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Something In The Ether

by Fish & Bird

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1.
Cold Salty 03:52
throw my body in the cold salty... by the light of the pale bright... I can’t see you with my big blues... you’re a far cry down the long winding... tiny cup of coffee, scrub the groggy off me ease the being awake it’s funny how life changes, & what’s really strange is just how little time the change can take so I sat on the porch of the bakery with the sun in my eyes & the sirens suggested to me that I should throw my body... baby I miss you, and if not to kiss you I don’t know what this mouth is for it’s as dry and cracked as an abandoned shack dilapidated on the south shore so I stand on the sand at crescent beach ‘cause I wanna learn what the atlantic has to teach and I throw my body... I don’t know whether we’ll grow old together but we have grown a little less young how high is the ladder? what does it matter, so long as you can see the next rung? so I sit with the embers and the empty cans & maybe this rut that I’m in is just soot on my skin & I just need to throw my body...
2.
The Lake 02:50
in the evening, the lake is cool & still by twilight & fireflies, together down the hill in this light, babe, tell me what you see I am an evil man if you want me to be the loons are crying & I am crying too for all the things we can’t explain but never fail to do the water is wide here & the echo is long I’ll shout my loving loud enough to ring out once I’m gone
3.
some things you don’t have to think on you just see it, you just feel it when we laugh we laugh together you just see it, you just feel it there’s something in the ether calling out your name something in the ether reaching out, reaching out what is 3 weeks? what’s a life time? who are we to be so wise? if you feel it, then so be it some things you don’t get to think on ‘cause there’s something in the ether... it seems the more I try to think about it logically the less it makes sense to me
4.
Lost 03:19
I walked around with my shirt undone in the summer evening sun the beer was cold & it tasted good laughter filled the neighbourhood in summer it came easily but this year winter got to me I’m frozen still, white with frost I once was found but now... resolute on new year’s eve habits that I swore I’d leave, like rotten things on the back shelf I’d dig them out to find myself seems I might’ve dug too deep discarded things I oughtta keep an overhaul comes at a cost ‘cause I once was found but now... maybe there’s some line I crossed, I once was found but now... after so long on the move, home’s like skipping in the groove the same 2 seconds of a song repeating on & on & on the air I drew into my lungs used to make me feel so young now I’m breathing in exhaust I once was found, but now... I once had won, but now... I once understood, but now... it’s better to have lost
5.
we moan with morbid satisfaction who can sing the saddest song? we teeter as we sing along we live for that wincing reaction who expresses heartbreak best, who can get us right in the chest? a heart’s a part of something greater, it’s just a lonely resonator we sit in the concrete stairwell, it sounds like a cathedral reflections ward off evil tease out an ode or a farewell, I’ll sing you one I swear I know how’s that chorus go... these mumbled incantations have the most power when they’re sung in the smallest hours the tune sounds appalachian & the words are modern they sting like a rope burn a heart’s a part of something greater, it’s just a lonely resonator see how it grows in the echoes the sleeplessness of psyche you sit there at her feet, just to feel her heat it all seems so unlikely a heart’s a part of something greater, it’s just a lonely resonator see how it grows in the echoes
6.
Boots 04:51
who wore these boots before I came? with his head held high he walked these trails just singing all the way if you listen hard you’ll hear him still like a dead bug on the windowsill, a dried husk of memory reverberations never die in the bottomless depths of time they just bounce forever when she turned to tell me something I could tell her lips were moving but I couldn’t make out the words when she kissed me deeply on the mouth I could taste what she was talking about & it cut my heart in thirds reverberations never die... all the words I chose when I was young for the way that they rolled off my tongue are now as permanent & obsolete as a field of thrown out CRT monitors reverberations never die...
7.
Rivers 03:26
we are rivers & we cut our own ways through this land & we take great delight in our own company I was holding out for something that I could call my own so I called you to say “don’t wait up for me”
8.
thought I saw a light streak across the sky I swore that when I listened hard I could hear your heartbeat speeding up was it all in my mind or was it a sign? thought I heard a sound like big trees coming down you licked your lips a bit and I read so deeply into it in the depths of random noise, I heard an angel’s voice & let the static sink into me, surrendered to the mystery: could you hear me, my heart beating? thought I felt something, the ground was shaking were you reaching out to me? is there life in other galaxies? was it all in my mind or was it a sign? let the music sink into me, surrender to the mystery could you hear me, my heart beating? when you know the trick, it kind of ruins it troubled is the heart that knows itself a little bit too well was it all in my mind or was it a sign?
9.
everywhere I go, I never seem to stay there’s always some siren that’s calling me away when the world begins to fade back into sight in the go-to-bed light sometimes the sky seems to talk to you, sends you a message with its hue like the sneaky way it starts to get bright that’s the go-to-bed light sleep deprivation will change the way you think at least as well as a pull from a strong drink right & wrong is not so black & white in the go-to-bed light it’s a crazy world & we all do our part my existential longing is my art I almost figured it out but not quite in the go-to-bed light you’re up to your ankles in the bay you can sing what you can’t say the echoes always seem to make it right in the go-to-bed light it’s a charmed life but it’s a weird charm you’re as certain as the venus has no arms that if she could she’d hold you tight in the go-to-bed light the passers-by turn into passers-out I forgot what we were talking about like I forgot to call it a night before the go-to-bed light

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released September 30, 2014

Performed by Fish & Bird:

Taylor Ashton: Vocals, Banjo, Acoustic Guitar (4, 9)

Adam Iredale-Gray: Fiddle, Vocals

Ryan Boeur: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar (2, 5)

Ben Kelly: Drums, Percussion

Zoe Guigueno: Upright Bass, Vocals


Recorded on Mayne Island, BC, Canada by Adam Iredale-Gray at Fiddle Head Studios with assistance from Emily Bachynski & Peter Mynett

Meals prepared by Elise Boeur & Cluny Macpherson

Additional recording by: Patric McGroarty at St. Clarens (Toronto, ON),
Adam Connito (Jamaica Plain, MA), & Gravesend Recordings (Brooklyn, NY)

Mixed by Adam Iredale-Gray
Additional mixing by Adrian Dolan
Mastered by Joby Baker, Baker Studios Ltd.
Album design, front & back cover photos by Taylor Ashton
Inside photos by Angela Fama

All songs (c) 2014 Taylor Ashton (SOCAN), except Rivers & Or Was It A Sign? , (c) 2014 music by Adam Iredale-Gray (SOCAN), lyrics by Taylor Ashton (SOCAN)

All songs arranged by Fish & Bird

We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

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Fish & Bird are a five piece band, consisting of:

Taylor Ashton (vocals, banjo)

Adam Iredale-Gray (fiddle, vocals)

Ryan Boeur (electric and acoustic guitars)

Ben Kelly (drums)

Zoe Guigueno (upright bass, vocals)
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