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Kissed​-​Off the Chains!

by Splash Pets

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1.
Going over the edge, don't have to be pushed very far, the elevator doesn't quite make it, to the top floor - does it now...
2.
I could have walked away with her, instead I'm going the other way, all alone and away from her, away from her I'll be hurting know that for sure..
3.
Big Foot 02:25
Come on now baby let's go somewhere quiet, and maybe we can sit and talk there for awhile, I just want to hear you recite some lucid verse, while wearing nothing but a smile...
4.
Only the guilty need to confess, so let them stew in their own juices, they made their own mess, me I'm just minding, my own lonely business, because you don't have to impress- the rest of the world...
5.
Hair messed up, war paint askew, tells fibs about her habits, stays out way past curfew...
6.
Despite all our best efforts, we will still seem to be falling apart, can't you hear the sound of her heart breaking, sorrow and remorse over chances never taken...
7.
Better Off 05:10
You may be right I may be wrong, so why do you still tag along, It's easy to leave but it's tougher tougher to stay, I'd help you pack but you won't ever go away - go away...
8.
I - I just walked away, with nothing else left to say, my eyes turned toward the sky, questions answered I started to sigh, started to cry - because I don't know why, even when I try, I can never stand to say goodbye...
9.
Oh baby youv'e been leading me on, oh baby youv'e been leading me on, turn me on like a light bulb and then you're gone, you run away darling awful fast, are you just trying to run away from your past?
10.
This isn't another one of those songs, where the singer's going to whine and carry on, This isn't another one of those songs where the singers going to whine and cry about love gone wrong... Don't want to hear about how some guy was dumped, by some bimbo playing him for a chump, how she tore him up, dragged him through the mud, treated him worse than a mangey old dog, left him for some funnier clown that she found...
11.
Flash Back 03:02
I don't want to flash back, I don't to be haunted by the bitter past, I don't want to flash back, you better cut that sad-sack stuff out fast, because I don't want to flash back, I never wanted to-- I never wanted to flash back, I never wanted to be all hung up on the past...
12.
Other may say that love is blind, but I know that if you look long and hard enough, you just may find that uncut diamond in the rough.. I think of you almost all of the time, there's hardly ever a second, when you don't cross my mind, now - why? Because I think of you--
13.
Never Last 02:21
Fireworks now in the sky, flashed right by my stunned eyes, said I'm just a man doing the best I can, still I can't understand what the hell's the plan? Everything I want passes through my hands, everything I want seems to vanish again, everything I want seems to never last.. Never last...
14.
Each time I looked into her eyes, said her eyes, to see the promise of open skies, to find myself drowning in lies...Am I just door-mat now, stepped on despised? No matter how hard I try, you never answered any of my cries, No Matter what I may do, I'm lost here without a clue, I did it all for you...Just wind up here bruised, sccrewed, and tattooed, feel so used, abused here , so confused...
15.
Rejected 03:49
Tossing others away, like objects with defects, who made you so perfect, aah so pefect, form letters in the mail, in the mail, to inform you that you fail, that you failed, like an errant shot projected , a projectile's going to be projected, you have just been...rejected
16.
Strap it On 04:21
Strap it on baby, Strap yourself right in, you think you're a man, but your'e not one at all, the world as you know it is starting to spin, fun as you know it, is about to begin...
17.
Once you make up your mind, to burn all the bridges you left behind, once you make up your mind, to move out of the red, and into the black... coming into your own doesn't have to mean being all alone, coming into your own, there's no prizes won just because you've grown...
18.
Bondage and discipline, sadomasochism, these were the lessons learned, they were taught in Catechism, by Sister Holy Terror, she was ripping out your hair, Sister Holy Terror she was learing in the mirror, please make her disappear, Everything is sin, vanity is sin, avarice is sin, lustfulness is sin, making love is sin, so don't you do it again, hit em' high, hit em' low, hit em' so it don't show, hit em' once again hit em' where it hurts, hit em' with more discipline...
19.
Trapped in a box, stowed away now in our attic, in a house filled with locks, hopes and dreams soon turn to dust, so many stairs to climb, until you reach the top, you want to just give up, but a little voice inside won't ever let you stop You'll never know what you've got, until you reach for the top...
20.
I've seen a girl, she got rhythm, I'd like to meet the eyes that go with her, can't get her out of my system, I'd even settle for her sister...
21.
you keep taking me for some kind of fool, making us both out to be, the objects of scorn and ridicule, you never have a kind word, about me to say, but they name streets after people like you, and they call them one way... You're not misunderstood, you just have yourself an attitude, and I would leave here if I could, but you put me in such a good bad mood, why.. because you're a witch, floating around the room on a broom, spreading images of gloom and doom...
22.
Sordid Love 03:41
Life was so simple before you, with sordid love I was all through, her sordid love left me singing the blues, sordid love- so untrue, sordid love - left me dazed and confused, win or loose darling, pick or choose, sordid love - oh boo-hoo-hoo! your'e not supposed to come unglued, sordid love supposed to fit like a glove, sordid love- we've had enough, go and throwing our hands up here in disgust, There's no one around you now that you can trust, another relationship bites the dust...
23.
Away from her - the world's so cruel - she seems so good and so pure, then a little voice inside my head, it up and said, " You were made for that girl " from the moment she stepped into your world, Now there she goes,- with another guy, there she goes -as bitter tears roll down from my eyes...
24.
There are monsters among us, of whom you must beware, there are monsters among us and I know that they don't care, they don't care who they hurt, everyone to them is just dirt, they don't care all these inhumane monsters just a stalking this earth...
25.
Have you seen her, anywhere near? Have you seen her - standing in the clear? have you seen her ?- she's my little dancing machine, now she's moving like a dream, like a pin-up girl you clipped from a magazine, know she's a sexy prancing thing, still she's my little dancing machine, but she's so young, only seventeen years old, still smiling like a queen falling down from the silver screen, but she's so young, and you're not the only one - with eyes for her, and she knows that for sure..Now how does she keep going, to keep doing what she's doing, where does she get the energy, or does it simply emanate from me?

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The Splash Pets Version #01, rehearsed in Bridgeview, Illinois, and played and recorded from 1998-2003. This record was recorded and mixed by Jeff Staberow in his home studio in Oak Lawn, Illinois in 2002. The band broke up in 2004. The late, great Drummer Russ Niemann ( R.I.P. ) passed away in 2007. These recordings sat in limbo on Jos Buck's shelf at home collecting dust, since the break-up. To Jos' knowledge, this is the first time that they have ever been published anywhere. Unfortunately, Jos had a little accident with the master CD's Mr. Jeff made for him. Jos accidentally erased them while cleaning his Tascam 8-track cassette recorder heads, walking past them with a deguausing wand - demagnetizing them.. Ha-Ha! Ooopsey! Jos piece mealed the version here, from c.d. copies of the originals, that had certain technical deficiencies. Jos owns the blame for any sound issues, or volume problems. Splash Pets Version #01 actually never played out with the same band name, because we couldn't agree on one. We used to change the name every time we played out. On Kissed-Off the Chains!, the band name we selected finally for the band, remained unused over the years since since disbanding. However, another band published a recording under that name 2 years ago, forcing a new band name to be selected.. Thus were born, ... Splash Pets..., well...sort of...Kissed Off the Chains! is well , kind of a play on words, and we couldn't use the original title -which was way,way taken already...again... Special thanks go out to Jeff Staberow for all his efforts to put these recordings together.. Jeff you are " The Man ", not just Summ Dude... An Extra special shout out to Sharon Rose for her fine cover art - photos. Hugs and Kisses! The splash pet starlett pooch, Ms. Photogenic, is Princess Molly Bella Butterfinger. She is a 16, going on 17 year old, Jack Russell - Italian Greyhound mixed breed beloved rescue pet, adopted many years ago by Sharon Rose... This recording is dedicated to the memory of Russ Niemann, ( 1947-2007 ) Drummer extraordinaire, U.S. patriot who served two tours of combat duty with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war, and continued federal service as a letter carrier for many years with the U.S. Postal service. Russ was a great conversationalist, who had many cool stories from the bands he played with and recorded for locally in Chicago in the 1960's and 1970's. Amigo man, brother Russ you will be missed... peace...out...

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released July 21, 2016

Jos Buck - vocals, lyrics, music, Guitar / Russ Niemann - Drums, lyrics - She Got Rythym, Monsters Among Us, and Mouth Horn -music intro - Away from Her / Bobby Reed Twichell - Bass Guitar, Keyboards, music- Everything is Sin, Away from Her, and Strap it On / Ralda Richards - Background vocals - Big Foot

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Splash Pets Illinois

Splash Pets in 2021 is currently a one man recording project. Members from earlier recordings were The late, great, Russ Niemann, Bobby Reed Twichell, & Mark Vezina Special guest appearances have been made by Donn Sheldon, Joshua Vezina, and J.C. Williams. Stampy B. Face was born late to the party and won’t be missed by many. His loyal mourner Loulabelle appears on the cover at his shrine. Enjoy! ... more

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