This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics:
I like crumbs and chrome headlights
Carnivals and canines, boardwalk girls who play nice
Cars and their engines, a bridge in its suspension
The sun shadowing the east

And I like how your dress looks with that lamp shade
How people always tell me, you’re the best friend they ever made
Take me to the commune, we can live with Cat Stevens
He can play the tambourine

Oh, I’d like to live up in a house that lives up in a tree
Only you and me, maybe a kid, maybe three
Maybe from the top, you can see that 

I want you across my hips, fastened low and tight
In the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night
We can let the world fall away, one kiss at a time

I like my Mustangs unshod, the coy-wolves of Cape Cod
The tillerman and big maud gone but not forgotten
The wind catching the caution, so let it all be free
Let’s take another unplanned road trip, leave behind New England
Maybe we can find our Lefty’s sister Ingrid
Leave the frozen rivers, to some place we’ve never seen

Oh, I’d like to live up in a house that lives up in a tree
Only you and me, maybe a kid, maybe three
Maybe from the top, you can see that

I want you across my hips, fastened low and tight
In the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night
We can let the world fall away, one kiss at a time

Let the world fall away, one kiss at a time


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I Want You Like A Seatbelt

This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics:
I’ve got to go downtown, I’ll miss you along the way
I miss your stripes your lilywhites that have turned dirty gray

I’ve got to pay that bus, I’ve got to pay the fare
I’m gonna miss your crooked teeth
Miss your pixie hair

Cause I hate to see you suffering,
Don’t ever want your prison blue eyes to be sad, not once
I know it’s not how it goes, but this worrying was undersold

I’ve got to go downeast, walk down Elliott Street
Wave to the murals with my little girl and watch the cracks in the concrete

I hear the rain outside, I hear the bell strike late
Is that you I hear coming off the street, or just the wind blowing the gate?

Cause I hate to see you suffering,
Don’t ever want your prison blue eyes to be sad, not once
I know it’s not how it goes, but this worrying was undersold

Cause I hate to see you suffering,
Don’t ever want your prison blue eyes to be sad, not once
I know it’s not how it goes, but this worrying was undersold
Oh well, I might have known


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Prison Blue Eyes

This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Pine Needle Tea

This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics:

Long before I knew you I was tumbling back home
I was just pushing down the pavement
I was turning into stone
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run got to pick up your knees

As long as she don’t kill us we’ll be stronger in the end
And every boy out there on Bogle Street is dying to get in
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run got  to pick up your knees
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run got to pick up your knees

She gave me room to amble, with brier and bramble
And the old  red door was always open to the angels and the devils
And nobody was young when they heard her mouth when she told us everything we never knew
It was the song of the grande madame

Mother Maple I drink from your syrup
And I am thankful for the blood that you bleed
We’re in the sugar shack making our porridge
And you have given us more than we need
And I see more and more how you suffer, and not for nothing
But you can’t often get the air that you need
When your roots leave the earth I will stay and get my honey from the trees

Laughter in the cottage house, could last for hours long
When we heard the last gasp we all gave up our mother’s song
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run, and you run

Mother Maple I drink from your syrup
And I am thankful for the blood that you bleed
We’re in the sugar shack making our porridge
And you have given us more than we need
And I see more and more how you suffer, and not for nothing
But you can’t often get the air that you need
When your roots leave the earth I will stay and get my honey from the trees

Mother Maple

This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics:
Johnny was a chameleon when it was predominantly shrapnel, shrapnel from the chapel of the Katman
Johnny kiss the groom and go join the killing while Britain is watching her Watson
Headed down to Tianamon but had tarry enough time, shoulda listened to the world turn
Told me that the cheaters are watching scratch ticket Jesus insulting the sultan

But we got an offer to lessen the lesson learned, like kissing cousins kissing out of turn
But if you gonna play you gotta play the party lines
We gon’ take back this town if it takes us all, hey kid you look you could be found
But for the moment we are the fault line

I mind that our time is still marked by the grains of intolerance
It’s our lives, our fight til we done, til we done, til we done, til we done

In the United States of discrimination the schools feed into the prison
The corporations are more powerful than the government
Give the teachers a banker’s salary and see how that goes
See if we farm our land again, Kilanmanjaro it snows
You sleep in your Egyptian linen 500 count thread what’s the count on the dead
We are the eye of the needle, we fixing to mend this quilt of lies that’s ripped up on our bed
We coming in quick and we got Angela Davis on our lips and Mandela in our head

We got an offer to lessen the lesson learned, like kissing cousins kissing out of turn
But if you gonna play you gotta play the party lines
We gon’ take back this town if it takes us all, hey kid you look you could be found
But for the moment we are the fault line

I mind that our time is still marked by the grains of intolerance
It’s our lives, our fight til we done, til we done, til we done, til we done

Ay, I lost my religion along with my innocence
Our lives our time til we done, til we done, til we done, til we done, til we done, done, done, done, done, done, done

Well at least she got her body, and he’s a boy named Sue
The Federales sure ain’t no expert on love, why would we listen to you
Well at least we got our bodies, we all a boy named Sue
And we’ll fight til it’s done, til the borders are run, where there’s gardens not guns, life is anew 

It was a fight night and the prize fighter cut like in a knife fight, it was all over the highlights when he got hit by a hard right, he saw stars like lightbright couldn’t see any sightline, started his skydive from the highlife, like Pele plain highlight, shoulding m’aide to his hayday, in the pell-mell of the melee, his corner was getting a payday needed Thompson from My Lai, turn his guns his own guys, but it wasn’t Maltofs and Mai Thais, just AKs and white lies, tell Mount Sinai to believe in I and I and you and you, not an eye for an eye and I ain’t eyeing the cap on your tooth but then again I ain’t debating and standing in your shoes, I’m just trying to figure out which Golden Rule I should choose, we getting high sided by the tie guys, white color crime pays just look at the bylines, if you believe in anything believe in occupy, cause it’s a richman’s world and we getting off the sidelines

I mind that our time is still marked by the grains of intolerance
It’s our lives, our fight til we done, til we done, til we done, til we done

I might let the gallery down but there are people by the thousands outside – and we are just getting by
I might, might let the gallery down, depending on how many votes did you buy

Our Lives Our Time

Hazy Maze

This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics:
All our love, all our laughter, all the light lit by the fire
Was just enough to show the way

Cause we are on the great adventure of our lives
But we hardly know it, maybe cause of the speed we ride
All that we learned we must’ve learned from long ago

All our love, all our laughter, all the light lit by the fire
Was just enough to show the way

Cause we are on the horse Comanche, faster than rain
And we ride like we are Eleanor of Aquitane, and we are late to supper with the king who wants our name

We are on the great adventure of our lives
And we hardly know it, but it’s worth the ride

Take my hand, take my life, take all that you see fit, take my time
But if you have another in your mind then I will take my orders to the sky
Where it’s not night not day
And there’s no wind and you can’t feel the rain

And I’ll be so far
I’ll see the earth rise and so begin my day
You’ll be so far, and I’ll love you like the sun loves Mercury

And if you change your mind
Then back to Earth I’ll ride from high above the Karman line, I’ll fly
Cause he don’t love you, he don’t love you like I do… how could he

All our love, all our laughter, all our love is on the rise

Horse Comanche

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Walter (First Hello)

"New Haven" features the ladies of Lucius on guest vocals and comes from theChadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche.

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What can I, what can I, what can I, what can I say
You said it all, said it all, said it all with the look you just gave
You flicker like the street lamp above us

You sat there explaining, in your car while it was raining, how your feelings had faded away
I just kept looking at the shadows of the raindrops fall down your face
We’ve never been perfect, and now here you were, ending it all instead 
You always looked up when you were trying not to cry
But now you look straight ahead

I want to be with you
I want to be with you
I want to be with you
Yeah but I’m okay, I can let you go
I can let you go

And so I go back to New Haven where I know, well I think I can save it
But you say if you come, you won’t find me
And I start to feel Poison Ivy
And I want to shed my skin, yeah I want to shed my skin
Oh the life we could’ve had, oh the life we were in 

Cause I want to be with you
I want to be with you
I want to be with you
Yeah but I’m okay, I can let you go
I can let you go

So I go back to New Haven where I know, well I think I can save it
And you say if you come, you won’t find me
And I start to feel Poison Ivy
And I want to shed my skin, I want to shed my skin
Cause I know that you’ve gone, you’ve gone to look for him

So, I go back to the island where I know, well I think I can find him
And he can be my sweet gentleman farmer, 
We’d live out our lives in the waves and the water
But I can’t find him anywhere, and I want to shed my skin
Oh the life we could’ve had, all my life with him

Cause I want to be with you
I want to be with you
I want to be with you
Yeah but I’m okay, I can let you go

What can I, what can I, what can I, what can I say
You said it all, said it all, said it all with the look you just gave
You flicker like the street lamp above us


New Haven (featuring Lucius)

"Indiana Fall" appears on the new Chadwick Stokes EP The Horse Comanche B-Sides: The Story of Bobby and Maeve. The EP is out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics:

Indiana fall 
Indiana fall 
Indiana fall I’ll tell em 
That’s what I always said to myself inside my head 
Someday we'll have a bed and I will love her

But I just kept putting it off 
Never seemed to be the right time in the day 
And if I was to say it 
I would need a box of wine maybe a box of rain 
To fall down on our makeshift house that we built to keep us dry

I love you more than you’ll ever know 
Though you can’t hear me now 
And I’ll make a life for us that’s all our own 
Even if your body I can’t see

You know I never wanted a house 
Never wanted to be anywhere for any stretch of time 
Build a life out on the road 
Just like the Indians we’d move when we got cold 
And we would stop when we found a soft patch that was flat and dry

I love you more than you’ll ever know 
Though you can’t hear me know 
And I’ll make a life for us that’s all our own 
Even if your body I can’t see

Indiana fall 
Indiana fall 
Indiana fall I’ll tell ‘em 
That’s what I always said to myself inside my head 
Someday we'll have a bed and I will love her

Indiana Fall

"You're The One That I Want" appears on the Chadwick Stokes EP 'The Horse Comanche B-Sides: The Story of Bobby and Maeve.' The EP is out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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You're The One That I Want

"That's All" appears on the Chadwick Stokes EP 'The Horse Comanche B-Sides: The Story of Bobby and Maeve.' The EP is out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics:
For years I tried
But you never saw me
You never saw me
And I
Would row to the other side of the lake
Just to see your face

And that’s all 
That’s all 
I ever wanted 
I ever talked about
That’s all
That’s all
All that I wanted
All that I talked about

Then one day you looked my way 
I was too shy to say to have anything to offer 
Since then we never slept apart
You said you loved my heart
Forever after

And that’s all
That’s all 
I ever wanted
I ever talked about 
That’s all
That’s all
All that I wanted 
All that I talked about

So don’t breathe in
Don’t breathe in
Maybe then none of this is really happening
Don’t breathe in
Don’t breathe in
Maybe then none of this is really happening
Don’t breathe in
Don’t breathe in
Maybe then none of this is really happening

That's All

"Glory" appears on the Chadwick Stokes EP 'The Horse Comanche B-Sides: The Story of Bobby and Maeve.' The EP is out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

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Lyrics: 
There’s something you should know 
It happened long ago 
But mercy is something hard to explain

Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
But it was not my fault 
It was not my fault

Can you do the same? 
And numb the novocaine 
Then help me lay lightly in the big sleep

Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
But it was not my fault 
It was not my fault

Is it me or are we scared to cross the line 
I was barely strong enough, and you were hardly a child 
Is it me or are we only losing time 
Do we have to say goodbye at all?

Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
But it was not my fault 
It was not my fault

Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
Glory I’m the one who really shot your dog 
But it was not my fault 
It was not my fault

Glory

Recorded in December 2009 live at The Armory in Somerville, MA as part of the Annual Calling All Crows Benefit Weekend.

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