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Germination!

by Big Dudee Roo

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1.
Michigan (free) 03:50
They say home is where the heart is Well I need to get my heart back again There’s people everywhere I turn So why the hell do I feel so alone Get on that train On that train and don’t look back again There’s something strong, it pulls you back When you’re away to the place where you come from A longing from the heart detached Grows and grows ‘til you get back again So I’ll ride that train Ride that train back home to Michigan It hurts to know that things have changed Ones who stayed moved on since I’ve been gone I missed you then but I didn’t know why Now I know that change it had to come But once I get back Once I get back will this all just melt away? It does no good to tell myself Everything happens for a reason It does nothing to ease the mind 'Til all this trouble is far behind So I’m going back to Michigan Going back let this work be done by time
2.
Be Present 05:19
Doldrums lift me up Swing me round and set me down I want to feel for once, that’s all Don’t need to feel anymore That beauty is smiling at me Showing me its teeth, beckoning I can see it far out on the horizon And I think that will be quite enough for me We’re gonna drink it down, down, down While we all are rising up Swing me round, swing me round, round, round ‘Til you collapse, belly up I’m under the spell though I don’t know what it is Only need another body to share it with Be Present, Be Present Sympathetic when you’re part of the sound Smell the sights that are all around Empathetic with the plight of the ground Feel the world that revolves around
3.
Standing knee deep in my own footsteps Same ones I walked so many times before Thinking about the times yet to pass And the dreams that have been cast in stone Movers, shakers, and Takers Look down on me from someplace on high Don’t mind me, I’ll say, as they trod me down I’m just watering the burden that’s growing on my mind This morning I woke up and cursed the sun ‘Cause in my dream you were there Laughing and smiling back at me I held you close and lost all care Sometimes my eyes they see too far gazing off around the bend There I will be waiting, waiting for you and all to see as mine eyes do I don’t know and I can’t find that buried treasure, peace of mind Locked away in time We’re so caught up in time I don’t know and I can’t find that elusive line Between theory and drive There’s always so much on my mind Spring is come and things they bloom again I still don’t know where to begin Turned that corner, but here I am alone Knee deep in the sorrow that’s been sown
4.
Hello, I’m new around here Just opened my eyes This body’s been walking around But I’m just now finding my way back inside Breathe deep and I breathe in you Yours is my origin Know myself when I bind with you Who can say where I end and another begins? You knew me well as a boy In the backyard under your shade But it’s still so hard to leave my mind I hate that I ever was taught to be this way But this is not the way it has to be And another world’s on its way From an older day when we still could speak To everyone we now call everything Feels good to crawl back inside The eternal womb But I find it scarred and brittle It makes my heart race to see so much entombed Spent some time in the concrete mimic Of any normal place to live and be Everything of human origin I can’t think with all these mirrors reflecting back on me Now I’m back in a kinder space And there’s still so much we have to replace Feel the leaves blowing in the trees Trying to remember how it feels to be free And I know that wherever I may go I’ll always carry you with me in this unfolding In the way that a seashell always carries the ocean
5.
What if the sun looked out one morning With a different light And all the people said No To endless toil, a darkening veil And progress made with nothing to show But loss and consequence Awakened, eyes awide, 10,000 years gone by Now where do we go from here? Back to the balance of all things And the beauty that can still be seen If you remember how to look If we wish to stop the atrocities We merely need to step away from the isolation There’s a whole world out there awaiting our return Ready to welcome us home Let’s go home To the heart of the world That we haven’t known for so long That we’ve forgotten how it feels To be a part of the whole A part of it all Yes, judgment day is on its way But no savior on a pedestal awaits And nobody here, even those pure of heart Can be saved by only faith You can’t forgive all that we’ve done And all we’ve caused We built ourselves an aircraft then forgot how to fly Now we’re struggling against the world, falling through her sky So come along with me, all you that see this fate But don’t yet open your parachutes, ‘cause this machine will not change Once we know that this aircraft has plunged down to its demise We can float down behind, hoping that we survive To see the new sun rise
6.
In these bleak days It’s good to see your smiling face Brown eyes make me forget To stay wrapped up in my own head If you should find me All alone, eyes far, far away I’ll find my way back before too long, so Just pick me up before you go We’ve learned never to be Fully in the present tense Because to feel what’s there Might mean to feel all the sorrow and despair But this isn’t really living We’re only fending off death What is there to live for Ask yourself, what is there to die for? Time has comet To decide where you’ll belong Time is now To decide between right and wrong I know it’s hard To break through the haze and think for yourself But I know it’s wrong To stand by and watch as this evil train barrels on Do you merely want to feel alright As life crumbles around your ears Well, I prefer to burn with the honest truth Know I’m alive when I taste the tears The next generations They’re gonna wonder, what the hell were you doing? When they look back on all we’ve done, and all that we’ve not done Before turning back to their broken world So much has been destroyed But life is still so, so good And that’s all the reason I need To die knowing I gave all that I could Time has come To decide where you’ll belong Time is now To defend that which you love I know it’s wrong ‘Cause neutrality is complicity But I know it’s right To fight like hell against all the evil you see And I know it’s right ‘Cause I can feel it in my bones And I know it’s right ‘Cause I can taste it in the wind And I know it’s right Because you always get more when you give And I know it’s right ‘Cause life wants to live

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Big Dudee Roo:
Max Lockwood
Justin Dore
Aurora Lewis
Amanda Smith
Nate Wagner
Kurt Rizley

Music written by Max and BDR. Words by Max.

Recorded, engineered and mixed by Alex Hamel at Hollow Earth Studio in Grand Rapids, MI. Mastered by Andrew Mitchell at Audio Bay Studio in Rockford, MI.

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released September 1, 2010

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Big Dudee Roo Grand Rapids, Michigan

Big Dudee Roo is committed to rock and roll, and the making of it. Started by high school friends Justin Dore, Max Lockwood, Kurt Rizley and Nate Wagner in the small town of Wayland, MI, the band has matured into a powerhouse of driving rhythms, heavy guitars, and thoughtful, poetic lyricism, combining the raw energy of Crazy Horse with the polish of Pearl Jam and Tom Petty. ... more

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