Out March 19th on the band's new label, Two-Dale Records, the Sunnyside EP offers a glimpse into the larger body of work Frances Luke Accord have been developing over the course of the pandemic. Consider it a taste (maybe an appetizer?) of more to come. 

1 - Maria
2 - Sunnyside
3 - Dust to Dust
4 - The Clearing

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers 
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord 
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant) 
Special thanks to... 
Katie Van Dusen (violin - "Sunnyside") 
Chris Dupont (electric guitar, "Dust To Dust") 
Luke Jackson (electric guitar, drums - "Sunnyside"; drums - "Dust to Dust") 
Don Mitchell (harmonium, production assistance - "Sunnyside"; production assistance "Dust To Dust"). 
© 2021 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)
℗ Two-Dale Records

Sunnyside EP

Frances Luke Accord's sophomore LP, "Safe in Sound," OUT NOW. 

Performed by: Frances Luke Accord 
All songs written by: Nicholas L Gunty / Brian Eugene Powers 
Mixing Engineer: Nicholas Gunty (Except Track 11, mixed by Don Mitchell)
Production: Nicholas Gunty, Don Mitchell
Mastering Engineer: Chris DuPont 
Label: Two-Dale Records / Tone Tree Music
Publishing: Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing
Guest performers: Don Mitchell, Chris DuPont, Liz Chidester, Yeshua, Katie Van Dusen, Luke Jackson, Tom Nania, Darlingside (Dave Senft, Auyon Mukharji, Don Mitchell, Harris Paseltiner)

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Safe In Sound LP

Frances Luke Accord's debut full-length album, 'Fluke'. Dedicated to everyone who successfully funded our Kickstarter; without you this project would not have been possible. Gratefully, -B&N

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio 
LIZ CHIDESTER, backing vocals ("On The Road") 
RACHEL FRAZIER, trumpet ("Tangled In Your Web", "David", and "In The Snow") 
CHAZ HEARNE, banjo ("Nowhere to be Found") 
KRISTINA PRICEMAN, violin ("Something Moving" & "On The Road") 
CAITLIN URBAIN, backing vocals ("Nowhere to be Found") 
KATIE VAN DUSEN, violin ("The Nightline" & "On The Road") 
and JOSHUA GUNTY for production assistance 
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Fluke

Queen for Me EP by Frances Luke Accord

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty and Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord 
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty
Mastering: Sage Audio
Special thanks to Kara Laudon for backing vox on "Urban Woman"
℗ 2014 Frances Luke Accord 
© 2014 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Queen for Me EP

Purchase on...
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2RQKri2
iTunes: https://apple.co/2ReRD2a
Google Play: https://bit.ly/2pbCgeM

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant) 
Special thanks to Humbird (aka Siri Undlin) for vocals on "Honeyguide" (recorded by Leo Strei in Minneapolis), and to Katie Van Dusen for violin on "Little Lie" and "Call You Mine" (recorded by Chris DuPont in Ypsilanti).
© 2019 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Silver & Gold EP

Track 9 from Frances Luke Accord's sophomore LP, "Safe in Sound."

Lyrics:

Sing me out if I'm lonely
breathe me in if I’m blue
Fill me up if I'm hollow
Break me down if I'm through
And if I'm asleep aw
Could you wake me too? 
Oh, sing me out if I’m lonely
Breathe me in if I’m blue

Oh, when those rain clouds
Are rumbling down
You feel your roots all
Flooded in doubt
Oh, if it thunders a bit too loud
I’ll sing for you, my songbird
Find you some solid ground

Oh, if it’s cold
And when we’re grey
Alive as stones
Stuck in some shape 
With all our dust, oh
Deep in our shade
I’ll sing for you my songbird
Sing for you all my days

Safe In Sound

All The Things

Track 5 from Frances Luke Accord's sophomore LP, "Safe in Sound."

Lyrics: 

My mother brought me into this garden first
Taught me to weed by working deep down in the earth 
And while I was clutching dirt, I was struck, I was hurt 
All that grows so thirsts

Once my father said he would read me to bed
Worn down from the job he had to keep me fed
But I was too old and I, blushing red, yelled instead
Never was the same ahead

Now, every night I come to town
All I ever think about
Are all the times I let you down
For all the times I let you down

Thank you, Derrick Watson, in a hundred years you'll be read
For shade 'neath and orange sun with a mighty pen and a level head 
And although it may be little praise, my friends and I think you're great
For what you've done today

Now I spend most my time in this room, writing tunes
Locked up in my point of view, feeling blue
But as soon as I put on my shoe and walk outside, and I'm with you
That's when I learn something new

Still every morn I stumble through
A silver light so bright and true 
'Til it turns a-gray rain coming soon
Yeah, turns a-gray rain coming soon

Thank You, Derrick Watson

Track 11 from Frances Luke Accord's sophomore LP, "Safe in Sound."

Lyrics:

In my life I’ve grown upside down
Caught my string on the ground
Where the river won’t run
Where the sparrow won’t dive
Where the spirit can’t sing
And the arrow won’t climb
Oh I’ve seen the sun go down
And the moon on the rise
I saw it all once

In my haze I faced a dream gone gray
Shaken down in the shade of a hollow oak tree
Over honey so sweet
Fought a killer queen bee
Brought me to my knee
Oh, I’ve seen a cloud rain down
In the flash of a light
I saw it all once

Woah I’ve been a-running wild
Been a fool reconciled
Mmm mm mm

When I die take me the long way home
Lay me down in the snow
Where the sparrow might go
Where the hollow oaks fold
Into a cradle in time
To make a nest from bone
Woah I saw but I went blind
Now we know what we know
We’ll see it all go

In My Life (featuring Darlingside)

Track 8 from Frances Luke Accord's sophomore LP, "Safe in Sound."

Lyrics:

All my life
Had my head in my helmet
Right of the road
On the side
 Sunlight on the road
Wind in my face
I went high, over and under
Woke somewhere else
Woman of grace
Angel of slumber

Lost in space
Nothing but wonder
Empty in I

It took time 
To recoup what was taken
Self in remaking 
Rethink this life
In my head, oh
In our only life cycle
In the blink of an eye, I was left
The whole world was ending
But also rebirth
And also pretending
Knowing what life is worth

Da da da da da
Da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da 
Da da da da da

Saint Mary

Track 1 from Frances Luke Accord's sophomore LP, 'Safe In Sound,' out February 9, 2023 via Tone Tree Music/Two-Dale Records. 

Lyrics:

Nowhere to run
No time to hide
Open up your eyes

We will not lie
We do or die
While the world goes by

Window

Lyrics: 
This morning I dreamt 
Forgetting your name
While that of your child
And husband came
I bent close to face
You whispered in song
We barely embrace
And then you were gone

The distance in space
All moving along
Our time and our place
All vanish at dawn
This morning I dreamt
A memory came
The memory went
It started to rain

Credits:
Performed by: Frances Luke Accord 
Written by: Nicholas L Gunty / Brian Eugene Powers 
Mixing Engineer: Nicholas Gunty 
Production: Nicholas Gunty
Mastering Engineer: Chris DuPont 
Label: Two-Dale Records / Tone Tree Music
Publishing: Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing
Guest performer: Liz Chidester (vocals)

This Morning

This Morning (featuring Liz Chidester)

Lyrics:

I’m an apple that wont fall
Not for gravity
Not for law
For a woman only

Grey-like fog for the lonely
A dog that calls
A black sheep solely
Scent withdrawn
Black and holy
God for gone

Save me your laughter
And your religion

My three shadows betray me
They’re all but gone
Now back to haunt me

Who’s that siren above me?
The moon at dawn  
Or the earth beneath me
No orbit on
And don’t you write me
Not one siren song

Save me your laughter
And your religion

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
© 2014 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Queen for Me

Save Me Your Laughter

Lyrics:

America
Sell yourself to me
Dress up like a queen
On time, be mine
Be the queen for me
Paint yourself a new
Teach me how to use my soul, my soul
In the face of this

Dandelion
Diamond in the rough
Smiling on the bluffs 
Your luck in hand
But oh my weatherman
Can you call it all?
The diamond’s gonna fall I say don’t stay
In the fog of love

Sun rising
Moon shining

An only child
Queen without a name
Dreamer of the state, your fate, your place
But my life remains
In shadows
Now I’m on the lonely road
I’m on the way
To the blind parade
I’m taken by, a beautiful mind
I mean, I’ve come to say
I’m a child today 
 
Son if I may
Find my place

Cast away
A bird unto the breeze
The things I wanna see from there, be fair
To the ones above
Watching over you
Gambling since the womb
I know I threw
But I lost it all for you

Heaven
I wish you weren’t so far
But hell we’re not so dark
I mean, I’m free
But I’m a man alone
Reaching for the road
Learning with the load I’ve grown
I’m only what I’ve come to know

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
© 2014 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Queen For Me

All But Gone

Lyrics:

Before me, I mean right in front of me
Ruby bounty, on the vine, on the vine
The one and the only
Growing cherry
Child of mine, of mine

Friction, is my only addiction
And my rehabilitation won’t put me right
So I take flight
To urban woman, fame and money
Queen on high, on high

Tremble, my double in the window
Dancing on the table
I was in a trance, in a trance
And falling in love with
The ring around your future
A whisper at your shoulder

Bloom, fate’s got a hold of you

Street light
Substance
Valence
Patience
And insight
Tongue-tied
Broken
Bone-dry

Sunken, down in your cave of wonders
Like a buried treasure
Queen in vein, queen in vein
Urban woman, what I wanna know here
Is can you dance?

Freedom, hammer falling from rolling thunder
Oh I can’t hide, can’t hide
And singing like soldiers 
To the beat of the bedlam
Oh I’m alive

In bloom, fate’s got a hold of you
Strife, a life for a life

Before me, I mean right in front of me
The crowning hour
Queen in time, queen in time
The one and the only
Future hanging, child of mine

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
Special thanks to Kara Laudon for backing vocals
© 2014 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Urban Woman

Lyrics:

I laid the cards for you
It’s just a game you’ll lose
You pick the one that suits
And I’ll be soon to pull love up from under you
That part of love I knew

You lift me up in faith
And I handed down this grace
Whose hand will fold who knows?
A fool will find a way
To overlook mistakes and never follow through
If I ever felt this sake
I’d make your birthday cake
I’d have a reason to
That part of love I knew

Inside your house that day
Over your roof I flew
And on your couch that night
It only stayed that way
My, my impatience has a way of looking blue
I could not love you true
And that’s how love remains

Don’t think I betrayed you

I laid the cards for you
It’s just a game you’ll lose 
You pick the one that suits
And I’ll be soon to pull love up from under you
That part of love I knew

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
© 2014 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Over Your Roof

Cicada! Cicada! Cicada! (Bemis Woods, IL)

WE BELIEVE CICADIAN RHYTHM IS THE MOST CICADA-FILLED ALBUM EVER RECORDED. 

A sleep / meditation / celebration of life album and once-in-17-year event, CICADIAN RHYTHM is available:

* NOW via our Patreon (#1 way to support our band!)
* JULY 5 via Bandcamp
* JULY 19 via streaming services

PATREON: https://bit.ly/4cB11Hr
BANDCAMP: https://franceslukeaccord.bandcamp.com
STREAMING: https://ditto.fm/cicadian-rhythm

Created in a single weekend at some of our favorite forest preserves in Illinois and Brian’s studio, we owe a great debt of gratitude to the cicadas who sang their hearts out for us. (Literally.)

Album art: @nicholasgunty
Photo cred: @joepowers_72 @markpowersmarkings

Long Sleep, Brief Awakening (Bemis Woods, IL)

Groggy as Hell (Arie Crown Forest, IL)

How Beautiful the Universe (Arie Crown Forest, IL)

Not Since 1803: Double Broods! (Middle Fork River, IL)

Chill with Bill (Middle Fork River, IL)

Mark in the Park (Middle Fork River, IL)

Sparkling Sea of Cicadas (Middle Fork River, IL)

Runts on Runts (Middle Fork River, IL)

Come Sit with Nick (Palos Park Woods, IL)

Lyrics:

If I could find an army
To do as I command
If I could paint a picture, love
To help you understand
If I could dig to China
Without making a sound
Then baby I’d be nowhere to be found

If I could kill a giant
With the tiniest of stones
If I could keep a shooting star
From falling alone
If I could kiss the sunrise
Each time around
Then baby I’d be nowhere to be found

And it’s a long time to lie
A child beneath an endless sky
Who can only reach so high
And I love to wonder why
I feel I’m left with only my disguise

If I could find the secret
To how the world began
If I could hold the key of life
In the palm of my hand
If I could take you with me
And slow the turning down
Then maybe we’d be nowhere to be found

And it’s a long time to lie
A child beneath and endless sky
Who can only reach so high
And I love to wonder why
I feel I’m left with only my disguise

And I love to wonder why
I feel I’m left with only my disguise

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
Special thanks to Chaz Hearne (banjo) and Caitlin Urbain (backing vocals)
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Nowhere to be Found

Nowhere To Be Found

Lyrics:

My eyes submit that I won’t focus
They can't resist what I don’t notice 
You're a plane, Jane
You're taking off right before me
At a safe pace
Asking with your actions “Save me, please”
Come on and save me

I went into town just to see Michigan
How slow we walk when we've found something
Something moving
Moving mile by mile
Now I'm spinning
Off the curve of your smile

Loan me your lips at peak interest
Your right, my claim by the bite of my bid
You're the hip fight
Lighting up my night scene
In your black tie
Like you only lie with me
Baby, please

I went into town wearing only my skin
I left feeling so deep in sin
Deep in something
Something not quite right
In my dark night, flying high on the wind

I'm a fake snake
Wax fangs and painted stripes
Just a tax break
Keen to bend the world how I like
Right how I like

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
Special thanks to Kristina Priceman for violin
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Something Moving

Lyrics:

Mama loves me, this I know
Twenty-something stones I've thrown
In my own skin thinking I
Had my heaven, milk and wine

Now I'm walking
The wolves on home
Through Virginia's
Field of gold
By my father's light I've known
Sheep from shepherd, dog from bone

Here I'm eyeing
The saccharin blues
In temptation’s dangling fruit
And from this side 
I sink into
Shade without you

But mama loves me
This I know
Twenty-something stones I've thrown

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Stones I've Thrown

Lyrics:

Reach out for it
Leave your things behind
Bear in mind
Sun will shine
Rain will dry
Clouded eyes...
Who do you run from?
Why don't you come home to your lover's side?
Lean upon the friends who see
Climb into the banyan tree
In the hour of the wolf I'm here for thee

And when you wander from the bower
I'll do my best to try and see you where you really are;
Remind you how we're not so far from the grave but I'll be the one to wake you now

Reach out for it
Leave your things behind
Who do you run from?
Why don't you come home?
In the hour when your world is set afire...

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Who Do You Run From

Lyrics:

I walked right into your trap today 
You caught me by surprise 
Flying silk beneath the sunlight 
To cradle me below
If only I had seen the sign 
Or really heard what you said
But I’m just tangled in your web
Bite me if you like

I collapse into your lap 
You turn my red blood blue
You make me stiff with fright 
Lick my wound
Tell me how you dream of me 
In my soft pink skin
And wanna sink your teeth in 
Spin me into light
In flight I might I might I might
In flight I might I might I might

I’m within your red jurisdiction 
Biding my time 
Before I light my fire
Commit my crime
So you bind me to your bottom line 
And wish that I were dead 
But I’m just tangled in your web 
And I’m about to spend the night

In flight I might In flight I might
You’re right In flight, I might, 
You’re right, I might

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
Special thanks to Rachel Frazier for trumpet
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Tangled In Your Web

Lyrics:

David you’re my only child, my memory
That freedom only walks so far in love, I mean
Your shadow grows longer
And patiently, the night wolf looms in the moon 

She'll call your rise and fall
My baby how you’ve lost the sound of your voice
With this, a dying wish
To roll the dice and stay alive
Gamble on my friend
You’ll learn to find 
That freedom only walks so far in love
That freedom only walks so far in love

"Though I adore you, bride of mine
I feel the sound, the din of God
Ringing in my bones,"
David writes,
"I hear the blow
The horn that turns stone to mud and leads the blind to see
That freedom only walks so far in love (I only walk so far in love) 
That freedom only walks so far in love"

So take the keys
Homeless child of mine
And free this lonesome life

Ohh my love
Ohh my love
Ohhhh my love
Ohhhh my love, my love

Freedom only walks so far, and I only walked so far in
Freedom only walks so far, and I only walked so far
Freedom only walks so far, and I only walked so far in
Freedom only walks so far, and I only walked so far
Cuz David, you’re my only child, my memory
Freedom only walks so far and ohh, David,
I only walk so far in
I only walk so far in ohhh

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
Special thanks to Rachel Frazier for trumpet and Joshua Gunty for production assistance
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

David

Frances Luke Accord Spring 2018 Tour:
http://www.franceslukeaccord.com/live/

Lyrics:

if the sun goes dark someday 
all the stars fall out from space
oh, solace me, my enlightened one
with no stars and with no sun

and if the blue moon didn’t come
wasn’t new, it just wandered on
to some other earth and some other sun 
would you also go love some other one?

take me with you, Maria, please
I'm so full and I need to empty
I set all my glittering cotton alight
on the bitter chance you'll restore my sight

I'd leave my body and my blood behind
on just the faith you're the one to find

Maria

"Honeyguide" (ft. Humbird) is the first single from Frances Luke Accord's Silver & Gold EP, out January 25th, 2019.

Lyrics: 

All my life I've always run short
All my short life I've always run
Lost and won in right and wrong
In the long run life goes on

Sing to me of all so sweet
Most of all the gold I seek
Give me this my daily honey
Money, honey, money, money

It's a matter of time, not a thing you say now could sway me
Not from up in my tree, now I'm out here and hungry
My lock, my key
My wandering belly

I got nothing to hide; I wear my mind like the feather white I lead you by
Every time your pipe rings like heaven on the daylight
You're my honeyguide and I'm so hooked on the sweet inside
And now it's been so long since you came out to lead me along

I'll climb this tree
You hide I seek
Your life with me
My love of honey

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant) 
Special thanks to Humbird (aka Siri Undlin) for vocals (recorded by Leo Strei in Minneapolis)
© 2019 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Honeyguide

Honeyguide (ft. Humbird)

"Silver & Gold" is the title track and second single from Frances Luke Accord's Silver & Gold EP. 

Lyrics:

What is this coming to?
What kind of failure lets this one through?
Oh, how did it get so bad?
In what seems like so little time in the end

Oh, why
Why am I blue?
Why, why am I 
Here without you

I get so twisted up
Bent out of shape
Stuck in a rut
I wish I could 
Let it go
Wish like my life is beyond by control

So why
Why don’t I realize
Hmm what can’t I see?
From down on my knee

So there you are, and here I am
Until the time we meet again
And I’m lifted up, right beside
And the two of us shine 
Like stars in the night
Like silver and gold
Or so I am told
Mmm silver and gold
Or so I am

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant) 
© 2019 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Silver & Gold

Lyrics: 

Run little lie, run like a child, run like we’re going out of style 
Into the heart of this wood, to the end of what could 
And if in love, leave a light for me

Mmmmm oh 

Run little lie, run like a child, like we’re coming home
In the night’s pouring rain from our love making pain 

In my dream I’m cold
Taking off my gold
Waiting on a cue
Covered up in blue

So run little lie, run like a child, run like we’re running out of time
And until the dark of your grave, be a light in my cave 

Mmmm mm and

Run little lie, run like a child, like we’re running home
Back from the dead like we read, toeing the line
Lying in this bed, like we’ in love

Waiting on a cue
Covered up in blue 

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant) 
Special thanks to Katie Van Dusen for violin on "Little Lie" (recorded by Chris DuPont in Ypsilanti).
© 2019 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Little Lie

Lyrics:

Lift me up on 
A kindling throne
Fill my cup by spilling your own
Build me up and
Put me down
Brim it with jewels 
And shatter my crown

What is yours?
What is mine?
What’s our line?
Will we draw
Out before
We unwind?

If you had wings to where might you fly?
I would climb all the way up through the sky
Now I am grounded, down by your side
Though it’s only half true, may I call you mine?

Any stick I would throw on the fire
If it makes me the man you’d admire
And when the time comes that one’s gotta go
Maybe now won’t feel so on our own
Until I come back around like a ring
You will know by the song we shall sing
You will know by the song

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant) 
Special thanks to Katie Van Dusen for violin on "Call You Mine" (recorded by Chris DuPont in Ypsilanti).
© 2019 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Call You Mine

Lyrics:

My mother brought me into this garden first
Taught me to weed by working deep down in the earth 
And while I was clutching dirt, I was struck, I was hurt: 
All that grows so thirsts
 
Once my father said he would read me to bed
Worn down from the job he had to keep me fed
But I was too old and I, blushing red, yelled instead
Never was the same ahead
 
Now, every night I come to town
All I ever think about
Are all the times I let you down
For all the times I let you down
 
Thank you, Derrick Watson, in a hundred years you'll be read
For shade 'neath and orange sun with a mighty pen and a level head 
And although it may be little praise, my friends and I think you're great
For what you've done today
 
Now I spend most my time in this room, writing tunes
Locked up in my point of view, feeling blue
But as soon as I put on my shoe and walk outside, and I'm with you
That's when I learn something new
 
Still every morn I stumble through
A silver light so bright and true 
'Til it turns a-gray rain coming soon
Yeah, turns a-gray rain coming soon

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant) 
© 2019 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

LYRICS:

Hearing by the noise
Singing by the voice
Seeing by the sight
Lightness by the light
Righteousness by right
Power by control
Will by young and old

Power in the tone
Marrow from the bone
Young by being old
This is what we’re told
And this is how we know
And this is what I think
A player and a string

If only I had a diamond ring of my own
I’d take it to market and I’d fly back home
Blow the old house down, build a new in town
Fill a ring shaped hole

oooooo

Ruby in the sun
Planet on the run
Pocket full of ash
Ripping off the mask
Sky that tears in half
Earth that we exhume
Change is coming soon

You howl from your lonely mountain at night
Still pennin’ the secrets I know you’d like
To let go the most give up your ghost 
For a brand new life
Hearing by the noise
Singing by the voice
Seeing by the sight
Lightness by the light
Darkness by the night
Calm before the storm
Die ‘fore being born

Power in the tone
Marrow from the bone
Young by being old
This is what we’re told
And this is how we know
And this is what I think

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant)
Special thanks to Chris DuPont (electric guitar), Luke Jackson (drums), and Don Mitchell (production assistance).
© 2021 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Dust to Dust

Releases February 19, 2021. "Sunnyside" is the title track from Frances Luke Accord's upcoming EP, out March 19 via their new label, Two-Dale Records. 

Lyrics:

Take me, mama take me 
Could you take me on down
On down from my rain cloud
When I'm heavy
Heavy as a rose of summer 
Left out in the snow
Take me when I’m heavy
Take me mama-o 

Shake me, papa shake me
I’m a gambling spade
A gamble and a scramble
Sunny side up some days
But one day, papa one day
I will blow this world away
One day, papa one day
Blow this world away

Some day, brother some day
When the light ain't so low
One day when the storm
Ain’t so heavy
Some day we will see
Eye to eye oh, you and me
One day we will see
One day, you and me

Someday we will see 
How bright some light can be
One day we will see
One day, you and me

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant)
Special thanks to Katie Van Dusen (violin), Luke Jackson (electric guitar, drums), and Don Mitchell (harmonium, production assistance).
© 2021 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Sunnyside

"Maria" is track 1 from Frances Luke Accord's Sunnyside EP, out March 19 via the band's new label, Two-Dale Records. 

Lyrics:

If the sun goes dark someday 
And all the stars fall out from space, oh 
Solace me, my enlightened one 
With no stars and with no sun 

And if the full moon didn’t come 
Wasn’t new and it wandered on to some 
Other earth and some other sun 
Would you also go love some other one? 

Take me with you, Maria, please 
I'm so full and I need to empty 
I set all my glittering cotton alight 
On the bitter chance you'll restore my sight why I'd
Leave my body and my blood behind 
On just the faith you're the one to find

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Jeffrey Miller (Resonant)
© 2021 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Track 4 from Frances Luke Accord's Sunnyside EP, out March 19, 2021.

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