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SONGS FROM THE SHELTER The first time I remember seeing Ace Parkhurst, sometime in the late 70’s, I was listening to his band, “Nightshift”, at a bar in Albany, NY. A couple years later, I was introduced to Ace while he was running sound for local band, “Silver Chicken”. In 1989, our Irish folk band (The Porters) hired Ace to record/produce a live CD (at The Parting Glass) in Saratoga, NY. He and I started talking about a solo project and ended up recording and releasing my first album in 1990. Over the span of many years, we developed a friendship and would often record at his studio, “The Bombshelter”. We’d sing and play on each other’s songs (mostly I’d sing and he’d play). I’m glad we were able to pull these songs off the shelf, dust them off, bake a few tapes and be able to put them together for this collection. Some are old and some are new but, to you, they’ll all be right out of the box! Thank you and enjoy - Mike D. Musicians Michael DeAngelis – Vocals, Ac. Guitar 2, 4, 8, 9 & 11 Ace Parkhurst – 6 & 12 String Elect. Guitar, Ac. Guitar, Bass, Mando, Synth, Percussion 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 & 12 Chuck D’Aloia – Elect. Guitar, Piano 2-4, 7, 11& 12 Ed Tourge – Bass 2, 3, 4, 7, 11 & 12 Peter Booras – Drums 1, 3 & 12 Leo Kachidurian – Drums 2, 4, 7 & 11 Wanda Hithings – Drums 5, 6, 8 & 10 Rose Clancy – Fiddle 8 & 10 Teresa Burns Parkhurst – Backing Vocals 3, 7 & 12 Liz Graham – Backing Vocals 7 Dave McCarthy – Backing Vocals 9 & 12 **Recorded, Engineered and Co-Produced by Ace Parkhurst Songs written by: Michael DeAngelis – 2, 4, 7-11 Ace Parkhurst – 5 & 6 Ace Parkhurst & Chuck D’Aloia – 1, 3 & 12 Recorded between 1990 and 2019 at: The Bombshelter Albany, NY Cathedral Sound Rensselaer, NY Fiddle Tracks recorded by Bruce MacLean on 9/26/19 @ MacLean Studios, Orleans, MA on 9/26/19 Front photo & art by Laurel Bishop - laurelbishopimages.com Back photo by Betsy Van Alstyne Contact/Schedule/Booking Info: mikedeangelismusic.com 1. Welcome Me Home 4:46 2. Questioning the Answer 3:52 3. Thinking of You 3:30 4. All You Have to Know 3:32 5. Fool in the Moon 4:10 6. Hats Off 3:49 7. Guessing Game 4:55 8. Old Letter 3:39 9. First Wrong Move 3:29 10. Chatham (You’re My Home) 4:02 11. Papers Never Signed 5:08 12. You Never Know 3:25 1. Welcome Me Home Thirteen hours on the road tonight, I’m drivin’ home to you The Radio is playin’ “Memphis”, in the meantime. I’ll be there by noon It’s getting’ close to midnight. There’s nothing else to do but keep an eye on the dash lights, and write a song for you Cause I been talkin’ to the man in the October Moon Tellin’ him that I’ll be in your arms soon I’m gonna pawn my old guitar and buy a wedding ring I’ll be strumming out the rhythm on my heart strings Welcome me home. Welcome me home. Welcome me home. It took me years to get here today, and somehow find the nerve Cause I don’t often have a lot to say, Lord I’m tryin’ to find the words Cause I’ve been talkin’ to the man in the October Moon Tellin him that I’ll be in your arms soon There’s a purple fire burnin in the sunset It started in my heart on the day we met (it’s cryin’) Welcome me home Welcome me home Welcome me home So here goes everything. You never know what love will bring ‘till you try I’ve been talkin’ to your old friends. They know the truth and they say you’ve been Talkin’ to the man in the October Moon. Tellin’ him that I’ve been in your arms soon God damn, dim the headlights. I got, three hundred miles to go tonight Welcome me home Welcome me home Welcome me home Thirteen hours on the road tonight, I’m drivin’ home to you The radio is playin’ “Memphis in the Meantime”. I’ll be there by noon Look out your window see who’s drivin up. I’ve gotta talk to you I’m travelin’ at the speed of sound …….I won’t get scared if I don’t look down. Thirteen hours on the road tonight. I’m drivin’ home to you Long distance information, give me Memphis could you please? 2. Questioning the Answer Remember the day we met? Remember the nights spent together? I waited a lifetime for you But lately I’ve been so confused and baby I feel I’ve been used Now I’m thinking that maybe we’re through You said, when I asked, that you loved me. Now I’m thinking that maybe you told a lie Maybe you meant to say goodbye Oh I, am questioning the answer. And I, I can see the writing on the wall Oh I, am questioning the answer. I won’t be there to catch you if you fall I’m watching a dream walk away. It’s hard to believe what you say, When you’re putting my heart of the shelf And lately I feel out of place. And why can’t you tell me to my face? It really doesn’t matter anymore. They say you can take love for granted. You never know what you got, until it’s gone It’s too late for you to hang on CHORUS Think it’s time to go for a little change. Rearrange my plans, head on down that long, long road CHORUS I won’t be there to catch you if you fall. I won’t be there to catch you if you fall 3. Thinking of You Whenever you see a rainbow, shinin’ out after a storm Maybe you’ll think of me and remember November’s colors cryin’ out, and you know what it’s all about If ever the will to carry on has come and gone Whenever you see a rainbow, I’ll be thinkin’ of you. I’ll be thinkin’ of you Counting falling stars some night. There’ll be just one that’s shinin’ bright There to show the way to go, when you’re all alone. Whenever a star is falling CHORUS Whenever a star is falling, that’s when you know I’m callin’ out CHORUS 4. All You Have To Know You don’t know how much I care and you’re so far away All this time without you is like another rainy day And when I’m away (I’ll be missin’ you) Carrying that weight (what we’re goin’ through) Whatever you do Think of all the good times ahead, never letting go. It’s not too late if you believe, it’s all you have to know Seasons change anticipating letter I will write Picture framed, you’re looking at me. Holding you so tight I know if I wait (the wind will be the same) and time unlocks that gate (ending all this pain) CHORUS Why can’t answers ever be as easy as they seem Love will never look my way, ‘till I have you here with me CHORUS X2 You have to know… you have to know… all you have to know 5. Fool in The Moon I thought we were going down this road together, making up our dream ‘cause we could I thought our world was bound and tied together, guess that I had misunderstood Looking over my shoulder at the Fool in the Moon Thinking over and over you’d be home soon Oh, bad dream don’t you become familiar. Don’t make me sit right straight up in my bed I lived through the lightning, I’ll survive the thunder But damned if I can get it through my head CHORUS I think I’m through with lookin’ back forever, fix my eyes on the horizon instead If they say all your hope is gone just tell ‘em…. never The sky is turning blue over our heads But you’re still in my heart, like it was today And I might still think about you……….that’s ok………that’s ok 6. Hats Off With Autumn’s breath, the leaves are on the ground. As I walk along, among the reds and browns And the robin’s song, is all but gone now. Just like him, I’ll learn to carry on. Hats off to your new love. You found the jewel of happiness. Hats off to a true love. The sky is clear, the stars are bright…..But each of them are still alone tonight Yet looking down, from way up there….seems they understand somehow, it isn’t fair Hats off to your new love. You hold the jewel of happiness Hats off to a true love. What more could anyone possess? I can take what old man winter brings, when he comes knockin’ on the door But hope is constant like a rose in spring. Love will find me once more Hats off to your new love. You hold the jewel of happiness Hats off to a true love. And here’s wishing you best. Hats off to your new love…. 7. Guessing Game I’m so tired of playin’ your guessing game Never knowing day to day, or believing what you say. So inspired, by love that you gave to me But we threw it all away, now there’s nothing more to say Truth hurts and the heartache never quits. She says that she’ll have no more of this I’m watchin’ my love walk out that door. She’s not gonna take it anymore Every time I look at that picture frame, and I think what might have been Then I think it through again Best laid plans and promises never kept Nothings written here in stone. Can we just leave it alone? Cold winters and lonely summer nights. Who know why we never got it right Those feelings are coming back to me. I’m blind but I really wanna see Sunrise to sunset that old feeling’s still the same But somewhere in between I find you there. I find you there Just remember whenever you think of me that my heart will always show That ‘ol love we used to know If you ever think that you can’t go on, you don’t have to feel so sad And remember what we had CHORUS 8. Old Letter Dear Mom, Dear Dad, I found an old letter you had sent The oldest of six, well I figured I’d get lost in the mix In ’82 I was strugglin’ through pains of my youth and college too That ‘ol chevy saw the best of times, but the worst of times, well they weren’t through Dear Mom, Dear Dad, I found an old letter that you sent That payphone down the hall, well it stopped working so I never got to call I brought “Bailey” home for brother Jim. It was the best for him, that Xmas And he was sicker than he’d ever been…..but I was lost again, up in New England Dear Mom, Dear Dad I’m sending out this letter just to say Your number one son, has got a way to go before his work is done You know the future just keeps rollin’ in. Wish I could wipe away all your worry. They say it robs you of your piece of mind, but you can find the time, if you hurry. Dear Mom, Dear Dad …. Dear Mom, Dear Dad ……….Dear Mom, Dear Dad 9. First Wrong Move I’m still surprised and still amazed, we watched the sunset on our days An early exit that we never planned Finished with October skies. Took too long to realize The hour glass was running out of sand And I made the first wrong move, didn’t know how it started I had so much to lose, left with a broken heart The situation might improve, but I made the first wrong move Great decisions go so far, depending where you set the bar Times and little lies I should let go Darkest clouds are in the past, and though we’ve come so far so fast I’m wishing we could just restart the show CHORUS Verses written long ago, took so long to hear Things I never understood, now becoming clear CHORUS The situations not improved. I just can’t find a different tune Won’t feel like home anytime soon, I made the first wrong move 10. Chatham (you’re my home) There is a place that I know where an Island welcomes the sea And men make their living through ice and snow Filling their nets with the catch of the day And upon their return, every day of the year, To the SQUIRE for whiskey and beer Onto their home away from home Friends that they make and friends that they know The tide never gets too high, for me to get by Where I’m never alone, Chatham you’re my home Surrounded by water, this little ‘ol town never loses its identity And even when all summer suns have gone down There’s no place where I’d rather be seen And the people that stayed, when the Chatham Band played Well, they’re coming back year after year And the days all run short. Many people have gone But the feeling is there, and it won’t be that long I can tell you for certain, time and again You can fight it but you’ll never win……you’ll never win CHORUS …..You’re my home 11. Papers Never Signed You know the wine was nice, and the time was too I’m feelin’ fine now girl, tell me what about you? When I woke up finally, from my frozen world You know I couldn’t be stopped. Had to find you girl Tell me what do we do now? Gotta get things started, get it right somehow I know you’re used to better, the everlasting kind Wrote you all those letters. Papers never signed I’m getting’ too excited, you never can be sure. That I’ll wake up to find, what I can’t ignore They tell me yesterday, is just a day gone by When I brought you home, I could tell what was on your mind CHORUS You never find the time to answer what I send Day after day, we’re getting closer to the end CHORUS I know you’re used to better, the everlasting kind Wrote you all those letters. Papers never signed 12. You Never Know Saw Louise in a bar last night. I asked her to dance, she held on tight. Told me how she’s tryin’ to carry on. The one she cared about is long since gone. Out on the floor with the lights down low, it was like I never let you go. Some old feelings just refuse to die. Now I think I know the reason why But you never know (love might find you) You never know (Maybe one of these times) I hope you never know where the brokenhearted go. Later on, in a room upstairs, we talked of similarities in our sad affairs. How deepest cuts don’t always show the scars, of broken promises on fallen stars CHORUS So baby don’t be afraid, to leave the past behind you. The things that mattered then well they don’t matter now. And all we gotta do is the best that we can. A fire can start from the smallest spark. And here a flame flickers in the dark. There’s a song we all sing while we wait. Hang on tight before it’s too late… CHORUS I hope you never know where the brokenhearted go mikedeangelismusic.com