Description
Welcome to your beautiful new road trip: Meet Me At The Edge Of The World. Whether you literally pack overnight bags and disappear with a prized companion, or just put on headphones and close your eyes, Over the Rhine’s sprawling, expansive new double album, full of rich harmonies and killer songs is guaranteed to open up new horizons. Here are the first five songs from the new double album to get you started on this journey. We are sure that once you begin the ride, you’ll have to discover the road that winds through all 19 songs on this magnificent project. Enjoy.
Credits
MEET ME AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
19 NEW SONGS
Produced by Joe Henry
Over the Rhine:
Karin Bergquist: Vocals, acoustic guitar, tenor guitar
Linford Detweiler: Vocals, acoustic guitar, upright piano (The Birds Of Nowhere Farm)
And the Band of Sweethearts:
Jay Bellerose: Drums and percussion
Eric Heywood: Pedal Steel, Electric and acoustic guitars, Hilo Weissenborn
Jennifer Condos: Electric hollow body bass and Earthwood acoustic bass
Patrick Warren: Upright piano, harmonium, chamberlin, autoharp, accordion and additional keyboards (Disc One & “All Over Ohio”)
Mark Goldenberg: Acoustic guitar, mandolin, gut-string acoustic guitar (Disc Two)
With special appearances by:
David Piltch: Upright Bass (Earthbound Love Song, The Birds Of Nowhere Farm)
Van Dyke Parks: Accordion (Favorite Time Of Light)
Aimee Mann: Harmony vocals (Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down)
LYRICS
DISC/ALBUM ONE
1. Meet Me At The Edge Of The World
(Bergquist)
One lone tupelo stood against the ironweed
The goldenrod that tamed our need
For something other than fear and greed
Meet me at the edge of the world
Expectations great and small
Unfettered us as I recall
From dreams we scaled before the fall
Into the lap of the world
Cold hard tied like rebar frames
Pale skeleton of the man remains
We’re floating checks and naming names
Paper airplanes to the edge of the world
But I remember that face
All the miles we misplaced
Leave behind all but one trace
And walk me to the edge of the world
That lone tupelo soon will be on fire
For all I know with God’s desire
As Autumn in Ohio spirals
Off of the edge of the world
Here we stand on cold concrete ground
‘Cause someone said they liked the sound
I’m thankful that they’ve hung around
But I’m craving the edge of the world
Is it time to disappear?
Oh babe, can we just get out of here?
You and me love and no one near
Walk me to the edge of the world
Meet me at the edge of the world
I’m waiting at the edge of the world
2. Called Home
(Bergquist/Detweiler)
Just shy of Breakin’ Down
There’s a bend in the road that I have found
Called home
Take a left at loneliness
There’s a place to find forgiveness
Called home
With clouds adrift across the sky
Like heaven’s laundry hung to dry
You slowly feel it all will be revealed
Where evening shadows come to fall
On the awful and the beautiful
Every wound you feel that needs to heal
And silence yearns to hear herself
Some long lost memory rings a bell
Called home
Old pre-Civil War brick house
Standin’ tall and straight somehow
Called home
Mailbox full of weariness
And a word of hard won happiness
Called home
Leave behind your Sunday best
You know we couldn’t care a less
Out here we’ve learned to leave the edges wild
And stories they get passed around
And laughter – it gets handed down
Read it in the lines around a smile
Our bodies’ motion comes to rest
When we are at last
Called home
3. Sacred Ground
(Bergquist/Detweiler)
Love me like a memory held too long
Like the need to feel some forgotten song
Kiss me to chills like there’s only me
Like it’s hard to kill the last cottonwood tree
Love me later when the stars fall down
A burning light for a wedding gown
They stole the blood right out of this ground
They’d still kick a flower when it’s down
CHO
Help me trace the scars on mountains
The sun that sets in a bloody fountain
Take me home and lay me down
On the hungry earth (Love me, love me)
On the sacred ground
Love me like the breath you held too deep
Like the need you feel to lay still beneath
Leave me with teeth marks on my skin
Like some holy spirit’s tryna get in
Love me like a rumor you can’t outlive
Like the deepest cut you’ll ever forgive
They stole my blood right out of this ground
They’d still kick a flower when it’s down
CHO
Help me trace the scars on mountains
The sun that sets in a bloody fountain
Take me home and lay me down
On the hungry earth (Love me, love me)
On the sacred ground
4. I’d Want You
(Bergquist/Detweiler)
If the moon fell from the sky
Rendering everything black and blue
I’d want you
I’d want you
If the swallows fell like snow
Tumbling tiny angels with wounds
I’d want you
I’d want you
I’d want you
I’d want you
I will lay my body down
When the storm is finally through
I’d want you
I’d want you
If my faith should ever fail
Faltering look what I dragged it through
I’d want you
I’d want you
If the music all went still
Enabling all my fears to come true
I’d want you
I’d want you
I will lay my body down
When the storm is finally through
I’d want you
I’d want you
I’d want you
I’d want you
5. Gonna Let My Soul Catch My Body
(Bergquist/Detweiler)
Gonna let my soul catch my body
My body make up my mind
Gonna let my soul catch my body
My body make up my mind
This world makes me weary
I’m livin’ here on borrowed time
Gonna pray the Lord free my spirit
The spirit gonna give a sign
Gonna pray the Lord free my spirit
The spirit gonna give a sign
This world makes me weary
Sellin’ me what’s never been mine
Now if I’m good to be my body
My body she’ll point the way
Now if I’m good to be my body
My body she’ll point the way
Oh these days they are numbered
I might not have too long to stay
Gonna lay out fine linen
Gonna make up my dyin’ bed
I’m gonna lay out fine linen
Gonna make up my dyin’ bed
If you call me sweet Jesus
I’m ready to lay down my head
Gonna let my soul catch my body
My body make up my mind
Gonna let my soul catch my body
My body make up my mind
This world makes me weary
I’m livin’ here on borrowed time
(Oh) This road makes me weary
I’m livin’ here on borrowed time
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