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Somewhere That You've Been

by The Ocean Floor

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Clifton Stuckey
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Clifton Stuckey I thought Falling Star Castle was a great album, but this collection of almost forgotten songs, ranging from precious to surreal to inspired pop, are even more impressive. I've been listening to this album for several days straight. Choosing a favorite track is almost impossible. This album should be enjoyed as a whole. Favorite track: Your Legs Have Grown Too Long.
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1.
In the park I stopped at a tree Built to hold together temporarily I had to thank it for covering me Questionably, but willfully When I travel, wherever I go I hold these parcels that only I know Afraid of one falling out through a hole Or the highway patrol So the rock cannot roll The best it knows how, this tree covers me I think the thoughts I was thinking at three I sleep inside my warm memories Unquestioningly, and willingly When the hail falls, it shaves the treetops like it were a saw And the bark starts to fall And down it will come, cradle and all And then when I wake I've misplaced all my dear memories I've forgotten my name And I find it hard to believe That there ever was a tree That remembered so crumblingly In this thing I only now call me And revealed to me everything that I see
2.
I turned to face what wasn't up to me All these tries before I couldn't believe logically What I would find through every inch that I could be Could vaporize me Wasn't up to me All this breeze through the eucalyptus trees Calms my buzz Pluck the feathers Stretch the fuzz Breeze won't stir Through the pine and juniper Burn my skin Press the petals Walk Again Thank the Meadows Talk Again With your eyes closed is the only time In which you'll have a chance to find Your mind
3.
Listen, Mittens! I've got a ton of money On which goose is gonna lay a ton Which one they're gonna cook And which one watches all the fun I can shout commands and make demands Take my carpet by the hand Flying will be easy But we'll have to land I'm loved by everybody My coat is soft and full And I'm playing with the cat My neck gives me a sudden pull My best friend's out the door and down the street The rescue wasn't quite complete I'm feeling kinda nervous And I'd like to eat Don't worry about me I'm already free Free as candy... The worst that could happen The bark of a tree Brought to its knees... Until the blanket's pulled up to the chins of everyone in town, We're not sleeping when we're at home safe and sound And as I float above the center of the sleeping sea I wish that someone from somewhere was singing this to me Until the blanket's pulled up to the chins of everyone in town, We're not sleeping when we're at home safe and sound And as I float above the center of the sleeping sea I wish that someone from somewhere was singing this to me Carry me away from all this subtle "hostile'tality" Give me a carpet soft and wide and free I guess I'll notice when all the water comes up to the roof They'll be a puddle forming all around inside of me But I can't see the florist for the bees And you can't pass the carrots without "please" I thought they feared us But we feared them the most We're peppered, they're scrambled We're toast! Our spirits floated Left their earthly host Blown around by splashing winds emitted from the coast Was I in an accident Do I have any broken bones Did someone call my mom Is there someone or am I alone Was it a dentist that I hit I've asked you this before Probably asked you this all night... But was I in an accident Do I have any broken bones Did someone call my mom Is there someone or am I alone Was it a dentist that I hit I've asked you this before Probably asked you this all night I won't ask anymore I'm sorry I'm such a bore I'll just show me to the door...
4.
Found my way to the attic through a hole in your wall Looking for trouble, as I told you, was all Hiking past plastic fir trees and paper volcanoes What I didn't expect to see was a tiny tornado Tied up with wool that you carefully spun Were letters you wrote that you read to no one Now nothing I knew you to know could hold up a candle Never would you say a word when you flew off the handle I believe you but I can't tell you Just like me, that's how your parents taught you They took you and no one was a witness They saw you and thought you were a princess When you came back to Earth you had nothing to say If you tried to explain they would take you away But I think if I practice I'll figure it out Close my eyes and I'll see you describing the route There's a star, it's farther than heaven It's where you are And it's somewhere that you have been When I'm awake, I'll have to have a witness But I saw you and you looked like a princess
5.
The wind can make even shadows blow So watch what sweeps your feet The moon can make any lady know If your heart means to cheat I know you're grown and so you know... You'll never find out who'll be true Not even with a ring But blindly trust like children do Allow your heart to sing For when you give up on someone... And never ask for someone's love It is the greatest gift Don't validate why it should come It's rather like a swift For when it sings and flies away...
6.
Fix my eyes, hypnotized, I found out I realize... That diving board, diving board there's a place for you in dreams You answer to the water's call beneath the sunlight's beam And diving board, diving board when I'm too scared to start You're the match that lights the spark beneath my driftwood heart If I see someone who I feel is looking through My soul and makes a bee-line for my eyes I dart from the fire manifesting a choir And I climb to the procession that applies Spring has come again And fall's the only end It's the only place I know of to begin When I was young my mother took me to the place where I was born Dug up her wedding dress and blindly pointed fingers scarred with scorn Then threw it at my head and asked me, "How could you have gone so wrong? The costume couldn't fit and the life that goes with it And It's not because your legs have grown too long And you know I'm never wrong." But diving board, diving board Your life is but a dream That takes me where I'd love to go Beneath the sunlight's beam Oh and swimming pool, swimming pool I'll meet you when I'm through This long and lonely day of work I'll rest inside of you

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These were the songs sung by a foursome that will probably never sing them again. To me, singing these songs was a joyous and collaborative moment in my life. I was so happy to be surrounded by such talented human beings that I let my fear of losing them and the thoughts of all the better things I thought they could do - sans me - sometimes get in the way of the immediate joy I know we all felt. The quartet that performed these songs (2009 - 2011) is luckier, however, than many other live iterations of The Ocean Floor in that someone stepped up to make sure these songs were documented before they slipped out of our hands' memories like so many other songs have before. Thank you, Bob Schwenkler and Dub Narcotic Studios for saving these old songs from a sinking ship. I think they sound a little better with a couple of years on them. And lastly thank you to my mother for gracing the cover of this short album. The picture is a still from an old home movie of the trip in which she moved from Ohio to Florida (where she has lived for the past 58 years). I'd like to dedicate this collection to her and hope she'll enjoy listening to it with fond memories of the past.

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released July 9, 2013

Lane Barrington: guitar, vocals
Shannon Rose Steele: violin, vibraphone, vocals
Holland Andrews: clarinet, vibraphone, vocals
William Wienert: upright bass, vocals
recorded and mixed by Bob Schwenkler and Ephriam Nagler @ Dub Narcotic - Olympia, Washington
mastered by Daniel Miller in Portland, Oregon

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