Name: Tower Of Babel
Duration: P00H04M20S
Description: special thanks to peter lawless for composing a woodwind arrangment for this tune... and to teri quinn, mark lauer and russell thorpe for performing it.

Tower Of Babel

from Technicolor by Claire and the Crowded Stage

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special thanks to peter lawless for composing a woodwind arrangment for this tune... and to teri quinn, mark lauer and russell thorpe for performing it.

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Love is a skittish bird, soon as you say the word that gilded cage won't seem like home. So I caught it with a song, the way I catch them all and when the song breaks how quickly it is gone...
I watched the sun it rose standing on my tiptoes to catch the moment when the day broke in halves as people live straining to love and give it's just another tower of babel falling

Love is a skittish bird, soon as you say the word it's flying any way the wind blows with no direction I play the smallest pawn and that is just the way that it goes...

My heart is aching as though I've lost something fine, I never lost you, I never lost you, you were never mine
The boughs are breaking from off the trees I sought to climb but I never lost you, I never lost you, you were never mine.

I caught her with a song, the way I catch them all and when the song broke how quickly she was gone...

credits

from Technicolor, released January 5, 2013
Artwork by Katy Guillen
Claire Adams: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Tiny Amp Feedback
Brent Jamison: Vocals, Piano
Peter Lawless: Accordion
Katy Guillen: Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Background Vocals
Katelyn Boone: Bass, Background Vocals
Teri Quinn: Clarinet
Jerod Rivers: Percussion kit
Stephanie Williams: Drums
Mark Lauer: Bassoon
Russell Thorpe: Bass Clarinet

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Claire and the Crowded Stage Kansas City, Missouri

Founded in 2011, the Crowded Stage is a genre-jumping eight piece based out of Kansas City, MO. Fronted by songwriter Claire Adams, the band brings her tunes to life with lush arrangements, diverse instrumentation, and a lil' quirkiness.

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