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New Lore

by Sean Rowe

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1.
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
2.
The Salmon 04:25
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
The Vine 05:15
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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

credits

released April 7, 2017

All Songs Written by Sean Rowe
All songs published by Music Of The Mothership o/b/o itself Oliack Music (BMI)

Produced by Matt Ross-Spang
Engineered by Matt Ross-Spang
Mixed by Matt Ross-Spang
Assistant Engineer: Wesley Graham
Recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service
Mastered by Jonathan Pines / Private Studios
Vinyl Cut by Jeff Powell
Design + Illustrations: Jeffry Lee
Layout: Tom D. Kline

GAS STATION ROSE
Drums/Percussion: Ken Coomer
B3/Piano: Rick Steff
AC/Vocals: Sean Rowe
BGV: Susan Marshall
String Arrangement: Sam Shoup
Strings
Cello: Elen Wroten
Viola: Neal Shaffer
Violin: Heather Trussell
Violin: Gaylon Mckay Patterson

THE SALMON
Drums/Percussion: Ken Coomer
Bass: Dave Smith
Piano: Rick Steff
Vocal: Sean Rowe
Electric Guitar: Dave Cousar
BGVs: Susan Marshall & Reba Russell
String Arrangement: Sam Shoup
Strings
Cello: Elen Wroten
Viola: Neal Shaffer
Violin: Heather Trussell
Violin: Gaylon Mckay Patterson
I’LL FOLLOW YOU TRAIL
Drums/Percussion: Ken Coomer
Bass: Dave Smith
Piano/Mellotron: Rick Steff
AC/Vocal: Sean Rowe

PROMISE OF YOU
Drums/Percussion: Ken Coomer
Bass: Dave Smith
Piano/Farfisa: Rick Steff
Vocal: Sean Rowe
Electric Guitar: Dave Cousar
BGVs: Susan Marshall & Reba Russell
String Arrangement: Sam Shoup
Strings
Cello: Elen Wroten
Viola: Neal Shaffer
Violin: Heather Trussell
Violin: Gaylon Mckay Patterson

THE VINE
Bass: Dave Smith
Percussion: Sean Rowe, Matt Ross-Spang
AC/Vocal/ Harmonica: Sean Rowe
Electric Guitar: Matt Ross-Spang
Mellotron: Rick Steff
BGVs: Susan Marshall and Reba Russell

NEWTONS CRADLE
Drums/Percussion: Ken Coomer
Bass: Dave Smith
Wurly: Rick Steff
AC/Vocal: Sean Rowe
Electric Guitar: Dave Cousar
BGVs: Susan Marshall & Reba Russell
Claps: Sean Rowe, Matt Ross-Spang,
Jerry Phillips, Jeff Powell
String Arrangement: Sam Shoup
Strings
Cello: Elen Wroten
Viola: Neal Shaffer
Violin: Heather Trussell
Violin: Gaylon Mckay Patterson

I CAN’T MAKE A LIVING
Drums: Ken Coomer
Bass: Dave Smith
B3/Piano: Rick Steff
AC/Vocal: Sean Rowe
BGVs: Susan Marshall and Reba Russell
String Arrangement: Sam Shoup
Strings
Cello: Elen Wroten
Viola: Neal Shaffer
Violin: Heather Trussell
Violin: Gaylon Mckay Patterson

IT’S NOT HARD TO SAY GOODBYE (SOMETIMES)
Drums/Percussion: Ken Coomer
Bass: Dave Smith
AC/Vocals: Sean Rowe
BGVS: Susan Marshall and Reba Russell
Electric Guitar: Dave Cousar
Pedal Steel: Richard Alan Ford
Mellotron: Matt Ross-Spang

YOU KEEP COMING ALIVE
AC/Vocals: Sean Rowe
Bass: Dave Smith
Electric Guitar: Dave Cousar

THE VERY FIRST SNOW
AC/Vocals/Harmonica: Sean Rowe
Percussion: Ken Coomer
String Arrangement: Sam Shoup
Strings
Cello: Elen Wroten
Viola: Neal Shaffer
Violin: Heather Trussell
Violin: Gaylon Mckay Patterson


This record was a shot in the dark. In a very real sense you would not be hearing these songs without the people who pulled them out of me. Endless love and thank you to my family: Christina, Olivia and Jack. You would also not be hearing these particular recordings like this if it had not been for my hardcore fans who believed in me enough to get this album funded with 100% donations. Much thanks to my executive producers: Carol Schrader, Gillian Williams, Dawid Podsiadlo and Josh Bennett. Thanks to all of my kickstarter pledgers who made this album happen. Also Thank you to our second family in Pittsburgh Kim & Steven Foxbury, Matt Dayak, Dan Rugh and the rest of the gang at Common Wealth Press. Thanks to Leah Demo for letting me use her apartment to write these songs. Thanks to my long time manager Jon Sidel who finally got paid! And a big fat hug to my co-producer Matt Ross-Spang for his Wonka-like skills in the studio and for taking me to all the best BBQ in Memphis!

Bro, I think this was the first time I teared up at a Ben Affleck movie. Haha! Thanks to you motherfucker. So, so excited and weirdly proud? As a friend, so strange to sit there in the dark movie theater and hear you singing, that voice that I’m so used to hearing close by my side on stage when we’re battling that crowd. And hearing it in the closing scene of something so foreign, someone so distant as Ben Affleck. I almost started standing up and yelling like I was at a show. Only the lights were out and the people around me would have been scared and I’d probably get kicked out. So I just kind of cuddled into a rock position and smiled at Ben like a man at a family reunion who is looking at distant relatives, singing along to the all the last names that brought him to that moment.

I watched your scene in the same theater in ATL where I snuck into Thelma and Louis, lost my wits as a kid watching Gina Davis have sex and fly off a cliff. Same theater that I bought myself a matinee and switched movie to movie, year to year chewing on Milk Duds with Dinero in Backdraft to Another 48 Hours, to Short Circuit to Top Gun......I can name a hundred movies in that theater I experienced.....and finally your movie.

Congratulations brother!!! It was probably my favorite that I’ve ever seen at the Midtown
Theater. And in a strange way I felt like I got to be a part of it.

I hope you and the family are fantastic. Let’s catch up soon.

Love, Rex

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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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