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Chasing Lights

by Ida Mae

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1.
Boom Boom Boom Pulled me over at the border Shook me out like Romeo All my laissez faire and tom cat prayers spilled out into the road See I learnt to lie In a graveyard of rainbows Stitching up those colours charging tickets to the show Boom boom boom, they got me Boom boom boom, completely Boom boom boom, I'm lying Boom boom boom, they’re crying Oh your time ain't long Buying vodka for politicians Is like feeding chocolate to sharks I’ve seen their perfect wives take all their clothes of in the dark And see how they all love me As I pucker up to talk And whisper to the sweet girls just to make them wince and bark Boom boom boom, they got me Boom boom boom, completely Boom boom boom, I'm lying Boom boom boom, they’re crying Oh your time ain't long Now I'm in the headlines For my naivety When I should be in Bermuda taking tea with Mrs May So kiss me like I know you dare Start me up and fix my tie All those back seat boozers and long tail Susans beg to testify Boom boom boom, they got me Boom boom boom, completely Boom boom boom, I'm lying Boom boom boom, they’re crying Oh your time ain't long
2.
My Girl Is a Heartbreak My girl is Joan of Arc, my girl is John Wayne My girl is broken glass, crying in the rain My girl is a Starcrawler, a black-tongued brawler My girl is a drink slipper, grit spitter, Protestant daughter My girl My girl is a Heartbreak My girl in Hollywood, my girl in Holloway My girl is a cowboy angel, pulling me astray My girl is lonely, she be, thin lipped and bones My girl is blood money, lust honey, stubborn as a pony My girl My girl is a Heartbreak My girl like sweet tea, she Nefertiti She’s pulling triggers she be stand and deliver, ooh wee She feel electric, dance floor genetic, Blows out the sun when she’s all paid out and done My girl My girl is a Heartbreak My girl in Hollywood, My girl in Holloway My girl in Hollywood, My girl in Holloway
3.
Chasing Lights You let your dreams roll like thunder Into the arms of a stranger And all that drunken darkness, held you under, pushed you faster And you, were chasing lights Now you call me up like I'm your fool Playing with your tea set after school Now I'm rattling like a double dose Press my eyes to see your ghost And I'm, chasing lights Ooh oh You told me that we'd be young forever And when we fall, we’d fall together But you left on a kite string Crashing cars and kissing lightning Cos you, were chasing lights Yeah you, were chasing lights All that drunken darkness, pulled you deeper, held you under Now I'm rattling like double dose, all your starlight in my throat Cos you, were chasing lights Yeah you, were chasing lights
4.
Higher than Light See the light, the air the water falling from your reach We’re wasting in the valley like those Navajo peaches But there's a new wind blowing South We’re trying just to breath in breath out Burning with the hot sun hot sun Learning just to live fast die young We're higher than light Cross your fingers, bow your head, hail Mary full of grace Your mother, brother, sister, lover pray to keep you safe But there's a new wind blowing South We’re trying just to breath in breath out Burning with the hot sun hot sun Learning just to live fast die young We're higher than light Now we watch the moon dancing deep into the sea Where God’s with all their wreckless dreams whisper come with me But there's a new wind blowing South We’re trying just to breath in breath out Burning with the hot sun hot sun Learning just to live fast die young We're higher than light
5.
Easily In Love Love doesn't ask it takes It burns, shines and breaks And honey I’ve learnt to burn with you Both of us we’re built the same Of heartache and heavy rain You gently turn and say to me I... I’m So easily in Love With you Whisper your designs Like the breeze through Cyprus pines As we fade away, away When all of this is gone Into the dark behind the sun Have you you been what you wanted to be with me I... I’m So easily in Love With you When you lie, I’ll believe you When you cry, I’ll stay with you When you're wrong, I'll play along When I’m weak, you’ll be strong So easily in Love With you
6.
Love is Still a Long Road All our beautiful and flawed designs All the plans we made in wasted time We left them in the dark to the brawlers and their sweethearts. Yeah we, Drank out our peace of mind Got drunk on Atlantic time And I threw my heart into the traffic down on East Park. Your love is still a long road Your love is still a long road That I follow Your love is still a long road Your love is still a long road That I follow I was weak and couldn't resist Your heavy heart and soft blond kiss Now I can’t turn back my blood is running like a race track. So leave your Lovers and liars to their midnight choirs With their teenage dreams and half cut screams If they ask let them know you’ve found a place to call home. Your love is still a long road Your love is still a long road That I follow Your love is still a long road Your love is still a long road That I follow
7.
Reaching 03:15
Reaching Standing in the rain isn’t diving in the sea If you couldn't keep your promise why’d you lie to me? Now I’m on the long road to the beautiful South Watching gutter sports live in a hungry house Reaching, Reaching, Reaching Yes I am. Reaching, Reaching, Reaching Out. I heard Bukka White moan on a white cassette Bought Easy Rider on VHS Cos’ these tyres found me what I need They’re gonna teach these hard lungs how to breath Reaching, Reaching, Reaching Yes I am. Reaching, Reaching, Reaching Out. You said that you loved me just before you left Before the legal settlement and the property theft But I have nothing left to say to you I just shook my feathers and away I flew Reaching, Reaching, Reaching Yes I am. Reaching, Reaching, Reaching Out.
8.
Sweet Abandon I was lost ‘til I found you Heavy hearted ‘til I knew I’d be yours and yours alone You took my hand and I was home Sweet Abandon, Sweet Abandon I fear no black or broken sky I fear no cities dark divide So if your hearts a rolling stone, I’ll leave my family leave my home, for your Sweet Abandon, Sweet Abandon. You are the fallen midnight dew And the cold sun breaking through Only one I answer to Sweet Abandon, Sweet Abandon Like the rivers beg to flow Through the mountains solids stone It’s like gospel in our blood, We weren’t meant to be alone Sweet Abandon, Sweet Abandon
9.
Sick in Love 04:19
Sick In Love These streets are breathless child Slow dance your dreams down Drinking for leisure babe Forgetting where we're born I'm sick in Love So sick in Love I’m sick in Love So sick in Love This city's vicious child we call it fun The battle continues babe Down behind that sun I'm sick in Love So sick in Love I’m sick in Love So sick in Love So come to me easy babe Play me as I lay My blood is restless child It wants to be remembered We're sick in love So sick in love We're sick in love So sick in love We’re sick in Love So sick in Love We’re sick in Love So sick in Love
10.
Rightfully, Honestly I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly always You’ll be my soft skinned, sweet thing always I’ll be your hot blooded, hard headed liar I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly, always. I walked you home, as the heat of the summer came down The city was a paradise of violence, Ice cream trucks turned silent And the rain burned to steam on the stone. I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly always You’ll be my soft skinned, sweet thing always I’ll be your hot blooded, hard headed liar I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly, always. Twisted Sheets, your hands became the tools that I needed, I needed. There wasn’t no chalet suite in London, no self-cleaning oven Just a warm room where we could get stoned. I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly always You’ll be my soft skinned, sweet thing always I’ll be your hot blooded, hard headed liar I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly, always. For all the things that I have done wrong The things I sacrificed to get along I am sorry sorry sorry child I am sorry sorry sorry child I am sorry sorry sorry child I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly always You’ll be my soft skinned, sweet thing always I’ll be your hot blooded, hard headed liar I’ll be yours rightfully, honestly, always.
11.
Feel Them getting closer Walking into heaven like the brand new Elvis A suited and booted clean American made machine Cold skin, stolen keys, gravel track and bare knees I’m going where they won’t find me And I can feel them getting closer Closer And I can feel them getting closer Hanging all my prayers up on the power lines And they’re lighting up the city like the National Grid Hotel, motel, ringing like a sleigh bell I’m going where they won’t find me And I can feel them getting closer Closer And I can feel them getting closer Queen and me are waiting for the changing of the guards And they’re rigging all the racquets down on Sunset Boulevard Cold sweat, jet-set, feeling like a death threat I’m going where they won’t find me And I can feel them getting closer Closer And I can feel them getting closer
12.
If You Don’t Love Me When your boiler’s broken, I will be the South of France. When your day is dragging, I will scream like friday night. And when your party’s run dry, I’ll be water into wine. If you don’t love me I won’t be loved If you don’t love me there’ll be no one else And when the traffic stands still, I will be your Tungsten Tank. And when your feet won’t carry, I can roll like a train. And when you feel you’re falling, I will meet you in the air. If you don’t love me I won’t be loved If you don’t love me there’ll be no one else If you don’t love me I won’t be loved If you don’t love me I don’t want love, love, love, love. And when the bitters drown you, I will swim with you. And when the darkness holds you, I will burn like the day. And when you wake with no-one, I will lie with you. And when you wake with no-one, I will lie with you. If you don’t love me I won’t be loved If you don’t love me there’ll be no one else If you don’t love me I won’t be loved If you don’t love me I don’t want love, love, love, love.
13.
Baby Be Mine 02:42
Baby, baby be mine. Casino boys under pool hall lights I’m waiting tables at the Satellite You said “come on let's go get high And leave all these wasters in the bye and bye” Baby Baby be mine Burning bridges just to light the way We were champagne baby and Novacaine We flowed deep like rivers and mud Fell in love as hard as I could Baby Baby be mine Now I'll hold you like the circle that surrounds the sun You’ll be Clarence I’ll be Alabama baby watch us run I'll hold you like the circle that surround the sun Rolling like we’re golden ‘til we come undone Baby Baby be mine One day honey when were free and clean With a baby on the backseat like a jelly bean You won't remember when you wanted more Or the shadows cooking at the kitchen door Baby baby be mine

credits

released March 18, 2020

LABEL COPY

LP1 – Chasing Lights
Track listing:
1. Boom Boom Boom
2. My Girl Is A Heartbreak
3. Chasing Lights
4. Higher Than The Light
5. Easily In Love
6. Love Is Still A Long Road
7. Reaching
8. Sweet Abandon
9. Sick In Love
10. Rightfully Honestly
11. Feel Them Getting Closer
12. If You Don’t Love Me
13. Baby Be Mine

IDA MAE is Christopher Turpin and Stephanie Jean Ward
All songs written by Christopher Turpin and Stephanie Jean Ward
Produced by Ethan Johns
Engineered by Dom Monks
Mixed by Dom Monks
Mastered by Bob Ludwig from Gateway Mastering
“If You Don’t Love Me”, “Feel Them Getting Closer”, “Easily In Love”, “Love Is Still A Long Road”, “Sweet Abandon”, “Rightfully Honestly” recorded at The Distillery in Somerset, UK
“Boom Boom Boom”, “My Girl Is A Heartbreak”, “Chasing Lights”, “Higher Than The Light”, “Reaching”, “Sick In Love”, “Baby Be Mine” recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, UK.
Mixed at: Three Crows Studio, UK.

Musicians:
Primary Artist Christopher Turpin; guitar & vocals
Primary Artist Stephanie Jean Ward, keys & vocals

Additional Musicians & Parts Played:

Boom Boom Boom

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Electric Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals
Dweezil Zappa: Electric Guitar
Ethan Johns: Drums
Nick Pini: Electric Bass

My Girl Is A Heartbreak

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Electric Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Wurlitzer
Ethan Johns: Drums, Percussion, Shaker
Nick Pini: Double Bass

Chasing Lights

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Resonator Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drum Machine
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Piano, Juno Synthesiser, Percussion
Ethan Johns: Drums, Percussion, Moog Synthesiser
Nick Pini: Electric Bass, Double Bass

Higher Than The Light

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Diddley Bow
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Shaker
Ethan Johns: Drums, Percussion, Bulbul Tarang, Moog Synthesiser, Mbira
Nick Pini: 8 String Bass

Easily In Love

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Resonator Guitar, Baritone Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Piano, Omnichord
Ethan Johns: Drums, Drum Machine, Chamberlin
Nick Pini: Electric Bass, Double Bass

Love Is Still A Long Road

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, High Strung Acoustic Guitar, Electric Slide Guitar (Solo)
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Synthesiser, Omnichord
Ethan Johns: Ukulele, Percussion, Tipple (Solo)
Nick Pini: Double Bass, Guitarrón

Reaching

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Percussion, Hammond Organ, Pump Organ
Ethan Johns: Drums, Percussion
Nick Pini: Electric Bass

Sweet Abandon

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Resonator Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Synthesiser
Ethan Johns: Percussion, Shaker
Nick Pini: Double Bass

Sick In Love

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Resonator Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Tambourine
Ethan Johns: Percussion
Nick Pini: Electric Bass

Rightfully Honestly

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Resonator Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Piano, Omnichord
Ethan Johns: Drums, Drum Machine, Optigan, Chamberlin, Synthesiser, Hammond Organ
Nick Pini: Double Bass, Guitarrón

Feel Them Getting Closer

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Electric Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals
Ethan Johns: Drums, Percussion, Synthesiser, Shaker
Nick Pini: Double Bass

If You Don’t Love Me

Chris Turpin: Vocals, Resonator Guitar
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals, Wurlitzer, Omnichord
Ethan Johns: Drums, Percussion, Hammond Organ, Shaker
Nick Pini: Double Bass

Baby Be Mine

Chris Turpin: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Stephanie Jean Ward: Vocals
Nick Pini: Bass VI


Management:
Ken Levitan, Kevin Spellman, Britti Himelfarb for Vector

Booking:
Buster Phillips, WME (USA/Canada)
Oliver Ward, UTA (Rest of World)

Press:
Barbara Charone for MBC (UK)
Joe Sivick for Missing Piece Group (US)

Financial:
Dwight Wiles, Steve Eggart, David Zeigler for Wiles + Taylor (US)
John Roddison & Kate Wilkinson for Brown McLeod (UK)

Legal:
Ann Harrison for SSB Solicitors (UK)
Kent Marcus for Marcus & Colvin, LLC (US)

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