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(We Get There When We Do.) |
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| Release Date : |
March 28, 1995 |
| Label |
Warner Bros / Wea |
| Catalog Number |
45831 |
| ASIN |
B000002MW1 |
| Publication |
1994, Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp. / "where's jay?" music, BMI (except for "bound togther" & "river, run" by beth) |
| Format |
CD, LP, Cassette |
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| Beth Sorrentino |
vocals, piano |
| Jay Sorrentino |
drums, vocals |
| Ken Heitmueller |
bass, vocals |
| Martha Sorrentino |
vocal on "not that dumb" |
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| Track |
Name |
Length |
1 |
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3.14 |
2 |
the big guys are coming |
2.30 |
3 |
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5.09 |
4 |
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4.04 |
5 |
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4.18 |
6 |
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4.53 |
7 |
not that dumb |
3.24 |
8 |
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3.02 |
9 |
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3.45 |
10 |
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3.34 |
11 |
|
3.24 |
12 |
supersonic |
2.19 |
13 |
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4.34 |
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Total Time |
48.20 |
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Liner Notes
produced by Warne Livesey,
engineered by Warne Livesey & Todd Vos,
recorded at Bearsville Studios, NY & The Cat Box Studio, Lancaster, PA
mix engineer / Steve Jackson
second mix engineer / Leigh Jemison
mixes at Orinoco Studios, London
mastered by Stephen Marcussen, Precision Mastering, L.A.
a&r / Kevin Laffey
management by Melissa Allen, 7twenty Management, NY
booking / Steve Furguson, ICM
art coordination / Linda Cobb
cover photo & design / beth sorrentino
band photographyn by Danny Clinch
thanks
Mo Ostin, Lenny Waronker, Kevin Laffey, Meredith Chinn, Jonathan Erlich, John Titta, Kenny MacPherson, Tim Cunningham, Michael Morrison, Bruce Warren, & all at WXPN, Steve Ferguson, Peter Standish, Rick Streicker, Jeff Cohen, Shauna Slevin, Mike O'Reilley, Carol Candeloro, Jeff Price, Joel Morowitz, Sean Slade, Paul Kolderie, Jim Rondinelli, Jon Goldberger, Rich Ruoff, Live, Innocence Mission, Suede, Ocean Blue, Katty Jones, Sonya Gropman, Kay at Steinway & Sons, NYC, BBC Records & all at Bearsville, Orinoco, & Warner Bros. Records.
special thanks
Linda Sorrentino, Martha Sorrentino, John Graham , Jim Sorrentino, Cindy, Sara &Tom, Joey "castanets" Sorrentino, Alice & Karl Heitmueller Sr., Karl Heitmueller Jr., Erin Riley, Melissa Allen, Nicholas Martin, Diane Cluck, Christian Francis Roth, Yvette Waidley, The Liveseys, Edward Kowalczyk & family, Pete kreider, Brett Malak, Darren Johnson, Steve Murray, Jeff Keiser, Lori Carson, David Sherick, Paul Flory, Rex, Robert Cattermole, The Lanzillos, The Gerharts, Ken Hoak, The Wingers, The Montessori Academy of Lancaster, and all our friends.
Other Notes
Lyrics
hard lesson
you can bet if the points aren't on you
you can bet if it makes her happy
you can bet on the big one standing,
can you tear this place down?
how'd you get into this
with your fingers dry?
you want them slicked back
but can you keep that dress tight?
you want them innocent and cute-
that keeps them in line
and it's your hard lesson
can you keep tearing it down?
you can bet if the points aren't all around
you can bet if her feet just touch the
ground
you can bet on the big one standing,
can you tear this place down?
how'd you get into this with
your fingers dry?
and it's me in your heart,
you keep your heels down
you're all set, then you missed out.
keep your heels down
the big buys are coming
you can take me up on this cloud
you can take me down where it's loud
you got out of hand and
the "big guys" are coming
they're screwing up everything
that I had planned
all there
it's all there
mark of man
under over pass and then
turn right to leave the light on
then you see how the entire town
has got it right
and then
"it's the mark of man," they'd say
you'd raise it high over your head
then you see how the entire town
has got it right and then
pick your smarter man then
place him as high as you can
it's the part where you can't wait up
for me
when you've gone away to them -
or have you?
pick the mark of man, that's why
you raise it back over the roof tops
then you see how the entire town is
asleep at night; you're trying, too.
you pull it
you got a right
then you're all set
you pull it, you got a right
and then you're all done.
get off the ground
if i could get off the ground
those stars move in for all of this
and everything's much bigger now
as i became the wall of this house
if i could start to fly
it's too far to see through all of this
and everything's much bigger now
as i became the wall of this house
and it's a lot better
when you show me how
to get from here to all of this cloud
flemen
don't do it
it's getting bigger and then
you can't see it but it's there
is he the man of your dreams i see?
drop kick it,
flat, on your back and then
you can't see it but it's there
is he the man of your dreams i see?
your future is open wide
it's open wider than mine, and
you're bound to him
your future is open wide
if you'd stay behind
and go along with everything
then you'll see much better
you cannot get her involved this time
it would be much better if
you'd stay behind the line, buddy
snowman
not only that,
but after all this extremity,
you sit down
he's not rational
you sit down
bed on floor
they'd say it's much nore comfortable
than that other thing feels like metal
feels cold as metal
inside them frozen from head to foot
sled tracks cut through the edges
i gave him time to melt down
and
it's so dark in here
so cold on the lawn
so wet on the edges
and frozen from head to foot
he's melting
funky
ok sure. now you say you're in the middle.
you're taking me to the back and then-
don't tell me to "relax a little"
cause i've become just like you,
i'm uptight
now you're in my
rip it up, or take out
river, run
no, please don't go.
no, please don't leave yet.
you haven't heard my band yet
you haven't seen my house
you cannot understand yet,
what it means to be old.
river, run
river, deep
river, come so i can sing you to sleep
river, high
river, low
river guide so i can tell you where to go.
long way down
such a long way down
to see my parents
such a long way down
to seee my parent's house
and you go spinning,
velocity is "picking up speed,"
falling harder now i can see down
and it's obvious you've fallen
hard for me
and you pick it up, watch it go down
to the side of my house
and you're taken in
you're taking me in
then you chicken out
but you still have to pay for the ceiling
and you are taking me in
beautiful dream
i had a beautiful dream
before i woke up tangled in my blankets
understanding the noisy drone
set to bring me back to a cold room
lined with crumpled sweaters and
inside-out jeans
as I sent my finger on the "off" button
and remember:
waving my heavy arms back and forth
floating with schools of tropical fish
in a high school gym lit like a talent show
clear as a bell
amd i'm hearing the forced hush
of quiet
as people get when they want to be
entertained
it's easy if you really want to do it
to keep yourself in the air.
bound together
and we're all bound together
when the pin is pushed in
and you're here by now
and it's all down and out
and we're all going together
when the pin is pulled out
and you're here by now
and it's all down and out
it seems to me, you're unfaithful to them
by being part of the plan
that's the end of the rope for me
and it's settled,
but i have something to say.
