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Katie May I
03:48
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Katie May I
By Thomas Cusimano
V1)
Katie may I make this up to you
My sense is failing and I do believe it’s true
All the red of autumn Asheville colors are nothing compared to you
V2)
Katie may I have this dance
All I want is a second chance
Katie may I talk to you, one time, or maybe two
Ch)
Katie may I wake you
It’s been a long fall and I miss you
But as sure as roses die, I’ll be home soon
V3)
Katie may I put out your fire, raging wall of desire
Wiped the ask from you lips, With the calloused tender of my finger tips
© 2010 Tom Cusimano
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Storylines
03:26
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Storylines
By: Tom Cusimano
V1)
Smoke and mirrors they surround me
Just an illusion, a mystic of who I’d like to be
Clouded reflections and an untrained eye
Take you for miles before you see that I can’t fly
V2)
But stuck behind all these angles
Leaning the glass just right
Is a picture of fear falling strong off the wall tonight
Pr Ch)
But it’s this picture, that just might
But it’s this picture, that just might
Ch)
Take you from that birds eye
Strike you blind
Gentle sigh that fills you up buts strains your mind
Take it with you but only naturally
Not to be confused with storylines between you and me
V3)
It’s just a picture a fallen ideal
Something worth sharing but too perfect to feel
A sense of comfort without fear, a chance to create lasting principles to the gates of a new deal
Repeat Pr Ch & Ch
Br)
Takes soul to change this iron wind
And a prayer for the storm
Only picture fading is that long sense of forgotten
We used to know
And as it drifts through the distance my eyes turn away from me
So as the wind blows harder I sense we’ll never leave the sea
© 2010 Tom Cusimano
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Til' The World Seem Right
By Thomas Cusimano
V1)
C’mon darling the airs just right
For you and I and the road tonight
Will accept our choices and head for our fate
Tell your father not to worry, that you’ll be home late
Ch)
Take my jacket baby
The tops down, the cars loaded
Follow our dreams and maybe
Not looking over our shoulder
We’ll make our own road
V2)
Step forward let’s roll
We’ve tried this town, it’s tired and it’s old
I can’t make you any promises
All I’ve got is this road to give
Repeat Chorus
Br)
Trying to change our lives tonight
We’ll keep on riding till the world seems right
Just one moment is all we need
We’ll keep it steady you watch our lead
We’ll take this world tonight
We’ll give up arms, they’ll be no fight
Repeat Chorus
V3)
We’re riding now and the world seems right
If only for the rest of our lives
They may be dreams, but it’s all we need
We’ll follow them baby, it’s not naive
© 2010 Tom Cusimano
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Summer Rain
03:25
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Summer Rain
By Tom Cusimano
V1)
I see the rain coming in
Same ol’ gray clouds they’ve always been
I hang my head and I let it fall
Let the rain cover it all again, again
V2)
I feel so bad staying away from the sun
I hide inside away from everyone
But its been months now since I last saw the sky
And its been so long since I held my head up high
Up high
Ch)
Summer rain coming in
Clean these eyes from where they have been
My old friend, my only disguise
Summer rain hide these eyes, oh one more time, One more time is all I need
V3)
So as I step out my front door
My first time out along this shore
And as I stand underneath the rain
With the clouds tears to hide my pain
Oh to hide my pain
© 2010 T. Cusimano
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From Far Behind
04:17
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From Far Behind
By: Tom Cusimano
V1)
We’ve been lost for years
Been bound by age old fears
Now’s the time to take it back from them
Turn away from me
A turn you cannot see
Triggers a fall, a fall from deep inside
Ch)
And I can’t hide
And I can’t hide
V2)
Turn me down, that road I know
The way it’s running, so natural
Nothing new, but let’s pretend
Turn me on like an old friend
Pr Ch)
Why
Why
V3)
Take me back, from far behind
Where fast waters pull me, But I don’t mind
Repeat Pre Chorus & Chorus
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7. |
The Minute
03:31
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The Minute
By: Tom Cusimano & Jimmy Olson
V1
She’s got the California Smile
Tear ya’ apart at the seams
Listenin’ to Moonlight Mile
W/those Cocaine dreams
V2
Standing across the room
She’s got you marking your tomb
Now your caught in her trap
So you take a step back
Ch
But oh, she don’t wait so long
You waste one minute and she’s gone
V3
So you take a step across the room
You know she’s thinking it to
And she takes you best side
W/the blue eyes true
Ch
But oh, she don’t wait so long
You waste one minute and she’s gone
Bridge)
Upstairs to the room down the hall
You make her swing with it all
So your both happy and you say it was then
Go back down and do it all again
Repeat Ch
But oh, she don’t wait so long
And oh, you got her singing your song
Oh, now your standing all alone
You waste one minute and she’s gone
© 2010 Tom Cusimano & Jimmy Olson
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Harvey Noone
03:39
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Harvey Noone Is Here
By Tom Cusimano
V1)
I’m tired of being told it’ll be o.k.
It’ll all work out, it’s meant to be this way
This too shall pass, it’s just the greener grass
All that success would be too much to grasp
V2)
Tired of living, tired of trying
Sick of potential and I’m ready for dying
Ch) C - Bb
One more day simply roll away
Just a fool with nothing left to fear
Ladies and gentlemen, Harvey Noone is here
V3)
You do what you gotta to get on by
When what’s the point if it don’t lead to the outside
Repeat Chorus)
Inst Verse)
Repeat Chorus)
© 2010 Tom Cusimano
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9. |
Somewhere To Run
03:06
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Somewhere to Run
By: Tom Cusimano, Michael Cusimano & Chuck Fredericks
(v1)
Darkness is the day for me,
At night I see the light.
Now’s the time when I’m wishing
That I didn’t have to behold the sight
(v2)
Of the red ink on all my paper
That’s stacked up on my shelf.
It keeps cluttering up my corner
And keeps me from being myself.
(ch)
It seems to me I’ve lost my way,
And the ties have come undone.
My past keeps catching up with me,
And I’m looking for somewhere to run.
(v3)
The path that is behind me
Is full of tears and ash and pain.
It’s all twisted in the shadows
Alongside the tracks of the train.
Chorus)
(br)
Now my dreams, they start to haunt me,
And my fears have come undone.
Since my mind is done unraveling
And my heart is on the run
Inst Verse)
(v4)
But tonight I pray for mercy
For relief of my worried mind.
And the strength and ability
To seek out what I need to find
Repeat Chorus 2x)
© 2010 Tom Cusimano, Michael Cusimano, Chuck Fredericks
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10. |
Ooh La La
04:27
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11. |
No Easy Way
05:19
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No Easy Way
By; Tom Cusimano
Verse 1)
I wish I was enough
But in vain, I’m scared
For restless inside is a complicated man
With wishes and dreams and visions it seems
This debt is found pulling from these arms as they bleed
Away from these hands, away from these hands
Verse 2)
With this fear that’s inside that preys on my mind
For all of these lies that have run through my life
That hold me here as I stand, here as I stand
And there’s a devil whose eyes tear at these lines
That are strings on my mind that pull my thoughts
From where they have been, From where they have been
Pre-Chorus)
But it was all in the future then
Now I see these days as they come
Chorus)
Good or bad as they might have been
I’ve taken what I could from them
“Records on the wall,” she said
Like a drifter with a common bed
Verse 3)
He made it look so good
He made it look so easy
She made it look so hard
She made it look so fun
She cries, “You can only run so far as to escape
The pain of a run that has lasted too long.”
Repeat Pre-Chorus, Chorus)
Bridge)
Oh you can try to change it
But there’s no easy way out
It’s the picture of the form I once was
Now so easily doubt
Or you could run to face it
or fly just as they loose count
But the wisdom in your eyes the general surprise and that’s the only way out
Repeat Verse 1)
Repeat Pre-Chorus, Chorus)
© 2010 Tom Cusimano
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the Riders California
The Riders (originally named "Stone Desire" for about a month) were founded in the summer 2003 in Los Angeles,
CA.
Since 2003 the Riders have seen more than a few personnel changes, here is the list of active members:
2003-present
Tom Cusimano (Guitars, Piano, Vocals)
Jimmy Olson (Drums)
2008-present
Devin Shea (Violins)
Neil MacPherson (Piano & Organ)
Mike Clairmont (Elec & Upright Bass)
... more
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