Crown City Sessions

by the Riders

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Recorded in a one-bedroom house on Coronado Island. Mixed and mastered at A-Bay Studios in England.

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released 02 March 2010
Co-produced with Guy Fletcher (Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris)
Featuring Saxophonist Buddy Leach (George Thorogood & the Destroyers)

Tom Cusimano – Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Harmonica
Jimmy Olson – Drums
Devin Shea – Violin
Neil MacPherson – Piano/Organ
Mike Clairmont – Upright & Electric Bass, Harmony Vocals

Additional Harmonies by: Kasey Truman & Michael Cusimano
Additional Handclaps & Cowbell: Nathan Scholl
Additional Engineering by: Steve Hirsch

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The Riders (originally named "Stone Desire" for about a month) were founded in the summer 2003 in Los Angeles, ... more 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) less

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Track Name: Katie May I
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
Track Name: Storylines
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
Track Name: Til' The World Seems Right
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
Track Name: Summer Rain
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
Track Name: From Far Behind
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
Track Name: The Minute
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
Track Name: Harvey Noone
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
Track Name: Somewhere To Run
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
Track Name: No Easy Way
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