A.J. Roach's new album has finally been released stateside. It's called "Revelation." Favorite song on it so far for me is "Chemicals" which gives us today's lyric of the day:

Whiskey's my shepherd, oh and I shall not want.
It maketh me lay down in a strange woman's bed.
It maketh me talk out of both sides of my mouth.
Maketh me feel like I'd be better off dead

They say that love is just a chemical reaction,
I say that makes this all too hard to explain.
Chemicals for me have been my only safe bastion,
They maketh me numb when e'er they run through my veins

And I say that you are a like a river in my dreams,
Dark as a dungeon just as a deep as a seam.
I'm just a man charged with wading across it,
Love's a 50-pound weight paired with a 100-pound chain.

Very sad, but he does it so well. I can listen to it over and over. My second favorite song on this album (so far) is the title track. Some lyrics:

Well the rich man walks in darkness for he has not seen the light.
I will bridge them troubled waters with the saviour by my side.
And the rich man lives on quick sand, but my house is almost done.
It's a mansion in the sky where I can watch them sinners run,
When the revelation comes.
When the revelation comes.

When the revelation comes, we will see his will be done.
As in heaven shall be there right here on earth.
When the first shall be the last and the last shall be first.
Everyone is judged on what they're really worth, what they're really worth.

Both this album, and his first album, "Dogwood Winter" are excellent. Highly recommended.