THE ABLE SEA II
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Album Notes:
Instruments and arrangements by The Able Sea
Robert Fisher: drums, percussion, organ
Derrick Fore: keys, bass clarinet, percussion, backing vocals
Kerim Peirce: bass, tenor sax
Robert Pierson: guitar, piano, organ, vocals
Alex Thompson: guitar, bass, piano, organ, percussion, vocals
All songs by Pierson and Thompson
“In The Mind Of” by Fisher, Pierson, Thompson
Recorded at the SPA June 07 & Jan - May 09
Final production mix and mixing by Brad Bell at Public HiFi, Austin, TX
Mastered by Nick Landis at Terra Nova, Austin, TX
Released November 11, 2009
theablesea.com
℗©2009 The Able Sea
Album Insert:
LEFT OFF IN NOWHERE
12/17/05
LEFT OFF REDUX
04/15/08
I'm out, drunk as I can be
You shout, your sober words at me
It lays on me
You slay your seat
So you walk out the door
And you doubt your way
And you write what you say
on your face, on your face
Why don’t you know your honesty
I’m under your lungs you play for free
And in the night you disappear
Why don’t you know, I see it clear
The lane, is curving down and out
My sky, is dark and overheard
The page is blank
Can't lock with a white key,
The grain plays on the tree
'Til it goes, how it plays
On your stage, on your stage
Why don’t you know your honesty
I’m under your lungs you play for free
And in the night you disappear
Why don’t you know, I see it clear
The page is blank
Your mind erased
Why don’t you know your honesty
I'm under your lungs you play for free
And in the night you disappear
Why don’t you know
I see it clear
IN THE MIND OF
01/06/06
I missed the springs and after the fall outside
After the rain and after the time goes by
When you find the form
I don't mind you
If you find the time
You know the story
Until the first time
Under the leaves and after the fall of sighs
After the house and after the slow goodbye
I can time to
So you wish you
If you find your
You know the folly
I know the spy line
A touch of sweet gold
Remembers when you went
Into the sea
Waking the dead we fail to look outside
Over the hills and after the violent times
Try to find so long
Sea and led to
Underneath the song
Sea and lifted
Until the first time
A touch of sweet gold
8 fortunes dry
NO REASON
12/14/05
May I sit inside the hollow
With a soft guess and a hard gift
A sudden field lost adrift
Miss the lost, live with what if
And you find there’s no reason
And you find there’s no time
To find for the things you
Thought would always last
Two birds swimming and leopards teeth
Sold consent to lift the room
Pass the spade, a toast is made
Look for the goldmine and the tooth
And you find there’s no reason
And you find there’s no time
To find for the things you
Thought would always last
For the mighty laugh we dream of who would
Think I hold it in my eyes
ALL THE TIME YOU NEED
11/25/08
Can't lift my arms to try to pass the torch
The arc is high but shouldn't hold for trying
I roll my sleeves, if my heart's attached
All the time you’ll need
He's the sleep, he's the hurt, and the trial
He's the sleep, he's the hurt, and the trial
How many eyes are looking down?
How many waves when you break?
The arc is high, the weather moving in
Across your maps, they've searched in line too
They've always been, in your high record
All the time you'll need
He's the sleep, he's the hurt, and the trial
He's the sleep, he's the hurt, and the trial
I’m hurting for a lack of velvet
If some things are elemental too
Distant and dark, or near the light
Distant and dark, or near the light
All the time you'll ever need
I still roll my sleeves, if my heart's attached
For what do we hold in your high record?
All the time you’ll need
All the time you’ll need
He's the sleep, he's the hurt, and the trial
He's the sleep, he's the hurt, and the trial
ASTRONAUTS
03/08
Right before you’ll think of me
After you have set me free
Looking through your book for me
Astronauts that I see
Astronauts that I see
Coming back to haunt me
Will they come to harm me?
Looking through your book for free
Listening to the sage agree
That a thousand steps from me
Astronauts that I see
Astronauts that I see
Coming back to haunt me
Will they come to harm me?
Climbing in to get to me
And decide you'll sink for me
Underneath the sound you'll fade
Astronauts that I see
The firmament will find me
“The clock in the sky is pounding”
Astronauts that I see
SHORELINE
07/07/07
I've had more dreams since you've been gone
I know I'm fighting with a wrong
It doesn't seem like I'm so sad
Why I'd neglect the best I had
I hate to dream 'cause then you're there
It seems so real I smell your hair
It doesn't seem like I'm so sad
Why I'd neglect the best I had
I walk the shoreline with Betty, or on my own
I walk the shoreline with Betty, or on my own
I hate to dream cause then you're there
It seems so real I smell your hair
I find your wealth is in my head
Why can't I think of her instead
I walk the shoreline with Betty, or on my own
I walk the shoreline with Betty, or on my own
I couldn't make it work for fright
Why should I find you in my sights
You left a wake where you have tread
You move an ounce of joy and dread
I walk the shoreline with Betty, or on my own
CLOCK STOPPED
01/14/06
Took you for granted until now
Never once were you willing to look out
I know you'll find the right lies
I'm in your sights, you're blinding
You stop the clock
My motion's locked
You tear me out
Lost every minute around you
Gave an hour for the moments I felt true
I know you’ll find the right time
My hands are tied, I’m fighting
You stop the clock
My motion's locked
You tear me out
Spent all my time until now
Gave all the moments I’ll allow
I know you'll find the right lies
I'm in your sights, you're blinding
You stop the clock
You stop the clock
You stop the clock
You stop the clock
THE TIDES
03/25/07
Have you ever sat and watched the rain
When it's falling down and all around you
Have you ever sat and watched the tide go out
Now you say you sat and watched the leaves
When they're changing colors all around you
Now you say you sat and watched the sun go down
Everything you've ever wanted gone
Now you feel like you’re the only one
Everything you've ever wanted gone
Now you feel like you’re the only one
Have have you ever sat and watched the leaves
When they're changing colors all around you
Have you ever sat and watched the tide go out
Now you say you sit and watch the rain
When it's falling down and all around you
Now you say you sat and watched the sun go down
Everything you've ever wanted gone
Now you feel like you’re the only one
Everything you've ever wanted gone
Now you feel like you’re the only one
You’re not the only one
I’m out upon the sea
Everything you've ever wanted gone
Now you think that you’re the only one
SATELLITE
03/09/08
Around the satellite
The ships they sailed into the night
Lazy all across the sea
There was nothing there for she
And you hear them from the road
Where our ghosts they sit and wait
Tired in their costumes then
It's their moment, it's their moment
Doesn't know where he went
Took time on the wind
Days are lost upon the green
Into the deep she dreamt to be
And she knows he's waiting there
Something far and on the air
Diving down through all the years
It’s their moment, champions
It’s their moment, champions of time
And then she calls to him
Down beneath the floating sea
Calling out she is, calling out to see
In the dark they fell
Years weighed off in the night
Finally arms embrace the sea
There was something there for she
And she fell through all the waves
Down into the lonely deep
Diving down through all the years
It’s their moment, champions
It’s their moment, champions of time
And then she falls for him
Down down through the waves she goes
Fading out, coming back to see
Champions of time
Book that wrote itself