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STOCKWELL ROAD 1. Deja Voodoo [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:33) 2. Happy [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:20) 3. Fear [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:39) 4. 99 Cent [Saunders/Stockwell] (4:24) 5. MindShifter [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:49) 6. Grey [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:21) 7. Lost [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:26) 8. Believe [Hunt] (3:58) 9. Flesh [Hunt/Stockwell] (6:26) 10. MockingBird [Stockwell] (10:35) A) Selfish B) Sweet Turns Sour C) e Dream D) Selfish (Maui Mix) 11. Sweet Turns Sour (Edit) [Stockwell] (4:13) 12. Grey (Edit) [Saunders/Stockwell] (2:55) 1

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STOCKWELL ROAD

1. Deja Voodoo [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:33)

2. Happy [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:20)

3. Fear [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:39)

4. 99 Cent [Saunders/Stockwell] (4:24)

5. MindShifter [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:49)

6. Grey [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:21)

7. Lost [Saunders/Stockwell] (3:26)

8. Believe [Hunt] (3:58)

9. Flesh [Hunt/Stockwell] (6:26)

10. MockingBird [Stockwell] (10:35)

A) Selfish B) Sweet Turns Sour C) The Dream D) Selfish (Maui Mix)

11. Sweet Turns Sour (Edit) [Stockwell] (4:13)

12. Grey (Edit) [Saunders/Stockwell] (2:55) 1

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Deja Voodoo(Saunders/Stockwell)

Mother, mother take me by the handand lead me to the promised land

Now the skies are glowing a heavenly lightand people all around will soon take flightlike a dove that flies in a paisley sky that’s right …

Deja me, deja you, deja red, deja bluedeja white, deja who, deja lie and deja true

Deja voodoo Spinning round and round, are you ready baby Deja voodoo Spinning round and round, are you ready baby

Lover, lover here to dance and singflower power outlasts the months of spring

Now a dew of gold sleeps on the grasswhere weather’s warm and people laughand the day ends in purple cast that’s right …

Deja me, deja you, deja red, deja bluedeja white, deja who, deja lie and deja true

Have you made any plans for the end of the world?

Vocals: Jason Ames

Happy(Saunders/Stockwell)

Mmmm…. well there’s nothing like the taste of something new, and there’s nothing like the joy of tasting you,well there’s nothing like the taste of something new, and there’s nothing like the joy of tasting you,still …

I’m not happy I’m not happy I’m not happy so why am I laughing? yeah …

I can put my soul on paperbut I can’t bring it to my tongueI have touched the hearts of millionswith just this simple song

I said are you ready? ready to laugh again?are you ready? to have a nice day …

I got dirty sticky fingersI got honey on my lipsand I bit that poison apple like I bit a barbed wire fence

Spinning round and round, are you ready baby … Spinning round and round, are you ready baby …

I got dirty blackened eyes and I’m feeling fine!

Vocals: Jason Ames

Fear(Saunders/Stockwell)

I am standing under pouring painone more step and I will dropIs there still a promise I can claim?or has the blood dried on the cross?

I am locked under ground scream without a sound and Fear, don’t hold me down I am locked under ground spinning faster down and Fear, don’t hold me down, don’t hold me down …

Bleeding hearts painted on my sleeveI’m accountable for all I docrying eyes and plenty sea airwatered soil brings something new

Are we lost, never found clawing as we drown and Fear don’t hold me down are we lost and never found Kings without a crown and Fear, don’t hold me down don’t hold me down I was lost, I was found you turned my world around and Fear don’t hold me down I was lost, I was found you turned my world around and Fear, don’t .. don’t hold me down

Vocals: Jason Ames

99 Cent(Saunders/Stockwell)

The stuff they try to sellthe gods they want me to believe inheat up and head for hellthe skills they use just to deceive

So has the effect hit you yet?selling lies is nothing newthe more you buy, the more you diewatch them slide … watch the slideburied … buried alive, yeah …

Now you … can kill … yourself, for less Now you … can kill … yourself, for less Now you … can kill … yourself, for less 99 cent assisted suicide … oh yeah … They laugh as they drive the nailsthey rape the ones already beatenyou’re lost when your cash card failsbut jesus christ (christ christ) don’t cost a thing

Are you out of time with your precious pridewhat a ride …. what a liedeeper … deeper you die, yeah …

Now you … can kill … yourself, for less Now you … can kill … yourself, for less Now you … can kill … yourself, for less 99 cent assisted suicide … 99 cent assisted suicide … yeah …

Vocals: Jason Ames

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MindShifter(Saunders/Stockwell)

MindShifter machine …bind the arms and slit the dreamcry the eyes and watch them bleedI advise you not to threaten me

I’ve been (I’ve been) downhill (downhill) more than I can stand … I’ve been (I’ve been) downhill (downhill) more than I can stand … Blind distance betweencrack a smile, start sinkingsplintered bones and damage donehave we all had our fun? have we all had our fun …

… MindShifter machine …

Using me all the while (I can’t take another day)taking up self denial (I can’t take another day)bitter sweet ’n in a cage (I can’t take another day)I can’t take another day (I can’t take another day)take your leave and go away

Sick of this town and I’m sick of this place sick your tune and I’m sick of your faceI can’t stand your dog leash walking, I cant take your bullshit talkingI’ve seen a lot of things like the devil in the flesh in front of meI can’t stand the hell I’m in, I can’t believe just where I’ve been ….

Vocals: Jason Ames

Grey(Saunders/Stockwell)

yeah … I’ve got a secret …

Always thought I’d rise aboveto find a little piece of lovelike my friend with dirty veins I got caught up in the pain, but I was wrong

Tens years behind … ten years of tears too …

Blind, black and white yeah, I’ve got a secret Ahhh white, white on black I got a secret and I won’t give it back …

Burner of the innocence is a bit of bloody consequencepurity as travesty was nothing but a broken wheel on the floor Tens years behind … ten years of bones too …

Blind, black and white yeah, I’ve got a secret Ahhh white, white on black I got a secret and I won’t give it back …

What can I say? I’m out of the greyI took the train to be saved, to be saved, to be shined …

… Ten years that I’ve been …

Vocals: Jason Ames

Lost(Saunders/Stockwell)

I’m not the promise, nor am I the liejust your daytime ‘magination … I’m just getting by ….

And while you’re waiting in line did you not got your fill of me to get high? Have you lost your mind?

I’m not a killer, mama, no I’m not a saintjust another gypsy freak nowI need a lot more faith

oh we’re all alone … trying to get home …

I’m not a prophet, no I’m not a thiefI haven’t healed your blinded eye, so why you looking to me?

I’m not desire, no I’m not despairsteal what you want from me child,baby I just don’t care

oh we’re all alone oh we’re all alone oh we’re all alone oh we’re all alone trying to get home …

I’m not your savior, no I’m not the wordcontemplating my creation is getting a bit absurd

Vocals: Jason Ames

Believe(Hunt)

I don’t care about nothingif there was a little something I could giveif I could hurt without takingif I could believe without faking for youwell, that’s what I’d do, I’d a thing or two butI don’t believe at all …

In the morning I wake upif there was a little something I could taketo help me get on my wayI can’t waste another daycause nothing’s for free, you gotta paypay to believe, but I don’t believeI don’t believe at all …

Do you ever get tired, tired of tryingwell stop that crying, and all of your “why oh why”ingyou only want to hold someone so far awayhold them so close, it makes things seem ok

but lovers betray you and friends let you downgods won’t show their faces and temporary pleasure’s all that can be foundwhat can you do, you can believe in mecan I believe in you? No …

So go ahead an spend your moneylet the work day pass you bycarve out a place to make your standwith a drink in your hand …

I don’t believe at all …

Vocals: Ted Hunt

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Flesh(Hunt/Stockwell)

… Casey was …

Casey was a beautiful girl we admired her from afar she was just … out of reachvoted most likely to be a star

no one knows where she went the night her story came to an end …the scene showed no signs of a strugglethe news said it might have been a friend

She used to be somebody’s baby she used to have a beautiful smile she shined bright in the universe but that was only for a while

Now that she’s been taken away she’s paper in some forgotten file the sky was blue again today (the willows weeped again today) for the girl with the beautiful smile

She fell into a bad sceneunder the spell of a dangerous manhe had his finger on the pulse of the lustfulCasey got a car and a couple of grand

I hear she made a movieI can’t bring myself to seeI’ve never needed any proofshe’ll always be a star to me

Vocals: Ted Hunt

MockingBird(Stockwell)

Welcome … to my egoIn this world my thoughts are lawno place to smile, or stay a whilemy thoughts are law

Men die at the mere suggestion of fairnessIn my world a thought’s a crimeunless, of course, they’re thoughts of mine … they’re thoughts of mine …

Do you understand, this is my land and I only am in command Do you understand, this is my land Do you understand Don’t you understand?

Welcome … to my egoin this world my thoughts are lawno place to smile or stay a whilemy thoughts are law … my thoughts are law … my thoughts are law …

In this world thoughts are a crime unless, of course, well …. they’re thoughts of mine

Vocals: Billy Sherwood

STOCKWELL ROAD

Tempus fugit … time flies … yet it is the intent of Stockwell Road to reverse that fleeting of time.

In the beginning, I was fortunate enough to have access to tape machines. Cassette tape machines, yet tape machines nevertheless. No easy fixes or punches. Mistakes were considered improvements of the original idea and everything was done in a single take, or enough takes such that what you heard was the final single take.

I had access to drums, guitars, organs, electric pianos, synthesizers, and an old upright piano my father had restored. He was a teacher, not in the piano repair trade, so it played a semi-tone lower than everything else. Left hand played piano in key of A, right hand Moog in A#.

My youth was spent trying to share sounds heard in my head with the rest of the world. Rarely did those sounds end up as originally intended. Sometimes a change of direction was required to move forward to the next opus. Back then, they were all the next opus.

I was a church organist and choir director from ages 9-21. Later, I joined or created bands: unnamed bands in university, unnamed bands in Seattle, and then Age of Treason, Madison Park, Treason, Merkaba and White. Each project was a sonic representation of my current frame of mind.

In each of these settings, I worked in a way familiar to me, conceptualizing the story and playing all instruments on the demos. I've had the great fortune of working with the best musicians, producers, and engineers on the planet, and each of them carried the work and me to a higher level.

I’ve always had a clear vision during the songwriting process, yet before now, never fully realized that vision in the final recordings. Stockwell Road is a journey back to the beginning. It’s the result of learning from the best-of-the-best in studio and on stage before a note was recorded for this album. It’s the application of a lifetime of skills to communicate that original vision.

Inescapably, that has meant taking the time to craft and curate that vision and by extension, going it alone. Almost everything you hear on this album I completed in near isolation. Everything, of course, except for the incredible vocals.

Life is full of wonderful, energizing and unexpected turns. Stockwell Road begins with one frame of mind and shifts to another, as life so often surprises us all. I hope you enjoy this journey as much as I did.

Ted Stockwell

CreditsProduction: Ted StockwellAdditional Production: Zack Reinig, Lloyd Walker

Engineering, Mixing and Mastering:Ted StockwellWaterstreet Studios

All Instruments: Ted StockwellVocals: Jason Ames, Ted Hunt,

Billy Sherwood

Photography: Olivia Stockwell

Many, many thanks to Kevin Currie, Jim Dixon, Geoff Downes, John Giblin, Ted Hunt, Tom Isenberg, Randy Omel, Zack Reinig, Jay Schellen, Billy Sherwood, Pete Stern, Lloyd Walker and all at Waterstreet.

Special thanks to Mom, for always being there, and to Sis, for her boundless enthusiasm.

Above all, I want to thank the love of my life, Olivia. You’ve brought passion, energy, clarity, and joy every day since we met in London and started our journey down Stockwell Road. 4