Cover of Back In N.Y.C. by Genesis from their 1974 album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 

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No-one seems to take up the chase, and with the familiar faces fresh in his mind he moves into a reconstruction of his old life, above ground - Too much time was one thing he didn't need, so he used to cut through it with a little speed. He was better off dead, than slow in the head. His momma and poppa had taken a ride on his back, so he left very quickly to join The Pack. 

I see faces and traces of home back in New York City - 
So you think I'm a tough kid? Is that what you heard? 
Well I like to see some action and it gets into my blood. 
The call me the trail blazer - Rael - electric razor 
I'm the pitcher in a chain gang, we don't believe in pain 
'Cause we're only as strong, yes we're only as strong, 
As the weakest link in the chain. 

Only after a spell in Pontiac reformatory was he given any respect in the gang. 

Let me out of Pontiac when I was just seventeen, 
I had to get it out of me, if you know what I mean, what I mean. 

You say I must be crazy, 'cause I don't care who I hit, who I hit. 
But I know it's me that's hitting out and I'm, I'm not full of shit. 
I don't care who I hurt, I don't care who I do wrong. 
This is your mess I'm stuck in, I really don't belong. 
When I take out my bottle, filled up high with gasoline, 
You can tell by the night fires where Rael has been, has been. 

Now, walking back home after a raid, he was cuddling a sleeping porcupine. 
That night he pictured the removal of his hairy heart and to the accompaniment of very romantic music he watched it being shaved smooth by an anonymous stainless steel razor. 

As I cuddled the porcupine 
He said I had none to blame, but me. 
Held my heart, deep in hair, 
Time to shave, shave it off, it off. 
No time for romantic escape, 
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No! 
Off we go... 

Your sitting in your comfort you don't believe I'm real, 
You cannot buy protection from the way that I feel. 
Your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash, 
But it was mine in the first place, so I'll burn it to ash. 
And I've tasted all the strongest meats, 
And laid them down in coloured sheets (laid them down in coloured 
Sheets). 
Who needs illusion of love and affection 
When you're out walking in the streets with your mainline connection?
Connection. 

As I cuddled the porcupine 
He said I had none to blame, but me. 
Held my heart, deep in hair. 
Time to shave, shave it off, it off. 
No time for romantic escape, 
When your fluffy heart is ready for rape. No!
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released April 1, 2016 
Farmhouse Odyssey: 
Alex Espe - Vocals , Keyboards 
Aaron Laughlin - Backing Vocals, Guitar 
Alex Pepe - Guitar 
Ian Taylor - Bass 
Thatcher Holvick-Norton - Drums 

Mixed and Mastered by Aaron Laughlin 

Songwriters: GABRIEL, PETER / HACKETT, STEVE / COLLINS, PHIL / BANKS, ANTHONY / RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL
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Back In N.Y.C. (Genesis Cover)

2018 Remix of Farmhouse Odyssey's debut album.

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Single from our upcoming album "Fertile Ground."

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Fertile Ground is a hero's journey through the subjective world of dreams towards the ground of self transformation. "It happened as always in a dream when you leap over space and time and the laws of life and mind, and you stop only there where your heart delights." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Dreams are extraordinarily strange. One thing appears with terrifying clarity, with the details finely set like jewels, while you leap over another, as though you did not notice it at all — space and time, for instance. It seems that dreams are the work not of mind but of desire, not of the head but of the heart… In a dream things quite incomprehensible come to pass." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Artwork by Ali Saren
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24 bit/96.000 kHz sample rate
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released May 31, 2019

Alex Espe – Vocals, Piano, Rhodes, Moog, Organ, Mellotron
Aaron Laughlin – Vocals, Guitars, Mandolin, Mellotron
Alex Pepe – Guitars
Ian Taylor – Bass, Synth Bass
Thatcher Norton – Drums

All songs written and produced by Farmhouse Odyssey

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Aaron Laughlin at Odyssey Studios

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