List of Regrets
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MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
Woke up like those days in vegas
With our plans of trying to change us
But can’t seem to make it past the coffee today
Your sunglasses on the table
By your keys and Costello’s best
It seems it’s not the only thing you’re throwing away
Remember how we said we’d take on the world
Remember how you said you would always be my girl
I’ll take you wherever you want to go
I’ll tell you what ever you want to know
But How To Let Go
Listening to the Beatle you left me
Stuck with only pictures and memories
It looks like I’m down to my last cigarette
I needed more than a blindfold
To deal with all the lines that you stole
When to good to be true is too hard to forget
Remember how you said that wasn’t so
Remember how you said I would never be alone
I’ll take you wherever you want to go
I’ll tell you what ever you want to know
I’ll give you anything just let me know
Just say so, however it goes
Just tell me what you want just don’t tell me no
Or How To Let Go
2008 122bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
You seem to call me out
Just to shoot me down
You spread the charm so thick
Until I start to drown
Beneath all these wishes
I can see you scatter
Breathing misconception
Into all of your answers
So what will you tell
What will you say
When it ends this way
Where will you turn
When you’re looking away
Is it more than you could take?
When it’s Never Beautiful
You measure to my doubts
Until the truth comes out
And you feed the lies so rich
Until I choke them down
Atop all of these stitches
I can see you swagger
Mixing thin confessions
Like none of it matters
So what will you tell
What will you say
When it ends this way
Where will you turn
When you’re looking away
Is it more than you could take?
When it’s Never Beautiful
2008 108.5bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
We’ve come so close
Here alone
It doesn’t make sense to me I know
Holding out for brighter days
Should we have gone our separate ways
And what we are
Falls apart
We’ve drug this around for long enough
You are Everything
I need
Don’t throw it away
You are the very thing
I need
Don’t throw it away
Is this how it goes
I should of known
That you’d be better on your own
And though somehow
I can’t explain
The difference that I’m desperate to save
And all of these scares
Are torn apart
We’ve drug this around for long enough
You are Everything
I need
Don’t throw it away
You are the very thing
I need
Don’t throw it away
Can you see what we could be
It’s more than you would ever need
Now that I have you here
What is it you want from me
2008 104bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
I’m still sitting here
Thinking of you, Looking out at the world
There you were
Those eyes were true, Larger than life
Horizon so bright
That everything,Was so far out of site
I don’t need any answers
The stars aren’t hard to find
When I’m on your shoulders
I can reach the sky
I’m still waiting here
On bacon street,With all I’ve left behind
Reminding me
Of those times we’ve had, Can you see
What’s true despite
Everything,So far out of site
I don’t need any answers
The stars aren’t hard to find
When I’m on your shoulders
I can reach the sky
You’ve always been my strength
Since that December day
2008 108.5bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
Maybe someone should of told me
Maybe I should of listened when you said
I’d be on my own
Little did I know
I came around to slow
Maybe you weren’t the only
To see the things that we knew so well
Burnt like hell
All this place
To an empty shell
I think we’ve seen enough
I could swear I’d seen it coming
Maybe it’s time to stand
Maybe it’s time to fall
On our own, after all
Maybe it’s time to stand
Maybe it’s time to fall
Maybe we should of know, after all
Maybe it’s not so simple
Maybe if I had a little more to give
Then you had to take
I could shake the blame
It was such a shame
Maybe if I wasn’t so crippled
Maybe you would of left me on my feet
When you walked that day
Instead of broke down
What you got to say
Because I’ve seen you when times are tough
And I could swear I see you running
Maybe it’s time to stand
Maybe it’s time to fall
On our own, after all
Maybe it’s time to stand
Maybe it’s time to fall
Maybe we should of know, after all
2008 94bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
Sarah am I rough around the edges
Do you need more than I’ve been
Sarah don’t you care who I sleep with
Can you bring me back to you again
Did you slip up this time
Is it starting to feel right
Sarah can you take me
Can’t you shake me
Am I getting closer
Than you’d let me
Sarah am I good for your complexion
Do we touch on perfection
Sarah don’t you care how you leave this
Did you slip up this time
Is it starting to feel right
Sarah can you take me
Can’t you shake me
Am I getting closer
Than you’d let me
Sarah, Oh Sarah.
Are you telling your friends they’re wrong
Sarah, Oh Sarah
Are you picking out our theme song
2008 144bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
I shouldn’t of jump through hoops
To prove myself to you
Your still putting words in my mouth
But you can’t finish them out
Somewhere along the line you lost your right
Are you strong enough around this time
Do you think
You’re A Step Away from where
You’re A Step behind
Do you think
Your A Step Away and I swear
You’re a Step behind
I shouldn’t of been to you
All that this has come to
You’re still using me to sort out
All that’s holding you down
Somewhere along the line you lost your right
You’re not strong enough around this time
Do you think
You’re A Step Away from where
You’re A Step behind
Do you think
Your A Step Away and I swear
You’re a Step behind
2008 108.5bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
Why has it got to be so typical
When it’s left up to you
Understand I’m not like those old friends
You seem to go through
This isn’t my kind of lonely
Not the kind I see with you
I haven’t run out of nobody
Because I know how it makes you
I showed you a different color
Than what your use to
Tell me about your lovers baby
Are they all over you
Or are they still Black & Blue
I Didn’t know I was the one percent
That got close to you
Understand those weren’t the only words you said
That felt like the truth
Is this just some kind of only
After all been through
Because I’m not sad for nothing at all
And I’m not trying to make you
I showed you a different color
Than what your use to
Tell me about your lovers baby
Are they all over you
Or are they still Black & Blue
Listen this is my kind of moment
I never thought we’d see it through
It’s not for nothing
Just something I’ve shared with you
2008 108.5bpm
MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK
She only calls me when she needs company
Likes to keep her distance safe
Trys to drown herself in all the things that she should be
Still convinced it’s not all in vein
She likes to count the stars from her balcony
Still can’t escape her Mississippi ways
She keeps putting me off for the day
That she’s sure she’ll come to see
Telling me that
She’s the only one
That’s keeping it straight
But I can’t tell her why
It’s so cold in December
I can’t give advice
On how things are meant to change
Should I repeat the times
That she forgets to remember
Even now
It doesn’t mean The Same
She doesn’t like to air her dirty laundry
Said she’d just be starting the game
And all but her eyes seem to ignore me
Keeping her affection off display
Sparing time between cigarettes and rosaries
And claiming that it’s
The only way
She’s keeping faith
But I can’t tell her why
It’s so cold in December
I can’t give advice
On how things are meant to change
Should I repeat the times
That she forgets to remember
Even now
It doesn’t mean
That what’s not spoken has been unsaid
And I think she knows
That I can see past the face she shows
How her act goes
When she confides all her faults
Her sun and her salt underneath it all
To me
2008 98bpm
LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK | MUSIC BY: J. KETCHMARK, A. GREENOUGH
I know your searching for something
That you haven’t had yet
No matter how much it takes from you
You can’t seem to forget
All the truths you tell so well
You’d never really admit
Does it take sometime
to read between the lines
You keep drawing in the sand
Can you see the shadow your standing in
Can you feel you’ve been
Weighed down
Wait up
Is all this your leaving for nothing now
I know your putting more trust in
Then you ever did get
And after all that this has come to
You won’t leave to regret
Does it take sometime
to read between the lines
Is there more to understand
Can you see the shadow your standing in
Can you feel you’ve been
Weighed down
Wait up
Is all this your leaving for nothing now
2008 126bpm
LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK | MUSIC BY: J. KETCHMARK, G. RIPES
Tell me what life’s like from your hotel room
Are the colored lights
still shining from your different view
With your last words still wet on the page
It looks like you’ve reached
your critical acclaim
Can you hear me say
Wake up, wake up, your Finally Famous
You’re the one
and a million you said you would be
Can you hear the voices
in the room next to you
Your holding out
for some sympathy that just won’t do
The moments you wish you could trade
Would you trade your critical acclaim
Can you hear me say
Wake up, wake up, your Finally Famous
You’re the one
and a million you said you would be
And I confess, that I’m jealous
That theirs nothing left here to save us
So wake up, wake up, your Finally Famous
Are these words still found on your lips
The decision you’re living with
Do you ever still reminisce
Because right now
You’re on my mind
2008 102bpm
GREENSHOELACE.COM ALBUM REVIEW
Joshua Ketchmark is an emotional dude. Labeled as a “damn good soundtrack to his life,” Ketchmark’s debut album, List of Regrets, is a lineup of regrettable tunes chronicling heartbreak, watching friends self-destruct, and the like. It’s as heartfelt as can be for a man searching for truth only to be left demoralized by the harsh realities of life – and Ketchmark does a fantastic job of subjecting the listener to that feeling. The album is drenched in lush arrangments and the breathy swoon of a tortured soul. The track “Everything” released in early 2009 and sounds like a throwback to everything you heard in the early 90s, complete with Ketchmark’s guitar licks that offer to do the crying for him. I have a feeling we’ll be hearing more of him in the future.
NOW THIS ROCKS ALBUM REVIEW
Illinois native Joshua Ketchmark has recently released an impressive debut that happens to be the “soundtrack to his life…it very well could be the soundtrack to yours”. Music is at the heart of Ketchmark’s existence; as an only child, a guitar served as his surrogate sibling. Before long he found himself in Nashville, honing his songwriting chops and picking up more instruments along the way. By incorporating himself into the fabric of musician’s society, he soon found himself working as a guitar tech, providing opportunities to rub elbows with producer extraordinaire Rob Cavallo, Johnny Lang, and Melissa Etheridge. In fact, Etheridge let him use her signature 12-string guitar to record his debut record, which is the first thing you hear in the Byrds-like riff on the excellent “How 2 Let Go”.
All Ketchmark’s tunes follow the formula we love: quiet but engaging versus that erupt into a catchy arena-ready chorus. As you would expect from a “soundtrack to life”, Ketchmark touches on familiar themes of romance, but also explores feelings of loss (of his father in “On Your Shoulders”) and finding happiness in the wrong place (the eerie and mysterious “Now”). Overall, the production is great and the vocals are well done (would have enjoyed more pronounced harmonies, though).
“List Of Regrets” will satisfy fans of The Calling, Lifehouse, or 2000-era Goo Goo Dolls. What a great way to start off 2010! Ketchmark has delivered a remarkable debut and I look forward to hearing this artist grow into a superstar.
iPOD-worthy: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10
DAVID MARX REVIEW ALBUM REVIEW
This eleven-track album by Joshua Ketchmark, is a full on, roller-coaster ride through the back pages of downtown potential and West Coast Americana. In other words, List Of Regrets is a high-octane, smorgasbord cross betwixt mid-nineties Matthew Sweet (circa Girlfriend) Ryan Adams (circa 29) and the mighty under-rated Dramarama (circa Hi-Fi Sci-Fi).
So, lots to ponder and riddle upon.
The slow build of the blues based opening track ‘How 2 Let Go’ (replete with Prince spelling), compellingly sets the stage for what’s in store. Its kloof like musicality, wholeheartedly lending itself to the rather lyrically pensive follow-up, ‘Never Beautiful.’ A song that’s as equally introspective as it idiosyncratic, one would indeed be wise to traipse with considered caution, especially when Ketchmark sings: ‘I can see you scatter/Breathing misconception/Into all of your answers.’
Gadamer with a guitar (German philosopher, who, by way of Truth and Method, tried to clarify the phenomenon of understanding)? Or, inadvertent sage with a mighty list of pronouncements to make, by way of rock’n’roll?
Either way, what we have here and throughout the album as a whole, is a compelling assortment of niftily crafted tones; replete with well-constructed words and measured production by Ketchmark himself. Prime examples being the backwards Beatlesesque guitar on ‘On Your Shoulder’ and the distorted avalanche of guitars (care of Greg Ripes) throughout the alluringly titled ‘Maybe.’
To be sure, when the singer/songwriter moves away from the more obviously clinical rock stuff, the embryonic intensity of drama in such a song as ‘It Doesn’t Mean The Same’ is invariably allowed to breath and shine. A line such as ‘Spanning time between cigarettes and rosaries/And claiming that it’s/The only way,’’ might, in some quarters, be considered as good as it gets. But, because it’s partially and unfortunately smothered with superfluous clutter, it doesn’t quite hit the mark. This is a shame really, because as mentioned at the outset, List Of Regrets has oodles of potential.
The sort of which, warrants both recognition and respect.