The Spur

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

Get more info about Chadwick Stokes and this new album at:
www.chadwickstokes.com
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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.

Get more info about Chadwick Stokes and this new album at:
www.chadwickstokes.com
www.facebook.com/chicoreestokes

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

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Mother Maple

Hurray For The Riff Raff - Blue Ridge Mountain (Live On KEXP)

Produced by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Cave Singers) at The Hive in Vancouver, Oh Fortune carries collaborations from many esteemed improvisational and experimental musicians including Eyvind Kang (Beck, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Zorn), Jesse Zubot (Nels Cline, Mats Gustafsson), Gord Grdina (Gary Peacock, Paul Motian), Kenton Loewen (Mats Gustafsson, Jerry Granelli), JP Carter (Fond Of Tigers, Inhabitants) and Peggy Lee (Wayne Horvitz, Veda Hille).

Currents of mortality, isolation, and desperation run through the album, and yet its title comes from a reflection of a ticker-tape parade celebrating the return of Gertrude Ederle to the United States in 1926. For a heartbeat, she was the country’s biggest celebrity. She had just become the first woman to swim the English Channel, and simultaneously the new world-record holder (previously held by a man).

There exists in Oh Fortune this chaos of juxtaposition. It could be taken as a sad or dark album, yet musically it kicks with more ferocity and tenacity than people may expect from Mangan. It debates melancholy while it anticipates incredible moments of glory and victory. It’s not sad, it’s simply honest. 

I Want You Like A Seatbelt

Chadwick Stokes

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