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There's Always a Story

by Midnight North

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cockerspanieldingo I love Midnight North
I love Elliot Peck
Baldguy
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Baldguy This album is fantastic in every way. It has a sweet mix of tunes, all very well played with great lyrics. Folks, hop on board if you aren’t already, this band has it going on strong.
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Sid Levy To rock us out of the album we get a full steam engine roaring down the tracks on We're Not Alone. "Here alone it can get you down. I'm not alone, those days are gone!" The band is running on full steam these days. - Sid Favorite track: We're Not Alone.
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searchers Perfect as usual!
coleyjackson
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coleyjackson Love every track on this album, Midnight North crushed it 🙌🏼
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robnbeth Love the new album. So many great songs I can't pick a favorite. The lyrics are wonderful and the music sounds so natural and pure. My eyes water with tears of musical joy on Good Days. Thanks for the great music.
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1.
Wild Card 04:34
Wild Card Music by Nathan Graham Lyrics by Nathan Graham, Grahame Lesh, & Andrew Erickson There’s always a story Of a young minded fool From back in the days He broke all the rules Always a smile To cover up the truth Why hold out on the wild card? Burning a hole in your hand Digging a hole in the ground In a vast graveyard This ain’t the story He thought I’d tell He was honest and true When he couldn’t lose No more smiles For the last damn time Why not wait for the wild card? Burning a hole in your hand Digging a hole in the ground In a vast graveyard There’s always a story Worth being told Every life has A fortune to roll It’s like in a movie As the credits roll Once it’s over there’s no wild card Burning a hole in your hand Digging a hole in the ground Burning a hole in your hand Digging a hole in the ground
2.
The Sailor & The Sea Music by Grahame Lesh & Connor O’Sullivan Lyrics by Grahame Lesh & Elliott Peck It was just becoming morning The shadows faded fast against the light I could see your trepidation Against the hope that brightened in my eyes It was just another journey Never too far from the comfort of your arms Each return is shorter than the last Before I’m back out chasing stars I won’t run when I should be diving deep Let the current lay me down to sleep When I’m gone away don’t weep for me For even a drowning sailor loves the sea I’ve been left with naught but memories To give me company through the days Being left at home can make one Think hard about the ways to run away Even in my darkest moments I know we had no choice at all Hoping from a distance That you’ll still answer when I call I won’t run when I should be diving deep Let the current lay me down to sleep I won’t go where you can’t follow me For even a drowning sailor loves the sea Keep a light in the window for now When the stars hide behind clouds And I won’t wander too far anymore You’re the compass that leads me to shore
3.
Good Days 03:29
Good Days Music & lyrics by Elliott Peck, Grahame Lesh, & Nathan Graham One, two, can you come and find me? Three, four, why are you still standing there? Sometimes seems like love is for the lucky But that ain’t me All my days are losing hours I feel the darkness on the first of June If I could hold your hand a little tighter Would you guide me through? Those were good days When the rain soaked our shoes Every winter I stayed wrapped around you We might find fortune and have nothing to lose Like the birds in the sky painting clouds of white and blue Lately I’ve been losing people I wish that wasn’t part of getting old Makes me hold you closer through the seasons I have my reasons Those were good days When the rain soaked our shoes Every winter I stayed wrapped around you We might find fortune and have nothing to lose Like the birds in the sky painting clouds of white and blue Those were good days We had fortunes to lose Every winter lay fresh & new Every morning were the colors white and blue When all I wanted in the evening were songs that we both knew
4.
Earthquakes 04:09
Music & Lyrics by Grahame Lesh The storm gathered just out of view Hidden by the sky’s brightened blues Wide eyed and dancing, running down the path We always thought it would last Storm raged on through Take a close look, and see it’s true Flames roared higher, chasing our last stand Like the storm was fighting all our plans I dreamed of earthquakes and lilac rain falling down I saw the waves crash endless without a sound I heard you tell me, Without a warning, All of this will end without a doubt A storm is coming Time was never fighting for me We could never trust that storm to leave We will have to gather, just out of view We become the storm, and rage back through I dreamed of earthquakes and lilac rain falling down I saw the waves crash endless without a sound I heard you tell me, Without a warning, All of this will end without a doubt A storm is coming
5.
Music & Lyrics by Elliott Peck One night on the stairs Raised the back of my hair Red lace on her sleeves in an intricate weave And a look of despair “Have you lost your way?” She had no words to say “Can I help you find where you need to go? Will you be ok?” Way down in New Orleans The past is carved on the graves Where the souls, the souls that nobody knows Are seen until they’re saved They’re saved Later that spring She came back in a dream She spoke of the living, the dead, And those who live somewhere in between In the full moon glow Things I was shown I wished her well, but what came of her I will never know Way down in New Orleans The past is carved on the graves Where the souls, the souls that nobody knows Are seen until they’re saved Down, down in New Orleans A river that ends at the sea Where it flows, and flows, and nobody knows When living souls will be free Lost in the wings of mysterious things Your candle blew out by the door Now you roam out on your own Your spirit’s not chained to this floor On the last day in May She stood in the hallway “Can I help you find where you need to go? Will you be OK?”
6.
Coyote 03:44
Music & Lyrics by Elliott Peck Tears dry quickly In the beating sun Your eyes look tired But you’re not the only one This run’s over What’s your next move? Are you caught between the darkness and the shadows of the moon? Did you walk, did you run through this border town? Did you breathe with relief when you felt your feet leave the ground? Oh Coyote Was there a better way out? Did you stumble through the glass, the gravel & the doubt? Oh Coyote From the love of a friend What is worth risking For the making of amends? The light is blinding The dust won’t settled down Your heartbeat won’t slow Till you pass through this town This run’s over but you barely got through They asked for escape and laid their burdens on you Did you walk, did you run from this border town? Did you breathe with relief when you felt your feet leave the ground? Oh Coyote How did you ever get through? With their eyes and intentions all centered on you The bones of your failures are now the dust on the road You swore this is was the last time you’d sell them your soul Oh Coyote Oh Coyote
7.
Music & Lyrics by Grahame Lesh There’s a clarifying moment When it all has come and gone Just an image long forgotten From a moment hard won If I’d told you how it ended Would you do it all again? In that moment we saw the stars falling All the edges had been faded All the focus narrowed down But the melody never wavered Though trouble came around I could tell the happy ending But life had other plans I’ll go back to when we saw the stars falling I will raise my head high While thunder plays and gods cry I turn my gaze to the night sky And it will be like stars falling It’s more than just an ending As the aftermath begins More than a reckoning I need to build again You could walk among the wreckage And lead me back to home But my north star will not rise tomorrow I will raise my head high While thunder plays and gods cry I turn my gaze to the night sky And it will be like stars falling Where were all my warning signs when I had the eyes to see? Threw my caution to the wind but it flew right back at me All the roads we could have roamed, I will walk them on my own Maybe one day I will live to cross your path again I will never see the forest I focus on the tree So much life is left forgotten I can only work on me You left me no direction No North Star left to find What’s left but letting my heart decide? I will raise my head high While thunder plays and gods cry I turn my gaze to the night sky And it will be like stars falling
8.
Music & Lyrics by Elliott Peck & Grahame Lesh Back in the lowlands after many years away Vines long and twisted cast a shadow on this space Cracks in the foundation can’t support the weight you face I’m a stranger in a land where we don’t have a place Faces familiar, unwelcoming to most I was a hostage now float free like a ghost I came to make amends with all the family I can find But a foreign land is lonely when they don’t like your kind He was a long lost friend never knowing he was wrong I walked off that land the day I turned 21 It’s hard to keep your boots on underneath this blazing sun Let the Mississippi River carry all your lost souls home Made up my mind long before that day Went north to Chester where there was no one to betray Takes a child to choose a path, and a man to stay away But the Mississippi calls me every time I’ve strayed He was a long lost friend never knowing he was wrong I walked off that land the day I turned 21 It’s hard to keep your boots on underneath this blazing sun Let the Mississippi River carry all your lost souls home Took up a trade so I could send some money home Found a bed to share so I would never be alone If I could know for certain I would be satisfied The past could be forgotten and my hand will come untied He was a long lost friend never knowing he was wrong I walked off that land the day I turned 21 It’s hard to keep your boots on underneath this blazing sun Let the Mississippi River wash away the sins Let the Mississippi River wash away the sins Let the Mississippi River wash away the sins Let the Mississippi River carry all your lost souls home
9.
Music & Lyrics by Nathan Graham Sometimes I feel like a Silent lonely drifter Or maybe a whisper to the wind On my ear, another year gone by and we’re still here Bright September Moon Thanks for shining on me Sometimes I feel like a Freight train leaving Texas Ain’t no time for breakfast We got to go Deepwater rivers, always delivers Highway songs and rye Big Hunters Moon Thanks for shining on Me Sometimes I feel like a Seaside vacation Looking for validation And some boardwalk fries To the coast, where we will toast the good times and the bad Strawberry Moon Thanks for shining on me Sometimes I feel like A silent lonely drifter. Or maybe a whisper to the wind
10.
Music by Connor O’Sullivan & Grahame Lesh Lyrics by Grahame Lesh I can hear them all coming All full of gin I hear all my old friends They’re right round the bend But I’ll be gone Carried on the wind I’ve been a-waiting For more uncut gems One day they’ll find me I don’t know when Full hearts Lead to open arms Here alone It can get you down I’m not alone Those days are gone, days are gone Home for a day Maybe two at the most Never a weekend It sounds like a boast I don’t know Where I am this time I haven’t seen you But maybe you’ll call I hope and I pray And I howl at the wall But the time Slowly fades away And I’m here alone It can get you down I’m not alone Those days are gone, days are gone I never run from danger, dear It’s easier to hide Until my dying days have gone You’re only in my mind Until I’m found Yeah I’ll be found We’ll be found I hear all you fuckers I hear you again Just one more sign That we’re nearing the end And the time Slowly fades away There’s nothing to say Nothing to win I see in your eyes Everywhere you’ve been And I know We are here to stay I can hear them all coming All full of gin I hear all my old friends They’re right round the bend But I’ll be gone

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released July 23, 2021

Produced by David Simon-Baker & Midnight North
Engineered & recorded by David Simon-Baker at Allegiant Studios in San Anselmo, CA.
Additional recording by Damian Calcagne at Pinebox Studios in Northwestern NJ, by Dan Knobler at Goosehead Palace in Nashville, TN, & by Steven Foxbury at Yellow Couch Studio in Pittsburgh, PA.
Pandemic home recording by Connor O’Sullivan & Grahame Lesh in California, and Elliott Peck & Nathan Graham in Pennsylvania
Mixed by David Simon-Baker
Mastered by Betty Cantor-Jackson
Published by Elliconn Music (BMI)
Art direction by Connor O'Sullivan
Cover art and design by Eva Edgren

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