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Exile On Main Street

by The Tisburys

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1.
Well, I’m exiled on Main Street again As the sun comes up over the Schuylkill River bridge While the Clark Street hustlers are riding the bus downtown I sit on the sidewalk till you come back around I thought I saw Old Willy the other day But those dreams of California took him away It hasn’t been the same round here since he’s gone Don’t you wait too long before the dawn Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury? I can see thе Bedford Towers begin to fadе While the marching band plays “When The Levee Breaks” Oh, tell me momma, can you say it isn’t so? Is there trouble with our lady of the snow? Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury? You're exiled on Main Street Can you feel the fire under your feet? The freedom, the daylight All your memories shattered in the moonlight Nostalgia, it's unplanned When you're playing in a rock and roll band Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury? Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury?
2.
It calls you back to somewhere else Foolishly you’re laughing in the front seat Wondering if your life’s already gone Remembering what she said “You can’t find the way from here but you’re back now” And It feels just like you’re walking on a line You’re holding onto someone else to feel alive You’re reaching out to anything that you can find You’re holding up your stereo Wishing that they could only hear you Like Peter writing letters to the saints It’s only whеn you’re feeling down You can’t get out of bed somеhow but you’re trying Hopefully this feeling comes to pass You’re holding onto someone else to feel alive You’re reaching out to anything that you can find Still far gone on the second line Reaching out for a second sign It calls you back to somewhere else Foolishly you’re laughing in the front seat Wondering if your life’s already gone You’re holding onto someone else to feel alive You’re reaching out to anything that you can find
3.
Garden 03:45 video
You’re decomposing all your edges now You misinterpret all the signs You began to descend down that tree With Napoleon behind And if the rain it falls too hard, then you will know your plants are growing And if the day turns into night, then you will know my light is burning Don’t follow suit, don’t say goodbye, just follow me into the garden I’ll follow you to say goodnight, say goodnight Keep patrolling your horizons Keep your typewriter upstairs Cause those deep red lights will enter When the mammoth secret stares And if the rain it falls too hard, then you will know your plants are growing And if the day turns into night, then you will know my light is burning Don’t follow suit, don’t say goodbye, just follow me into the garden I’ll follow you to say goodnight, say goodnight Can’t you see the morning’s coming Your windows are gone, they’ve fallen Don’t hide behind those sacred symbols That are keeping you warm And if the rain it falls too hard, then you will know your plants are growing And if the day turns into night, then you will know my light is burning Don’t follow suit, don’t say goodbye, just follow me into the garden I’ll follow you to say goodnight, say goodnight
4.
Ten Years On 04:28
Ten years on and i’m alone It’s been a long time since i’ve been home Ten years on, it's all the same It's been a while, lemonbrain But will I turn around to see the rock? Like a genius off the clock? Give me life and tell me why I can’t go back, i can’t rewind Trade my liver to save my lungs The water’s rising but my head won’t budge Will I walk into the blazing sun Before the people make me run? And if you leave me in the hive again Leave my lying in my bed I can’t forget, and i know why I can’t go back, i can’t rewind Leave me dead and leave my head If i have reservations A kiss for you, a kiss goodbye I can’t go back, i can’t rewind
5.
You feel like you’re running out of time You shot the moon and you’re losing your mind This providence was promised by fools You’ve been jaded by the rich and the cruel So if you’re locked into silence On an ocean of violence And those tears you were crying came to town I’ll pick you up when love knocks you down The bends take a tender age to bloom Both love and death barge into the room The dream you tossed was falling away Like a voice in your hеad, like a moth to a flame So if you’re lockеd into silence On an ocean of violence And those tears you were crying came to town I’ll pick you up when love knocks you down You disappear like a shadow in a glasshouse Will everything go back to how it was before? You dread the days you spend alone in darkened rooms But i will try, we’ll flip it over, and move forward from the night So if you’re locked into silence On an ocean of violence And those tears you were crying came to town And we don’t have no money And our faces look a little funny And those tears we were crying came to town I’ll pick you up when love knocks you down
6.
La Mancha 03:07
She bought a ticket to Spain cause she could not take it any longer Life’s flimsy, like paper, it falls apart in her little fingers Woo! Everything she wished for, it all just showed up in her timeline The masses were waiting but no one met her at the airport You can not go backwards, you can not stay A history of violence, add or subtract any way you want it Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha it’s too late Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha keep the change Adventure, it falters, like holy rollers just tipping over The people, the culturе, pour over them with your coffee filter Your horsе and your best friend, they are supplying you all the answers Farewell to the losers, they’ll follow you off into the sunset Yo tengo un secreto, nadas importante We are just a bunch of plastic bags floating in the river Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha it’s too late Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha keep the change Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha it’s too late Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha keep the change
7.
As the fanfare stops, the murder was recorded In the bedroom where you told the story to yourself This house was not a home Johnny had a hit: It was born, not written It was living proof that the stars will fumble all the same In their old, forgotten cars Now we’ve grown too abstract, all our passions are regional Our fortune’s ignored and we’re facing the ridicule Is it closing in on you like it's closing in on me? While the surprise crooks all drove south to heaven You were digging your hole down to the poison in your heart Leave it in your judgement drawer Meet me at the drop, I will be your cover In the the thrill of the night I’ll be waiting down on Massachusetts Street With the shovel and body parts Now we’ve grown too abstract, all our passions are regional Our fortune’s ignored and we’re facing the ridicule Is it closing in on you like it's closing in on me? Now we’re naked and cold, all our heroes are liquefied We’ll be forty or fifty and our minds won’t be satisfied Is it closing in on you like it’s closing in on me? Living life with schadenfreude It’s a sacrifice for the midnight gods It's harder now than it ever was to keep it all alive We’re on the run, in harmony It’s in our blood, it’s in New Jersey It’s all you keep when all your demons go in for the night Now we’ve grown too abstract, all our passions are regional Our fortune’s ignored and we’re facing the ridicule Is it closing in on you like it's closing in on me? Now we’re naked and cold, all our heroes are liquefied We’ll be forty or fifty and our minds won’t be satisfied Is it closing in on you like it’s closing in on me?
8.
Paulette 02:46
I hope you’re listening, I hope you’re well I‘m still missing your perfume smell Take me with you, it will be alright I’ll call your bingo numbers into the night Paulette Paulette It’s time for work already And now my heart feels heavy No reason in my life to Practice french vocabulary I know you’re listening, I can see you now Take a seat with me to help calm me down When you leave I will remember your smile I’ll feel that hurt again but not for a while Paulettе Paulette The spring turns into summеr A walk with awe & wonder And in the sky I see your Bright blue earrings hangin' on ya
9.
You find it alarming, I break with a bark I find it way harder to poeticize the start You live in the daylight, I fight with the sound On corners that take time to lift up off the ground I work for a way to say to you It’s once and for all (once and for all) We’ll search for the lock before the fall It took me a decade, I wore a grey suit The guards and the ushers took promises to boot We’ll turn all the lights off and say both our names The ones we were hiding and the ones that stay the same I work for a way to say to you It’s once and for all (once and for all) We’ll search for the lock before the fall But when the switch flips, I feel oh so compromisable So detrimental to your health And when that flipped switch meets a object so unmovable It takes a buzzsaw to itself Let’s meet in the middle, Let’s kiss on main street in France We’ll push our noses together and teach our eyes to dance I work for a way to say to you It’s once and for all (once and for all) We’ll search for the lock before the fall I’ve given you nothing (nothing at all) The rattlers hate my point of view With their bowling ball (the bowling ball) You feel it in your abdominal wall
10.
You slipped through the upstage club again I found you singing in the band The summer’s over but you’re ready to go There’s homeless surfers sleeping on the floor Quick stint of quarrels in the night Insults and always starting fights All the horrible first times in your life You’ve broken your teeth and you’re rolling the dice But you’re speaking my language, baby We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along There’s no way it’s life sustaining We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along You know you mean so much to me Even when the snow falls at your feet The power’s out and the the money is gone We dread the dark but we’ll sell all our songs We’ll take the highway to LA Where the sun will shine on us all day We don’t have much but we’re having fun Cause tramps like us are born to run But you’re speaking my language, baby We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along There’s no way it’s life sustaining We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along Around the corner the heat is waiting Let’s move it along, let’s move it along So turn over the record baby We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along All the ghosts in this town, they’re here to stay Can’t ask a question, they’ll turn you away It’s in their expression, it’s in their expression At the midnight sky, we’re screaming out It’s just me and you, what a terrible sound Hear our confession, hear our confession! But you’re speaking my language, baby We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along There’s no way it’s life sustaining We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along Around the corner the heat is waiting Let’s move it along, let’s move it along So turn over the record baby We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
11.
You're out there walking through the streets tonight You know that you can’t get very far Your memories are a frequency in stereo Like the grooves on the record of your heart When your dreams are shattered in the moonlight And you hear the hum of old guitars Are your memories exiled on Main Street? Are you fighting the sleep off in your car? Staring at photos from yesterday Of the streets residing in your your heart The streets residing your heart It's so easy to look back in anger, my dear One day we'll both be 64 And we’ll go back to the town where we used to live And realize we never needed more When your dreams are shattered in the moonlight And you hear the hum of old guitars Are your memories exiled on Main Street? Are you fighting the sleep off in your car? Staring at photos from yesterday Of the streets residing in your your heart The streets residing your heart Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be When it's all done, could you forgive me, Tisbury? Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be When it's all done, could you forgive me, Tisbury?

about

It’s been a long road for Philadelphia’s The Tisburys. Formed in 2015 by singer-songwriter Tyler Asay and lead guitarist John Domenico, the indie rock / power pop band has continued to evolve in the passing years. Their early lo-fi records, 2019’s Wax Nostalgic and 2020’s Sun Goes Down, were exit signs on a highway influenced by everyone from Big Star to Hop Along. The Tisburys are delighted to announce the latest stop on their long, strange trip; a third album, titled Exile On Main Street, which will be released on September 16th, 2022.

The band has gone through multiple iterations in the past couple years; bassist Doug Keller joined in 2017 after years of playing in several celebrated Philadelphia-based bands (Band Of Rivals, Riverby, & Duke Maroon), drummer Dan Nazario was enlisted during sessions recording Sun Goes Down with his brother Justin Nazario at his home recording studio (Sound Splitter) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Latest addition Jason McGovern (a singer-songwriter in his own right who fronts local band The Describers) helped produce the band’s last release, the 2021 EP Pictures Of Fireworks, and now plays keyboards along with other instruments.

Exile was then brought to longtime friend Matt Muir, who mixed the record at Kawari Sound Studios (The Districts, The War On Drugs, Low Cut Connie). Additional recording was finished at Retro City Studios, with several friends of the band making cameo appearances such as Katie Hackett of The Lunar Year, Mike “Slo-mo” Brenner of Marah & Wild Pink, and more. The album was mastered by Dan Duszynski of Gold Hotel & Loma at his home studio DANDYSOUNDS in Austin, Texas.

The title for this new album, Exile On Main Street, works on many levels. First of all, it’s a sendup to The Replacements calling their third album Let It Be. It’s also a reference to the record store Asay has worked at for the past 5 years, Main Street Music in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philly. “It was the only logical choice for what to call this record,” says Asay. “It’s a reflection of the music we’ve made so far along with the music we love that has come before us.”

The Tisburys are no strangers to wearing their influences on their sleeves; the new album also includes specific references to Springsteen, Gin Blossoms, and the aforementioned Replacements. Musically, it’s a callback to 90s college rock & power pop with modern indie rock influences thrown in. The band knows of the legacy of heartland rock acts from Philadelphia (The War On Drugs, Dr. Dog, Strand Of Oaks) and The Tisburys work to find their way in that conversation.

“Every little soul must shine,” sings Asay on the first and last song of the album, “The Tisburys (On Main Street” and “Exile (On Main Street)”. The story that this new record tells is one of honest reflection while also looking forward. Exile On Main Street is an album about the streets you grew up on as well as the long road ahead, escaping negativity and owning your mistakes. Keep your chin up and keep driving.

credits

released September 16, 2022

Recorded & Engineered by Justin Nazario at Sound Splitter Studio
& by Matt Muir at Retro City (Assistant: Franny Lane)
Mixed by Matt Muir at Kawari Sound
Mastered by Dan Duszynski at Dandysounds
Additional Recording at: The Tooth Goose Room, Eel Diner Jukebox, Overlook Hotel
Drums: Dan Nazario
Bass: Doug Keller
Guitars: John Domenico, Tyler Asay, Jason McGovern, Justin Nazario
Keyboards: Jason McGovern, Tyler Asay, John Domenico, Matt Domenico
Vocals: Tyler Asay, John Domenico
Backup Vocals: Tyler Asay, John Domenico, Kathleen Pearlberg, Molly Gregory, Jason McGovern, Katie Hackett, Dan Nazario, Matt Muir
Lap Steel: Mike “Slo-mo” Brenner
Tenor Saxophone: Rae Gordon
Flute: Kathleen Pearlberg
Trombone & Trumpet: Henry Pearlberg

All songs written by Tyler Asay & The Tisburys, except "Paulette" written by John Domenico

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