Wet Streets Before Dawn

We ran down wet streets
Small world at our feet
Loud, drunk, and laughing
We looked so dashing

Your face glowed so bright
In that pale moonlight
I gazed in your eyes
Prayed the sun would never rise

No words were spoken
Down by the ocean
Your French blue dress dropped
You dipped and I watched

First time in my life
I stayed up all night
So young, so unwise
Thought the sun would never rise

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars, bass, and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

Hope

Wet Streets Before Dawn

Sketch No. 19

Please fix me an Old Fashioned
I’ll loosen up my tie
And try to unwind
I’ll go request a song

Perhaps some Louis Armstrong
To start this evening right
I’m trying to save your night
Try to sing along

I know it’s tough to handle
A person like myself
By yourself
You do it much too well

I take it all for granted
And then I laugh it off
Sure enough
Can be your living hell

This party’s much too crowded
This room, anxiously small
I’m trying to stand tall
But losing ground instead

Please hold my drink while I try
To break us free from here
Don’t you fear
Of course we’ll cause a scene

Why would we waste our time
With those who can’t fly
We’re so cool; we’re sublime
Why would we waste our time
With people who won’t try
It’s too cruel; it’s a crime

This world won’t cut me slack, so
I will return its grace
And keep a straight face
I don’t like to lie low

Plus, I find sketching my life
On napkins in my mind
Feels so blind
I’d rather leap and dive

Why would we waste our time
With those who can’t fly
We’re so cool; we’re sublime
Why would we waste our time
With people who won’t try
It’s too cruel; it’s a crime

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars, bass, and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

Sketch No. 19

Another Sighting

Wandering this morning
Around
A girl was walking
Downtown
Long hair, straight and
All brown
Didn’t see her blue eyes
I’m sure they were

A deep, deep sigh
Always follows these sightings
Every time
Your memory strikes like lightning
I can’t escape
Even though I’m nowhere near you
In this town
One thousand miles away from you

It’s times like these
That I ask myself
If you were there at all
Or if I made it all up
Because
I see you everywhere
I know you’re not
Because
You walk in places
Your feet forgot

And so I’m wandering
All over my town
And I keep on finding
You walking around

A deep, deep sigh
Always follows these sightings
Every time
Your memory strikes like lightning
I can’t escape
Even though I’m nowhere near you
In this town
One thousand miles away from you

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars, bass, and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

Another Sighting

I’m Fine Here

I’ll stay inside
I have my records
And lots of wine
‘Cause I cannot hide
I don’t feel social
After nine

I think I’ll stay
I had a rough time
At work in vain
You go out and play
Your friends will miss you
Don’t make them wait

Darling
I’m fine here
When I’m alone
Listening to “Hello Dolly!”
Drunk on wine
I cease to feel sorry

Darling
It’s all clear
I want to drink bliss
And hear the stars shining
In the dark
I’ll find a rough diamond

I know
You want me there
But there’s too many people
And not enough chairs
I know
You want me there
But there’s too many people
And not enough chairs

You build your case
With concrete, metal
And bits of brain
With lots of grace
I swear I’d go
But I’d rather stay

I won’t go out
Even a walk
Makes no sense around here
In this frame of mind
You’re too reluctant
To disappear

Darling
I’m fine here
When I’m alone
Listening to “Hello Dolly!”
Drunk on wine
I cease to feel sorry

Darling
It’s all clear
I want to drink bliss
And hear the stars shining
In the dark
I’ll find a rough diamond

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars, bass, and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

I'm Fine Here

A Thousand Parties

This town tonight
Is hosting a thousand parties
And you... you’re gracing one somewhere

Don’t have much time
Feel like I’m drowning slowly, wondering
If you’ll find someone new there

I used to call
Very late at night when
All bars had closed
I just needed your warmth then

How things have changed
I keep thinking about how
You said I’m strange
‘Cause I laugh when all burns down

I have something to tell you
I’ve been meaning to say
I have three words to tell you
I hope I find you tonight

I’ve been through all
Of the parties ‘round Kendall
No trace of you
Just strangers with strangers

I can’t think straight
What the hell have I done here
I need to find you
‘fore you find someone new there

I have something to tell you
I’ve been meaning to say
I have three words to tell you
I hope I find you tonight

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars, bass, and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

A Thousand Parties

Sit Still

Hey
You finally have something great
Going on in your life; right on
Right on

Hey
She’s the greatest girl you’ve ever met
She will even support your cause
Your lost cause

So sit very still
Sit very still
Doves will fly home
On their own

Why
You’ll find her standing by your side
Whether you’re sailing or in your dark place
Your dark place

Still
For heaven’s sake, sit very still
She even laughs at your dumb jokes
Your dumb jokes

So sit very still
Sit very still
Doves will fly home
On their own

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars, bass, and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

Sit Still

Senseless Cessation

I want to play you, playing me.
Beat you to the end.
stop the inevitable demise,
close the doors and collapse.

Spiraling down from nothing
into less than what is

Unmask the player,
be deluded like you
and come into myself.

See nothing at all.

Keep playing the game
Where there is no loser.
Because we both are.

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music: Tony Moureilles  |  Lyrics: Megan Reid)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitar and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Kevin Villanova: Rhythm guitar
Jason Langshaw: Bass
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

Senseless Cessation

Hope

Trees outside, walls inside
All have changed countless times
Ever since you went away

Skies of grey; they’ve grown blue
Seas have moved under my shoes
Ever since you went away

Shirts and my clip-on ties
I’ve outgrown; should have saved
Somewhere when you went away

Been known to hold my drink
Used to smoke; learned to think
Years after you went away

I still think
You’re somewhere now
You’re planning how
To come home
And see me

Hope I still
Will see you again
I’ll walk up to you
And say “hi,
How’ve you been?
Please stay”

Had I known you’d be gone
As I napped, I would have
Woken before you went away

You’d not have been alone
And I’d have brought you home
That day when you went away

I still think
You’re somewhere now
You’re planning how
To come home
And see me

Hope I still
Will see you again
I’ll walk up to you
And say “hi,
How’ve you been?
Please stay”

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Jason Langshaw: Bass
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

Nothing Changed

Grey light bleeds in
Through torn brown drapes
This room has been
Our world for days

Yet nothing’s changed

Let’s lay in bed till late
Let’s sleep, let’s wait
Pretend we’re young, we’re great
It’s our last date
Let’s drink, let’s toast
Let’s leave our ghosts

‘Cause nothing’s changed

Tonight might rain
So hard we’ll cry
Should help us train
For when we wonder why

Nothing changed

(From The Northeastern Railroads's 2017 album "Hope"
Music and lyrics: Tony Moureilles)
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Tony Moureilles: Guitars, bass, and vocals
Justin Settlage: Drums
Ian Van Opijnen: Recording, mixing, and mastering
Recorded at The Echo Room Recording Studio, Worcester, MA

Official release date: March 17, 2017
All rights reserved, ℗ & © 2017 Tony Moureilles

Nothing Changed

Make a Deal with the City 
(Music and lyrics: F.M. Cornog) 

You live in this city 
Make a deal with the city now 
You live in this city 
Make a deal with the city right now 

Sometimes just blow up 
Sometimes just deflate 
Sometimes just hang on 
Sometimes pull the weight 

You live in this city 
Make a deal with the city now 
You live in this city 
Make a deal with the city right now 

'cause people disappear 
And life might be a joke 
You're getting smaller everyday 
You're like a plane flying over me 
Waving bye-bye 
Sing 
No bye-byes 
No bye-byes 
No bye-byes 

Gotta fly away from you 
Gotta fly away from you

released February 2, 2018

This is a cover of East River Pipe's "Make a Deal with the City." The song was originally written, recorded, and performed by East River Pipe. I recorded this cover as part of a tribute to Sarah Records.

Realization and production: The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records 

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Make A Deal With The City

The Northeastern Railroads is a guy named Tony who chose that name when writing and recording his dream pop and shoegaze music.

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