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Family Tree

by You Kiss By The Book

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Bay Blues This whole album is the BOMB, Wonderful listening experience, Take the time to sit down and listen to the Great Musicianship, the Stories, Really Great Blend of all the right elements that make You happy that you bought the album. All the Tracks are Great..............~~~~~~~~~*BB Favorite track: Family Tree.
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1.
Railroad 04:36
We searched up and we searched down for the railroad at the end of town. We searched high and we searched low we never knew which way to go. If all the rumours that we heard are true then this day will be brand new, and everything will just melt away and leave us with this very day. By the railroad at the end of town it’s been there years and now it won’t burn down, the railroad at the end of town it's where old folks go to make time slow down at the railroad at the end of town. Its where you go to get your first kiss, it’s the reason why your gonna miss, built up cities and cocktail parties and in high rise buildings and old hotels, there is a man who is working with a trench coat on, he pulls a lever on the tracks to redirect the train, it’s the first job that they gave my dad, now he is working underground in a sterilised lab. By the railroad at the end of town, there’s an overhanging string of faulty power lines, at the railroad at the end of town its good luck now to throw your money down at the railroad at the end of town. There’s women going and there shuffling feet as they make their way down the ghostly street, blind they follow old signposts but they never know which way to go to where the clock is always telling lies its always saying that’s its ten to five and the trains come every hour or so and then they leave behind a trail of smoke how it is that they can go when the trains run and the trains run slow how it is ill never know how people can people leave and people can go at the railroad at the end of town. It’s where I am going, it’s where I am going to make matter form memories and watch the rails roll on the track. She didn’t know all her friends were dead, even the ones she hadn’t met yet she said take my head and oh lets go down, at the railroad at the end of town.
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The teachers would walk on the right in the snow and the way that the weather was we got there slow, but I enjoyed watching our footprints grow. It was better when the lights bent over the east river when you were my friend, when you were my friend. Now every conversation is an act of violence, I guess anything to mask how we aint be talking, no we can’t go back we can’t go back we can’t go back toward the light when you were my friend, when you were my........
3.
Transport 03:31
Your transport arrives in the morning so you best get up before the sun hits sun will come with no warning the sun will always come and don’t look back till you’re on the track get yourself ready and your bags all packed lock the door close the blinds hide the view and leave all you can behind you. I will meet you by the train station you will know me by a blue carnation, ill make the sign of the cross as the morning train it docks so don’t leave with no hesitation, your safety I can guarantee you’ll have you own house your own key be like your brand new and leave all you can behind you. Your old skies have become new; your old lovers are through. You chop wood to keep us warm in winter I hunt out in the forest but you get thinner I write my book I read a few but nothing makes me happier than you with your head looking out of the window I stamp on my feet as you play piano it’s a melody we both can sing its old but it rings through and it makes you sad for what you left behind and now your eyes are on the road and not on mine they’ll catch you for the crimes you have done they will catch you they will catch you.
4.
15 Years 04:10
Known each other for 15 years married for 5 unfaithful for the rest she thinks it’s for the best. We grew our hair long in winter I cut mine short when she cut me off but I still look a mess. And I wake up early in the morning rest my eyes before sun gives her warning and I’m down the road away I go I’m headed home to beat the cold. I haven’t thought about her much since the autumn, now I’m out the back I’m turning the soil. Running away is not will kill you it’s staying the same by not giving into change. And I wake up early in the morning rest my eyes before sun gives her warning and I’m down the road away I go I’m headed home to beat the cold of the strong north wind that blows and its one love in a lifetime so now I feel old and I know the truth and I know you don’t mind.
5.
I love you and you love me but we could never be happy oh no. Cause down in the mines where the suns a torch you don’t your eyes open focused on anyone. And now that the sky is a curtain half drawn you don’t need the lights on your bike on your way back home. And if you wanna go just go don’t write down in one of your poems if you wanna go just go. Cause I love you and you love me and you love me and I love you. And now that the sky is a curtain drawn you don’t need your eyes open focused on anyone. You said return to the sea return everything to me. If you wanna go just go don’t write it with your breath on the window if you wanna go say so. The cars in the drive you’re not gone away the cars in the drive you’re not gone you’re not gone.
6.
Family Tree 05:10
There’s a note on the wall, little note on the wall clean up after yourself, clean up after us all. There’s a ghost in the hall little ghost in the walls, they feed of our belief in what we cannot see. And the family tree it is haunting me, live of the land be a family man, do the best you can only work with your hands, fall into their ways. Salt mines have made our town a decay now they control what is made the imports the exports, the trade. Salt mines have shaped our town like its clay, and workers can’t escape when family depends on pay. When I was five years old I was on my daddy’s lap pulling levers on the train to make the train slow down make the train speed up make the train go back and now than I’m older I can see what needs to change this is a dead end town and a dead end job that my father had arranged. The family tree still surrounds me, I gave into its demands now I’m a family man and I’m working with my hands when the train breaks down I gave into its ways. There’s a ghost in the hall little ghost in the walls, they feed of our belief in what we cannot see, God knows I believe in what I cannot see.
7.
1748 04:23
We headed out to California looking for our weight in gold but we just filled our bags with iron ore and headed back toward the cold. Never to reveal our secret to anyone back home where the streets were a diamond silver from a 1748 snow storm that left our town for dead like a Ralph Emerson poem I overheard my mother talk about the fortunes in her maiden name she said that the secret was kept in somebody’s grave. We spent the next couple weeks in a graveyard searching for our grandfather’s bones but we didn’t find any silver we didn’t find any gold to save my only daughter from the ghost she’s become and all the debts that she owes. I have to sleep with the weight on my back and there’s no time for eating she has to watch her father turn in to some kind of thief.
8.
Lifejacket 05:54
Son of a sailor floating at sea the last lifejacket was wasted on me. I float up and down but I keep my head high even though I know my feet won’t touch the ground. And ideas come easy now with nothing around like a seashell held to my ear I hear only sound it’s not real but it’s clear something is there. The lighthouse is my only focus but its eyes remain distant so all is hopeless like how I hear the sound of rescue boats when it’s just birds over head and every wave is a friendly face that pulls me further away the truth is I am needed here I must have known it all my life so just let it wash over me I don’t try and fight against her might. And ideas come quickly now with no one around everything passes through me like a book I have found and devoured in days I can’t retain a page but something stays with me. Oh the last lifejacket was wasted on me, Oh the last lifejacket was wasted on me, Oh the last lifejacket was wasted on me.
9.
When we got to the border I was glad to be safe and our bags were like led weights as we climbed the gate. And then you boarded that steel train as we parted ways an exchange of information I was glad we escaped. But I never heard from you if you made it back if your daughter knew the ups and the sundowns i went through tryin to get to you. And now spring turns to autumn too many times I can’t remember how to bury the hatchet and to see what aint there. But I can’t remember your face oh I wish wed never escaped the ups and the sundowns we went through trying to make it right. I let the light into my eyes no I won’t lose sight no I know I am right.

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Family Tree was recorded in 2011 at Sunny Cabra Studios with the help of Sean Lynch, except for the drums on 1748 and Can’t Go Back which were recorded by Simon and Phil in Blackhorse.

Produced by You Kiss By The Book and Sean Lynch

All songs written by You Kiss By The Book.

We would like to thank Sean Lynch for all his help with this record, including his wonderful vocals. Saileog O’Halloran, David Crean, and Hannah Dunford their angelic voices. Fergus Gleeson for being our one man orchestra. Neassa Doherty and Cian O’Toole for being there at the start. Barry O’Brien for being with us now. Padraig O’Reilly for the drum mics. Paul Lynch and Francesco Gatti at Storm Studios for mixing the album. Stephen Quinn at Anolgue Heart for mastering the album. Greg O’Brien for the artwork. And all our friends and family for supporting us and sticking by us over the years.

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released August 3, 2012

musicians: Simon Dowling, Philip Clarke, Andy Walsh, Fergus Gleeson, Sean Lynch, David Crean, Saileog O'Halloran, Hannah Dunford

recorded by: You Kiss By The Book

mixed by: Francesco Gatti and Paul Lynch

mastered by: Stephen Quinn

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