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Jackson Really great early '80's rock sound. Reminds me of 14 year old me listening to April Wine's "Harder...Faster," and Triumph's "Allied Forces." Makes me smile every time I listen to it.
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1.
Lady Ann 04:19
When I was younger, younger than you I’d say lots of stupid shit that I knew I’d never do Like running up the charts like the seat of my pants Was a ball of burning flames I’d have so many goddamned women I’d have to give them numbers instead of names I’m gonna to write a book, you’re gonna read it It’s gonna change your life I’m gonna write a song there, too That’ll put an end to strife I’m gonna find me the smartest woman I’m gonna make her my wife We’re gonna live in a goddamned mansion And roam the hills at night Lady Ann, where are you now? Cause I’ve seen some things I could live without But there’s people, good people Who are here tonight I call them my family And I call you my wife Back to the salt mines and my chewed up hands And I drag my tired bones to go and meet the band Then something takes hold like a shot in the vein And my eyes, they come alive I’m forever being born again When I plug in and play it live Lady Ann, where are you now? Cause I’ve seen some things I could live without But there’s people, good people Who are here tonight I call them my family And I call you my wife
2.
Gunnin’ thru the night Scaring all the glowing eyes from the cold roadside Do you delight? Knowing that the path ahead has never been read In years before, in woodsman’s lore There stood a mare, in white, declared This isn’t right I see that all deployed will be destroyed There’ll be a fight To which all employed will be cast to the void In infinite and silent space We will come together to form a place Where human kind will be no more Our earthly bodies held closed the doors We’ll form as one as the beads are strung The energies of a million years Of life and death and countless fears Do you comply? With this prophecy of our reality It is a lie Our human path is not to last It is to die To be free from hate and earthly constraints We will unite As a celestial soul out of our control And the feelings of this genesis Like born again to forever exist Where human kind will be no more Our earthly bodies held closed the doors Well form as one as the beads are strung The energies of a million years Of life and death and countless fears
3.
The Major 03:08
If by sea she called to me, “I’ll be around when your ship runs aground All our youth we gave to love And now I need a little something more” Cause she’s trapped when she ought to be free And she’s looking at me as though I held the key I play dumb, cause she knows that I’m young But when she turns to the sun and asks if I wanna come I say yeah Feel the light and the humming breeze Soothing your mind and curing disease Man alive who came down from the trees Has still got a long way to go When all that you’ve lost blurs all that you’ve gained And the creaking of doors are calling your name Pull you forward where you know you should be, But when she whispers, “A baby born has got to be free” I say yeah A dedication to the labor of the heart Friends and neighbors and bitter families torn apart Oh, holy nature, you’re the one to whom I serve You’re the major You’re the savior Save me
4.
I’m a clean living, hardworking man I do what I can I live alone with a bottle or two I drive a Ford Econoline van Now the years have been hard on the hands Misunderstood I live alone with a voice or two And Lord knows that they good But right now I’ve gotta do it Right now I’m gonna give it to it Right now Three o’clock gets farther away But it makes my day Think of you just lying in bed A little lamb that’s gone astray Now your daddy’s been hard on you And your momma, too They’ve got no idea what I’m going to do This little flower has got to bloom So right now You gotta do it Right now You gotta give it to it Right now
5.
Highway 04:35
I’m going to crash my car right into a lake I’m going to stop my heart for Jesus’ sake Going to give my energy back to the world You need a jumpstart from a young heart There’s a drop of blood at the end of the day A pinprick of light a million miles away Some call it hope and some call it faith My Lord’s a lady She’s the light bulb in your basement when the spider’s got you scared And she’ll open all your wounds so they will properly be repaired And when you’re making all your smoke signals, she’ll be there to fan the flames And if you ever do her wrong, she’s going to race you to your grave Well, I thought she was the Devil But she was as sweet as summer sun But she’ll break every one of your fingers If she thinks that you are making fun Now the hounds in my head are starting to bark And they’re growing in number as the city grows dark And I’m breaking down while she’s building up My Lord will save me, come on baby Now them highways are a bloodbath They are as a dark as they are long With every charred and burning animal Only moistens the serpent’s tongue Their innocence and instinct Are only getting in the way Maybe if they could speak their minds Then we would listen to what they have to say
6.
Baby Rock Me 04:46
Shadowed words of warning, too foreign to understand Echo down the deepest well, “Won’t you hear me as I am?” My eyes well-up at the silence, faltered dreams and rain Toss and turn in the violence, I call out in pain Baby rock me, all night long Running down to the basement, veins are full of flames Hiding from the Devil’s words that call me by name And I always loved the garden and the power to be saved I never thought these hands of mine would dig my own grave So baby rock me, all night long The fall through the trees is endless, it seems And I call to the sky to apologize For this love has passed me by Now I sit in an empty room, a broken man at best If she could love me inspite of this I think that I could rest But I messed it up, haven’t I, messed it up again And I don’t think that I’ll make it out of this and if I do I’ll be damned So baby rock me
7.
She’s a sailor’s dream Asleep in her jeans Laying down love So clean and obscene With the space in her teeth And the dirt in her hair Take it all in We’re gonna do it again Cause I think I’m in love With millions of people moving along We got bottles of wine Empty and dried And those hot street signs Pulse in from outside With your keys in the door And the clothes on the floor Take it all in We’re gonna do it again Cause I think I’m in love With millions of people moving along
8.
Big Bad 04:24
I’m looking for leaf, man I’m looking for a white line I’m looking for brown sunshine Cause I’m missing your red head And I’m burning up blue I’m running down road signs Cause I’m coming after you I’m losing my head now My teeth are all dulled down My claws are all but broken Cause I’m so in love with you And I’ve got it so bad I never meant to scare you But I’m coming after you It’s my fantasy The cops are coming after me I drive a hundred and three And angle that rearview mirror down So I can see Well, you ain’t so big And you ain’t so bad And I got what you want And that makes you mad So come hunt me down Like I knew you would Cause you’re the big, bad wolf But I’m little red riding hood
9.
From the brooding cliffs to the razor shores To the breathless caves to them iron doors There was loosed a man from the sands of time Who leads the way from two steps behind He’s going to break your heart and make you crawl with fear He’s going to say the words that you want to hear Fill your head with lies, he’s a sinister minister When the devil fled, hid forever more He sent forth a messenger to carry out his chores He spans the age of man, his shape blonds and bends He drives the cattle forth until we’ve reached our end Fill your head with lies, he’s a sinister minister
10.
Beaver Fever 03:45
I went down, down, down, all the way to Georgia I went down, down, down, all the way to hell Tried to drown, drown, drown, like Randy California But the sound, sound, sound, would not take me to bed I was bound, bound, bound, tighter than the hangman’s But I’m bound, bound, bound, to burn before I’m dead There was cries, lies and anger, coming from my head But there was sound, sweet sound, and I followed where she led
11.
Sweet September honey, gold and true Leaves surround your body resting in the dew And you’re tired, too You are as pale as the moon And I’m torn in two over you So goodnight moon, whatever you do Please watch over her, watch over her true I am begging you to see through Through all of the gray smoke and smog and gloom I am begging you Lovely, lonely morning, shaken by a dream Hand in hand we were running to the safety of the trees And I laid you down And we slept forever more within the ground And we were one, we’d become So goodnight moon, whatever you do Please watch over her, watch over her true I am begging you to see through Through all of the gray smoke and smog and gloom Into a lonely room so blue Surrounded by the memories once in bloom That are fading soon, it’s true So goodnight moon, whatever you do Please watch over her, watch over her true I am begging you to see through Through all of the gray smoke and smog and gloom I am begging you
12.
Burnin 04:09
Running the motor that moves you along is a dangerous game Feeling the fractals of light that ignite from a broken pane Put on the water and turn it to ice, there’s a storm outside Run from the window with terror abright that you’re burning alive Riding along and singing a song of hope and faith While under the seat the bottles crack as the moonlight fades You’re pushing a luck that’s pushed you along at a treacherous speed You’re out of the fire and into desire, you’re burning on need Burning alive, there’s no hope for you yet Burning alive, you are fueled by regret Burning alive, no hope for you yet Burning alive, we drink to forget Time will dance with no man Arm in arm with no hands And we wait for a chance at life’s end To hold eye to eye a good friend The sand has run through, but your will it refused to go down With eyes fixed dead you’re shooting ahead and there’s no sound The wind at this speed is a razor that cleaves and your arms are gone You’re just heart and a face at a furious pace and it’s so long
13.
I want you to be here (I am) with you all along

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released February 14, 2010

Tracks 1- 3 from "Township EP"
Track 4 from "Ladywood"
Tracks 5-8, 13 from "Coming Home"
Tracks 9-12 from "Township"
Mastered by Nick Zampiello @ New Alliance East
Design by Andy Guthrie & Township
Music by Township, Lyrics by M. Pinansky
RUNNER'S HIGH MUSIC, ASCAP

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The Family Township Boston, Massachusetts

Township, AKA The Family Township, has been making their Boston-bred brand of classic rock inspired music for nearly 2 decades. As the years and albums have progressed, Township's music has evolved, infusing itself with greater urgency, immediacy, and existential rumination; mirroring these days rather than “those days.” ... more

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