Released: 2018

Label: Velvet Blue Music

Produced, written and recorded by Rob Withem

Mixed by Bob Hoag at Flying Blanket Recording

Mastered by Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room

Sleeve by Rob Withem, photo by Greg Markov

Fine China is Rob Withem, Thom Walsh, and Greg Markov

Additional musicians were Jonathan Withem and Bob Hoag

01 Anybody Else

It’s not hard to go anymore
To the places that were hidden ‘hind the door
It’s not hard to go anymore
But you’re bleeding and your face is on the floor

I don’t know how to make the most of all this time

It’s not warm outside anymore
And we’re breathing and we’re resting from the war
It’s not comfortable to describe
And you’re holding back some tears behind your eyes

I don’t know how To make the most of all this time

And if you feel like anybody
And you want to find the pearl
Don’t you live in everybody else’s world
And if you feel like anybody
But you got no place to go
Don’t you feel it’s like the arrow not the bow
And if you feel like anybody else

02 The Light of Spring

I walked into the house
I was met with all the faces
They were smiling
I had a hard time letting go
Of all the burdens of the day
They were laughing

I woke up in the night
I was crippled with a dread
I felt like dying
I saw you in my bed
You were beautiful, alive
A cloud with lightning

And all I really needed you to say Is that you are with me

I know we’ll be together
I know we’ll see the light of spring
On the faces of all our young
I know we’ll be together
I know we’ll hear the bells of morning ring
And quiet my heart again

03 Featherweight

I never wanted
Everybody everywhere
To put eyes on me
I never walked the
Hills or walked the coast before
But I know I’m lost

And I never found a reason to let you down
I never found a place to fuse the bone

I always wanted
Everybody everywhere
To think well of me
I never lost those
Fears, and all the years
Are catching up with me

And I never found a reason to let you down
I never found a place to fuse the bone
And I never found a reason to let you down
And will I ever find my way back home?

04 Miles Out

In my wildest dreams I never thought
That I’d ever be
The one to stop

You told me you feel Like an islander

But I’m miles out Miles out
But I’m miles out Miles out

On my morning walk I had a thought
Everything I want
Already got

You told me that we
Should take some time away

05 The Hymnal 1982

We found all of the bread inside
A locked cupboard
On which we pried
It fell open
And we were filled
With the body of Christ
And we weren't ill

But I want more
But I want more

I was a boy
Without sleeves in the night
You were the sword
And you cut through my life

I was always
the faithful son
But I dreaded
The judge and gun
I was dying
My bones were thin
But you fed me
And let me in

But I want more But I want more

I was the lamb
I was bloody and bruised
You were the lion
I was hunted by you

06 Feel Not

You cruise the the wind
And here you go
This is the high and low
You cruise the the wind
And here you go
all night

It’s never fun
Or excellent
To be the one outside
It’s not a nice
Or elegant car ride

And you’re wasting
Everybody else’s time
Without no care
Don’t you feel not
Don’t you feel so not

And you’re waiting
For your television set
To come alive
Cause you feel not
Don’t you feel so not

We found a place
And here we go
We found a light that glows
We found a place And here we go
Outside

07 Mindful

Upon last night
I saw you
All simple and true
You don’t have to
Break the bank
You don’t know if I do

But I don’t know
Don’t know how not
To be so mindful
Mindful

You can’t help bury the pulse
Because it hurts like hell
Hurts like hell
I can’t tell up or down
Because you cast your spell
Cast your spell

Upon the morn
I found you
All delicate and pure
I was only
Half myself
I wasn’t really sure

08 Iron Is Your Love

I know you look at me
You think that I’m alright
I know that you don’t see
That I can’t sleep at night

But there’s naught that I can say
And there’s naught that I can do

‘Cause I’m falling down the mountain of a lifetime
I’m drowning in the bottom of the sea

I woke up yesterday
Before the sun was up
I thought of everything
That I could never stop

But there’s naught that I can say And there’s naught that I can do

‘Cause I’m falling down the mountain of a lifetime
I’m drowning in the bottom of the sea
And I’m looking out the window of my tower
It’s wilderness as far as I can see

09 Not Thrilled

It’s a funny thing to be alive
It’s a golden day and you’re outside
and you feel the knife
I was listening when you said calm down
And I tried my best to bend this frown
To send in the clowns

I don’t want to lie in the dark
Don’t want to die in the night
And I found a place
But I don’t know how I can be so bright

Every mouth is smiling
Every heart is filled
I will be not thrilled
Every body built
And every hand is skilled
I’ll never be so thrilled

It was yesterday when you arrived
It was hard to smile and more to cry
And I felt the knife
And I never meant to make you feel
So all alone when you were ill
I was not strong

10 Can We Forget About the Nightmare?

And I love you
We’re barely scraping by
And I know you
You feel like you might die

Can we forget about the nightmare of the last year?
Can we forget about the sadness and displeasure?

And I told you
We’re never eye to eye
And I lost you
Early, is it any wonder?

Can we forget about the nightmare of the last year?
Can we forget about the sadness and displeasure?
Can we forget about the nightmare of the last year?
Can we forget about the questions and the answers?