Year of the Horse, the Boston singers project. Each month in 2014 will feature one of my original songs sung by a different singer with Boston ties. Suckerpunch was written by Andy Santospago, sung by Chris Roussin.
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Suckerpunch

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Living In Clover, by Andy Santospago from AMgold, released 2017 
Produced by Andy Plaisted 
Music and lyrics by Andy Santospago 
Vocals and guitars: Andy Santospago 
Backing vocals: Scott Janovitz 
Drums: Andy Plaisted 
Bass: Dave Westner 
Keyboards: Jeff Calder 
Mixing: Dave Westner @ Woolly Mammoth studios 
Engineering: Andy Plaisted @ Electric Andyland studios
Cover art: Karen Hendrickson Santospago

Living In Clover
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Remember that game, who could stay awake the longest 
went through everything from Tommy down to Who's next 
never complained about the time you had to spend 
with the younger child of your parents friends 
and we were livin' in clover, sleepover hangovers 

strong and tall, from a different city 
sunburst Les Paul that you let me strum 
Your rock n' roll used to pull you through 
wish I could go back there and talk to you 
when we were livin' in clover, sleepover hangovers 

our visits were fewer, further between 
Last time I saw you you were 17 
punched my arm when I nearly wrecked your car 
guess I didn't know about one way streets 
I'd only ever been in the passenger seat 
now I know that was a very special place, a special place to be 

so bittersweet to be last kid standing 
you fell asleep and handed me the prize 
the day I heard that you had gone 
the same lonely feeling came crashing on 
when we were livin' in clover, sleepover hangovers 
livin' in clover, sleepover hangovers

Living In Clover

From AM Gold, track released December 15, 2017
Andy Santospago, AM gold, released 2017
Produced by Andy Plaisted
Music and lyrics by Andy Santospago
Guitars: Andy Santospago & Bob Bradshaw
Vocals: Bob Bradshaw
Backing vocals: Andy Santospago
Drums and percussion: Andy Plaisted
Bass: Andy Santospago
Fender Rhodes Piano: Jim Gambino
Keyboard: Andy Plaisted
Mixing: Dave Westner
Engineering: Dave Westner @ Woolly Mammoth, Andy Plaisted @ Electric Andyland studios
Cover art: Karen Hendrickson Santospago

In The Woodshed

Lets Misbehave

Tenderness is falling by the wayside
never changing our point of view
In our time of dying will there be no pride, and its cold without you
 
Call out to me all the wishes and memories
won't you call to me softly like a whisper in my heart

All the friends marching for the right side
Battle hymns endless refrain
I'm occupied looking for hope and joy
but no one here that goes by that name

Call out to me all the wishes and memories
won't you call to me softly like a whisper in my heart

give me strength and the grace to look a wrong in the face
tear down all the walls, all you got to do is call

Whisper in my heart

i'm grateful for the ocean, i'm thankful for the sand 
but now i'm thinking of something you can't hold in your hand
musical fashions fall and rise
The shape of our passion like the clouds in the sky

Oh fine melody, a simple song to carry me and my friends 
whether old or new seems like it’s always been 
if we've fallen silent please save us from despair
let the song speak for us, help us say the prayers
  
staring into darkness too much of the time
good to know something can still blow your mind
so many voices we never hear, some carry on after they disappear

if we've fallen silent it's not that we don't care
let the song speak for us, help us say the prayers

Say the prayers

Hello again my friend, it's good to see you came back home
hope you've gotten settled, do I hear the kettle whistle about to blow?
Twist my arm, what’s the harm in a cup of tea and a place for me

i'll take it only if you're making it, i'll take it if you're making it anyway 

i'll bend your ear if linger here for too long, don't you know
I’d catch the bus before I cause a fuss, that’s a better way to roll
then again there's no sin in breaking bread while the conversations free

i'll take it only if you're making it, i'll take it if you're making it anyway  

Should we laugh or should we grieve for times our love was coldly received?
i've been around, guards been up and down again

what I want most is your company, just a little time for me
i'll take it only if you're making it, i'll take it if you're making it anyway

If you're making it

Just can’t shake the feeling
there are things you need to do before the day is over
The reason for this seasons undefined as of now 
In a beautiful surrounding it’s all the more confounding 
You can’t hear the skylarks song you love so dear 
And a line of clouds is hampering the view into the breadths of blue 

Don’t cry now, or you'll get me going too 
Somehow, we gotta get away from get away blues

When we headed from the city to the northeast kingdom things were looking bright
If the driving was the best part of this time I don't mind
Only troubling part is, if home's where the heart is 
Where's the last place that you saw it dear
Has it blown away somewhere out of view into the breadths of blue 

Don’t cry now, or else you’ll get me going too 
Somehow, we gotta get away from get away blues

It's so quiet here and serene
should be the stuff of a happy dream
from the suburbs to the new york scene 
wonder if we're better off in the spaces between

Breadths Of Blue

I’ll put the sunroof down, make a window to my heart
Show you I’m no nightmare dealer, maybe just an apple cart stealer
What I need to do to get by. What I need is just a retry 

What do you call this town?To me it's just another start 
we'd make a curious couple, both waiting for a sign of trouble 
what's the need for us to be shy? Takes a runner to spot one going by 

don’t need to know everything that these eyes have seen
but you can have all the light, look into a strangers eyes

not making promises, not spreading lies
I'm just wrecking ball whistling through the sky

don’t need to know everything that these eyes have seen
but you can have all the light, if you don't mind the danger
look into a strangers eyes

Strangers eyes

They say give it due time and an interest rate
To get over a lover and move along
counted down the hours, shot past the date 
must have got the numbers wrong

Talking bout a good love maybe no better
Guess that’s why I just keep hanging on

I’ve been thinking bout all the times I tried to forget your name
But if you gave them to me in a bottle I could pour it all down the drain

Take away the white lies, where the trouble came
Distill the teardrops, divide the blame
Top it off with whiskey, something to ease my mind
Simple pleasures are hard to find

Keep it in a cool dark place for a little while
Til the temptation brings me down

All the nights we tried to put it off, feels like a shame
But if you gave them to me in a bottle I couldn’t pour it all down the drain

another banner year but what did the words on it say
Something like welcome back to the start

Forget your name

Push a rock up a hill was a hard way of standing still
So I let, let it roll. Found myself another goal

i'll let you come to me this time wherever I may be
following a broken line to free
is it love or is it spite, already made up my mind tonight
to let you come to me

in a bar where the romeo's all trying for best in show
I might be there fading fast, staring down another glass
    
i'll let you come to me this time wherever I may be
following a drunken line to free
is it love or is it spite, already made up my mind tonight
to let you come to me

half past loneliness, quarter to breaking down
got your number beneath my thumb now

Let You Come To Me

There’s a lookout in a dream of mine
I behold beauty that I find
The soft and dimly glowing kind others fail to see

All the change a day can bring
meaning of a wedding ring keeps your stars behind a cloud

now i'm awake but i'm dreaming all the while
that I might see those eyes when you smile

Let us sing and cast off any doubt what a sharp or flats about
Don’t need to be so devout to the rhythm or the pitch

that world has lost his mind
 - perhaps they'll come to find 
deep down they really love our sound

I think about the joy that it could bring 
to hear that voice when you sing

in your twilight time
tell me what do you see
do you ever wake up thinking about me 

pretend it's new years eve
two strangers beneath the eaves of time
counting all the stars

I got a spot with a view
right here i'm looking out for you

Lookout

I hear you, I hear you every time you call me 
I hear you every time you call 
ut I don’t stop and listen, listening’s a different thing

I see you, dyng for a reaction 
a worn out shoe, just looking for some traction 
but i'm not giving quarter, mister that's a different thing

the spirit haunts how it damn well pleases 
spirit wants no part of your diseases 
The spirit don’t need what you’re putting down

I hear you, my ears aren’t defective 
in fact it's true that they’re highly selective
 But I don’t stop and listen, listening’s a different thing

the spirit haunts how it damn well pleases 
spirit wants no part of your diseases
 The spirit don’t need what you’re putting down

Everytime you call

In your galaxy
Billions of stars inside you
light of love will always shine
No one falls from higher, no one dies brighter
another time glimmers in your eyes

Never mine
saying next to nothing
Holding secrets til the end
will the facade crumble in loves rough and tumble
in your galaxy, i'm lost again

and when you crash into me
will I be able to see
an ending or even a start
in your galaxy, i'm breaking apart

High above the city
climbing higher so you'll see
I finally know where I belong

By your side
Longing to fly just like you
they may call it suicide
pulling an all nighter, taking a prize fighter
in your galaxy, i'll escape from me
it's only my destiny that needs to be satisfied

Andy Santospago

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