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Songs From Apartment #12

by Robbie Tucker

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    This is the follow up to my debut and it's my only double album so far with 24 tracks. It has a very indie homemade sound.

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1.
Hilda 04:31
Me and Hilda Hilda my dear Both were we walking To somewhere far away from here from here Nice were the reasons She gave me for love And old were the arms that Showed me how to show me how to love Hilda Hilda dear My Hilda is not here Waited much too long Now Hilda’s lost in my song Hilda loved Lois and Lois loved her too And when Sherman’s Lois Died what could she do She could she do could she do Everything she could for me Standing up and down for me And running all around for me For me for me for me for me for me I ain’t got to live here and what little time I got I’ll try and be contented to remain The only friend I’ve got now is that good old dog of mine And a little old log cabin in the rain Me and Hilda are both far away I know that she’s gone now She told me yesterday to say goodbye And to cry yeah for Hilda Yeah for Hilda I miss you my Hilda I miss you my Hilda Oh oh oh oh my Hilda
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We were up all night Yeah we stayed up late Till the sun came up we were still awake Yeah me secretary Maureen It wasn’t like she got the chance To call her mom or learn to dance But you could tell by the way she talked She was concerned with way she walked And it wasn't lines of physiognomy Or the way she hung so vertically She was just secretary Maureen yeah Secretary Maureen get up sit down Secretary Maureen come in get out Secretary Maureen secretary Maureen Secretary Maureen make love to me Secretary Maureen do my laundry Secretary Maureen secretary Maureen She puts on her face each day To cover up what she can't say And to briefly feel loved If only for a moment in his arms And her eyes are black and her eyes are blue And the words he says are reminding you Of the ones he said before Gently sends you screaming to the ground Get up and walk away Maureen Get up and run away Maureen Get up and fly away Maureen Maureen Stand up talk to me Maureen Don't be afraid of him Maureen Take back your life again Maureen Maureen My secretary Maureen Someone would only give her a chance To call her mom and learn to how to dance Someone would only cut her some slack Yeah yeah my Maureen could come back Yeah my Maureen could come back Yeah Maureen please come back My secretary Maureen my secretary Maureen My secretary Maureen
3.
Too tired to make yeah I'm half awake I'd like to go home with you Who’s there to blame why not my name I don't know about you Yeah it gets late and the sun goes down I can feel your arms around me Yeah reading words in Japanese Hiding all the dopamine from me yeah I’m on my knees for not long you see Put on your shoes run away I’d never look inside a book I’d be afraid of what it’d say Oh I hope you don’t take offense To all these words that make no sense to you Ah but I can't help your thinkin’ thoughts And I’m not gonna try to
4.
Pennie Moore 04:31
Penny Moore was standing by A crowd of men who couldn't try To take her heart away Try to give her what she needed And everyday past waiting through Lot's of folks who're loving you To try to try to much And to feel your feelings out yeah yeah Penny Moore left home the day Her father said it's anyway And everything I say is how You live and how you walk It’s how you breathe and how you talk Oh Penny Moore So penny said I’m leaving home Her father said it'd be alone And don't expect that you'll return You're no longer welcome here And he did not cry a tear For Penny Moore So Penny Moore got on a train Then on a bus the on a plane To try get away from her problems in her head But she didn't see or think about Her problems or the lack of doubt And how she'd have to deal With everything ahead And everyday a little Moore Was standing cold and waiting for A man to say I love you so If only for an hour and with out a pretty flower Oh Penny Moore But she could see her life was bad And everything that made her mad Had made her leave only home And made her father grin and she could not let him win Oh Penny Moore Penny Moore woke up again In the street alone without a friend Her hands were nearly froze And they stained from all the smoking And every time she'd say to you What am I supposed to do You'd simply have to say Miss Penny Moore it's time to go home Now it's time to go home Yeah yes it’s time to go home time to go home Cause he didn't mean everything he said Now Penny’s dad was nearly dead And he would die alone Without his daughter knowing That the time he spent away from her Had broke his heart and he was sure He would never see Penny’s face again Her face again her face again But the words had made it to her ears And Penny realized her fears So somehow made her way back home But would it be in time just to see him one last time Oh Penny Moore So Penny Moore got off a plane Then off a bus then off a train Into a yellow cab Which drove in his direction And even though she had been gone What didn't seem like very long Her face had really changed Yeah it must have been the cold And when her eyes had met with his He began to cry and she had to miss The time that they had spent apart Was longer than a day too long for them to say Oh Penny Moore And as Penny's dad began to die Penny Moore began to cry And as he slipped away She whispered in his ear Oh Daddy oh I love you so And tell me once before you go That you love me too And you're glad I came home That you are glad I came home That you are glad I came home yeah Now go to heaven all alone
5.
Dorthy Luck 02:26
The kettles on the stove Driving down the road Hoping not to be late Dorothy said to be there by eight She was happy and she is sad She made us lunch and we were glad Cause we had been driving all day It was rainy but we were dry Dorothy Luck had made us pie Always like to do things that way The kettles on the stove Driving down the road Without the high beams on Lights are off when the lights aren't on Dorothy Luck had heard the news A local store was selling shoes The kind that she had heard of in her dreams She got up and she got out There’s not much more to talk about Dorothy Luck had spent some bucks on shoes The kettles on the stove Were driving down the road Dorothy Lucks alone As we start to driving back home We’re going back home we’re going back home Bye bye Dorthy bye bye Dorthy oh bye Dorthy cause we’re going back home yeah we’re going back home
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Lovely Rose 02:49
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Come down here on the floor I want to make love where I am There wont be no fighting down here on the floor So please won’t you give me your hand Sometimes I kind of regret Falling in love with you But the time that we've spent and the time that'll we'll spend Mean more to me than it does you And I can't hide the feelings I have in my heart No no no Sometimes were together sometimes were apart And I know know know And I can't hide the feelings I have in my heart No no no Sometimes were together sometimes were apart And I know know know Can you just try a little to not break my heart In case i find love with a man I know you don't mean it and me you don't know But please try to understand And I can't hide the feelings I have in my heart No matter how much I try I don't want you to leave and then we'll drift apart I love you so don’t say goodbye So come down here on the floor I want to make love where I am There won’t be no fighting down here on the floor So please won’t you give me oh please won’t you give me Oh please won’t you give me your hand
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It's gonna take a little time to get over you But it's something that I'll have to do No more crying out my eyes no more singing a sad song A maybe baby it’s a something I did wrong No more shaken off the rain I think I'll go insane If you don't mind And you know that I really really love you Why would I lie there is not anyone above you Don't walk away I'll play my ukulele for you Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Here I am here I be Alone with you and your alone with me If I take two steps from where I am I will be two steps from where I was Oh George Harrison said it's okay Yeah yeah George Harrison said it's okay Yeah yeah George Harrison said it's okay Now one of these days I am gonna climb that mountain That's something that my father used to say No more living out my dreams (no more dreams) inside of my head Until I am to old to give a fuck No more saying that I can (saying that I can) It's time to be a man if you don't mind And if you were on top of the horizon You could be with me and I really am not lying Don't walk away I'll play my ukulele for you Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Here I am here I be Alone with you and your alone with me And if I take two steps from where I am I gonna be two steps from where I was Yeah George Harrison said it's okay Oh George Harrison said it's okay Yeah yeah George Harrison said it's okay
10.
When she was younger she didn't have any friends She really was lost sad broken and again she dreamed of ballerinas and sunshine from above and love She picked one or two daisies as she walked home To keep in her jacket when she was all alone Knee deep in sadness of which there’s no escape for her No escape for her And when she dropped her books on the floor They would laugh at her By saying words she never sang before And they had never heard Standing up and running into what made her afraid Betty's summer vacation She's getting ready for fun No more writing on paper It's time to go out in the sun Now you see Betty must find what she left behind And what’s more when she cries she flies to unwind Leaving or standing it's all up to her to be Ahh yeah she goin’ be sitting’ there screaming excuses For all them things she never got a chance to do Life was so much easier before she met you Making it harder and impossible to breath So why don’t you get your stuff And get your butt on outta here boy And when she finally saw her eyes through the world She was terrified Then finding she’s somebody else’s girl And had no where to hide Waking up and falling asleep with nobody to blame So please set Betty free She ain’t the one to blame So standing as the escalator walks Speaking when nobody else could talk Thinking of everything that reminds her of you Betty's summer vacation She's getting ready for fun No more writing on paper It's time to go out in the sun Betty's summer vacation She's getting ready for fun No more writing on paper It's time to go out in the sun So come on out in the sun out in the sun
11.
So would it interest you my dear To stay for one more hour with me And if I’d ask for to hold you in my arms What would your answer be Well I’ve been so sad for so so long I can’t remember what it feels Like when I hear someone say Words that they really yeah Words they really Words that they really mean One more hour with you So one two candles burning slow And the clock says 9:08 to me I can see you sleeping in my bed Now the clock says 9:13 Let me tell you that I need to Let you know that that I need you To stay with me for one more hour Then you can go home but not yet Now you're awake and you’re kissing me Just as I write this song for you When I when I say I love you you say to me That you love me too just that you love That you love me too you love me too You love me too Just one more hour with you
12.
Yeah the older silent professor Said he'd like to hold your hand And eventually undress you And then make love in the sand Who really needs someone to love Yeah he whispers in your ear Can it be really up above Anything that you fear You think for a bit without logic You know this might just be ok And no that certainly no one would suspect that That you would ever ever be that way Now things begin to start unfold And You are not sure you feel ok I mean your young and he's so old This ain't the best you could have done today You ask him to stop for a moment Just to explain the big mistake Yeah you’re quickly undoubtedly scolded As you continue to request the same You and your mind start to separate Oh how can you end this equation This is disaster and not fate Yeah you must stop this invasion You remember the gun That he keeps in the drawer next to your hand And as you are ignored you open the drawer And the guns now in your hand Yeah you turn to his side his hands are all tied Your feeling denied But you cant help feeling sorry for him As you blow him away You quickly gather your homework That he assigned today There’s red blood on your white shirt As you hide your gun away He didn’t have someone to love Yeah so so what you did is ok He doesn’t have a boy or girl Yeah or wife to love now anyway He’s the silent professor He’s the silent professor Yeah he’s the silent professor He’s the silent professor
13.
She's in love with a boy who is far away He lived next door but he couldn't stay He ran out of cash and he ran out of time But Damien says he'll be back in a while Jersey misses Damien just like Ashley misses her boyfriend And Damien misses jersey too And Ashley doesn't know what to do So come home so Damien come home See he covered her kitchen in aluminum foil Coloured his hair to look like a boy He covered her bed with rose peddles too So she would know that he loved her too Jersey misses Damien just like Just like Ashley misses her boyfriend Damien misses jersey too And Ashley well she don’t know what to do So come home so Damien come home Cause I miss you and I love you And I know you feel the same I’d like to kiss and hug you And I will never ever feel ashamed So now give me a chance to finish my song I'm almost done and it won't be long Two more lines and I’ll be through Now that I’m done oh what can I do Jersey she misses Damien just like Just like Ashley misses her boyfriend And Damien misses jersey too And Ashley well she don’t know what to do So come home come home Come home so come home So come home come home So come home yeah come home My baby Damien come home
14.
When I awoke last night I was feeling sort of down But I didn’t want to wake you up We were lying in our bed where your arms were wrapped around Me cause we’re so in love I wanna be home I don’t wanna be alone No I wanna run home and stand on my own Do all the things that I wanna do With my man and my boys too Watch them grow up to watch us grow old Forget it it’s not meant to be I was feeling all alone in this bed all by myself Oh how I miss being home with you But I’m not so then I’ll write it in my red hard covered book That I miss being home with you I wanna go home my god I feel so all alone Please help me go home please help me help me go home Do all the things that I wanna do With my boys and my man too Give me a chance I wanna chance I wanna chance Oh Jason be good to your dad when I’m gone He’s an incredible man Yeah give him the love and things he deserves When I no longer can yeah when I no longer can So I’m writing a letter to my mom And I’m using things she wrote to base my letter on And if by chance well reading I get kind of sad Well I can always call my dad Lois Anne Hogan and then Tucker was her name She fell in love with Dad who loved her just the same And then Jesus Christ said he must drag her off to die And gave no fucking reason why yeah yeah I’m writing a letter to Lois Lois Anne Tucker is my Mom She’s gone but I still wanna hold her But her letters and her memories Are all I have and to believe That her letters and her memories Will keep me holding on to these These letters from my Mom
15.
Saggy Maggy 02:26
Saggy Maggy’s blue And she don't know what to do So she just walks around Making saggy Maggy sounds Saggy Maggy come and find me Saggy Maggy surprise me with your eyes And it wont take long before you find your way Saggy Maggy’s through Listening to you Maggy packed a bag And walked out on her legs Saggy Maggy come and find me Saggy Maggy surprise me with your eyes And it wont take long before you find a way Hey hey hey Saggy Maggy come and find me Saggy Maggy surprise me with your eyes And it wont take long before you find a way Saggy Maggy’s blue And she don't know what to do So she just walks around Making saggy Maggy sounds Saggy Maggy Making saggy Maggy sounds Saggy Maggy Making saggy Maggy sounds Saggy Maggy Making saggy Maggy sounds Yeah yeah yeah
16.
Lydia’s Linda looks out the window And thinks of the words in her head And last night Lucinda and Lydia’s Linda Both were alone in a bed Lydia’s Linda alone with Lucinda Made love for hours on end And there without Linda laid Lydia lone in the Last place I love you was said She just made a mistake Like we all do sometimes Like we all sometimes do She just made a mistake Alone at the window Lydia’s Linda Cried with her hands on her head And thinking out loud in a one woman crowd Wishing that she was dead And the noise that she made cut like a blade Right to her Lydia’s heart As she turned around oh the sad Linda found The one she had loved from the start I just made a mistake Like we all do sometimes yeah Like we all sometimes do I just made a mistake Lydia had tears in her eyes And Lydia was hurt by the lies But she loved Linda so much it wouldn't take long To realize leaving Linda was wrong You just made a mistake Like we all do sometimes Like we all sometimes do yeah You just made a mistake
17.
You tried to take over my arms You tried to take over my legs You tried to take over my back and my shoulder While I was looking the other way   Oh yeah PD get out of my life PD get out of my life My slowness of movement has shown some improvement So PD get out of my life yeah yeah  I was finding it hard just to stand Or to do anything with my hands My dopamine maker has taken a breaker And my neurotransmitters off yeah yeah  PD get out of my life PD get out of my life Yeah without my Requip yeah my diction is shit Well PD get out of my life yeah yeah   No no no no Alright lets get down real low You affected the way I would walk You affected the way I would talk You were make me mumble you were making me stumble You were making me wish you would stop You affected the way I would walk You affected the way I would talk You were make me mumble you were making me stumble You were making me wish you would stop And just when I thought the music had died Something turned back on in my mind So PD get outta my PD get outta my So PD get outta my PD get outta my life PD get out of my life PD get out of my life I lack L-Dopa but I’m on Prolopa So PD get out of my life PD get out of my life PD get out of my life I lack L-Dopa but I’m on Prolopa PD get out of my life PD get out of my life PD get out of my life
18.
I would never put a blanket between us I'd wanna be close to your skin With both of my arms wrapped around you Then I finish from start to begin I can't imagine my life without you But I know that you're not even real I forget what to say when I'm talking And I’ve lost everything that I feel I would never put a blanket between us No I'd wanna be close to your skin With both of my arms wrapped around you Then I finish from start to begin When the time comes to be lonely I will read letters written by mom Well having a wonderful time Just flicking the light off and on I would never put a blanket between us No I'd wanna be close to your skin With both of my arms wrapped around you Then I finish from start to begin Then I finish from start to begin Then I finish from start to begin
19.
It isn’t hard to please me but you want to tease me Come back to me my love You couldn't make me jealous with all the fellas So come back to me my love Come back to me my love Come back to me my love It'd be nice to kiss you twice So come back to me my love Can't you hear me that I love you dearly Come back to me my love I have to kiss ya cause I deeply miss ya So come back to me my love Come back to me my love Come back to me my love I will hold you tight every single night So come back to me my love Can't you hear me that I love you dearly Come back to me my love I have to kiss ya cause I deeply miss you So come back to me my love Come back to me my love Come back to me my love I will hold you tight every single night So come back to me my love I will hold you tight every single night So come back to me my love I’m not gonna beg ya so friggin frig ya Don't come back to me my love There's plenty others who'll share my covers Don't come back to me my love Don't you come back to me my love Don't you come back to me my love I must be delirious don't take me serious And come back to me my love
20.
Put on a dress her hair is a mess You know the rest it’s always the same Telling you lies making you cry Reading the words that you don’t understand She’s wearing brown shoes That you can’t afford Where did she get them And does she have more You gave her a ring you taught her to sing And now that she knows she’s walking away You painted her face and fell out of place You took her to lunch she left you the bill Why does she try to see How bad she can make you feel You did nothing wrong Except write her a song About how all the times You laid awake at night And wondered what time it would be When she would use her key to come inside the door She’s wearing brown shoes That you can’t afford Where did she get them And does she have more Carrie I can see that you are not in love with me Anymore and I'm very sure That I cannot take the heartache that you're causing my heart to make Anymore and I’m very sure Sie trägt braune Schuhe Put on a dress her hair is a mess You know the rest it’s always the same Telling you lies making you cry Reading the words that you don’t understand Put on a dress her hair is a mess You know the rest it’s always the same Telling you lies making you cry Reading the words that you don’t understand Put on a dress her hair is a mess You know the rest it’s always the same Put on a dress her hair is a mess You know the rest it’s always the same Yeah it’s always the same Yeah it’s always the same
21.
Could you help me for a moment Could you stop for just a bit I need only twenty dollars To help me fly away with mister Pip See I know that that you don’t know That you don't know mister Pip But believe me when I tell you It's thaumaturgic in the ship of mister Pip Well I can see that obviously That will need to know So if you let me I will tell you What he will do and what for Mister Pip has a ship flying far away Mister Pip has a ship flying far away See his plans are very simple Nearly thought out and barely planned And when I can feel twenty dollars Folded in half in my hand I’ll tell you more Thank you for your contribution To the ship me and mister Pip So and what more do you fancy that I tell you Got a bit before I leave Oh my ship is made of cardboard Aluminum foil and rubber bands Paper clips and Styrofoam cups And of course tins of cherry jam for the fuel Mister Pip has a ship flying far away Mister Pip has a ship flying far away If you want to I can take you and ill show you you the ship And I’ll tell you twenty dollars worth of stories if you sit And I’m sorry I pretended I wasn't mister Pip But I am but I am but I am Oooo do do do I’m Mr. Pip Oooo do do do I’m Mr. Pip Oooo do do do I’m Mr. Pip Oooo do do do I’m Mr. Pip
22.
Wooden Box 02:00
I found a wooden box That my mother left behind Filled with all the words She would never have the time My father closed his eyes Well laying down to sleep To rest his broken soul To trap his mind for free My arms requested love To be held in his thoughts To stop the naked heartache To make the heart ache stop I can quietly continue Or scream until I cry I never want to live Nor either want to die She begged me for her help She begged me not to leave I didn't see her dead Cause I didn't wanna see With beads inside her hands Tears rusted up her heart And on her way somewhere It made us be apart I don't believe in things that won't fit inside my hands and you cannot have the reason as you wouldn’t understand I’ll love you till I die I’ll love you till your gone I’ll love you when your words Are bent inside my songs I found a wooden box That my mother left behind Filled with all the words She would never have the time To say to sing to laugh To have to give to see Nothing is forever Not you not her and not me
23.
Open up the door come inside Close the door behind you Hop in my car go for a ride La dee da'n da da da Tell me seven things I don't know Then I’ll do the same Let me make you laugh put on a show La dee da'n da da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da da Gimmie all your love put it in my arms I’ll save it up for never I remember everything about you La dee da'n da da da Sit down at my piano I’ll write a song Look out for the candles You play when you're alone when I’m not home La dee da'n da da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da La dee da'n da da da
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Finale 03:39
Put on a dress her hair is a mess You know the rest it’s always the same (yeah it’s always the same) Telling you lies making you cry Reading the words that you don’t understand (oh I don’t understand) She’s wearing brown shoes that you can’t afford She’s wearing brown shoes that you can’t afford The night was so dark and her blood was so red As Rose says to me you’re about to be dead What have done to the man that I love I meant you no harm Rose I did it because All this time he was untrue and the love you gave He didn’t give you And all this time I wanted to tell You that I loved you as well well Rose Can you give me a chance to explain One two three four You tried to take over my arms Yeah you tried to take over my legs Yeah you tried to take over my back and my shoulder While I was looking the other way yeah yeah Oh no no So PD get out of my life PD get out of my life My slowness of movement has shown some improvement So PD get out of my life yeah yeah yeah You affected the way I would walk You affected the way I would talk You were make me mumble you were making me stumble You were making me wish you would stop yeah yeah PD get out of my life PD get out of my life Said I lack L-Dopa but I’m on Prolopa So PD get out of my life I said PD get out of my life yeah I said PD get out of my life yeah I lack L-Dopa but I’m on Prolopa PD get out of my life PD get out of my life PD get out of my life

about

Somewhere between 2003 and 2005 I began to develop strange symptoms. I can remember my boss saying to me, “Robbie stop dragging your feet!”. I had bounced around from my home city of Miramichi to Halifax to Winnipeg to Toronto working as a waiter in different restaurants.

In the fall of 2004 I moved to Montreal and did my best to continue making music. However my health was clearly on the decline. Something was drastically wrong with me. My vocals were weak and strained and my playing was average at best. But things were only to get worse.

In June 2005 I decided to try and record another album although looking back now I can’t imagine how that even seemed possible to me. I began working on the same 8 track recorder that I used for The Ledden Street Sessions.

The recording process was extremely difficult and I became very frustrated and depressed. I remember collapsing onto the kitchen floor in tears. I was visiting the doctors office no less than three times a week with zero answers. What was wrong with me? I can remember Googling my symptoms daily which always led me to one answer. It would still be a few months before a doctor would tell me what Google had known all along. At 28 years old I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

I began medication and immediately everything returned to normal. It’s like I had been tied up with rope for more than a year and somebody finally freed me. Maybe this is why there are 24 tracks on this album I’m not really sure. But it remains to be one of my favourite creations.

Songs From Apartment 12 is a colourful mix of tunes and I think you can clearly hear my love of early rock ‘n’ roll. I hope you enjoy the music and melodies and get something out of it that makes you happy as it remains to be the most emotional creation in my catalogue.

Oh, one more thing. Remember when I said everything returned to normal? Well, that didn’t last long. Stay tuned…

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released January 1, 2006

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Robbie Tucker Miramichi, New Brunswick

Robbie Tucker - singer, songwriter and producer from Miramichi, New Brunswick, continues to pump out true art rife with fantastical imagery.   His musical heroes include Roy Orbison, Paul McCartney, and Elvis Presley.

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