Borealis

by Richard Murray

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1.
Ease On 05:33
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We're haulin' a heavy load, legs a-shakin' amd backs bowed If she ain't liftin' were gonna ditch Her, something wrong with this picture Gotta load up, load in And we're on the road again The same old worn out scene We're gunnin' down a dream But its easier on your mind A little ZZ and a little wine And you're bad you're nationwide Just ease on down the line Hot coffee on a long Winter night, Bloody eyes flicker at the speed of light Got a V8 in my Ford and Transit on the door Gotta load up, load in And we're on the road again The same old worn out scene We're gunnin' down a dream But its easier on your mind A little ZZ and a little wine And you're bad you're nationwide Just ease on down the line But its easier on your mind A little ZZ and a little wine And you're bad you're nationwide Just ease on down the line Roll-ups in the rain, midnight on the diesel lane Oh for ladies of easy leisure, drastic times call for drastic pleasure Gotta load up, load in And we're on the road again The same old worn out scene We're gunnin' down a dream But its easier on your mind A little ZZ and a little wine And you're bad you're nationwide Just ease on down the line Ease on down the line Ease on down the line
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Out on the Rolling Sea 08:03
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I love to see skeleton trees flash by on my dashboard And hear them electric trains a-hummin And the lights pulse in flight like they're under my fingers But the angel was found on the rollin' sea We kept the beat down in the middle of the road But played with the heart of a brawler Out of the blue I punched through to the heart of another An angel out on the rollin' sea Oooh ooh ooh The water keeps on rollin' And I know It's far we're bound to roam Ooh ooh ooh The water keeps on rollin' And I know Someday we'll be rollin' home My luck it needed some tenderising Someone to take this hammer and beat it down Just swing that thing around, bring it down like Polly Ann An angel out on the rollin' sea Oooh ooh ooh The water keeps on rollin' And I know It's far we're bound to roam Ooh ooh ooh The water keeps on rollin' And I know Someday we'll be rollin' home One night I woke from a nightmare of great sadness And found her there in my arms again Still eyes that pierce right through the breathless madness And put me right every now and then I love to see foreign lands flash by my window Some pretty as a picture and wounded by their time From Morocco's injured streets to the Spanish island Where fire heaved like blood in the heart of the land And ashes turned to glass at the hands of the healing Where the harbour lights are warm and fall like tears They switched those gears and pushed into the night And I played not for the turnout but for the years That brought her from the fire heart still burning And the angel out on the rollin' sea Yea the angel out on the rollin' sea
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Ghost in the Machine 04:29
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Rollin' on, I'm rollin' on Dark as thunder to the dawn Eyes like glass, lost and forlorn But I'm rollin' on I put her down in a yard of bones They blessed the ground, they cut the stone A voice came callin 'You've dug your own boy' I put her down in a yard of bones She was the one she was the queen Now shes a ghost in the machine Shes all gone but still in me The ghost in the machine Its on my hands its in my veins Her crimson blood it still remains But she kept me right when I'd smoked my brains Its on my hands its in my veins She was the one she was the queen Now shes a ghost in the machine Shes all gone but still in me The ghost in the machine You can never give up the ghost Sometimes you miss what you hate the most Youth and beauty headin' south Cannon fire from the mouth But I'll work and I'll take my time And I'll sleep on the side that's mine When I roll over she kicks my mind She always kept my ass in line Yea I'll work I'll take my time
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Long Distance Baby 03:46
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Long distance baby We'e takin the long way down Youre the stars youre Tipperary All the miles in your eyes of brown My long distance baby Long distance baby All the pictures I took in my mind Your smile your wedding dress I reach out but theyre hard to find Lying crumpled somewhere in a recess We bled out all our high times We drove just too damn hard An ocean between our prime And a love to worn and scarred Its a long distance baby Long distance baby You gotta keep that rig a rollin Haul that bag of bones Or she'll be on that mystery train boy Sixteen coaches long Long distance baby We're takin the long way down If we could even talk some maybe We could pull out of this ghost town I want to send out this wounded white dove Out beyond the water wide And meet again my first love Down by the riverside But its a long distance baby Long distance baby Long distance baby
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On Carey Street 03:16
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I'm goin' down on Carey Street Goin' way on down in the summer heat Goin' down on Carey street For loadin' 16 tons again Been a long time since I left my home Toked the Big Smoke as I was roamin' around Since then I made nada With my Stratocaster made down in Ensenada I'm goin' down on Carey Street Goin' way on down in the summer heat Goin' down on Carey street For loadin' 16 tons again I'm down where the money burns Another day older but I'll never learn Playin' round for the unconcerned Bleedin' fingers and nothin' earned I'm goin' down on Carey Street Goin' way on down in the summer heat Goin' down on Carey street For loadin' 16 tons again But there's a fire burnin' still after all this time And its burnin' in a belly full of number 9 When it seems my dreams may never be I just load it up like Tennessee I'm goin' down on Carey Street Goin' way on down in snow and sleet Goin' down on Carey street For loadin' 16 tons One more time... I'm goin' down on Carey Street Goin' way on down where the deadbeat meet You load 15 tons and then repeat Down Carey Street again Down Carey Street again Down Carey street again
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I Knew You'd Understand 03:32
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Well I see the homefires burnin' low And I know we may never rake this coal You got a loving mind but a weary heart I got an empty sugar bowl Well there's times you lied but I always tried to be there But now the bird has flown And I traded you for oblivion In the sting of the redeye zone And I knew you'd understand And I knew you like the back of my hand And I knew you'd understand Then the wine it turned against me And I lost m m m m my boogie shoes And the lights they fell with the falling tide And my thoughts they turned to blue And I ran to you, its all I could do When the darkness swept across my mind And you rode that crest like Aurora On the cold terminator line And I knew you'd understand And I knew you like the back of my hand And I knew you'd understand And I knew you'd understand And I knew you like the back of my hand And I knew you'd understand You'd understand You'd understand
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Diamond and Pride 05:49
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'75 is dusted and done But I wish I coulda seen the Miami sun Here shining in the land of the troubled ones Oh but a night out from under the gun In the season of the severance and the hit and run Singing I Got the Feelin' and Kentucky Woman Man Alive Do my eyes deceive me Diamond and Pride The stars were all falling down on Borealis Gentleman Jim is gone with the wind But I wish I coulda seen the Irish pilgrim Charm the songbird out in Iowa Right off his Cedar limb Man Alive Do my eyes deceive me Diamond and Pride The stars were all falling down on our Borealis And his mission drive Keeps rollin' north 'cross the great divide And the stars keep on falling down on Borealis And somewhere between the queen and the green We'll jump we'll jive They cannot deprive us Man Alive Do my eyes deceive me Diamond and Pride The stars were all falling down on our Borealis And his mission drive Keeps rollin' north 'cross the great divide And the stars keep on falling down on Borealis And somewhere between the queen and the green I've seen The stars all falling down on our Borealis Borealis
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Rag and Bone 05:07
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Any rag and bone I'm here alone for you Any rag and bone I'm here alone for you Your worn heart and desire Right down to the wire I'll take it Your worn heart and desire Still finer than those on fire I'll take it But I know we gotta hustle for you're nearly gone And I know we've got the muscle to carry on Any rag and bone Where the pretty bird's flown from you Any rag and bone I just need some time to atone from you But I know we gotta hustle for you're nearly gone And I know we've got the muscle to carry on I don't know how to make it work for you I don't know but I'll make it work Any rag and bone I'm here alone for you Any rag and bone I'm here alone for you Any rag and bone Any rag and bone
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It Ain't Evil to Feel Alright 03:54
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We met about a month ago at the Old Crow Medicine Show And you want to take it nice and Slow now, but honey don't you know now It ain't evil to feel Yea it ain't evil to feel It ain't evil to feel Alright Ribeye round at my place, I'm just trying to put a smile on that face I ain't lookin' for no bride no, 'Cos I go with the time and tide don't y'know It ain't evil to feel Yea it ain't evil to feel It ain't evil to feel Alright There's a man here don't y'know He's got Van on the stereo Blowin' Your Mind But it ain't got my favourite song So go put yer fur boots on We're goin' out tonight It's gonna feel alright Right now it feels a little choked, Needs something drank and something smoked And I think it should be freer, more a feeling of 8ths my dear Gonna take you down on sloe gin, get into a little sumthin' sumthin' And no mother or no holy Joe, is gonna blow the whistle no It ain't evil to feel Yea it ain't evil to feel It ain't evil to feel Alright
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A Little Crazy 03:25
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With an old Hagstrom I bought her, we take in our daughter Work the songs I taught her, you can't whip the high But I can't help but wonder, just if I'll buckle under The sting of stolen thunder from the fury of a life Cos I still got A little crazy left I still got A little crazy left Now I put down my runnin', all the dives I came undone in And my people all came gunnin', with bullets for to bite But I can take it or I can leave it, tell me would you Adam and Eve it And it makes me want to hawk and spit this jonesing for the night Cos I still got A little crazy left I still got A little crazy left Cos if you've found a love in the howling storm You feel your time break ground like a bloody baby born But if youre crying out and youre laying lame The hounds will drag your body through the cold and pounding rain But dont call me 'cos I'm still Healing, like a wheel without a wheel within I still get that restless feeling for midnights siren song But my love she keeps me grounded and my blood she keeps me bounded And the sinner would lay found dead if they ever came to harm Cos I still got A little crazy left I still got A little crazy left
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A Human Race 05:34
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Its a human thing, the heart breaking or warming Its a human thing, the bone breaking or forming They float and they sting, programmed aborning Its a human thing, when your mind calls out a warning I hate what they say when they all scream and shout And I cant throw it back, it gets stuck in the mouth Its a human thing to stand as the Devils Tower But what lies behind is thin and more frailer than the flowers. We're sailing out in the wind, its a race we'll never win This Human thing Na na na... Its a human thing the, eye evil or roving Its a human thing, your fist holding or stoving But I'll sing you to sleep, lightning a strobing Blues on your mind and thunder a-rolling We're sailing out in the wind, its a race we'll never win This Human thing Na na na... Yes I'll sing for the kind out lost in the flood Hope ain't dead yet, its still coughing up blood And its a human thing to roar when youre taking your share But I'll claw and I'll cling and I'll leave you lying there We're sailing out in the wind, its a race we'll never win This Human thing Na na na...
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For the Miles 05:18
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Open up your window, open up your door He's comin' in from the wilderness, he won't hurt you no more The apple of your eye ain't rotten yet to the core He ran with the herd and heard them distant cries Flocked wit the birds but they pecked at his eyes Just let the boy inside ma, please let him rest awhile If you fall to the Black Wind, howlin' and hostile You're in it for the long haul You're in it for the miles For the miles, for the miles You're in it for the long haul You're in it for the miles Oh brother oh brother where you been so long I nursed the heart of a mother heavin' heavy for a son Wanted and AWOL Flew the coop just like Lost John Put him down in the easy chair, wash his face and his neck Way down in the easy chair till his fever break I'll put some money in his jacket Lord I hope it ain't a mistake He used to take me out drivin' ma, he used to make me smile He kept me survivin' ma, as he fell to the vial Just let the boy inside ma, please let him rest a while Just a while and he'll be long gone like he's outta style If you fall to the Black Wind, howlin' and hostile You're in it for the long haul You're in it for the miles For the miles, for the miles You're in it for the long haul You're in it for the miles

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"Richard Murray: “Borealis” A Perfect Mix Of Poetry And Sound"
Irish-born singer/songwriter Richard Murray is back with his upcoming album “Borealis”, which is scheduled to be released on the 6th of May. Award winning Murray had a rave review from us, the last time with his album “Desert Wind”. But everybody knows that it’s always harder the second time around, when you need to confirm your talent. On “Desert Wind” the poetic songwriter successfully captured the emotional highs and lows on each song, with perfectly intense executions. So just how does Murray do this time around?

Continuing his journey through Americana, Heartland Rock, Alternative Country and Folk-Rock sounds, on “Borealis” Richard Murray not only confirms his predestination as an exceptional music artist, but he goes way above. Few, and I mean a very few, if not just a handful of artists, major label or indie, in his genre, can hold a candle to Richard Murray’s performances and musical creations.

Charisma, honesty, and plain raw talent ooze relentlessly from every pore of his musical body. A perfect mix between the poetry of Bob Dylan, the vocal and melodic expression of Jackson Browne, and the sparkling arranging capacity of Dave Matthews, Richard Murray propels “Borealis” into a realm of superiority.

As is experienced from track one, the music is very well played, tastefully arranged, and well produced, with a nice organic sound overall. At times the songs rock with upbeat tempos and at others it harkens back to Murray’s folksier roots like on “Out On The Rolling Sea”. This collection of songs, are among his most meaningful and best produced. Since the previous album, Murray’s music isn’t so much changing as it is growing more expansive. Just listen to the intense rhythms on “I Knew You’d Understand” or the steadfast vocal melody over a prominently jangling guitar on “Rag and Bone” to appreciate the depth, of what on the surface appears to sound like a only subtle evolution.

Lyrically, Murray is creative and poetic without ever being pretentious. The subject of his songs are traveling farther and reaching deeper on each new release, while his wide-ranging voice continues to produce intense emotions. I continue to deem Murray’s work as being devastatingly hypnotic, and find it hard to resist to songs like “A Human Race” and “For The Miles”, notwithstanding the fact that they belong to completely opposite sides of the sound spectrum.

“Borealis” is an album that will grow on you with each listen, and there’s a lot to listen to here. The album presents Richard Murray in brilliant form; as he continues to pen some of the most intelligent, clever and insightful song lyrics around, backed by a well-crafted assortment of heartfelt and accessible musical arrangements.

So before you spend your hard-earned pennies on some overrated piece of junk keep them in your pocket until mid-May, and remember this album: “Borealis” by Richard Murray. It may just be the best buy you make this year! - Independant Music News 24

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released June 5, 2013

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Richard Murray is a Northern Irish Alt. Country Singer/Songwriter. After 10 years as a session musician he released his debut album in 2007 and has been writing, recording and performing solo and with many other artists. His music found a home in 2017 at Ginger Syrup Records who have been at the helm of his latest release 'The Long Haul'. ... more

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