 

My mother’s a horse girl farming her days with the strength of the past

She eases my load whenever I need and never keeps track

She could be...

 

She could be wonder woman if she chose to feel that way

I wonder how wonder woman gets the nerve to dress every day

 

She could be, I could be a lovely wonder woman 

Each and every working day

I forget wonder woman is hiding in the quietest place

 

14. 2 x 4
 

There is a piece of you in me, I find it will not cease to be

I can’t erase the trace you’ve laid across my heart

 

Though I have moved from first square

I can get stuck, I can’t be there

Though I am proud enough to say I’ve seen new days

 

I wear a cloak of decency when I choose, if I choose to please

You won’t be hearing from the likes of these if it means play

 

And when I’m up and on the mend

And you are down and not my friend

You will notice that my face will bend to the sky

 

You had me made

You wrapped my soul up in some cellophane

Now you keep me bouncing on a 2x4
 

There is a piece of you in me

I find it will not cease to be

I won’t erase the trace you’ve laid across my heart
 

You had me made

You wrapped my soul up in some cellophane

Now you keep me bouncing on a 2x4