Something New Under The Son

1981

Published on Bandcamp on June 29, 2021. This is a "copy" of the remastered 2003 CD, with Deep Blue from the 1993 CD added

[US and Canada vinyl]

hard luck bad news

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One, two, one, two, three, four

I've been having some hard times
All my life
I hope things change pretty soon

Hard luck and bad news
Has followed me from town to town
All my life my luck's been down
I'm getting so weary
I don't have one friend
Folks turn their backs when I'm around
And where I walk the grass turns brown
No one will come near me

Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die

My life's been lonely
I've never heard a kindly word
Ugly names is all I've heard
And mean is how they treat me
Nobody trusts me
They blame me for the fires in town
Claim that hell is where I'm bound
And pray that God will speed me

Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die

Woo

Life's not worth living
My sorrow's more than I can say
Tomorrow's just another day
I hate to see the sun rise
Yet maybe someday
I'll find a man to call a friend
I'll be his friend until the end
In loneliness my heart cry

Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die [x2]

feeling so bad

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Well I'm feeling so bad in the middle of love
And it's easy to see that it isn't quite me that you're thinking of
Must be somebody else, but I'm wondering who
I can't seem to recall anybody at all who's in love with you

Every night you'll hear me say what a day

Well I saw you last week, you went out on the sly
You walked into some church, I suspected the worst, bet you met some guy
Then I waited outside, but you came out alone
With a satisfied look and a little black book, then you went straight home

Every night you'll hear me say what a day

Well I got something I wanna say to you
And this is what it is
So listen [Guitar solo]

Well this morning at ten, you invited me in
As you poured me some coffee you told me straight off that you'd found a friend
Well I wasn't surprised, no I wasn't surprised
Cause you look so content baby, I see a different look in your eyes

Every night you'll hear me say what a day [x2]

Aw ah

What a day

i feel like dying

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I feel like dying, I've done all I can
But I lost my woman, she ran off with another man (Aah)
I think I'm dying, I'm feeling such pain (Aah)
My life is trouble and I cannot take the strain (Aah)

Well what am I gonna do about it
What am I gonna do (Aah)
What am I gonna do about it (Aah)
What am I gonna do (Aah)

I feel like dying, I've got nothing to lose (Aah)
I know I need something but I do not need these blues (Aah)
Oh I think I'm dying and this is the end (Aah)
I need an answer, oh I need a friend (Aah)

Well what am I gonna do about it (Aah)
What am I gonna do (Aah)
What am I gonna do about it (Aah)
What am I gonna do (Aah)

I feel like dying (Aah)

born to be unlucky

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Take four instead of take three
And everybody has to stay with ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba [Spoken]

I was born about eighteen years ago in a little wooden shack
I was born about eighteen years ago on the wrong side of the tracks
I never knew my father and I never had a home
Well I don't know where I came from and I don't know where I'm going
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues

When I was just a young boy I was raised on beans and trout
And on my seventh birthday, well my mama she kicked me out
They say I'm good for nothing, no one treats me kind
I don't care 'cause pretty soon I'm gonna leave this world behind
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues

I jumped into the river to try to put myself away
A man jumped in and saved me, he spoiled a perfect day
He dragged me to the river's edge, he said he knew I had a need
Then he pulled out a soggy bible and that man began to read
Well he told me things I did not know, I'm glad I did not die
'Cause he told me God's my father and my real home is in the sky

And I said [Instrumental]

He said I'd done a very foolish thing to try to drown myself and die
And I told him I was glad he happened to be passing by
He said God would forgive me, so I repented of my sin
Then he said I must be baptised and he threw me in again
Aww I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
I thought I must be stuck with these unlucky blues

Aww yeaow

My life has changed in many ways, I'm such a different man
Well I know now who my father is and I know just where I stand
With one foot up in heaven and one foot on the ground
I travel through this world of ours, I try to spread God's word around
I was born to be unlucky, I knowed it, from my shoulders to my shoes
But I came unstuck from my unlucky blues
Yeaow maybe you can too
Alright woo

And this is just the beginning

watch what you're doing

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Mo' guitar [Spoken]

Mmm, mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with his legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
Yeah you gotta watch where you're going
Didn't you know

I knew a girl, sweet as could be
But she fell for a man like a chain sawed tree
She listened to his lies, was fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
You gotta watch what you're doing
You oughta know that
You gotta watch out
Watch out

Well everything's fine till things get bad
Then you sit around thinking 'bout the good times you had
But it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You better watch what you're doing
Ah don't you know
You oughta know where you're going
Do you know

Some folks smile, they seem alright
Then you later find out it was an angel of light
Try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess your mind
You gotta watch who you know yeah

Some folks say that the good Lord's dead
That he doesn't exist 'cept inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the skies

You gotta watch what you're doing
Don't you know
'Cause he does yeah
You know he watches what you're doing
Yes he does
You better know where you're going (Ooh ooh)
Yeah yeah yeaow (Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)

Well well well hutz sut sut
Well well well hutz hutz a mutza

C'mon pilgrim, you know he loves you
He loves you more than he loves this cloven earth
Don't make your life bad and start acting like an idiot

leaving the past behind

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I'm putting on my walking shoes, please help me find my hat
It's time that I was leaving, got no time for looking back
I'm going away, yeah feeling fine, wo-oh
When it's time to go you've got to leave the past behind

When I look out through my window, it's as dark as it could be
But I know the son is coming to wake the world from sleep
I'm going away, going away, feeling fine woah wo-oh
And when you follow where he leads
You've got to leave the past behind

Man is born in trouble, everybody got the blues
People looking for an answer, people wishing for good news
So if you got the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must tell them what you know and you must live a life that's true

Wo-hoo

Aoww man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People praying for an answer, people hoping for good news
So if you know the answer there is one thing you must do
You must walk, you must talk, you must hurry up to beat the clock
You must tell them to get ready so they can leave the past behind

Well my circle is completed, I've got to travel on
So if you understand, don't talk about me when I'm gone
I'm going away (going away)
I'm going away (going away)
I'm feeling fine, 89 is really 99
I'm going away, going away, going away
Island in the sky is number nine

I'm going away, going away, going away
I'm feeling fine
Well it's a good good feeling when you leave the past behind
Yeah I've got to start another circle, got to leave the past behind

Wo-ooh

I'm going away, you won't see me for a while
I gotta do some things, I got to walk an extra mile
But I'll see you in the city of the lost angel

put your life into his hands

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Aow put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Just put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
He's the rock of ages
He's the sage of sages
He's the key to the promised land
So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

I was blind but now I've learned to see
I was trapped but now I've been set free, ah-oh-ho
I was lost and alone, so far from home, I was losing sight of me
But now I'm warm and safe as I can be

So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
You have heard the wondrous story (Oh oh-ah)
Now go and tell it 'cross the land (Oh ah ah ah)
Tell 'em, put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

Oh yeh right, I don't really have a verse to go here
So I'll just let the band play it one time
Play it Jonny, play it boys
Yeah that's nice

Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (In his hands) (Oh yeah)
He's the rock of ages
He's the sage of sages
He's the key to the promised land
So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

Just put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (Put your life in Jesus' hands) (In Jesus' hands)
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (Put your life in Jesus' hands)
Well Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away
I'm gonna play in his heavenly band (La la la la la la la la)
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

Put your life, you know where (in Jesus' nail scarred hands) in his hands, that's right
(Just put your life) you only got one, you might as well go put it in his hands) (in Jesus' nail scarred hands)
Woo-ooh
Rock of ages and sage of sages, that's right, he's the man
So put your life right into his hands (in Jesus' nail scarred hands), put it there
(Well put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands) Put your life into his hands, put your life into his hands

larry norman's 97th nightmare

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I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark

Hahahahaha start again [laughter]
Oh wait a minute fellas [laughter]
Oh, oh okay, take two [Spoken]

I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark
I looked up into the sky and saw lights moving through the dark
They were coming down from heaven, each one was brighter than the stars
And I said to my bulldog, I wonder what they are

I couldn't run, I could not swallow, I could only shake with fear
They were coming t'ward me and they were getting near
I heard people screaming around me in the darkness of that night
Then I fell in silence, I was blinded by the light

I felt my body drop off me like an old black overcoat
I heard my bulldog howl and I began to float
Aow and as that light came down around me, well I could not see a thing
But I could feel a presence and I heard voices begin to sing

Oh yeah (Tell me more, hmm)
Tell you what (Tell me more, wo-oh)
How can I tell you what happened (Tell me more hmm)
I don't know what happened (Tell me more, wo-oh)
I was just standing there with my bulldog and eh (Tell me more hmm, tell me more hmm)
And I saw this light in the sky (Tell me more)
Ok I'll tell you, I'll try to tell you

The next thing I remember, well someone grabbed my hand
I felt my spirit flying far above the land
No no no
I was flying
Woo

Ah ah [x6]

I was standing at the gates of heaven when a hand reached out to touch my head
Then I fell through a hole in heaven, I landed back in my bed
I started weeping, I felt so lonely and my soul began to scream
Had it just been my imagination, well it seemed so much more real than a dream

I couldn't believe it (I couldn't believe it)
I was still standing there in bed (In my own bed)
With this crazy vision (Oh) going around and round and in my head
I said what was I to think, I mean what was I to do
(Oh somebody gotta help me, this can't be real)
(Watch out)

Now if you see me standing on the corner and you hear my bulldog bark
You better look up in the sky in case there's something in the dark
Sometimes I stay here until it's morning and I look up in the night
Because you've got to be ready if you want to see the light

Wo-oh wo-oh
Oh yeah

I'm just standing on the corner looking for something
That was prophesied by the wise and foretold by the old
Don't be standing in the darkness like a man who's lost his way
Because he let his lamp go out, because he wasn't prepared
For the undeniable arrival of the judgment day

let that tape keep rolling

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Hello [Spoken]

Well I woke up in the morning, I said a morning prayer
I washed my face with soap and ran my fingers through my hair
I went down to the studio on Hollywood and Vine
The clock said 'leven thirty, well I made it just in time
I greeted the musicians, I grabbed the nearest chair
I started playing my guitar and told the engineer

C'mon let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon let that tape keep rolling, c'mon c'mon c'mon

The first song that we cut was called "Lonely By Myself"
I'll do the vocal later you can leave it on the shelf
The second song we cut was called "Unlucky Blues"
The session's getting better now, we're turning on the juice
The last song took us seven takes, the first one took us ten
Let's give it all we got and do the chorus once again

C'mon let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon let that tape keep rolling (c'mon) let it roll (c'mon)

Do you hear me singing on your record machine
The piano's banging, the guitar's twanging
The water cooler's clanging, the light bulb's hanging
Yes the music's playing, the production's clean
Cross fade all the tracks, don't leave no spaces in between

C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling, c'mon (c'mon) c'mon c'mon (c'mon) c'mon, c'mon

Hehehe

(C'mon) [x2]
(C'mon) (Ba ba ba da ba) [x3]
(C'mon)

Well I started out ten years ago, my guitar in my hand
I took the music in my heart and played it with a band
I went down to the Tower to record Upon This Rock
I sang it like I felt it, I just let the music talk
I know where I am going and I know who I must be
Don't care how long it takes because there's lots of things to see

C'mon let that tape keep rolling, c'mon let that love keep flowing
C'mon let your faith keep growing, c'mon get that good news going
C'mon let your light keep shining, c'mon be careful what you're signing

C'mon (c'mon) let that love keep flowing

C'mon (c'mon) c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon (C'mon, c'mon)
Aoww (C'mon, c'mon) heheheh (C'mon, c'mon)
Oh yeah alright alright (C'mon, c'mon c'mon c'mon)
(C'mon) He come walking down my street
He come up to my room
He knock on my door
He come into my heart
He make me feel so good
So good, so good, so good, so tough

I'm going home
I'm going home bou bou bou bou bou
Bou bou bou bou bou
Back home bou bou bou bou
Back home
He'll come down, make you feel alright
Like a thief in the middle of the night

Woo

In the middle of the night
Cha heh heh heh heh hah cha cha
Ooh la la la ta ta la la sha la la la
Ooh la la la ta ta la sha la la

C'mon let that tape keep rolling
C'mon c'mon

When the Lord gets ready
You got to move

[Laughs] wanna do it again [Spoken]

[UK vinyl]

The UK release used the same track list as the US and Canadian versions, other than omitting I Feel Like Dying. However, more than half of the remaining tracks differ in some way, mostly through the removal of introductions, count ins and false starts. Watch What You're Doing includes the 'Little Joe Billy' verse which was not present on the other versions. Tracks are only listed below where different

It is believed that the record company thought I Feel Like Dying was an outtake, so left it off the album. Upon being informed this was a mistake, they released it as a single instead

hard luck bad news

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I've been having some hard times
All my life
I hope things change pretty soon

Hard luck and bad news
Has followed me from town to town
All my life my luck's been down
I'm getting so weary
I don't have one friend
Folks turn their backs when I'm around
And where I walk the grass turns brown
No one will come near me

Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die

My life's been lonely
I've never heard a kindly word
Ugly names is all I've heard
And mean is how they treat me
Nobody trusts me
They blame me for the fires in town
Claim that hell is where I'm bound
And pray that God will speed me

Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die

Woo

Life's not worth living
My sorrow's more than I can say
Tomorrow's just another day
I hate to see the sun rise
Yet maybe someday
I'll find a man to call a friend
I'll be his friend until the end
In loneliness my heart cry

Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die [x2]

born to be unlucky

[Go to Song Page ]

I was born about eighteen years ago in a little wooden shack
I was born about eighteen years ago on the wrong side of the tracks
I never knew my father and I never had a home
Well I don't know where I came from and I don't know where I'm going
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues

When I was just a young boy I was raised on beans and trout
And on my seventh birthday, well my mama she kicked me out
They say I'm good for nothing, no one treats me kind
I don't care 'cause pretty soon I'm gonna leave this world behind
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues

I jumped into the river to try to put myself away
A man jumped in and saved me, he spoiled a perfect day
He dragged me to the river's edge, he said he knew I had a need
Then he pulled out a soggy bible and that man began to read
Well he told me things I did not know, I'm glad I did not die
'Cause he told me God's my father and my real home is in the sky

And I said [Instrumental]

He said I'd done a very foolish thing to try to drown myself and die
And I told him I was glad he happened to be passing by
He said God would forgive me, so I repented of my sin
Then he said I must be baptised and he threw me in again
Aww I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
I thought I must be stuck with these unlucky blues

Aww yeaow

My life has changed in many ways, I'm such a different man
Well I know now who my father is and I know just where I stand
With one foot up in heaven and one foot on the ground
I travel through this world of ours, I try to spread God's word around
I was born to be unlucky, I knowed it, from my shoulders to my shoes
But I came unstuck from my unlucky blues
Yeaow maybe you can too
Alright woo

And this is just the beginning

watch what you're doing

[Go to Song Page]

Mo' guitar [Spoken]

Mmm, mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with his legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
Yeah you gotta watch where you're going
Didn't you know

Little Joe Billy went fishing for trout
Played hooky from school 'til the cops found out
Didn't have a father, was an only child
His mama never beat him so he grew up wild

You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah

I knew a girl, sweet as could be
But she fell for a man like a chain sawed tree
She listened to his lies, was fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
You gotta watch what you're doing
You oughta know that
You gotta watch out
Watch out

Well everything's fine till things get bad
Then you sit around thinking 'bout the good times you had
But it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You better watch what you're doing
Ah don't you know
You oughta know where you're going
Do you know

Some folks smile, they seem alright
Then you later find out it was an angel of light
Try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess your mind
You gotta watch who you know yeah

Some folks say that the good Lord's dead
That he doesn't exist 'cept inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the skies

You gotta watch what you're doing
Don't you know
'Cause he does yeah
You know he watches what you're doing
Yes he does
You better know where you're going (Ooh ooh)
Yeah yeah yeaow (Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)

Well well well hutz sut sut
Well well well hutz hutz a mutza

C'mon pilgrim, you know he loves you
He loves you more than he loves this cloven earth
Don't make your life bad and start acting like an idiot

leaving the past behind

[Go to Song Page ]

I'm putting on my walking shoes, please help me find my hat
It's time that I was leaving, got no time for looking back
I'm going away, yeah feeling fine, wo-oh
When it's time to go you've got to leave the past behind

When I look out through my window, it's as dark as it could be
But I know the son is coming to wake the world from sleep
I'm going away, going away, feeling fine woah wo-oh
And when you follow where he leads
You've got to leave the past behind

Man is born in trouble, everybody got the blues
People looking for an answer, people wishing for good news
So if you got the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must tell them what you know and you must live a life that's true

Wo-hoo

Aoww man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People praying for an answer, people hoping for good news
So if you know the answer there is one thing you must do
You must walk, you must talk, you must hurry up to beat the clock
You must tell them to get ready so they can leave the past behind

Well my circle is completed, I've got to travel on
So if you understand, don't talk about me when I'm gone
I'm going away (going away)
I'm going away (going away)
I'm feeling fine, 89 is really 99
I'm going away, going away, going away
Island in the sky is number nine

I'm going away, going away, going away
I'm feeling fine
Well it's a good good feeling when you leave the past behind
Yeah I've got to start another circle, got to leave the past behind

Wo-ooh

I'm going away, you won't see me for a while
I gotta do some things, I got to walk an extra mile
But I'll see you in the city of the lost angels
I'm going away
So

larry norman's 97th nightmare

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I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark
I looked up into the sky and saw lights moving through the dark
They were coming down from heaven, each one was brighter than the stars
And I said to my bulldog, I wonder what they are

I couldn't run, I could not swallow, I could only shake with fear
They were coming t'ward me and they were getting near
I heard people screaming around me in the darkness of that night
Then I fell in silence, I was blinded by the light

I felt my body drop off me like an old black overcoat
I heard my bulldog howl and I began to float
Aow and as that light came down around me, well I could not see a thing
But I could feel a presence and I heard voices begin to sing

Oh yeah (Tell me more, hmm)
Tell you what (Tell me more, wo-oh)
How can I tell you what happened (Tell me more hmm)
I don't know what happened (Tell me more, wo-oh)
I was just standing there with my bulldog and eh (Tell me more hmm, tell me more hmm)
And I saw this light in the sky (Tell me more)
Ok I'll tell you, I'll try to tell you

The next thing I remember, well someone grabbed my hand
I felt my spirit flying far above the land
No no no
I was flying
Woo

Ah ah [x6]

I was standing at the gates of heaven when a hand reached out to touch my head
Then I fell through a hole in heaven, I landed back in my bed
I started weeping, I felt so lonely and my soul began to scream
Had it just been my imagination, well it seemed so much more real than a dream

I couldn't believe it (I couldn't believe it)
I was still standing there in bed (In my own bed)
With this crazy vision (Oh) going around and round and in my head
I said what was I to think, I mean what was I to do
(Oh somebody gotta help me, this can't be real)
(Watch out)

Now if you see me standing on the corner and you hear my bulldog bark
You better look up in the sky in case there's something in the dark
Sometimes I stay here until it's morning and I look up in the night
Because you've got to be ready if you want to see the light

Wo-oh wo-oh
Oh yeah

I'm just standing on the corner looking for something
That was prophesied by the wise and foretold by the old
Don't be standing in the darkness like a man who's lost his way
Because he let his lamp go out, because he wasn't prepared
For the undeniable arrival of the judgment day

[Special Edition cassette]

Hard Luck Bad News is lyrically the same as the UK version, but almost two minutes longer
Feeling So Bad is lyrically the same as the original version, but around 90 seconds longer
I Feel Like Dying is the same as the original version but with a very small piece of additional instrumentation at the start
Born To Be Unlucky is the same as the original version
Watch What You're Doing is the same as the version used on Down Under, but with some studio noise and an extra line in the spoken introduction
Leaving The Past Behind uses the introduction from the original US version, but has a longer fade out than either it or the UK version
Put Your Life Into His Hands has more of the introductory drums - including a count in, and a much longer fade out than the original version
Nightmare #97 is the same recording as the original US version, but has an additional instrumental verse (after the false start) before the main lyrics start, and fades out slightly later
Let That Tape Keep Rolling is the same as the original version, apart from having an additional count in and a guitar chord struck right at the end

hard luck bad news

feeling so bad

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Well I'm feeling so bad in the middle of love
And it's easy to see that it isn't quite me that you're thinking of
Must be somebody else, but I'm wondering who
I can't seem to recall anybody at all who's in love with you

Every night you'll hear me say what a day

Well I saw you last week, you went out on the sly
You walked into some church, I suspected the worst, bet you met some guy
Then I waited outside, but you came out alone
With a satisfied look and a little black book, then you went straight home

Every night you'll hear me say what a day

Well I got something I wanna say to you
And this is what it is
So listen [Guitar solo]

Well this morning at ten, you invited me in
As you poured me some coffee you told me straight off that you'd found a friend
Well I wasn't surprised, no I wasn't surprised
Cause you look so content baby, I see a different look in your eyes

Every night you'll hear me say what a day [x2]

Aw ah

What a day

i feel like dying

born to be unlucky

[Go to Song Page ]

Take four instead of take three
And everybody has to stay with ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba [Spoken]

I was born about eighteen years ago in a little wooden shack
I was born about eighteen years ago on the wrong side of the tracks
I never knew my father and I never had a home
Well I don't know where I came from and I don't know where I'm going
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues

When I was just a young boy I was raised on beans and trout
And on my seventh birthday, well my mama she kicked me out
They say I'm good for nothing, no one treats me kind
I don't care 'cause pretty soon I'm gonna leave this world behind
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues

I jumped into the river to try to put myself away
A man jumped in and saved me, he spoiled a perfect day
He dragged me to the river's edge, he said he knew I had a need
Then he pulled out a soggy bible and that man began to read
Well he told me things I did not know, I'm glad I did not die
'Cause he told me God's my father and my real home is in the sky

And I said [Instrumental]

He said I'd done a very foolish thing to try to drown myself and die
And I told him I was glad he happened to be passing by
He said God would forgive me, so I repented of my sin
Then he said I must be baptised and he threw me in again
Aww I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
I thought I must be stuck with these unlucky blues

Aww yeaow

My life has changed in many ways, I'm such a different man
Well I know now who my father is and I know just where I stand
With one foot up in heaven and one foot on the ground
I travel through this world of ours, I try to spread God's word around
I was born to be unlucky, I knowed it, from my shoulders to my shoes
But I came unstuck from my unlucky blues
Yeaow maybe you can too
Alright woo

And this is just the beginning

watch what you're doing

[Go to Song Page]

Watch what you're doing take one [Spoken, normal speed]
You watch what you doing' [Spoken, slow speed, reversed]
Watch what you're doing take one [Spoken, slow speed reversed]
Watch what you're doing take one [Spoken, slow speed]
You watch what you doing' [Spoken, slow speed]
I hope you heared me [Spoken, slow speed]
[Music starts]

Mo' guitar [Spoken]

Mmm, mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with his legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
Yeah you gotta watch where you're going
Didn't you know

Little Joe Billy went fishing for trout
Played hooky from school 'til the cops found out
Didn't have a father, was an only child
His mama never beat him so he grew up wild

You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah

I knew a girl, sweet as could be
But she fell for a man like a chain sawed tree
She listened to his lies, was fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
You gotta watch what you're doing
You oughta know that
You gotta watch out
Watch out

Well everything's fine till things get bad
Then you sit around thinking 'bout the good times you had
But it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You better watch what you're doing
Ah don't you know
You oughta know where you're going
Do you know

Some folks smile, they seem alright
Then you later find out it was an angel of light
Try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess your mind
You gotta watch who you know yeah

Some folks say that the good Lord's dead
That he doesn't exist 'cept inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the skies

You gotta watch what you're doing
Don't you know
'Cause he does yeah
You know he watches what you're doing
Yes he does
You better know where you're going (Ooh ooh)
Yeah yeah yeaow (Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)

Well well well hutz sut sut
Well well well hutz hutz a mutza

C'mon pilgrim you know he loves you
He loves you more than he loves this cloven earth
Don't make your life bad and start acting like an idiot

leaving the past behind

[Go to Song Page ]

I'm putting on my walking shoes, please help me find my hat
It's time that I was leaving, got no time for looking back
I'm going away, yeah feeling fine, wo-oh
When it's time to go you've got to leave the past behind

When I look out through my window, it's as dark as it could be
But I know the son is coming to wake the world from sleep
I'm going away, going away, feeling fine woah wo-oh
And when you follow where he leads
You've got to leave the past behind

Man is born in trouble, everybody got the blues
People looking for an answer, people wishing for good news
So if you got the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must tell them what you know and you must live a life that's true

Wo-hoo

Aoww man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People praying for an answer, people hoping for good news
So if you know the answer there is one thing you must do
You must walk, you must talk, you must hurry up to beat the clock
You must tell them to get ready so they can leave the past behind

Well my circle is completed, I've got to travel on
So if you understand, don't talk about me when I'm gone
I'm going away (going away)
I'm going away (going away)
I'm feeling fine, 89 is really 99
I'm going away, going away, going away
Island in the sky is number nine

I'm going away, going away, going away
I'm feeling fine
Well it's a good good feeling when you leave the past behind
Yeah I've got to start another circle, got to leave the past behind

Wo-ooh

I'm going away, you won't see me for a while
I gotta do some things, I got to walk an extra mile
But I'll see you in the city of the lost angel
I'm going away
So long, bye bye
You when you follow where he leads you've gotta leave the past behind
Bye bye

put your life into his hands

[Go to Song Page ]

One two three [Spoken]

Aow put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Just put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
He's the rock of ages
He's the sage of sages
He's the key to the promised land
So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

I was blind but now I've learned to see
I was trapped but now I've been set free, ah-oh-ho
I was lost and alone, so far from home, I was losing sight of me
But now I'm warm and safe as I can be

So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
You have heard the wondrous story (Oh oh-ah)
Now go and tell it 'cross the land (Oh ah ah ah)
Tell 'em, put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

Oh yeh right, I don't really have a verse to go here
So I'll just let the band play it one time
Play it Jonny, play it boys
Yeah that's nice

Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (In his hands) (Oh yeah)
He's the rock of ages
He's the sage of sages
He's the key to the promised land
So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

Just put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (Put your life in Jesus' hands) (In Jesus' hands)
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (Put your life in Jesus' hands)
Well Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away
I'm gonna play in his heavenly band (La la la la la la la la)
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands

Put your life, you know where (in Jesus' nail scarred hands) in his hands, that's right
(Just put your life) you only got one, you might as well go put it in his hands) (in Jesus' nail scarred hands)
Woo-ooh
Rock of ages and sage of sages, that's right, he's the man
So put your life right into his hands (in Jesus' nail scarred hands), put it there
(Well put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands) Put your life into his hands, put your life into his hands
(Just put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands) Put your life, put your life, put your life into his hands
(Well he is the rock and he is the roll) ??? Make no future plans (That's right my man)
(Put your life in Jesus nail scarred hands) ??? Put your life into his hands, right into his hands
(Listen to the ???) (Just put your life) Play it boys (In his hands)
(Put your life in Jesus nail scarred hands) Play it nice
Wa-ha (He is the rock, I said he don't roll)
(Wo wo wo-oh wo wo wo)
Put your life (Put your life in Jesus nail scarred hands) That's so nice Jonny, that's so nice
(Right in his hands)
(Put your life in Jesus nail scarred hands)
Keep on playing 'til they turn us off [Spoken]
(Put your life in Jesus nail scarred hands) ????
Yea-eh yea-eh yea yeah ye-eh-ah
So nice there [Spoken]

larry norman's 97th nightmare

[Go to Song Page ]

I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark

Hahahahaha start again [laughter]
Oh wait a minute fellas [laughter]
Oh, oh okay, take two [Spoken]

I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark
I looked up into the sky and saw lights moving through the dark
They were coming down from heaven, each one was brighter than the stars
And I said to my bulldog, I wonder what they are

I couldn't run, I could not swallow, I could only shake with fear
They were coming t'ward me and they were getting near
I heard people screaming around me in the darkness of that night
Then I fell in silence, I was blinded by the light

I felt my body drop off me like an old black overcoat
I heard my bulldog howl and I began to float
Aow and as that light came down around me, well I could not see a thing
But I could feel a presence and I heard voices begin to sing

Oh yeah (Tell me more, hmm)
Tell you what (Tell me more, wo-oh)
How can I tell you what happened (Tell me more hmm)
I don't know what happened (Tell me more, wo-oh)
I was just standing there with my bulldog and eh (Tell me more hmm, tell me more hmm)
And I saw this light in the sky (Tell me more)
Ok I'll tell you, I'll try to tell you

The next thing I remember, well someone grabbed my hand
I felt my spirit flying far above the land
No no no
I was flying
Woo

Ah ah [x6]

I was standing at the gates of heaven when a hand reached out to touch my head
Then I fell through a hole in heaven, I landed back in my bed
I started weeping, I felt so lonely and my soul began to scream
Had it just been my imagination, well it seemed so much more real than a dream

I couldn't believe it (I couldn't believe it)
I was still standing there in bed (In my own bed)
With this crazy vision (Oh) going around and round and in my head
I said what was I to think, I mean what was I to do
(Oh somebody gotta help me, this can't be real)
(Watch out)

Now if you see me standing on the corner and you hear my bulldog bark
You better look up in the sky in case there's something in the dark
Sometimes I stay here until it's morning and I look up in the night
Because you've got to be ready if you want to see the light

Wo-oh wo-oh
Oh yeah

I'm just standing on the corner looking for something
That was prophesied by the wise and foretold by the old
Don't be standing in the darkness like a man who's lost his way
Because he let his lamp go out, because he wasn't prepared
For the undeniable arrival of the judgment day
Don't be left behind

let that tape keep rolling

[Go to Song Page]

One
One two, one two three [Spoken]

Hello [Spoken]

Well I woke up in the morning, I said a morning prayer
I washed my face with soap and ran my fingers through my hair
I went down to the studio on Hollywood and Vine
The clock said 'leven thirty, well I made it just in time
I greeted the musicians, I grabbed the nearest chair
I started playing my guitar and told the engineer

C'mon let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon let that tape keep rolling, c'mon c'mon c'mon

The first song that we cut was called "Lonely By Myself"
I'll do the vocal later you can leave it on the shelf
The second song we cut was called "Unlucky Blues"
The session's getting better now, we're turning on the juice
The last song took us seven takes, the first one took us ten
Let's give it all we got and do the chorus once again

C'mon let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon let that tape keep rolling (c'mon) let it roll (c'mon)

Do you hear me singing on your record machine
The piano's banging, the guitar's twanging
The water cooler's clanging, the light bulb's hanging
Yes the music's playing, the production's clean
Cross fade all the tracks, don't leave no spaces in between

C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling, c'mon (c'mon) c'mon c'mon (c'mon) c'mon, c'mon

Hehehe

(C'mon) [x2]
(C'mon) (Ba ba ba da ba) [x3]
(C'mon)

Well I started out ten years ago, my guitar in my hand
I took the music in my heart and played it with a band
I went down to the Tower to record Upon This Rock
I sang it like I felt it, I just let the music talk
I know where I am going and I know who I must be
Don't care how long it takes because there's lots of things to see

C'mon let that tape keep rolling, c'mon let that love keep flowing
C'mon let your faith keep growing, c'mon get that good news going
C'mon let your light keep shining, c'mon be careful what you're signing

C'mon (c'mon) let that love keep flowing

C'mon (c'mon) c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon (C'mon, c'mon)
Aoww (C'mon, c'mon) heheheh (C'mon, c'mon)
Oh yeah alright alright (C'mon, c'mon c'mon c'mon)
(C'mon) He come walking down my street
He come up to my room
He knock on my door
He come into my heart
He make me feel so good
So good, so good, so good, so tough

I'm going home
I'm going home bou bou bou bou bou
Bou bou bou bou bou
Back home bou bou bou bou
Back home
He'll come down, make you feel alright
Like a thief in the middle of the night

Woo

In the middle of the night
Cha heh heh heh heh hah cha cha
Ooh la la la ta ta la la sha la la la
Ooh la la la ta ta la sha la la

C'mon let that tape keep rolling
C'mon c'mon

When the Lord gets ready
You got to move

[Laughs] wanna do it again [Spoken]

twelve good men

[Go to Song Page]

Twelve good men take one [Spoken]

One [Spoken]

I got my black leather jacket
The one I've worn through all my youth
I got my dark sunglasses
I feel just like William Booth
Don't ask me nothing 'bout nothing
I just might tell you the truth

Well you need twelve good men
And I can only find eleven
There are six young lions
And I'm waiting for number seven
I may be living on earth
But I am living for heaven

I got a woman I'm in love with
There's no need to say her name
And no matter what might happen
You know I'll love her just the same
Well it's like meeting an angel from heaven
There's not a lot you can explain

Take it Randy, take it Jonny

You know a man with a woman
Is a mystery like a hawk
Or an eagle in the sky
Or a serpent on a rock
Well I can't say I understand it
But that's the way kings used to talk

And if this song sounds familiar
That's because it's already been done (Yeah)
Yes I wrote this song down
Just the way I heard it sung
You should know by my last album
There's nothing new under the sun

The truth is like a flame
I heard that from Rambling Jack
He said the truth is not a lie
Just like white cannot be black
(Let me try again)
And the truth is Bobby stole this song from the bluesmen
And now I'm trying to steal it back

Love you Bobby, love you

I got my black leather jacket
The one I kept all of my youth, yeah
And I got these dark sunglasses
I feel just like William Booth
I'm just warning you, don't ask me nothing 'bout nothing
I just might tell you the truth

[1993 CD]

The 1993 CD release is primarily the same as the UK vinyl version, but with I Feel Like Dying reinstated, and Larry Norman's 97th Nightmare replaced with the the US vinyl version. Three bonus tracks are added

twelve good men

[Go to Song Page]

Two three four [Spoken]

You need twelve good men
And I can only find eleven yeah-eh
There are six young lions
But I'm still waiting for number seven
I may be living on earth
But I am living for heaven

Well man with a woman
Is like a lizard on a rock
Yeah something something something
I can't remember what I had here right, I had totally better lyrics. Eh [Spoken]
Well I don't say I understand it
That's the way Solomon used to talk
Yeah

Allright lowve

Weh-ah yeah yo
Oh-an-wo-an-lo-aaah

Yeah

Allright, that sounds good

Woo-hoo

I got my black leather jacket
The one I wore through all my youth
Hmmm, I've got my black sunglasses
Man I feel just like William Booth
Yeah baby, don't ask me nothing 'bout nothing
I just might tell you the truth

Okay that sounds good. Eh but let me go get those other lyrics an' an' we'll do it again [Spoken]

deep blue

[Go to Song Page]

Two, one, two, three [Spoken]

I stay at home
An' you know I drink to pass the time away
But it only brings me back to yesterday
I put the coffee on and I listen to the radio
But keep looking at the telephone

I've been thinking about you for a long long time
I've been sinking in deep blue and my future's black
Oh baby come back
Mmm mmm hmm

No matter what I do
I just can't forget the love we had
Well I can't erase my mind and just forget about you, no
It's gone beyond all that
And I've got to have your love again
'Cause I've got to make my heart stop breaking

I've been thinking about you for a long long time, ye-ah
I've been sinking in deep blue and my future's black
Oh baby come back
You're all I think about
Baby come back

La la la la chu la la [x2]
La la la la chu la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la chu la la
La la la la chu la la la

The days and weeks fly by
And I watch my feelings slowly die
I can feel the hope inside me pass away
I lost my health, I lost my love
I lost my will to live
I'm a heartbroken fugitive

And I've been thinking about you for a long long time, hmm-mmm ye-eh
And I've been sinking in deep blue and my future's black
Oh oh, I’ve been thinking about you baby
Not easy living without you
I've been thinking about you
And I keep hoping you'll come back
I keep hoping you'll come back

You never treated me right
All we ever did was fight
I thought I couldn't live without you baby
But something happened to me last night

You wanna know what it was
Uh-huh, okay I'll tell you

I planned to end it all
And I went back to my hotel room
And I locked the door closed with a broom
I opened up the drawer and I reached inside to get my gun
But found a bible from the Gideons

And I'll be thinking about it for a long long time, ye-eh, ah ha
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
I’ll be thinking about it for a long long time
I wonder how it got there
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
I didn't put it there, I didn't even know it was there
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
Surprise surprise
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
Some things you can't never figure
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
Like this, yeah-eh
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
So long, yeah, goodbye

Mmm m-m-m-mmm m-m-m-mmm

M-m-mmm, m-m-mmm, m-m-mmm [x4]

Long long time

Oh-ah oh oh-ah la oh-ah
Oh-ah la

it's only today that counts

[Go to Song Page]

One two one [Spoken]

Well it ain’t no good to lay in bed at night
And think about the past
About how you coulda done things differently
But they just happened way too fast
Why don’t you close your eyes, go to sleep
And let the angels bring you dreams
Let those years unwind behind you
And float away on silent streams

You’ve got to live your life the best you can
Though you sometimes do your worst
You’ve got to laugh when you fail
It doesn’t matter anyway
Life is a play that’s unrehearsed
Don’t make too many plans for tomorrow
You can’t control what lies ahead
Why don’t you try to live each moment as it comes instead

(Ooh ooh) Sha la la la la la la la la la la
(Ooh ooh) etc

There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future (ooh ooh)
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last

Well it never helps to worry
And it never hurts to pray
And tomorrow will come soon enough
You better take care of today
You’ve got to learn to trust your life to God
You know the future’s in his hands
And only faith will help you meet your life’s demands
Yeah

There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last

It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts (yeah)
Live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts (yeah)
Live it like it might be your last
Come on, open up your heart and live
Open up your heart and live
You’ve got to live (live), live (live), live (live)
He’s coming back pretty soon
So come on, come on, come on live
You’ve got to live (live), live (live)
Do it while you can
Don’t waste your time, don’t waste your time
Make up your mind, make up your mind
Come on

[2003 CD]

The 2003 CD audio was remastered and sounds significantly better than previous releases. It is essentially the same as the earlier CD except that all songs other than Let That Tape Keep Rolling, Twelve Good Men and It's Only Today That Counts fade out slightly earlier. Also, Deep Blue is replaced by a previously unheard longer and overdub free edit of Watch What You're Doing. Only lyrically different tracks listed below

leaving the past behind

[Go to Song Page ]

I'm putting on my walking shoes, please help me find my hat
It's time that I was leaving, got no time for looking back
I'm going away, yeah feeling fine, wo-oh
When it's time to go you've got to leave the past behind

When I look out through my window, it's as dark as it could be
But I know the son is coming to wake the world from sleep
I'm going away, going away, feeling fine woah wo-oh
And when you follow where he leads
You've got to leave the past behind

Man is born in trouble, everybody got the blues
People looking for an answer, people wishing for good news
So if you got the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must tell them what you know and you must live a life that's true

Wo-hoo

Aoww man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People praying for an answer, people hoping for good news
So if you know the answer there is one thing you must do
You must walk, you must talk, you must hurry up to beat the clock
You must tell them to get ready so they can leave the past behind

Well my circle is completed, I've got to travel on
So if you understand, don't talk about me when I'm gone
I'm going away (going away)
I'm going away (going away)
I'm feeling fine, 89 is really 99
I'm going away, going away, going away
Island in the sky is number nine

I'm going away, going away, going away
I'm feeling fine
Well it's a good good feeling when you leave the past behind
Yeah I've got to start another circle, got to leave the past behind

Wo-ooh

I'm going away, you won't see me for a while
I gotta do some things, I got to walk an extra mile
But I'll see you in the city of the lost angel
I'm going away

it's only today that counts

watch what you're doing

[Go to Song Page]

Mmm, mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with his legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
Yeah you gotta watch where you're going
Didn't you know

Little Joe Billy went fishing for trout
Played hooky from school 'til the cops found out
Didn't have a father, was an only child
His mama never beat him so he grew up wild

You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah

I knew a girl, sweet as could be
But she fell for a man like a chain sawed tree
Listened to his lies, fooled by his charm
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arm

You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
You gotta watch what you're doing
You oughta know that
You gotta watch out
Watch out

Well everything's fine till things get bad
Then you sit around thinking 'bout the good times you had
But it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You better watch what you're doing
Ah don't you know
You oughta know where you're going
Do you know

Some folks smile, they seem alright
Then you later find out it was an angel of light
Try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess your mind
You gotta watch who you know yeah

Some folks say that the good Lord's dead
That he doesn't exist 'cept inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the skies

You gotta watch what you're doing
Don't you know
'Cause he does yeah
You know he watches what you're doing
Yes he does
You better know where you're going
Yeah yeah yeaow

Solid Rock Records SRD-008 [1993, USA]

4 page booklet with write up

Kode: SNUTS-US6
Kode: SNUTS-US9
Kode: SNUTS-US12
Kode: SNUTS-US10
Kode: SNUTS-US11

Matrix, on disc rear: 'ARC', '71 SRD 008-2 SRC##02', '*M2', 'S1'
Matrix, on disc rear: '71 SRD 008-2 SRC##02', 'ARC', '*M2', 'S3'
Matrix, on disc rear: ‘U.S. OPTICAL DISC’, SRD-008’, ‘<03>’. Thanks to Mike Rohlinger for advising of this variant
Matrix, visible on disc rear in reverse: '01130-A', 'IFPI L124' [Note that this variant must be from 1994 or later]
Matrix, on disc rear: '7954 3 SOMETHING NEW'. Mould markings: 'IFPI 9F02' [Note that this variant must be from 1994 or later]

Solid Rock Records SRD-008 [2003, USA, CDR]

Kode: SNUTS-US7

16 page booklet with lyrics and write ups
The first disc image above shows an example of something that is quite common with in-house printed Solid Rock CDRs. Ink levels in their printer could result in discoloured discs or coloured outlines / auras like this

Solid Rock Records SRDX-005 [2009, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US8

8 page booklet with lyrics

Matrix, on disc rear: 'CA / - SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SON #1 - 38745'

Solid Rock Records SRDX-005 [2021, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US14

Matrix, on disc rear: 'CA / - SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SON #1 - 38745'

This release is housed in a gatefold card sleeve and uses leftover discs from the 2009 version. Note however that the rear artwork was copied from the 2003 CD release, and so lists the incorrect catalogue number

Trivia: Charles Norman considered using the 'Bringing It All Back Home' artwork (the second image above) on the front cover of this release, but decided against it

Solid Rock Records SRA 2007 [1981, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US1

Matrix, etched, side one: 'SRA-2007-A', '(1)', 'MR', 'EMI Jim'. Side two: 'SRA-2007-B, '(1). 'MR', 'EMI Jim'. [Inner sleeve is glossy]

The US and Canadian versions of the LP had a top opening single slip cover and a printed inner sleeve which offered a free record and book. The record was the Barking At The Ants 7" sampler - see here under the Vinyl tab. Click on the 'Annotated Son' link at the bottom of this page for the book

Solid Rock Records SRA 2007 [1981, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US13

Same matrix as SNUTS-US1. [Inner sleeve is not glossy, and has the catalogue number in the bottom right corner of the mainly text side]
Thanks to Mike Rohlinger for advising of this variant

Solid Rock Records SRA 2007 [1981, Canada]

Kode: SNUTS-CA2

Matrix, etched, side one: 'SRA 2007 A', '1A-2HZ', 'DM'. Stamped: '3'. Etched side two: 'SRA- 2007 B', '1A-2HZ', 'DM'. Stamped: '3'
[Inner sleeve is glossy]. Thanks to Mike Rohlinger for advising of this variant

Solid Rock Records SRA 2007 [1981, Canada]

Kode: SNUTS-CA1

Same matrix as SNUTS-CA2. [Inner sleeve is not glossy, and has the catalogue number in the bottom right corner of the mainly text side]

Solid Rock Records - No catalogue number [1981, UK]

Kode: SNUTS-UK1

Matrix, etched, side one: 'SOLID ROCK RECORDS', 'SIdE A', 'EG'. Side two: 'SOLID ROCK RECORDS', 'SIDE B', 'EG'

There are two main UK versions of this LP. Both used the same top opening single slip cover except that the second version added the catalogue number (SRA1) to the sleeve spine, which on these LPs is the bottom edge. Most copies included the same double sided insert. The first version (SNUTS-UK1) had 'hand-drawn' labels - note that they are greener than the photos show - mostly if not all with the record housed in a thin clear plastic sleeve with instructions on caring for your record printed on it. The second version (SNUTS-UK2) had printed labels and either an unprinted thin clear plastic or a plain paper inner sleeve. Note however that some -UK2 LPs were shipped in -UK1 sleeves (SNUTS-UK4)

Solid Rock Records SRA 1 [1981, UK]

Kode: SNUTS-UK2

Kode: SNUTS-UK4

Kode: SNUTS-UK5
Kode: SNUTS-UK2

Same matrix as SNUTS-UK1 and no catalogue number on the sleeve spine. Thanks to Mike Rohlinger for advising of this variant
Identical to SNUTS-UK4 but with no insert
Same matrix as SNUTS-UK1 and catalogue number on the sleeve spine

There is also a New Zealand LP release, on the Concorde label

I don't own a copy yet, hence no proper photos

Kode: SNUTS-NZ1

Solid Rock Records SRC 2007 [1981, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US15

Solid Rock Records SRC 2007 [1981, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US2

Solid Rock Records SR 1 [1981, UK]

Kode: SNUTS-UK3

Solid Rock Records SRC 2007 [1981, Canada]

Kode: SNUTS-CA3

Solid Rock Records SRC 2007 [1981, Canada]

Kode: SNUTS-CA4

Alternate shell design

D.T.S. Records SRC 2007 [1981?, Australia]

Kode: SNUTS-AU1

Phydeaux Records ARF-008 [1988, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US4

Phydeaux Records ARF-008 [1988, USA]

Kode: SNUTS-US5

Alternate cassette shell

Solid Rock Records SR8 2007 [1981, USA]

8 track cassette. No images as yet

Kode: SNUTS-US3

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The whole point of this album is that there is nothing new under the sun, it's all been said and done before. A little input into the subject from Larry himself, from an interview Larry did with the New Zealand music magazine Shaker, in 1982:

SHAKER: Why the similarities between Dylan's Bringing it all Back Home and Something New Under the Son?
LARRY: What I'm aiming for is precision and exactness. I try to be definitive, in my limited ability as a human who doesn't know very much - until I die - and then I won't be looking through this dark glass, but I'll be seeing things face to face with God. I try to be precise in my music but the reason that I have these photographs that you're talking about, that were from Dylan's album is because:
1. The album is called Something New Under the Son. Well my music is not new. "There's nothing new under the sun", Solomon said and my album is not new. I'm not trying to say that my album is new under the sun but I'm trying to say that we are something new under the Son. When we're born again we're a new creature and old things pass away, so on my album I wanted to put some remnants from the past. There are little bits and pieces in the music that some people might recognise have been on other albums before. Just a word there, a little sentence or some musical riff or lick and a lot of people have figured out what they are and when you listen to it you say "wait a minute, I think I've heard that before!" Yes, you have, because there's nothing new under the sun - except us. We are new in Christ. So I was looking around for an album from the past, to make some duplications of some of the images and:
2. I wanted people to realise that I wasn't saying that any music, any art, any visuals are new, so I chose Dylan's album. He wasn't a Christian at the time - this was in 1977 that I recorded the album - but Bringing It All Back Home seemed like a very relevant title since that's what God wants to do with us. He wants to bring us home. So I began reading the liner notes that he had written and I thought, well Dylan is really searching for something, for God I believe. Listen to this - on the back of his album: "The Great Books have been written. The great sayings have all been said. I don't understand too well myself what's really happening - I do know that we're all gonna die some day and that no death has ever stopped the world." When I read that I thought: well he's on the right track but except one death has stopped the world because Jesus' death started everything over again. So I kept reading all the things he had written and I decided to take his pictures and re-enact and rebuild them. I've replaced the imagery because as a Christian 'Behold all things are new' - everything. I was so amazed when Dylan became a Christian a few years later. He became a Christian out of the Church that grew out from my Bible Study. He came to Bible Study every morning and studied and then began writing songs about two months after he became a Christian