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Gas Station Rose
03:51
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and though we can’t have a garden while we’re still on the road
there’s only room on the dash for a gas station rose
you know that when i shut up
i got somethin’ to say
i was looking at you
you were looking away
at least we dodged the new york winter
maybe the mountain in our eyes
looks more like a mole hill from the other side
we are the elders of our minds
we’re on our own
we’re on our own
another year going by
like the signs on the street
highway seventy-five
nebraska flat as a sheet
living out of the trunk
we bounce around like a dream
another a major drawback
another sweet in between
at least we’re both confused together
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2. |
The Salmon
04:25
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i was black white
i was innocent
i was 17
it was beautiful
i was a summer day
i had a uniform
i was innocent
and it was magical
up the stream against the current like the salmon
all the wrongs that i write leave a canyon
you were good to me
thought i was good to you
i thought i had a hundred lives
i only had a few
now all my history
is in an empty glass
i had a good idea
but it didn’t last
up the stream against the current like the salmon
all the wrongs that i write leave a canyon
i was black and white
i was running high
i was 17
i was invinceable
i was a summer day
i was innocent
i had a uniform
and it was magical
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Promise Of You
03:10
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though i preach to the quire
i’m so lonely, loney lonely
as i walk on the wire
i’m just only, only, only
hanging on to the promise of you
though i run through the fire
i get colder, colder, colder
i’m not green
I’m not retired
i’m just older, older, older
I’m just a thread around the promise of you
so many times i thought of hanging it up
so many shots but it was never enough
so many nights i thought of hanging it up
every note that i write
i get closer, closer, closer
to the end of the night
and when it’s over
i’ll lay my head on the promise of you
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4. |
I'll Follow Your Trail
03:50
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i didn’t know I was looking for you
i didn’t know there was something to find
tomorrow you won’t fit in yesterday’s shoes
and I’m trying so hard to rewind
you came to me is an empty cup
I didn’t know love could ever be real
and every day I tried to fill you up
with everything that I thought you would feel
through the years, the sorrow
the joy that we borrow
the tears that we share with the rain
today, tomorrow
forever, I’ll follow your trail
i was there when you took your first step
into a world that was wider than the sky
i held your belly there against my chest
i was there when you needed to cry
i never knew a friend could be so small
and have a heart just as big as the moon
you know I can’t stop you from growing up
i just wish that it wasn’t so soon
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5. |
The Vine
05:15
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i’ll wait my turn
it’s not my nature to rush the job
if you could trust
that i’ll be working till i turn to rust
so take my word
you can lift it like a baby bird
i’ll set you free
if i was you i’d leave it up to me
he’ll never dance you
like i dance you
he doesn’t sing
and he doesn’t shine
his life is wasted
he’s only tasted
the fruit that ripened
off the vine
i’ll wait my turn
it’s not my nature to rush the job
i’ll bide my time
i’ll get stronger at the end of the line
and i will crawl
if running to you doesn’t give me a start
i’ll set you free
if i was you i’d leave it up to me
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6. |
Newton's Cradle
04:12
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now i can tell from your tired face
tonight is gonna feel like sand
holy holy mary we’ve run out of grace
and there aint no promise land
and every time we fight it’s like a newton’s cradle
even our best intentions never
promised we would always stand
So now let’s just blow the lid off honey
cuz there ain’t no reason to walk around it
now my mouth is dry
and the river ain’t runnin’
and i don’t see a reason to talk about it
i remember when our love was easy
way before the deck was stacked
there ain’t no virtue in desparation
forcing what you can’t get back
now every time we fight it’s like a newtons cradle
we can’t be the flame forever
forever’s not where we’re it’s at
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battled and bruised
i come rollin’ in
the kids are asleep
the porch light is dim
i’m just here tonight
i’m only passing through
cuz I can’t make a living from holding you
today on the line
we were talking
you said you remember the time
when we could roll on a whim
now I can’t build a home where I want to
and I can’t make a living from holding you
takes everything that I got
the road it don’t care if you bleed
i’m haunted by the man that I’m not
and tied to the things I can’t leave
remember the day
we went walking
i promised you then if you let me in
i’d pay for the ring
and I still want to
i just can’t make a living from holding you
oh the night won’t leave me
oh the night won’t leave me alone
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living with you was the gum on my shoe
who knew kingston would put us to bed
my communist brother
my earth fairy mother
it was only alive in our heads
uncles and aunties
would raise up the families
haul sap with an old metal pail
utopian dreams that would grow us some green
like the chicken shit under the kale
it’s not hard to say goodbye sometimes
we’ll steal like a seagul
till our dreams become legal
we’ll barter for the rest of our lives
cooperative living on a bastard thanksgiving
that we carve with our grandparents knives
we’ll shake up the laddies
now which one is daddy?
unschool ’em till their brains hit the floor
ahh but we don’t have the skill or the cast iron will
to keep up that happy or poor
it’s not hard to say goodbye sometimes
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9. |
You Keep Coming Alive
03:43
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now my bed don’t weigh the same
change my clothes and wash my name
does the well go down that low
let me breath and i’ll let you go
i knelt down in desparation
i looked around for something real
there’s a radio station
playing wrong in my ear
you keep coming alive
now my bed don’t weigh the same
change my clothes and wash my name
i went down to allendale drive
where your cross and your flowers survive
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10. |
The Very First Snow
04:12
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the world rolls
and it changes gears
but today I’ll stay in bed
im gonna soak these sheets in tears
Im gonna think of you instead
they say that you’re in a better place now
ah but they don’t believe what they know
you left with all of the christmas lights on
as light as the very first snow
i see red and I hear the noise
and I’m gonna go there when I can
a whiskey rye is my drug of choice
i hope the night will understand
and though you won’t get that cold anymore
you will freeze in the back of my brain
and in my dreams I will open the door
if you will lean in the frame
i’m gonna miss your indoor voice
and the way you washed your hands
and all these diamonds that you left for me
that I just thought was sand
they say that you’re in a better place now
ahh but they don’t believe what they know
you left with all of the christmas lights on
as light as the very first snow
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Sean Rowe Troy, New York
The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights was produced by Rowe’s friend and longtime collaborator Troy
Pohl.
The studio Hive in Eau Claire, Wisconsin was chosen so that they could work with the Grammy-winning engineer, Brian Joseph (Bon Iver) and for its proximity to a group of musicians that Sean came to admire while listening to Anna Tivel’s, The Question, in his manager’s basement studio.
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