Coats Of The Sun
ARCHER ROCKWELL
All songs composed by Archer Rockwell
Produced by Colin Agnew
Co-produced by Archer Rockwell
Engineered by Colin Agnew in Atlanta, GA, and Will Robertson at Gallop Studios in Brookhaven, GA
Mixed by Colin Agnew at La Gazza Studios in Atlanta, GA
Performance Credits:
Archer Rockwell - vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, piano (8,10)
Colin Agnew - drums, percussion
Robby Handley - bass guitars, upright bass
Rhett Huffman - B3 organ, piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clavinet, RMI Electra-piano, Minimoog, Solina
Bret Hartley - lap steel, electric guitars (1,4)
Matt Stoessel - pedal steel
LYRICS
HCl
Archer Rockwell
Hold the wire
Dip it in the well
White fire it flames
Down your arms and out your nails
Dip it in the well
The fire can really burn
New channels new frames
Uncontrolled she’s unrestrained
She can’t tell what you can take and what you can’t
Hold the wire
Dip it in the well
Old pathways she’ll break
with new ones forged in their place
A soothing song once known
now an unfamiliar sound
As she exposes your fears
pins your ego to the ground
She can’t tell what you can take and what you can’t
She can’t tell what you can take and what you can’t
There may be tears
There will be floods and quakes
As she plugs in
your reality reshaped
Hold the wire
descend into the well
Old pathways she breaks
with new ones forged in their place
Willie Westerfelt
is someone you should know
He’s forced to introspect
while stripped from head to toe
She can’t tell what you can take and what you can’t
She can’t tell what you can take and what you can’t
Hold the wire
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EF
Archer Rockwell
Spending the day
with the stars shining ever so brightly
Caught in the fray
sometimes sputtering when started
but never impolite
Into the unknown
out on my own,
When called to return, below
I’ll tow the line
Searching to say
in ways that form and substance fit together tightly
Carving in clay
Create sharpened shapes in order
in shades of black and white
Into the unknown
forsaking my bones
From the base of the trunk, below
I’ll draw the line
She descended and suddenly it felt right
No more pulleys
No more fragments so contrite
With speed came comfort, a sense of delight
it’s alright
Trying to weigh
benefits and burdens, each time do it rightly
Wearing away
from the weight of the orders
as day revolves to night
Into the unknown
Forsaking my bones,
From the base of the trunk, below
I’ll draw the line
She descended and suddenly it felt right
No more pulleys
No more fragments so contrite
With speed came comfort, a sense of delight
it’s alright
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Unfinished
Archer Rockwell
I’m a comet
You’re a come on
Am I half right?
I could turn on
When I saw you
You were wanting
So I cratered
in without warning
And there’s just one question to be posed:
When we’re together am I alone?
Can you take it?
Do you want it?
Better to wait for, or to forget it
and there’s just one question to be posed:
When we’re together am I alone?
You are everything that you swallow
You are everything that you swallow
Do you follow?
Am I alone?
Can you take it?
Do you want it?
Better to wait for, or to forget it
and there’s just one question to be posed:
When we’re together am I alone?
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Space
Archer Rockwell
He arrived today
He’s someone new
He’s part of me
He’s part of you
His sincerity, it’s comforting
Freedom in mind
Free of hypocrisy
Coloring our voices until they make one sound
Back-checking choices and hammering them down
Let’s pool all of these skills
Only the qualities we’ll instill
Hey there blue, eyes shining through
They’re beaming out in front of you
Hold onto my hand and take this space
This pain in joy you must embrace
Coloring our voices until they make one sound
Back-checking choices and hammering them down
Let’s pool all of these skills
Only the qualities we’ll instill
You want me
You need me
I’m here you don’t see me
You owe me
You need me
You hate me then feed me
You want to so leave me
You want to believe me
Peace with me
And peace with you
Let’s tear it down
Let’s start anew
Togetherness it’s warm, it’s home
You’re held on high
You’re not alone
Coloring our voices until they make one sound
Back-checking choices and hammering them down
Let’s pool all of these skills
Only the qualities we’ll instill
Me and you
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Thunderbolt
Archer Rockwell
Cub is calling you better run
He’s dialed you in on channel one
Listening, beginning the begin
He’s up
He’s down
He’s up again
Existence takes a hold of him
Question answer question
What’s that?
Fearless curiosity defining his reality
Look out now there he goes again
You better watch out
He’ll wear you out
Barrett
Barrett
Barrett
Precision movements
The warmest grin
He’ll hypnotize and pull you in
Careful now don’t get too relaxed
Slender fingers
Tippy toes
Careful now he’s got your nose
But it’s okay he always gives it back
Fearless curiosity defining his reality
Look out now there he goes again
You better watch out
He’ll wear you out
Barrett
Barrett
Barrett, we love,
You are, you are love
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Krakatau (1883)
Archer Rockwell
When you called the other day
I picked up
I picked up right away
Your voice came burning down the line
When it landed, I was fine
All was fine
All was fine
The afterglow
The afterglow
I walked toward the western light
It was fading fast that night
And the wave came crashing right on time
When it landed, all was fine
I was fine
All was fine
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
When I got back to the parking lot
Some were there, although some were not
The year was turning in the meantime
When it ended, I was fine
All was fine.
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Early Birds
Archer Rockwell
In early morning
still framed in night
The scattered twilight
The awakening of life
Oh-oh, early birds
Sing, sing, early birds
A new day breaks
Your sweet song it ascends
In cool calmness
your melodies carry on the wind
Oh-oh early birds,
Sing, sing early birds
Ee-oh-lay oh my
your gentle song reminds
to listen with intention
and to always be kind
be kind
The bustling morning begins to settle in
You take off soaring
take care my early friends
Oh-oh early birds
Sing, sing early birds
Oh-oh early birds
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Blue Flower
Archer Rockwell
Please cut these silver hooks from me
I just don’t know what’s come over me
Right here under my skin
It’s loose and wearing too thin
Blue Ravina
We’ve talked now for hours,
but your reflection it always fades
In etchings of flowers,
you reflection it always fades
Won’t you come to comfort me
I’m a threat that wages suddenly
I don’t know why or how
Boss has got me down to drown
Blue Ravina
We’ve talked now for hours,
but your reflection it always fades
In etchings of flowers,
your reflection fades it always fades
Attractions tend to wane
Habits harden remain
Attractions tend to wane
Habits harden remain
Blue Ravina
We’ve talked now for hours,
but your reflection it always fades
In etchings of flowers,
your reflection it always fades
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Sunbeams
Archer Rockwell
I once lived my life in rhythm, in time
My affections guided the design
I truly thrived in wiry grass, in long pines
Trails worn by my direction redefined
The white was still there in my eyes
I hadn’t yet realized that I couldn’t be the same
I wouldn’t be the same
My freedom was free
It flowed down the Ochlocknee,
as Georgia sunbeams scattered through the leaves
The light shown on me, around azaleas, worker bees
The flowers they would help me oversee
The light was still there in my eyes
I hadn’t yet realized that I couldn’t be the same
I wouldn’t be the same
When you’ve found all you can find
No one left, nothing to remind
You can change direction if you try, if you take the time
Let me now apperceive,
Take me back to me,
to the place where I can let my freedom be
Now it’s clear to me
Home is calling me, wanting me to be the same
Oh telling me to be the same
Oh wanting me to be the same
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Have Hope
Archer Rockwell
You’re the sunrise whose rising never got noticed
You’ve new friends, it happens all the time
It’s the part of you that never ever gets opened
It’s the heavy weight, and you wish it could be lifted,
So that maybe then you could rest
Have hope, have hope, until you’re old or older
She’s the hummingbird
The little girl who comes to greet you
She pulls on her dress as she sits down at the table
She gives you a look, instructions not to give her
What attitude
She makes an expression, a simple suggestion
Have hope, have hope, until you’re old or older
Have hope to forgive, and sometimes to forget
Have hope, at peace within, with everyone
Have hope, have hope, until you’re old or older
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Bottle Games
Archer Rockwell
Cold bottle in may hand
sometimes I just ache for it
On a plane without a plan
to blunt the pain relived
I had the strength to withstand
all my mistakes back then
To halt a history that spanned
several years on end
I survived those days by just playing dead
by dwelling down in the darkest of the things I’d said
That’s when I needed you so badly as my friend
And I’m needing you more now than I did back then
These are the reasons we had to end
Bottle in may hand
sometimes I just ache for it
On a plane without a plan
to blunt the pain relived
I had the strength to withstand
all my mistakes back then
To halt a history that spanned
several years on end
survived those days by just playing dead
By dwelling down in the darkest of the things I’d said
That’s when I needed you so badly as my friend
And I’m needing you more now than I did back then
Oh this is why we can’t begin again