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by Jared Rogerson

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I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I live in a place where I feel free; where I can spend so much of my time outdoors. That's what often inspires me to write. I've wanted to record music for as long as I can remember. This independently released debut album was a huge project for me with a pretty steep learning curve. While some of the recordings might be a bit rough, the words are good because they're from the heart. Special thanks goes to my partner in crime, Jen, for writing and singing with me, for encouragement, support, and sacrifice, and for deciding to hang out with me. Thanks to Mom and Dad for helping me get where I am today. Thanks to Alicia and Caliann for making us all smile. Thanks to those who have given me a place to sing my songs and to those who have listened. And to my growing gathering of loyal fans... Thank You!
Jared Rogerson
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released 26 February 2010
Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jared Rogerson at Wapiti Country in Pinedale, Wyoming. The songs were written by Jared Rogerson (ASCAP) except for Bad Hay and Heyday, which were both co-written with Jennifer Rogerson. Jason Tyler Burton played mandolin on What A Way To Go and Ridin' Wild Ponies. Background vocals on Above The Timberline by Jennifer Rogerson. All other music by Jared Rogerson.
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Track Name: Straight For The Storm
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

That aint a rain cloud in the sky
But it's about as dark as night
And I can't breathe 'round here anymore
You keep counting up the score

So I run
like a charging bull to the matador
Your in my head, my blood's been shed
But I see you 'cross the floor
Just venomous lies in a red disguise
and I aint taking anymore
So I run, I run
Straight for the storm

Purple haze and a rich man's compromise
One goes for miles and the other one just dies
And I can't see round here anymore
Seems like I've been here before

So I run
like a charging bull to the matador
Your in my head, my bloods been shed
But I see you 'cross the floor
Like the cannon ball flies on the fourth of July
and I aint takin' anymore
So I run, I run
Straight for the storm

Your only gift is the red in the sunset in the sky
I can live on dreams
but I can never live on lies

So I run
like a charging bull to the matador
Your in my head, my bloods been shed
But I see you 'cross the floor
Just venomous lies in a red disguise
and I can't take it anymore
So I run, I run
Straight for the storm
Track Name: I Can Fly
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

No money left for the IRS
No place to call my home
My new ex left with my old best friend
I'm heading west on out to Reno
They got a big rodeo out there
I drew a pretty good horse out there
And I'll kill my pain, a most unusual way
I nod my head, it all just goes away

Then I can fly
Up in the sky, I fly
On the fourth of July up high
Looking for 85
With the roar of the crowd in the background
Sometimes
They ask me why I ride
I don't have to answer why
When they see that I can fly

Pick up my pay check and I'm on my way
Pick-up dies on side of the road
Hitch a ride with some hippies from Frisco Bay
We're rolling north on up to Idaho
If I'm alive when I get there,
I've just enough money left for my airfare
And I'll board that bronc bound for the Milky Way
I'm takin' off on a rodeo runway

Cause I can fly
Up in the sky, I fly
On the fourth of July up high
Looking for 85
With the roar of the crowd in the background
Sometimes
They ask me why I ride
I don't have to answer why
When they see that I can fly

When it's time for me to ride
Across to the other side
Man, I hope it's a long time from today
Experience has taught me
There aint no need to worry
I'll nod my then it all just goes away

Then I can fly
Up in the sky, I fly
On the fourth of July, up high
Looking for 85
I hear a choir of angles in the back ground
Sometimes
When they ask me why I ride
I don't have to answer why
When they see that I can fly

Can't you see that I can
It's amazing how I can
I know it sound crazy, but I can fly.
Track Name: She Misses Mexico
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

We got married in December, a cold winter day
Honeymoon to Cozumel, somewhere warm to celebrate
Our dreams of the most incredible week came true
I was doing everything right, right from the start
'cause she took up all the room in my heart
Kickin' around the Caribbean Ocean blue

We came back home to reality, now she just wants to go back
She talks about it every day like it's all just in the past
Like there's nothin' more to look forward to
Man, it's the only thing I'm jealous of
On second thought I think I'm makin' this up
When she says she misses Mexico, she just misses us

(Chorus)
Holding hands, taking walks, and those late night talks
A little wine, taking our time and doing everything right
It doesn't matter where you're at, it's a whole lot more than that
When she says she misses Mexico, she just misses us

Now I feel like I'm learning, I'm getting smarter everyday
'cause I can tell just how I'm doing, I use her words as a gauge
When she says she wants to go back to Cozumel
Man, I should've took her to Hong Kong
On second thought I think I got it all wrong
When she says she misses Mexico, she just misses us

(Chorus)

I wish she wouldn't keep saying that
Now wait a minute, think I'm taking that back
'cause it keeps on getting better everyday
When the trials of life start kickin' in
I'll admit it's hard not to think about where we've been
But when she says she misses Mexico, she just misses us

You could be anywhere, ‘cause it’s all about the love that you share
When she says she misses Mexico, she just misses us
Yeah, when she says she misses Mexico, man, she just misses us
Track Name: Above The Timberline
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

The city offers you convenience
This ol' mountain offers you no lenience
But it's the life I choose to lead
Peace of mind's what I receive

I make my home above the timberline
In my saddlebags who knows what you’ll find
On my trusty steed I've got everything I need
Up here on the great divide

I went to college searching for my way
Textbooks for rodeos seemed a pretty even trade
Well I guess fate can handle each and every day
I wouldn't have it any other way, now

I make my home above the timberline
In my saddle bags who knows what you'll find
On my trusty steed I've got everything I need
Up here on the great divide

There's bighorn sheep
Look, there's an eagle flying down there
We got fish to eat and up here there aint no bears
It's the place that I reside
Up above the timberline
Fates in charge of everyday
I wouldn't have it any other way
Track Name: Bad Hay
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

Just another day,
same load of hay
No ones’s buying what I’m selling
Can’t blame ‘em, damn rain
Can’t stand the lies I’ve been tellin’
Further down the road
She’ll be waiting on me
To beg her no to go
With this heavy truck load of hay
I keep it slow while I find the right way to say

(CHORUS)
Go on, hear the words that I say
Go on, cause you know I'm haulin' bad hay
So hold on to the words that I say
When I say you don't need me
You're better off alone
Come on, hear the words that I say
So long, cause you know I'm haulin' bad hay
So hold on to the words that I say
When I say I love you darlin'
But I'll probably do you wrong, go on

A field needs the sun and rain
nearly everyday
To make hay on the land
Then the same damn rain
Will turn the harvest all bad
It’s been raining down on me
Since a long time ago
And it’s a high price to pay
For a truck load of rotten hay
I’d better tell her don’t stay

(CHORUS)

A raindrop can’t be dry
And a sunray can’t be cold
And I can’t be what I’m not
So you’d better go

(CHORUS)
Track Name: Heyday
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

I put forty hours in this week
And man it’s only Wednesday
I’ve been cussing this damn heat all day long
There’s got to be another way
So I pick up my guitar and I write song
Everybody hears and they sing along
Hey, hey, it’s a heyday
Hey, hey, yeah makin’ my own payday
My boss is such a jerk
I swear he’s never been outside
And I’ve just been his ‘yes sir’ man
And I’m running out of time
Everything about this is all wrong
It’s time to live some dreams before they’re gone
Hey, hey, it’s a heyday
Hey, hey, yeah makin’ my own payday
I’ve been thirty trips around the sun
I’m workin’ on thirty-one
I’m done throwin’ my whole life away
Gonna have some fun before it’s gone, hey, hey
Sittin’ here it’s all so clear
As I’m going down this road
‘cause I’ll be there ‘round eight o’clock
In time for my next show
My smile’s from ear to ear where it belongs
Everybody’s dancin’ and singin’ along
Hey, hey, it’s a heyday
Hey, hey, yeah makin’ my own payday
Hey, hey, it’s a heyday
Hey, hey, yeah makin’ my own payday
Track Name: What A Way To Go
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

I passed up good water and I don't know why
So I learned what I already knew
On a shortcut to Paradise through White Rock Mountain
I wish you could've seen it too

(Chorus)
The sky was bright fiery red with The Grand silhouette
Like nothin' that I'd ever known
At 12,000 feet on Lost Eagle Peak
What a way to go

You climb up so high 'till you can't remember any
Of your troubles or your trials or your fears
Then just one little oversight can cost you your life
You know it's just the way it goes up here

(Chorus)

Sometimes the view is so beautiful
That it wasn't meant for human eyes to see
Now I can never go back, at least I got to see that
You know it all was worth it to me

(Chorus)

I died at 12,000 feet on Lost Eagle Peak
But what a way to go.
Track Name: I'm Flattered
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

You say it's a matter of fact
Your reliable sources told you all that
Well some is true and some just aint
But I think that's the way that legends are made

And I'm Flattered
It's the thought that matters
All that time and energy
All day long just thinkin' 'bout me
Not that it matters, but I'm flattered
Even people I don't know
They’re all tuned in to my reality show

Well I'm like a superstar
Smashing up my guitar
If I get drunk or I get around
That's for you to know and for me to find out
Like when crashed my truck in town
Then I was gone 'fore anyone found out
Then I woke up at Stockman's Bar
After I got stoned in a stolen car
While I was drunk and on payroll
With a sexy red head nobody knows
To me it all seems so insane
I'm just happy to entertain

I'm Flattered
It's the thought that matters
All that time and energy
All day long just thinkin' 'bout me
Not that it matters, but I'm flattered
Even people I don't know
They’re all tuned in to my reality show

Well I feel real bad and you know it's true
'cause I haven't spent a second thinkin' 'bout you
And how you never make mistakes
You're so perfect in every way
Though you've been busy runnin' down my name
To me it aint more than a little fame
When rumors fly and it starts to hurt
I'll be right there selling my t-shirts

I'm Flattered
It's the thought that matters
All that time and energy
All day long just thinkin' up things about me
I'm flattered, not that it matters
Even people I don't know
They're all tuned in to my reality show

Yeah, even people I don't know
They're all tuned in to my reality show
Track Name: Glad I Took This Ride
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

I look out across the canyon
I wonder what I'm gonna see today
I wonder how I'll cross that river
Out here there aint no price to high to pay

I don't care about tomorrow
I don't care about yesterday
And I don't give a damn about things I can't change
I'm glad I took this ride today

I turn my horse toward the water
It's runnin' pretty high this time of year
But I can't keep this smile from off my face
Losing it is my only fear

I don't care about the money
I don't care about who knows my name
And I don't give a damn about things I can't change
I'm glad I took this ride today

To smell the flowers in the evening breeze
Out steps a bull elk from inside the trees
I stop and wonder what he thinks of me
I really do

I don't care about tomorrow
I don't care about yesterday
And I don't give a damn about things I can't change
I'm glad I took this ride today
I'm so glad I took this ride today
Track Name: Ridin' Wild Ponies
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

I got my Cadillac packed, she's loaded and ready
Gonna take her down the rode to the rodeo
With a new tank of fuel and a new Mountain Dew
I'm going to do just what I want to do
We’ll be ridin' wild ponies and chasin' pretty girls
Shooting for the title the champion of the world
We’ll just show up take the money and run
Even if I don't win I'll still have fun
Just ridin' wild ponies and chasin' pretty girls
Driving all around the world

Granddaddy said I need to find a girl and settle down
It's the secret to a happy life
Now I'm feeling pretty good guess he must have been right
I just found my one and only for the night
Well Bucky's on the phone and Arlen's heading home
Me, I just travel where ever I may roam
I just show up, take the money and run
Sometimes I don't win but I still have fun
Just ridin' wild ponies and chasin' pretty girls
Drivin' all around the world

Got my Cadillac packed, she's loaded and ready
Gonna take her down the rode to the rodeo
With a new tank of fuel and a cool Mountain Dew
I'm gonna do just what I want to do
We've been ridin' wild ponies and chasin' pretty girls
Finally won the title the champion of the world
I just show up take the money and run
Even though I always win, well I still have fun
Just ridin' wild ponies and chasin' pretty girls
Driving all around the world

We’ll be driving all around the world
Another half a million miles around the world
Track Name: Somebody Faithful
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

Almost there, another day
This aint working out
It just aint working out
I don’t care what they say
I’ll get this turned around
Get myself turned around
I gave to her nearly all of my time
I gave every dime but she don’t care
You gave me everything, but my side of the bed
I turn around and your not there

(Chorus)
Oh what I’d give to be faithful
To know somebody faithful that’s for real
To be with somebody faithful
To be somebody faithful

I look ahead, you look behind
It all looks the same
Nothing there to see but pain
I change my heart, you change your might
There’s no one left to blame
But this cold and lonely rain
I gave to her nearly all of my time
I gave every dime but she don’t care
I gave you everything but her side of the bed
I turn around and your not there

(Chorus)

I see a world that is turning away
I see people getting hurt everyday
If you want to believe then you got to pray

(Chorus)
Track Name: I'm Only Here...
Copyright 2010 (ASCAP)

I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only here when it's dark outside
I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only out when the sun subsides

(Chorus)
Sometimes a feeling comes right over me
I know the feeling that I can't resist
I know I got the whole world at my fingertips

I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only out when the sun subsides
I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only howl when the moon is high

(Chorus)

The people I know, they'd never know
I drive down the road, I'm in control
But there's another person I know
Who lives in my soul, he won't let go

I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only out when the moon is up
I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only out when its all messed up

(Chorus)

I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only here when it's raining
I'm only here when it's raining
I'm right here