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I wrote this song sometime in 2003. I found an old notebook I had from the days when I worked as a loan officer with Coast Federal Bank. I found the page I wrote it on, and it didn’t have anything else written on it but “SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!!” It was capitalized and underlined several times, like the four exclamation marks weren’t a reminder enough!So what did these words mean? Here’s the story:
I was lucky enough to go through my banking experiences in the mid to late nineties. Between 1995 and 1999, I worked as a loan officer for (take a deep breath) Great Western Bank, Coast Federal Bank, Home Savings of America, Washington Mutual, Norwest Mortgage, then finally Wells Fargo. Two words: bank mergers. At the time, because of the changes, I considered myself unfortunate, but didn’t realize that all these moves were helping me more than hurting me. From one bank to another, I was absorbing the art of sales and various management methods like a sponge. In June of 1999, I obtained my real estate broker’s license. By early 2000, I started my own real estate and mortgage company. I’ve been self-employed ever since. With the exception of Great Western Bank, I should mention that never did I quit from any of these banks! I worked for Coast all of eight months, before hearing that Home Savings was going to purchase us. In my days with Coast, I was under a remarkable manager named Mark Chakerian. He was less than forty years old at the time and was already their regional manager, in charge of about forty different loan officers! Like everyone else, I learned a lot from this man, and totally respected and looked up to him. I went to one of his sales meetings, and I will never forget his talk. This, in summary, is what he said:
“Remember when you were young, you’d go to the store with your mother, and you’d see that shining brand new bicycle, and of course, you’d ask her to buy it for you, and she’d say: “someday, son, someday.” Then you get older, and instead of a bike, it’s now a car! “Someday, son, someday.” Then before you know it, you have your own kids, and you hear yourself say: “Someday, son, someday.” You also dream about buying a house, and you say to yourself: “someday”. How often do you hear people say this? All the time! But nobody ever realizes it.
We’ll I’m here to tell you…SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!! Let me repeat: SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!! (He wrote it on the board exactly how it appears here) You have to go after what you need and want as soon as possible! (Your treasure?) Whenever you catch yourself say “someday”, that means you are procrastinating! Urgency is the most underrated word in the English dictionary! The best time to buy a house is now! The best time to accomplish anything is now, not tomorrow, not later, or “someday”!
Here are my lyrics to “Someday Never Comes”:
The sun shines every morning
Your heart beats like a drum
Sunflowers bloom in the springtime
My dreams, keep you alive
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
Those eyes shine with excuses
These lips whisper with lies
Our lives come with a promise
Though broken, yet tantalize
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
Big words give u protection
Deep thoughts keep me at bay
Someday we’ll have everything
Just you listen, to what I say
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
Someday never comes…Someday….. never…..
This is also the title track to XXRUB’s first cd!
To hear this song, please go to www.myspace.com/xxrub
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Some new song titles: Wicked, Rumblefish, Frankenstein, Las Vegas Baby, World in my Window, Dirge, Let me take you to the Sun,...no album title yet.
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We finished our first full-length album, and called it "Someday Never Comes". It's also the title of the last song of the cd. I will blog on this title later. So we get the cd's, distribute them to our friends, family, and whoever would give a listen. The first review came from Erika, Johnny Rub's sister. And wow...we immediately realized she is either a great writer, or we're a pretty great band! The truth, as it always does, lies somewhere in between. Here is her review:
XXRub
“Someday Never Comes”
The term XX Rub (the brainchild of Bassist Robert Calixto) is a fictitious menthol-smelling talc that – when applied from head to toe – will shield you from THEM. THEM, of course is anyone or anything that will hurt or corrupt you. The band XX Rub, just getting its legs, explores similar themes of absolution, devotion, redemption, and facing demons in its debut CD, Someday Never Comes. What you might expect from two blokes who met in church (Calixto and Lead Vocalist, Johnny H – who is very open about his journey toward sobriety in his solo-written “Sometimes in the Sun” and “I Can Hardly Wait”), is a collection of traditional Christian Rock chord progressions and predictable worship choruses & cymbal brush exits. You know, “Lord I Love You,” “Lord I Thank You,” “Lord You Heal Me,” now let’s rock.
XX Rub (who also features Steven Lopez on lead guitars) is more multidimensional – thank God. And although Someday Never Comes might work as an evangelical piece and contains Biblical references throughout, it won’t let you confine it to one little box or market. This is great news. It means that this band – whose influences include The Who, U2, The Stray Cats, Elvis Presley, Pink Floyd, and Maná – recognizes that the powerful themes it is playing with will also resonate with a secular audience. The CD reflects the Rub’s influences, but more to the heart of it – their formative stage as a band. It is eclectic as hell: “Where is the Love’s” Punk-Pop sound is juxtaposed with “Sometimes in the Sun’s” forceful vocals and guitars. (They riddle you like bullets.). “Nowhere” begins with the exact same two guitar strums that kick off AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long,” but then (sweet relief) turns into the most catchy ballad with a lingering, sentimental close. “The Mystery of Suffering” benefits from ambient guitar solos. You can see how with their new drummer (25 year old Chuck Campos) to round out the Rub, they will soon form their own cohesive style. The pieces are all in place, and the potential is sho nuff there – Campos, as I understand it is sort of a wunderkind prodigy.
Most of Someday Never Comes’ words and music were written by Calixto, and he at times contributes a marked Latin approach to lyrics: (My Little Frida Kahlo…Come Fly with Me…Are you ready, ready to go? My little dark moon sunshine…why did u lie?), and sound (I really want to hear Lila Downs tackle the title track en Espanol – yummy.). Calixto also enhances the ending of Johnny H’s “I Can Hardly Wait” with sweet, sweet acoustic guitar. However, the “ping ping” staccato and jazzy bass are a tough act to follow. They frame the song with a meditative tempo and vibe. This is a perfect fit. “I Can Hardly Wait” is a plea, a prayer, a call to arms, and a poem. If you have ever begged God to deliver you from ANY pain, you can relate to it. If you listen to this CD, check out this tune. And if you ever wondered what might have happened to Jim Morrison had he gotten sober, he might have written something like this. Johnny H’s (like Jim’s) roots are clearly in poetry.
Whatever these guys sound like as they evolve as a group, and however deep their themes are, one thing is certain. This stuff it catchy. You will hum it. You will whistle it, and you will want to stop. That’s gotta be good.
Give this CD a whirl. Start XX Rubbing. |
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We are all pirates. We are all on the high seas. On a ship called Earth. Searching for that treasure. This “treasure”, so what is it? It might be just enough to get us through the day, or the month, or the year. Or it might make us rich and prosperous beyond our wildest dreams, for the rest of our very long lives! It is what makes us get on the ship and travel aimlessly through treacherous seas and storms, dock hostile habitats, and compete with other cutthroat pirates!
In the music world, as in life, the treasures also vary. You might “find” that you have an incredible musical talent. What a treasure! Maybe find a great band you are totally compatible with. Maybe find yourself with a finished product, a full-length album you’ve just finished! Maybe a world tour, with management at your beck and call! Or maybe even a major label supporting you full steam? Like a pirate, you dream of these treasures! The fame, the fortune, the feeling of being appreciated, the access to see the world, to experience every culture available, the freedom of making your music on the highest level. The world at your, and your band’s feet! It is these treasures that drive us all.
On the ship, there’s the captain, the leader of the group. There’s the first mate, the second-in-command. There’s the boatswain, the carpenter, the gunner, the cook, that unappreciated pirate who does the little, but very important things. In your band, your life, your work, your friends and family….which one are you? Which role do you play?
I have been, and always will be, in all of the above groups. I have played just about all the roles. Many times, the group never finds the treasure! Sometimes the treasure they find lasts only for fifteen minutes. Why? Because they kill each other before they ever find the treasure! They forget that each role is just as important as the next. Some roles glamorous, some dirty, some very appreciated, some unappreciated. But every role is important. In the ship, mutiny lingers. Someone always want to steer the ship, give orders, and be the lead singer or guitarist. They want all the glory for themselves!
What’s the glory in being the pirate? All pirates eventually gets killed, kill each other in the end. There are only a handful of legendary pirates. But the real true pirates find the treasure first, then kill each other.
Find your treasure first…then kill each other. Find your treasure first. There, is the glory!
We are all pirates.
Taken from Robert Calixto's "Making It" column. |
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