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Consider Yourselves Conquered

by The Horde

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1.
I dreamt that Shanghai was a train: One that started in the muck and mire of marshes Forged by the hands of quais-feral fishermen Bending fishhooks into rails, burning fishnets for engine exhaust. There was no originating station The train began trudging as the tracks were laid As paint was plied to the smokestacks As the engineer learned to drive But soon the train began to pick up steam Flying forward faster and faster Hounding the hodded millet makers Disrupting the slumbering stonecutters With the sound of its great steam whistle Bellowing across the continent As if to say: I'm here! I'm here! All aboard! All aboard the Shanghai train!
2.
Once 03:59
A crowded bus ride Fenders in the street Spicy peppered chicken Flags of flying colors Palm trees and a cool ocean Children riding on mopeds Ferry rides, cool waters Cold beer and new friends And darkness had fallen On a new island On the back of a truck This all happened once Once upon a time In a far off land Life stood still Feet in the sand And boxing matches Buckets of booze Pools filled with girls Once in a far off land
3.
The coats are all coming down On old big apple town And all the lanes are froze Wind always whips my nose But I think it did it All for you Dear I don't know what you'll think of me After this tragedy And all our fates our sewn With all our passions grown Running around the seams Of our coats Dear And now that I'm all alone Look at the coat I own I'll take up poetry And start a seamery Running for the turns Of Shakespeare's coat If iambs came easily Noodled so pleasantly Sonnets would fall for you Bundled with all words true And you'd know the stitches Of my coat Dear But they cut you right to the bone Thimbleless all alone Pouring your heart to me Though I was blind to see Peaking out from My coat dear And now I'm awake for days Writing my passion plays Looking at crossing stars Wondering where you are Sewing all the holes In Shakespeare's coat Now Juliet lies below Calling her Romeo And now Desdemona cries Lost from Othello's eyes Know that this coat Is wearing thin Dear And now that I lay undressed And I must half confess That what you said before Outside your cherry door You would always Be in love Dear And Captain Crunch lived right there Nestled inside your hair It was all falling down Loving me all around Tearing all the holes In Shakespeare's Coat "Let me not to marriage of [false] minds admit impediments Love is not love where it alterations finds Or bends with the remover to remove Oh no, it is an ever fixed mark That looks on tempests and is not shaken It is a star to every wondering bark Who's worth's unknown all though its height be taken Love's not time's fool, though rosy cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come Love alters not in its brief hours and weeks But bears it even until the edge of doom If this be error and upon me proved I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
4.
The North 03:56
Dark times Impressions left behind Blank stares Ill-favored feelings Blankets smothering hopes and dreams Ideas shut out by guarded gates And life is different there A place in need of care Be careful not to stare The North could use your prayer Red flags Soldiers standing there Billboards Of glorious leaders Music meant to lift the mist And smiles hiding histories of hate
5.
If you love me at all You don't have to call Because I've got no phone And I'm all alone (every night) On my hard feet On this broke down street But I'd love you more In the furniture store (topped against) Tables and chairs Sofas and home wares And how happy we'd be If you'd say to me If you love me at all You don't have to call Because I told you so That my answer is no If you dare And you want to show me you care Then just get a job So you won't have to rob Tables and chairs... Baby you know How much I love you so But there are things I won't do As much as I love you Get off this street And put shoes on my feet Would take the life out of me And I'd feel stuck, you see Just like all those Tables and chairs...

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HORDE THANK YOUS

Kate the Krusher, Max, Paul Meredith, Brad Ferguson, B.O., Nichols, Moon Tyrant, Boys Climbing Ropes, Charlie Lanceplane, Rob
Ellis, Super Sophia, Ryan Shank, Sacco, Lenz, Rainbow Danger Club, Jake Newby, Egill Bjarki, Lars Jensen, Zuma, Johnny 1.0,
白羽, Estel and Dave, 刘健, Tom Pang, Dostav, Splitworks, Pairs, The Spondees, Friend or Foe, SH24/7, Yuyintang, HAL Literature,
Audrey Su Baird, Elody, Mache, Layabozi, Momo, Han Han, Gecko’s Bar, Andy Best, Sandy O’Reilly, Linda and Eddy, Uprooted
Sunshine Soundsystem, Asaph Leburn, Paul Collins, Sub-Culture, Global Times, Galen Crout, Pajama Josh, Monica Feng, Amber
Wu, Cruz Maria (mi amor), Lynn Ye, Ned Kelly, Sarah Fioriglio, Dan Hogan, Kate Benson, RBIS, Roots and Shoots and anyone who ever got conquered at one of our shows.

Photos by Egill Bjarki. In memory of Jeff Davis.

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released March 1, 2013

The Horde

Ho-Tom the Conqueror / Vocals and Guitar
Fierce Franco / Vocals and Mandolin
George the Goliath / Harmonica
Johnny 2.0 / Cajon

Recorded at Fanfare by Max Primeau and DB Studios by Ryan Baird. Mixed by Ryan Baird and Seth Kearns at The 72 Studio and Tidal Sound Studios. Mastered by Ryan Baird and Adam Gaensler at Acoustic Sound.

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