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The Acadias

by The Acadias

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1.
Washboard Mary If I should lose sight Remind me of my life The beauty of the soul The individual If I should lose sight Remind me of my life The majesty of Earth The fires of the turf
2.
Blackberries and Pine Needles That Emerald Road that runs to Mississippi Where you see the dirt turn from black to red I'm going there but I don't think you'll miss me There I won't know those lies you said Blackberries and Pine Needles They catch me and brush on by Blackberries and Pine Needles Tear my skin and make me cry Memories sitting there beside you Those moments now still haunt me Which start just staring at this campfire The stars alone can fill my dreams Blackberries and Pine Needles They catch me and brush on by Blackberries and Pine Needles Tear my skin and make me cry Blackberries and Pine Needles They hurt me just like your lies Blackberries and Pine Needles Tear my skin and I cry All alone on that old porch swing It's getting late but what can I do? I've thought it out, I know that when I leave here that Emerald Road won't take me back to you... Back to you Blackberries and Pine Needles They catch me and brush on by Blackberries and Pine Needles Tear my skin and make me cry Blackberries and Pine Needles They hurt me just like your lies Blackberries and Pine Needles Tear my skin and I cry Cry And I cry That Emerald Road that runs to Mississippi Where you see the dirt turn from black to red
3.
Jude 04:23
Jude Jude's a philosopher a man about town He sees and knows just what is all going down He's got some troubles yea but hey don't we all? His luck's run out. He knew it had to fall The trouble started with a debt he couldn't pay His best girl caught him with his second best today Jude got himself trapped in every kind of way And how to fix all this, man, he couldn't say And now... He's counting days like rosary beads But Jude's conflicted by all that he sees He's making a list of all the pros and the cons But Jude knows by Sunday he'll be moving on Jude loves this city though; he knows its flow He knows who'll give him things and who would say no Jude loved a woman once wish she'd come back for more He'd be all over her like misery on the poor And now... He's counting days like rosary beads But Jude's conflicted by all that he sees He's making a list of all the pros and the cons But Jude knows by Sunday he'll be moving on The Man is out to get him. He's running from the law. He prays he'd never seen all of those things he saw. Even though he can't pay he buys another round Later on they're gonna run him right out of town So Run Jude Run Run Jude Run
4.
Stopped 04:47
Stopped Slow driving on a short ride home Mind racing chasing memories and hopes Sun sliding up starting a slow summer day The sun chasing the moon away A train pulls up Right on my left Stretching more than I can see And up ahead there is no end for me So why am I stopped? What is this life? Why am I stopped? Should I stay or should I go? What am I running so hard to? In a rush to get to nowhere Turn around or see it through? The roads all lead back to this place And this dead pace my life has found Back to here and here I’m stopped Out there no one waits for me No thing no how no holding me back What is this life? A string of days? To months to years they fade away And here I am right where I was Unchanged unmoving Just like the year before I want much more So why am I stopped? What is this life? Why am I stopped? Should I stay or should I go? What am I running so hard to? In a rush to get to nowhere Turn around or see it through? The roads all lead back to this place And this dead pace my life has found Back to here and here I’m stopped The roads all lead back to this place And this dead pace my life has found Back to here and here I go
5.
Firearms and Fireflies There’s a difference between knowing and knowing better There’s a difference between knowing and knowing better In a shotgun in the shadow of a billboard She lives and daily senses To ask and answer all alone While colors bleed across the sky Clouds converge or they drift alone While cicadas scream and the river shines along They sing Oo de lally lullaby Oo de lally lullaby Firearms and fireflies Flash and thunder in the night Freely falling Rippled leaves in jagged motion Catch my throat and burn my eyes A noble savage haunts this place A trace of grace displaced with time Oo de lally lullaby Oo de lally lullaby Firearms and fireflies Flash and thunder in the night Freely falling I feel forever like Aurora sleeps But I know she’ll be back again Amber lenses cleanse my eyes The sky the breeze the trees now sigh Oo de lally lullaby Oo de lally lullaby Firearms and fireflies Flash and thunder in the night Freely falling And we struggle and we break And we give and we take And we do it all over And we struggle and we break And we give and we take And we do it all over Yeah we do it all over Just to do it all over I confess, undress Just bless me with your lullaby Oo de lally lullaby
6.
Here We Go! 03:39
Here We Go! I pass knee-high iron fences With knee-high porcelain door knobs I drift, floating with the heat fog in the night The streetlight is broken And I can’t seem to find my car [Chorus] ‘Cause it’s I who’s small not Alice And it’s me whose brain’s in clouds But the words I say aren’t malice I just speak what I think out loud Mea culpa’s not my style So let’s go here we go I forgot what you were saying But I don’t want to be your friend My hope and the truth just blend And now I just want to leave you But the night with me you’ll spend [Chorus] I slam shut my open window Bump my hip on the foot of the bed Then you mock all the book’s I’ve read So I tell you I hate you And we just watch TV instead [Chorus] So here we go! [Chorus]
7.
Comes a Time 03:53
Comes a Time Comes a time when you're driftin' Comes a time when you settle down Comes a light feelin's liftin' Lift that baby right up off the ground. Oh, this old world keeps spinning round It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down There comes a time. You and I we were captured We took our souls and we flew away We were right we were giving That's how we kept what we gave away. Oh, this old world keeps spinning round It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down There comes a time.
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Summer Banjo 03:05
9.
When the Fog Rolls In Evangeline in the bar unwinds She saw her man Gabe her secret love so fine But Gabe didn’t speak to Evangeline And her tears grew warm as the fog rolled in From across the bar she says she’s fine Thinking how he’d sing, “Evangeline! She’s mine oh mine!” He laughed with his friends while she was crying And he left the bar when the fog rolled in She walks from the bar She walks to her car She opens the note That Gabe had wrote “Meet me tonight I’m sorry I’ll be waiting for you love Please come get me I know it’s late And hard to see But I can’t take this misery now Please hurry dear I’ll be waiting by that old oak tree” So she drove to the spot that once was theirs Where he carved a heart to prove he cared Evangeline waited unaware Oak trees look alike when the fog rolls in For an hour or more she had waited She prayed that this pain would soon be sated Then Evangeline it was love she hated So she gave up on Gabe when the fog rolled in Her foot on the gas heavy as her heart Those headlights can’t cut through the mist and dark Holding back tears all alone in that car In that runaway car When the fog rolled in Gabe lay down tired against the tree Without him there ain’t much a life for me She didn’t brake she just crashed right in To where Gabe fell asleep when the fog rolled in Well together forever in peace to lay The secret affair of the girl and her Gabe Evangeline with her love will stay And you can still see their ghosts When the fog rolls in

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The Acadias first full length album (2011).

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released December 22, 2011

All music written and performed by The Acadias except "Comes a Time" written by Neil Young. All lyrics written by Katherine Truxillo, except "Comes a Time" written by Neil Young and "Washboard Mary" written by Andy Lade. Recorded and Produced by Ivan Klisanin and The Acadias in Lafayette, Louisiana. Album photography by Ashley Bel. Album artwork designed with the help of Charlie Lade and Jen Wickham.

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The Acadias New Orleans, Louisiana

The Acadias is a New Orleans folk-rock band formed in December 2009 comprised of Mary Truxillo (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Mark Johnson (vocals, bass, guitar), Andy Lade (percussion), and Rob Speyrer (banjo, accordion).

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