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The Limited Abilities of Man

by The Lovely Few

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1.
Will you be like a sheet on the sinking tide? Curtains blowing in the breeze at night? Will you be like snow in the street light? A comforter or a soldier on the ride? I'm a man with a list of heavy crimes against you so you come to take my life but will you come to claim me for your bride and love me though I am selfish and unkind? Feel you close so I know it must be time. I think I know so it must be a lie. But this thing is a know I can't untie. Would you fix my wrongs and become my broken eyes?
2.
I spent my life on the open ocean I didn’t know how to walk upon the shore I chose the coast though it bruised my heal Traded my ribs for the surgical steel So my organs don’t give out to the atmosphere the lock or my doubts We keep checking for the cops While our debts are adding up All for you You are both the perpetual motion and the stationary, fast, immutable core Feel my feet on the warm sidewalk the tender feeling and the mundane talk you are the sun in Hollywood, the jagged coast of maine on which I stood Austin is making a gun With his forefinger and thumb Oh my God, How I owe you all so very much But the friction of distance can Take it’s toll on your head Eroding those riverbeds Yeah even they are all going to change Gas liquids and solid states But I made my mind to stay
3.
Tell me you haven’t been happier the past couple days the city saw some snow, I came home, and it all melted away You change your mind Promise me you’ll give me a try I just told you a lie When I said I wasn’t excited You change your mind I promise you we’ll be just fine I can’t even lie I’ve gotta tell you I’m pretty excited
4.
All 05:01
Try and write down each word that I say Act like I prayed, And if I died today I’d be okay Sore sides and I pause in your door With my face to the floor I’ve lots to ask forgiveness for You don’t put me in the margin You somehow haven’t forgotten at all Take a washcloth and scrub it away Try and erase Or see through this veil on my face But I keep dragging my feet everyday I thought they were rakes But Sinner just can’t be my name You don’t put me in the margin You somehow haven’t forgotten It’s difficult sometimes To know that I can’t see you with my eyes But God, I know You’re good But Your goodness is all I find All I can find
5.
Introduction 02:55
6.
Astronaut 04:55
Up above the clouds I could see you but I don’t look down Listening for you I could hear you but I hear every sound I am just a raindrop, I am just and astronaut I am just the one who loves you though we are apart You call and I will send postcards from wherever I go We both see the lightning, do not close your eyes baby The stories I could tell you, they are very hard to believe But that’s no excuse the sky is really blue I feel something much like gravity pulling me to you I want to set my feet on something true I saw the dinosaurs and ghosts coming up through the floor So take care of my brother, take care of your sister please All this time away it is passing so very slow so slowly Four months four thousand years or four days it does not make a difference to me it’s the same where you are it where I want ot be I feel the tug and the pull strings back to you green and blue everything starts over new with you I am just a raindrop, I am just an astronaut
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Puzzling 03:13
the street names a new date your friends face it's a different place either way the late rains the coming train the leaves change you are here again I admit it is puzzling and what am I supposed to do now that my toes are turning into roots? and my limbs are stretching out trying to put fingers on what they have found as the city starts to breathe it is looking for a song to sing
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I can see the window over the garage where we used to play when we were young Tried to keep the pictures but there’s no room I was drowned in the flashflood Oh, Saint Johns parish would go out to the same fate Perishing in a progressive wake my mother always told me it was man-made burying in The Rocks and Black Oak graves I saw a snake lying on its back Felt my knuckles clinch around an axe Clinging to these papers in the wind the limited abilities of man
10.
if you’re tired, turn out the lights I’m growing weary of my covers I push them off, where are the others I am brave, even if I am alone the yellow sun illuminates and darling I can barely wait to see those maple leaves I’m reaching for my phone it is dead, I am not, and I’m not at home

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released December 21, 2010

The Lovely Few is Taylor Bray, Alan Davis, Emily Franklin & Mike Mewborne.
Featuring Austin Crane, Brandon Miller & Haley Shaw.
Recorded & engineered by Taylor Bray.
Produced by Taylor Bray & Mike Mewborne.  Mastered by Hans DeKline.
All songs copyright 2010 The Lovely Few.
Music by The Lovely Few.  Words by Mike Mewborne.
Help from Steven Fiore, Rick Harris, Dan McCurry, Nathan Poole, Hannah Smolinski, Caleb Weathersby & Kate Mewborne.
Album art by Ben Walker.  
Photos by Reid Mewborne & Pat Wright Photography.

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The Lovely Few Columbia, South Carolina

The Lovely Few explores the sonic space between ancient history and a sci-fi future. The group began in 2006 in Columbia, SC, and is fronted by Mike Mewborne. Featuring Kate Mewborne, Alan Davis, Phil Windsor, Ben Walker, and Joe Stillwell.

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