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For Horses

by The Medium

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1.
Don’t stay out too late tonight There is a magic in your eyes Don’t stay out too late tonight There is a magic in your eyes, in your eyes We’ll leave the light on just for you It’s no surprise There’s magic in your eyes And that’s a fact, that’s the truth But if we can’t elope, oh honey dew We’ll leave that light on just for you Don’t stay out too late tonight There is a magic in your eyes, in your eyes We’ll leave that light on just for you Don’t stay out too late tonight Don’t stay out too late tonight Don’t stay out too late tonight Don’t stay out too late tonight
2.
We haven’t spoken since you left this town I’m just so used to seeing you around You seem so happy but it’s hard to tell Our time is gone but I wish you well No sentiments And no regrets You chose your path I haven’t got one yet Take whatever you need And leave the rest Take care of yourself You’re still the best I try to call you but it’s not the same We’re just too old for all these silly games No time to talk, no time to play Somebody’s going to send me on my way No sentiments And no regrets You chose your path I haven’t got one yet Take whatever you need And leave the rest Take care of yourself You’re still the best And maybe someday When you’re not leaving We’ll talk things over And call it even Forget the past, no It’s not the end ‘Cause after all You’re still my friend
3.
I’m thinking that you are a photograph But once outside there is no turning back I see you driving in your brand new car Come ride with me and honey we'll go far She knows no tomorrow Can’t see her today I will wait tomorrow Just if Kacy wants to stay Red carnation dark creation speak to me She’s floating in the air You catch me stopped and staring Up here we can see around for miles But I mean it when I say that you’ve got some style She knows no tomorrow Can’t see her today I will wait tomorrow Just if Kacy wants to stay My my my my my oh yeah She knows no tomorrow But maybe I can see you today yeah
4.
Goodbye to you I know that the earth is turning ‘round Goodbye to you you said that you’d leave here without a sound Don’t go and leave me You can always believe in me I know that you’ll be on the other side of town Goodbye afternoon I know you’re leaving oh so soon Goodbye rainy days Goodbye sunny skies Hello nighttime that’s when we close our eyes Goodbye to you I know that the earth is turning dark Goodbye to you You left me with just one soft remark “Don’t go and leave me You can always believe in me I know that you were mine from the start” Goodbye afternoon I know your leaving oh so soon Goodbye rainy days Goodbye sunny skies Hello nighttime that’s when we close our eyes Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye to you
5.
No highway cowboys Gonna make me change my mind No amount of time alone Can change the way we feel inside I’m an author without a cause I’m a cat without its claws Take ten paces, turn and draw ‘Cause we’re all cowboys, after all No highway cowboys Gonna make me change my mind No amount of time alone Can change the way we feel inside No highway cowboys Gonna give me that piece of mind That special feeling where I Know that I’ve spent well my time Throw em’ up, toss em’ back Stay up late in a shotgun shack Flip a switch, hit the sack On the wrong side of the tracks How now, brown cow I’ve got that cowboy know-how Your dad must be so proud Sleep until the sun goes down No highway cowboy Gonna make me change my mind No amount of time alone Can change the way we feel inside No highway cowboys Gonna give me that piece of mind That special feeling where I Know that I’ve spent well my time No highway cowboys Gonna make me change my mind No amount of time alone Can change the way we feel inside No highway cowboys Gonna give me that piece of mind That special feeling where I Know that I’ve spent well my time
6.
Let’s get together, you and me, some time soon Maybe tomorrow, next time, on the moon I filled out my form I’m flying up to space And you know I heard great things about that place Zero gravity Twenty first century Oh I can’t wait Let’s get together, you and me, some time soon Maybe tomorrow, next time, on the moon Bang bang shoot me up Shoot me up shoot me up oh yeah Ping ping ping ping ping ping ping I want to be on top of everything oh yeah Let’s get together, you and me, some time soon Maybe tomorrow, next time, on the moon Oh man this sure is wild Traveling at four thousand miles You’ll have a lot of time to sit and think Because you’ll be on top of everything On top of everything On top of everything Let’s get together, you and me, some time soon Maybe tomorrow, next time, on the moon
7.
Space Force 03:28
8.
Same Boat 03:39
I’m having trouble adjusting to the world It’s getting harder to sleep You know the trouble with this situation Promises hard to keep Nightmares, daydreams What does it mean It’s just a moment It’s something in between I don’t care what you say to your neighbors I don’t care what you say to your wife I don’t know what you'd say to a stranger It’s a lovely life Nightmares, daydreams What does it mean It’s just a moment It’s something in between It’s something in between We’re in the same boat now I don’t even know how I guess we better lie back on the waves We’re in the same boat as you Nothing much we can do It seems like all we can do now is wait We’re in the same boat now I don’t even know how I guess it’s time we better change our ways I guess it’s time we better change our ways You know I think it’s time we changed our ways Oh yeah
9.
If I Follow 03:25
All the horses that we’ve helped And all the forces that we’ve felt Let’s get a blow below the belt And when love is leaving We won’t stop believing Tell me the place to go If I follow you will know Just tell me the place to go If I follow you will know And all the dealings that we’ve dealt And all the feelings that we’ve felt And all the stealings that we’ve stealt And when love is leaving We won't stop believing Tell me the place to go If I follow you will know Just tell me the place to go If I follow you will know Once would be nice But honey let’s do it twice Three times more Until we get to the four Just tell me the place to go If I follow you will know If I follow you will know If I follow you will know If I follow you will know
10.
Home Alone 03:39
I hear the wind blow, come through my window It very softly, whispers 'hello' The way the wind blows, it makes my heart glow And fills my body with jello The mirror looks slowly at the carpet, he asks, “How do you like it, always getting stepped on?” The carpet answers with a chuckle, “How do you like getting stared at?” The coat rack greets me, the way he treats me You'd think I asked for special treatment His friend the doorbell, he keeps the floor well He seems to know the neighbors all too well I stumble slowly towards the closet, he says, “Go to the kitchen if you need a fixin’” The kitchen isn’t quite so friendly All of the food wants to eat me Drop my bags on the floor I’m running out the door The doorbell yells, “Don’t come 'round here no more” The world that people see They see it through a lens How they interpret it, well that depends Some people find it strange Some people find it sad I’ve just been grateful for this life I've had And after all of the chaos Some things are found, some things stay lost And everything returns to normal But you’ll never know who rang the doorbell
11.
Space Horse 02:25
What’s that sound right over there Shining like the sun with the silver hair You want to take a trip but you just can’t find the source I’m talking about a Space horse running on a space course ‘Cause you’ve got to get back click clack on your space horse What’s that sound it’s getting near Straight from outer space but no rocket ship here One two three and four gravitational force Talkin’ about a Space horse running on a space course Because you got to get back click clack on your space horse Oh you know there’s a horse in my heart There’s a horse in my heart Everybody’s got a little horse in their heart There’s a horse in yours too But can’t you see it’s me and my horse
12.
Four Horses 02:45
And we’ll go on living like four horses in the sun And we’ll go on living like an outlaw on the run Run run run run run Run run run run run You’ve got one, two, three, four horses walking out the door, I told them “H O R S E, how bout’ a best of three?” One, two, three, four, five shots is all you’ve got, “H O T, how about a best of three?” Or you can go give grandma a kiss goodbye ‘Cause we horses got to fly You’ve got to keep on living Sam wrote it on the floor You’re H O T times twenty four Run Run Run Run Run Awe Everybody’s looking for an answer But they should be splashing in the rain Like an outlaw living on a plain

about

Shane Perry, who plays guitar, sings, and writes songs for the Nashville rock band The Medium, says the group’s new album, For Horses, “is about leaving home.” As such, the record moves deftly among in-between spaces: between vintage sounds and modern ones, humor and sincerity, old stomping grounds and whatever lies down the road. “I’m having trouble adjusting to the world,” singer-bassist and songwriter Sam Silva admits on “Same Boat,” a woozy cut that encapsulates the band’s knack for channeling classic pop and psych-rock. “Nightmares, daydreams — what does it mean?”

The Medium’s first album, 2019’s Get It While It’s Hot, was bright and breezy and showed how well the band — Perry, Silva, guitarist-vocalist Michael Brudi and percussionist Jared Hicks — knew their way around a pop song. For Horses is recognizably the work of the same band, but one that’s now more confident, more ambitious, and more comfortable in the studio (Jake Davis, who produced Get It While It’s Hot, returns here). Opening track “Don’t Stay Out” wastes no time signaling the shift, as a dazzling four-part a capella verse gives way to a piano-rock tune punctuated by filigrees of saxophone. Midway through the album, “Let’s Get Together” and “Space Force” form a sort of two-song suite, mirroring each others’ lyrics while showcasing the band’s stylistic breadth: lo-fi southern soul and a serrated, Motown-inspired rave-up.

These songs can be irreverent and heartfelt, sometimes within the span of a single lyric, a tension that’s crucial even as Perry and Silva say it’s not necessarily thought out in advance. “Goodbye Afternoon,” which could scan as either a look back at disappearing youth or an almost deadpan accounting of a day’s end, is one of several songs that seemed to flow out fully formed. “It’s like you’re an archeologist and you dust it off, and there’s a dinosaur,” Perry says. “Still the Best” chronicles the bittersweet feeling of watching friends come and go from your life, not for any conflict but just because that’s how things go sometimes. Silva emerged with “No Highway Cowboys,” on the other hand, from a Wikipedia rabbit-hole on diphthongs. In The Medium’s world, the stirring piano ballad that makes you want to happy-cry can absolutely be called “Space Horse.”

The songs on For Horses “just come to you, and then you kind of derive the meaning from it much later,” Perry explains. “We’ve been sitting with these for a long time.” Though some were written as recently as 2020, others date to well before Get It While It’s Hot; the set’s tightness and consistency is a testament to years of sharpening songs in live settings, and the fact that it’s their first album of songs all written after the band’s formation — it is, as Perry and Brudi both emphasize, “our record.”

This album about leaving home ends with the four members leaving home together. Games of HORSE played outside the home the bandmates shared while writing many of these songs inspired “Four Horses,” a reminder to revel in the moment: “Everybody’s looking for an answer, but they should be splashing in the rain.” They’ve since moved out and into separate places, but the record stands as a monument to their two years in that house. It was a big old white stone thing, Silva remembers, an “ugly building next to a Walgreens.” His smile is audible as he describes it. “It looked great inside.”

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released August 19, 2022

Produced by The Medium & Jake Davis

All songs written and composed by The Medium

Engineered and Recorded by Jake Davis

Mixed by Hank Sullivant except "No Highway Cowboys" and "Same Boat," mixed by Jake Davis

Mastered by Andrija Tokic at The Bomb Shelter

Recorded in Nashville, TN at Huge Planet Studios and Laughing Heart Studios

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The Medium is Shane Perry, Sam Silva, Michael Brudi, and Jared Hicks

String Arrangements - Rowen Merrill
Violin - Rowen Merrill
Violin - Laura Epling
Viola - Nicoly Neely
Cello - Cremaine Booker

Horn Arrangements - Rowen Merrill
Saxophone - Brian Cornish

Photography - Abby Johnson

Cover Design - Brian Gant at Good Basement

Album Layout - Alex Ramsay

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The Medium’s first album, 2019’s Get It While It’s Hot, was bright and breezy and showed how well the band — Perry, Silva, guitarist-vocalist Michael Brudi and percussionist Jared Hicks — knew their way around a pop song. For Horses is recognizably the work of the same band, but one that’s now more confident, more ambitious, and more comfortable in the studio. ... more

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