Tall Heights - audio from the Icterine Youtube Sessions
by Tall Heights
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Rafters (live)
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The Hollow (live)
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To Be Young (live)
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released 01 February 2011
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“After seeing Tall Heights perform in our kitchen, I can’t get their songs out of my head.” - NPR Digital
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Tall Heights’s delicate melodies and gentle harmonies create a rare public space where the people can slow down, even stop, and suspend the chaos of city life in exchange for some really great music.-WBUR, Boston's NPR News Station
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Jun 07Montclair, NJ
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- Track Name: Rafters (live)
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LYRICS:
Ceiling tiles, falling down
Sellin secrets between now
And defeated past on last defense.
The walls can't keep the warmth in here
This busted house of cans of beer:
Aluminum, some plaster and some fear.
There are her bones, there are the fossils
There near the sewer pipe.
There between floors, between wars
There on a 2x4.
Harmonic note still humming from her lyre
Just set my little soul on fire.
In the shape of my latest sin
In the wake of soon moving on
Though this house is crumbling down
She's whispering her last words now.
Did he love her there on the floor?
When he pressed his mark in that knotted board
Pressed an oath in that knotted board.
Two names, one shape, tangled minor chord.
Wrapped around their sweet accord, wrapped around their love and stored.
The first day got away, then so many more.
A decade passed, and then a score.
Now winter falls.
Decay and dark creating art, showing the world just where you really are.
Oh, sweet Louise,
Since eighty three,
While paneling and pyramids fall down.
Oh, sweet Louise,
Now I believe
In rafters in a beat-up, blue-neck town,
In turning tides in me, in hidden vows.
There are her bones, there are the fossils
There near the sewer pipe.
There are her bones, there are the fossils
Unfinished song only I complete.
There on his throne, here in his castle
My Pygmalion ivory.
Here on my own, like this home
The landlord collects fee.
I'm growing old so alone and
These ceiling tiles are falling down.
I'm seeing what I've got to see. - Track Name: The Hollow (live)
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I wanted to find a hollow
a place to fill the empty in my mind
my silence had me caving inwards and I longed for us to speak between the lines
and when I’d find that hollow
I’d leave every trace of it behind
I’d of known you’d follow
but this hollow was for me alone to find
or so I thought
or so I thought
oh what a fool
oh what I was, oh what you are
these are the strangest times
has my young love faded out of sight?
oh where we were and where we are, they’re not so far apart
We’ll set off for that hollow at first light, yeah we will, yeah we will
at last we reached the hollow
we sink down in the moss upon the ground
my compass had been helter skelter, like a fly in a fish bowl buzzing round
your heart against chest a-humming
it sings your words of sorrow to me now
but my songbird shall not wallow
drawn back to this secret we have found
and I hear the water rushing down below
it doesn’t matter now - Track Name: Hell and High Water (live)
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Through hell and high water we have said we’d swim.
Of all we thought, for all we’ve seen we’re in.
Through hell and high water.
Over under, we would take the bridge
That salty wonder takes us bit by bit.
We’re its plunder, like the Cape’s thin wrist
And left to wonder, fold or flex a fist?
Through hell and high water
When storms bring waves and
When waves bring tides in
Well, are we bold enough to think we’d win?
When storms bring winds and
When winds bring the hurricane
There’s nowhere she wants she’s never been.
Our levy’s so much stronger from testing them.
But are they strong for what we will begin?
Peninsula is fading
Oh, bright city’s gauging
While the old man’s hard-wood floors remove again.
When storms bring waves and
When waves bring tides in
Well, are we bold enough to think we’d win?
(Would you hold on?)
When storms bring winds and
When winds bring the hurricane
There’s nowhere she wants she’s never been
The wise men open up and let her in
So open up your door and let her in
Bridges falling down,
Be patient.
In this tidal town
Keep wading.
When storms bring waves and
When waves bring tides in
Are we bold enough to think we’d win?
(would you hold on?)
When storms bring winds and
When winds bring the hurricane
There’s nowhere she walks she’s never been
The wise men open up and let her in
That sea ain’t waging war
It's just another storm
That sea will leave and you’ll be standin’ - Track Name: To Be Young (live)
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Oh it was white sand and deep blue waves
And we were running up to shore
Sun glints on sparkling faces I don’t
Feel or see anymore
To be young
We’re just leaves, floating on down the stream
My job my house my car my whole social scene
And so high are the stakes, every move we make
Sends us down down down in that stream
But here in this only life I know
Those summer days rush out like warm air from my lungs
It's just the way the story goes
And for all I’ve learned I still wish I didn’t know, all I didn’t know, oh, when we were young
When I was young I told myself I’d keep my friends
Cuz they were good and I was true, it didn't need to end
Oh how they’ve risen, they fallen like the sun, circles round,
I guess I’ve done just as well as anyone
Hard to accept but I’m just anyone
But here in this only life I’ll know
Those summer days rush out like water from the lawn
This is the way the story goes
We just stand in line now and talk about the days when we were young
My conscious could’ve sunbathed every day
in my bright blue mind
now it’s crowded with guilt and purpose and I just
want it all aligned
I just want it all aligned
Here in the only life I'll know
Not taking orders just don’t know which way to go
It's just the way the story goes
And I’ll be damned if I’m to live it out alone
Here in the only life I’ll know
With any waste of time it hits so close to home
It's just the way the story goes
And I’ll be damned if I’m to live it out alone
We’re just leaves, leaves in an icy stream
My job my house my clothes my whole social scene
And one day, one day, one bright clear day
I think we all might just disappear
Sink down like leaves in the river cold and clear
On down like leaves in an icy stream
