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Nothin' but Bruises

from Surf Mobster by Quico Reed

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Yes, it is TOO LONG. I never intended this to be radio material. I had a different desire: let this song flow like a jam band, and create the sound of what BugTheRoot would sound like LIVE.

Another old song that I wrote back in 2008. The original instrumentation SUCKED, and the performance was terrible. But within all that suckiness was a nugget that I wanted to nurse back to health.
I realized one day that the core of the song was a Samba Rock beat. So I studied the music of Jorge Ben, hired some Brazilian musicians from AirGigs and made it happen.

lyrics

Nothing But Bruises
Original © 2008
New version © BugTheRoot 2019
All words and music by Quico Reed

I tried love it left me in bruises
I'm the kind of guy who usually loses…but I
also get back up on my feet again and then I
Try and try until I finally win
I’ve been shipwrecked before marooned on her shore
Nearly drowned in her breakers and smashed up on her
Then I washed up on the rocks I just lay there in the sun
Convinced that I was better off than where I had begun
Chorus
I tried love it left me nothing but bruises
I'm the kind of guy who always loses…but I
also get back up on my feet again and then
I try and try until I finally win

A minha ilha e um caixao
Com a calma de furacao
Tem sorriso de tuburao
Tudo cheio de traicao


Chorus
I tried love it left me nothing but bruises
I'm the kind of guy who always loses…but I
also get back up on my feet again and then I
Try and try until I finally win


So I spent years and years alone walking circles round the cay
Dancing in the moonlight and sleeping during the day
And then I built myself a raft and pushed it back into the sea
Determined to face the storms that had brutally battered me

Chorus
I tried love it left me nothing but bruises
I'm the kind of guy who always loses…but I
also get back up on my feet again and then I
Try and try until I finally win

I tried love it left me nothing but bruises
I'm the kind of guy who always loses…but I
also get back up on my feet again and then I
Try and try until I finally win

credits

from Surf Mobster, released October 31, 2020
All instruments Quico (USA) except:
Drums; Kim Pereira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Bass: Alex Rocha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

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Quico

BugTheRoot is the creative outlet of Curtis (Quico) Reed, multi-instrumentalist and polyglot whose extensive travels throughout the Americas inspired his diverse approach to music.
BTR mines Brazilian, African, British and American music and blends it into something both traditional and experimental. ... more

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