DOGS FOR BONES

Written by Marco Andrea Carnelli except “moon” and “fright light” by Davide Peri

Played by the Mama Bluegrass Band:

Marco Castelli
drums and percussion
organ on “first for money”
backing vocals on “the legendary robbery…”

Lorenzo Marinoni
bass guitar

Davide Peri
elctric, acoustic and classical guitar
vocal and piano on “fright light”

Daniele Borghi
fiddle
flute on “the Acrobat”
djembe on “Moon”

Alberto Santambrogio
banjo
lap steel on “fright light”

Marco Andrea Francis Carnelli
lead and backing vocals
acoustic guitar
percussion

Additional musicians:

Renato Tammi
vocal on “Just for the bombs”
Michele Mastrofilippo
trumpet on “the legendary robbery…”
Cesare Nolli
lead and backing vocals and electric guitar on “a better way”


Recorded between may and december 2015 by:
Andrea Cajelli @ Sauna Recording Studio – Varano Borghi (VA) Davide Peri @ Angelina’s room – Caronno P.lla (VA)
Marco Castelli @ Facaus – Fino Mornasco (CO)
Marco Andrea Carnelli @ The bedroom – Caronno P.lla (VA)
Mix by Andrea Cajelli
Master by Giovanni Versari
Graphic project by Stefano Gulani
Cover photo by Ambrogina Angela Luraschi
Book photo by Riccardo Banfi

Track List (click on title to read Lyrics)

  • God! Hangin’ your self to stop fallin’ on your knees
    Seems just like the only chance, this is where I live
    Old for a new job, too young to have one
    ‘Going ‘round in circles made of hope endin’ up at the daddy’s home

    If you want a home – Son you’ve gotta get a job
    If you’ve got a job – lucky strike, is not enough
    Ordinary sad old story
    Nothing changes while another rope is hangin’ on

    You’re welcome in my hometown hometown
    You’re welcome in my hometown, give it up!
    You’re welcome in my hometown hometown
    People!! welcome in my hometown, give it up!

    Dogs chasing their own tails runnin’ ‘round a hole
    Son, you’ve got to take care, use what you’ve got
    Trust in what you want, stop trustin’ in hope
    Try to do the best ‘cause God surely won’t do the rest

    Roll up Roll up Roll up your sleeves
    Stay hard Stay hard Stand up and live!
    Ordinary sad old story
    Nothing changes while another rope is hangin’ on

    You’re welcome in my hometown hometown
    You’re welcome in my hometown, give it up!
    You’re welcome in my hometown hometown
    People!! welcome in my hometown, give it up!

    Go on and stop walkin’ on your knees

  • I always worked for what I’ve got, ‘cause
    Nothing that I’ve got, fell from clouds and hit the ground
    What is bitter is never sweet, what is hard is never easy
    Beware of what you’re looking for ‘cause maybe you could find it
    I grew up with my daddy’s laws and
    I felt ev’ry hit ev’rytime I moved the jaw
    When the truth is really near, going wrong is really easy
    You’d better think again about the things you’re looking for, boy

    What you looking for?
    What you looking for?
    What are you looking for?
    You’d better think again about the things you’re looking for, boy

    Drop by drop wears away a stone, but
    The wishes in the tears die between the skin and the bones, so
    You’d better take it easy, even if you’re going crazy
    And stop thinking about the things you had, ‘cause now are gone, boy
    Out of the frying pan, into the fire
    Losing your way as you go becoming liar
    Rub your hands to feel the heat just like an old freak
    And try to find your way back, just to keep calm and carry on, boy

    What you looking for?
    What you looking for?
    What are you looking for?
    You’d better think again about the things you’re looking for, boy

  • I work all day from Monday ‘till Saturday night
    I spent all my money on a house and on a wife, but
    Times become hard and I start to fall, at
    Rock bottom now but I’m still walking the line

    My father worked to change the way of livin’
    My mother lived to give me ev’rything I need
    I live in a worse world, but I believe
    Hard times have come, but they’re not harder than me
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way

    If one thing can go bad, it will soon
    If you’re middle class, you will be poor but
    The rich will die rich, so far from here
    Just to survive I learned to walk on the knees
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way

    Hope will be old enough, to die so young
    Armies of honest men will march under the gun
    But everyone deserve what they sown
    A song will never change the world but maybe I’m wrong
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way

    Millions of promises, I don’t care, ‘cause
    Made by the faces that waste trust and time, so
    Leave me right here on the edge of breath
    Can you see me? Look at your self, you’re like a breeze
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way
    ‘Cause I can’t stop thinkin’, thinkin’ ‘bout a better way

  • Walking to the airport, tied up like a dog with his bone
    Lost in my headphones, world you’ve got to knock again at my door
    Last night it was early, early to say all the things that I feel
    Now that I’m worried, ev’rything’s becoming a real thrill

    Looking for the back door, just to become a forgotten thing
    This is not a joke son, time is right and the skin is thin
    Smiling on the doorstep, hiding all the fear that I feel
    I will not forget, dear, even if I’m here

    Go on, and please don’t look back, boy
    Go on, and run against the wind, boy
    Like a cloud covering the sun
    Like the sun after a storm

    Go on, and please don’t look back, boy

    When the lights go out, what remains is sweat and rotten strings
    Use what you’ve got, keep on tryin’ ‘till it becomes real
    What happens now? Wishes and fears are crawling ‘round my feet
    Goodbye and good luck, even if I’m here

    Go on, and please don’t look back, boy
    Go on, and run against the wind, boy
    Like a cloud covering the sun
    Like the sun after a storm

    Go on, and please don’t look back, boy

  • Roots like chains are tightening my ankles
    The daily burden is weighting down on ev’ry step
    A cold case called “searching for solution”
    Selling not saving skin come first of all
    I’ve got no ace to be a gambler
    Even if ev’ry end of the month seems like a bet
    Leave hope at the door when you come in
    Leave hope and start to believe in your self

    But don’t forget that a bad penny is always turnin’ up
    God gives, God takes away chances. Good luck!

    There’s no consolation prize for the second places
    Don’t wait for God to give daily bread
    Don’t put your hands up, ev’rything’s a legal stealing
    First will be first, while the last is next to the death
    There’s no more teeth to bite the bullet

    Unchained dogs folk controlled by pigs
    There’s no more teeth to bite the bullet
    Think about your self in this bottomless pit

    But don’t forget that a bad penny is always turnin’ up
    God gives, God takes away chances. Good luck!

    Like a chain, I never gave up

  • While he took a glass of wine and three lines of cocaine, he said
    “Ev’ry man for himself and justice for all”
    Then, smoking around the truck he called on the phone and said
    “3 2 1 get ready” and smiled at the dawn
    Spikes sown on the highway, for miles like prayers
    Machine guns on the back seats, the sun was a stone
    Steady hands upon the wheel like crowes on your shoulders
    Sunglasses and fake mustaches as if were a joke

    People though there was a burning wreck on the way but
    The sound of shots in the air, came from the sky
    The highway was a desert but they escaped through the fields ‘cause later
    A thousand cars were in lines on both sides
    They confused heaven with the fire of hell but
    One million a head for fifteen minutes of work
    Was enough to bet their lives full of mistakes and more
    One million a head but just one thriill for each soul

    Hidin’ in the silence of a small town’s blind faces
    Gone in a flash just like the ash in the dust
    “What they did was unbelievable” wrote the newspapers
    ‘Cause there was no trace, the police chase ended in a cloud
    But from that cloud a drop came down one year later
    And drop by drop became a storm a few months ago
    A phone call and a glass of wine were what betrayed them
    Sunglasses and fake mustaches were not enough

    While he took a glass of wine and three lines of cocaine, he said
    “Ev’ry man for himself and justice for all”

    Now there’s so much time to think alone in a cell block
    One million a head and twenty years to grow old

  • Chewing the days spitting the essence
    ‘Cause its aftertaste is bitter, ain’t got no sense
    Often kickass, so much assholes
    One more, one less
    Do you think anything changes?

    Ev’rytime I run so fast
    Ev’rytime I find someone faster than me
    First the legs, second the class
    Once third, once fourth
    Do you think anything changes?

    Pissed off, but this is me, it’s a fact
    Without the courage and the ground beneath the feet again
    Paid with dissatisfaction cash
    To know what’s good or what’s bad
    Do you think anything changes?

    There’s no chance to have a break
    On a plane in flight but with nowhere to land
    The point of no return has passed
    By how much? Come to the crunch!
    Well do you really…think?
    ..do you really..
    ..do you really..
    Do you think anything changes?

  • Back into the time I can bring you to the Moon
    All of your past, it is true
    Life is now a miracle, sleep, you’re just dreaming all the time
    If You try
    See the moon

    There’s nothing like black night when your eyes had seen the moon,
    Keep in mind the icecream in june
    There was a time when we were here, me, you, the circle of your smile
    Breaking time
    See the moon

    Your time is gone with you and we never went on moon,
    Neil Armstrong said “my darling see you soon”
    Sometimes we see the light of stars already dead cause we are far apart
    But we don’t cry
    We see the moon

  • One thing, you got me, but don’t think that I’m here for free
    ‘Cause ev’ry dog’s looking for bones, like ev’ry rose has its thorn
    What are you telling me? I understand only one thing
    Life is like a taxi’s ride, if you don’t drive you pay the price
    So? Are you kidding me? You talk about love, I look for fee
    Conseguence of heart on strike, tired to wait for better times
    So
    One, two, one two three, the first for money, the next for me

    Chain game without blame,
    I’m loosing time, you’re loosing shame
    Looking for a place to stand, falling like a dead hand
    What a funny thing, now you don’t care, don’t care about me
    Fallen like a shooting star, chewed like a bubble-gum

    So, do you wanna do? You look for something called excuse
    I’m hard to please or satisfy, come on, you got it, don’t deny
    So
    One, two, one two three, the first for money, the next for me

  • The bell rings in the corridor but I’m awake
    Food on the dirty floor, I threw it away
    Lunch is like dinner if you are on strike
    Strip search, no boss chair, peace is hard to find Few words, what really scares them is my mind

    Walking through the doors, passing through the blocks Moving like an alien, just like a ghost
    Askin’ if is this the place where I was born
    No flags for Country, flags just for the bombs

    No flags for Country, flags just for the bombs

    Is there an answer to this anger? Is there an answer to this anger?

    Eye for an eye, right or wrong it’s the law Walls to remember ev’rything but the cause Killers like saints in the name of what?
    No flags for Country, flags just for the bombs No flags for Country, flags just for the bombs

    Is there an answer to this anger? Is there an answer to this anger?

  • You’re walking above an iced river
    Everything gets its way
    I’m thinking about an ancient river
    It flows right down the stairs
    With all my stories and pains

    New time is fright light
    The old is on your face
    New time is bright light
    Whenever time is getting your brace
    Whenever time is getting my brace

    Look at me, tell me what you feel
    You’ll replace it with another lie
    I look at you, I don’t accept your truth
    People are staying away from their fears
    I’ll never see this world through my tears

    New time is fright light
    The old is on my face
    New time is bright light
    Whenever time is getting my brace
    When everything is getting its place

    I’m back from Ade
    Now I know my name
    But you are died and I am a cat
    I turned around and
    I looked at your face
    I didn’t come to take you back home
    Was looking for a part that has gone

    New time is fright light
    But now I know my name
    New time is bright light
    Whenever I remember my name
    Whenever love is getting my brace

    Whenever you remember my name.

  • I’m climbing higher and higher
    Burning like the fire
    Walking on a line so thin, there’s no time to feel afraid
    I’m climbing higher and higher

    Don’t look down, carry on and try to walk on by
    I see you say goodbye and smile
    I need to steal your breath away, ‘cause I lost mine
    And I watch my step, waiting to fly,
    Back and forth to the other side

    Look up, you’ll find me walking up there in the sky

    No jokes, no trick, above the lies
    No matter what, I ain’t got no choice, just stay alive

    And I watch my step, no turning back
    And I keep raising up the line

    No chance to loose control ‘cause slipping seems like dying

    Once again I will walk the sky
    A constatnt thrill by day, another thrill by night
    And I watch my step, walking the line
    Back and forth ‘till a better time
    And I watch my step, raising up the line
    Back and forth ‘till a better time
    And I watch my step, above the lies
    Back and forth ‘till a better life

  • Once again late in the morning
    seems like kicking the luck to have a job
    But work to eat unsatisfaction
    ev’ryday seems like another fall
    So drop by drop and day by day
    How long is the way to reach the top?
    And ev’ryday youl’d leave the place
    but ev’rytime there’s something to hold on

    So looking for a good reaction
    And hope to taste a glad sensation’s hard
    You’re moving ‘round with no direction
    and ev’ry destination seems so far
    But since the day we’re born we’re grown
    With sense of hunger and with someone to love
    So ev’ryday we find the way
    To bring back home head, heart and rotten bones

    When ev’rything’s blue
    Don’t let no one bring you down

    I try to change but new direction
    Sometimes seems so wrong just like the old
    So I pass the days and I’m getting older
    Looking for someone or something more
    And what I find are just some questions
    With no answer and no solution at all
    And what remain in this situation
    Is to keep on fighting and carry on

    When ev’rything’s blue
    Don’t let no one bring you down
    Don’t let no one bring you down
    Don’t ask me ‘cause I don’t know how but
    Don’t let no one bring you down

    Another shot past’s coming back
    Another drink the things I left are ghosts
    And all the times I didn’t though
    About the things I never done seems gone
    But in this morning in my car
    Those things that seemed so far are back like a dog
    Today I will be late again
    Sometimes is hard to be a dog for bones