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1.
Antonito 04:20
You packed up your valise, and crammed it in the trunk There was caramel on your lips, i was four-fifths drunk You threw on your smile like a sable cape I wondered for awhile if i'd made a mistake A little snow starting Sky sealed like a drum I kick into gear hear the engine hum When we are inscribed in the book of fate I hope they glue a photo to the page We hit the freeway like two bottle rockets Our headlights were brighter than the stars There is no one besides us in the state of colorado There is no one in all the other cars A little snow starting Sky sealed like a drum I kick into gear hear the engine hum When we are inscribed in the book of fate I hope they glue a photo to the page My gut slammed with every turn of the wheel It was you me and two tons of galvanized steel Your shoulders were built For the curve of my arm And the two of us are heading Towards every type of harm And I am never going back To Antonito I’m never going back I’m never going back
2.
I'm waiting for a sign from god I'm waiting til I hear it I'll stay here and I'll listen I hope to god I don't miss it How long, how long I'm waiting til the stars align I'm waiting til I see it I'll wait here for a still, small voice I hope that I believe it How long, how long I'm waiting for a voice to speak with me No boat, no wind, no view I'm waiting for a kind of tangible confirmation A full face or a wink And if I wait, I'll stay here And if I connect the stars I'll be wrong The dawn will wake me right along So long, for now I think I'm gone How long, how long I'm waiting for a sign from god
3.
The cool day slips on loosing its winds. The tossed leaves murmur to the light on their skins. The sun sweeps out slow over unmown fields. The apple trees are shedding their rotten, brindled yields. A girl with long hair sings in a foreign tongue. She lifts her white legs high Her voice clear and young: “Lay me out gently like a cut rose still red. And lay the autumn leaves unturned about my head.” Sweetly she goes by murmuring her lieder. So death recalls itself to the sapling and the cedar.
4.
Twisted 03:25
I'll take a train far away and get going to someplace that I've never seen I'll pack my bags in and out zip it up and down and I'll just drag em to the street I'll tear the pages out straight out of the books I used to love I'll fill a pitcher up and say it's not enough Write on one side But I get twisted to end in the center And see with one eye But I get twisted to end in the center again I’ll ask advice, but the questions i ask only come out of half of me I’ll look outside, only for the counter to my self to get the balance that I need I don’t believe myself, everything I say is only half of what I see I need to just say something, something that I really mean Write on one side But I get twisted to end in the center And see with one eye But I get twisted to end in the center again
5.
Dig Me Up 04:26
I've got a brand new key I can open all the locks that you put in front of me Yeah and I've got a brand new door I can open all the walls that were closed off before And I wont wait for you To say my piece for me And I wont wait for you To tell me to be free Yeah and I can see myself Lying on my back floating down an ancient river and I cant move myself I'm subject to the current and the tides I can see myself floating down across three thousand rivers All of them the same and everyone flows right into my eyes I can see them all but they cant even feel me as I'm floating They just carry me 'cause everything goes on and on I got a brand new heart It'll pump me full of blood that came from some disparate parts Yeah and I've got some brand new eyes They can penetrate the darkness that kept me hypnotized And i wont wait for you To go in front of me And i wont wait for you To tell me to be free Yeah and I can see myself Climbing up stone stairways of an old and crumbling temple and All my sweat is leaving me to join the water in the skies I can see myself sitting in a room on top the temple Filled with hot and smoking incense which flows right into my eyes I sit down and all the heat and sweat are gone for just a moment They'll be back real soon 'cause everything goes on and on I got some brand new clothes i got them just in time before my old ones decomposed Yeah and i got some brand new feet Oh they only take me places that are always incomplete And I wont wait for you To set it up for me And I wont wait for you To tell me to be free Yeah and I can see myself Mumbling some words that are too old for me to realize and They were here before i even tried to color in the lines I can see myself walking over pavement on the cow paths Winding roads of dirt twist endlessly around into my eyes There's a movement in the pavement thats been stored for all these centuries Yeah a movement there, 'cause everything goes on and on I can see myself floating down across three thousand rivers All of them the same and everyone flows right into my eyes I can see them all but they cant even feel me as I'm floating They just carry me 'cause everything goes on and on And when you told me i was only me I went back to the river And when you told me I was never anyone but me I started to shake and shiver
6.
Build a fence around your heart Protect the jewel at the inside in the dark Go over your tattoo in black marker Make the seemingly permanent darker But I have nothing to grab And still, I can use the spaces I have Build a fence around your home Take it with you but just speak over the phone Keep a record of words in your memory Fake like you're shocked by cosmological symmetry I try but I have nothing to grab But still, I can use the spaces I have Build a fence around someone else Feel the space but still retain your sense of self Feel the freedom that comes from being alone But even then don't lose the thing makes you whole But I have nothing to grab And still, I can use the spaces I have But fences tend to break When rains do not abate When they arrive day by day You find to stay in place To help forestall a sense of change You need an iron gate And if you want whats real You need a fenceless field And if you want to grow Make it a spacious meadow

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The debut release from Three Thousand Rivers

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released September 16, 2014

All songs performed by Noam Hassenfeld, Nick Demirjian, Jack Cashion, Warren Loegering, and Hanna Choi.
Music by Noam Hassenfeld; Lyrics by Noam Hassenfeld and Talia Lavin
Additional backup vocals provided by Brian Speaker and Shlomo Golshirazian

Produced, engineered, and mixed by Brian Speaker at Speaker SonicStudio
Mastered by Dave Roman at 4130 Mastering
Album artwork by Meirav Gebler; Album layout by JML Designs Inc.

TTR is Noam Hassenfeld, Nick Demirjian, Jack Cashion, Warren Loegering, Joshua Lutz, and Zoe Aqua.

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Three Thousand Rivers is influenced by folk, funk, and indie rock (particularly Neutral Milk Hotel, The Mountain Goats, Jack White, and the Dodos), as well as the members' diverse musical backgrounds, including Balinese, West African, and South Indian drumming, modern classical music, funk, klezmer, and jazz. TTR is Noam Hassenfeld, Nick Demirjian, Jack Cashion, Warren Loegering, and Zoe Aqua. ... more

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