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H​.​O​.​M​.​E​.​S. Volume One

by The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love

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1.
We're taking back October's roads We've found a place where no one goes And it's just around the back door And just a stone's throw East of Jesus Long nights and Autumn breezes And it breaks my heart just being there, it's true... It was founded when the world was young It was passed on down from moon to sun And it's miles away from Motown But when the stars shine drunk with summer Hold back the hair of your lover Yeah, it breaks my heart just being there, it's true... There's a flicker in your headlights And an owl in the sky You're gonna make your mother cry Be still, you front porch dreamers Bring down the lamp! We'll sleep in the chicory Let go the tail of the century Yeah, it breaks my heart just being there, it's true...
2.
Gat black motor, upstate dreaming Oh, you've got to get a booking But only two cars, two cars and a bushel of Michigan... Begin Watchful October begat brown November Where's that boat I made That half-toned product Day job murder, download streaming There are legendes yet uncovered But only four hours, fours hours and a moment That's two full tapes and a side and some silence Nothing so great as dining with us Nothing so needed as pitchers of water Nothing so great as dining with this band
3.
There's a cloud coming through my window There's a corn husk tied round my banjo In the hallway bright and plain clothed She's come home to steal her rainbows She was born in a lighthouse stairwell Ghosts of the Great Lakes declared their angel Would lead the freight trains to where the land parts And bring them home to see their sweethearts And when the clouds came Oh, there were rainbows She was long like a Union rifle She was cold like a hotel bible When we kissed 'neath the moonlight's halo She'd come home to steal her rainbows
4.
Vintage Schwinn on a summer day I often ride all day When I call in on a day like today They've got to know I'm fooling Must know I'm fooling I've got a vintage Schwinn Single speed, that's all you really need Mild slopes and suburb streets When I ride out on a day like today They've got to know I'm moving Must know I'm moving On my vintage Schwinn I'll bargain for your vintage Schwinn Garage sale, Goodwill thrift A regal line from the days When folks would just ride When the kids would build jumps And their dad's fixed their tires When the kids would build jumps And their dad's fixed their tires
5.
Programmed to feel love bloom in the Spring When the buds bring sneezing And all the folks will shed their coats And commence romancing But a Northern boy am I And to my chagrin, I love to see the ladies With all their goods behind fake fur hoods And keen on romancing All that winter snow Climbs over edge of boot Comes home in woolen sock Then sits by heat vent While you watch all the Scenes from the movies That you wish you could have invented In a split second and applied to all the situations That you could have been in Had you actually ignored your shyness I'm ashamed to be from a Northern town Without representatives of overcoats Holding other folk Who are romancing So take your hand From the pocket where you keep your tissues And place it on my open glove 'cause we're romancing
6.
Church Bus 02:59
Church bus, lost in a lazy ass summer Kiss the world with lips that won't part for their lover Drive up the tongue, then down through the lung Church bus, when will the lambs reach the slaughter? Fire drill, hush near the railroad, don't hollar But if one makes a noise in a carpenter's voice Church bus, over the rainbow to mother Sleep late and pull up her arms for the covers When daylight has come, make love to the sun
7.
Tall was the bottle in the glove box Long were the days for the foreman of the mill He was twice as mean When he drank the kerosene And when the break whistle blew He'd take it out on me Long were the days for the foreman of the mill Cold was the floor of the breakroom Red was the face of the foreman of the mill And when he'd has his way I'd go back up on the crane And bite the long blue collar of my family name Red was the face of the foreman of the mill Bright was the iron in the cauldron Dark was the day for the foreman of the mill And when I pushed him in Lord, the devil did grin And every car in Detroit took a piece of him Dark was the day for the foreman of the mill
8.
Highway 2 03:15
Let's drive away, drive away boy Sleep on the hood 'neath the stars, boy All your days, bit parts in other's plays So let's find your real face Drink from the lake, from the lake, boy Stand on a rock with the gulls, boy Are your windy night kissed by the Northern lights? Then let's buy a real kite Wave to the ships, to the ships, boy Hold out your arms to the world, boy See that driftwood turn to bone You've spent your whole life just skipping stones If you want, you can go, boy You can go, boy...
9.
Dad, dad, dad... No, I never caught a ball at Tiger Stadium And I never bought a Stroh's at Tiger Stadium Now I'm 22 years old And I couldn't name a player if I tried And it's sad, my interest died When Whitaker and Trammel both retired Dad, dad, dad... No, I never caught a ball And I never caught a Stroh's And dad, I never could keep score Beyond the 4th inning But, now it's gone, gone, gone To some romantic place And Tiger Town collapses like the Brownest pages of its greatest days And there's no one to share it with but Hal and Dave and you, dad.
10.
Flowers pace the way the fruit will grow And I'm patiently in love again We follow the winds in the old road signs Until the wooded end Maybe you were right, dear Maybe it's not right here The confines of a tongue-locked mine Bring endless disgrace That curtain down to fall under your grace Maybe this is something I cannot yet embrace Rain clouds watch the city grow And aim for open window panes Then fall away with the fading grey And place their bets again
11.
I'm gonna be sick I'm gonna trust you to take my car And I'll take your bed It's a good deal 'Cause you'll want to drive It's a heady night And I'll lay my head By your speaker And I'll want to die It's a beautiful night And I'll lay my head By your speaker, yeah And I'll want to die It's a beautiful night And I'll rake your bed Like a hazard I'm a fevered being Lost in the stilly night It's a beautiful night Beautiful night
12.
H.O.M.E.S. 01:54
At night, casinos fading Stars return and sequel greatest days 'Neath the undertow Where no tourists go All those shells are haunted now They're taking back the night The leaves, like copper smelting Swirl across a seawall that some careless neighbor made Their beach is fading And the lighthouse proud Knows you'll go for good this year And turns its head abroad And you, out West go flying But summer's shops won't open e'er again Goodbye

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released August 1, 2001

H.O.M.E.S. Volume 1
The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love

James Monger
Timothy Monger
Greg McIntosh
Scott McClintock
Liz Auchinvole
Fido Kennington

Produced by The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love
Engineered by Geoff Michael
Mixed by Geoff Michael, Scott McClintock and TOBASOL
Recorded and mixed at Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor, MI / March 2000 - February 2001
Mastered by Eric Enjem at Eric Enjem Studio in Brooklyn, NY
Art direction by Dan Shepelavy and Timothy Monger
Design and layout by Dan Shepelavy

String arrangements on East Jesus America, Church Bus and She's Come Home To Steal Her Rainbows by Phil Myers
Fireworks on Beautiful Night recorded at Windfall Recording in Hammondsport, NY by Benjamin Ridley Jr.
Cover photograph of Calathumpian Band circa 1890 - Calumet, MI. Courtesy of Superior View - Marquette, MI

Original Release: The Telegraph Company / Brooklyn, NY - August 2001 (#10132)

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Folk-rock group from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Active from 1997 to 2003. Later reformed in 2004 as Great Lakes Myth Society.

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