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Sea Level Astronomy

by Blisses B

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1.
Montevideo 03:25
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Blisses B – Montevideo There is a heart that beats so hard, Three feet or less a common yard It wasn’t yours or mine or better than There’s rarely time to miss a friend It’s OAK to SFO A water way to hang a mistletoe So sing the songs your mother sang Ring the bells your father rang I couldn’t tell what was tried Living our lives on the side They’ll be a year in the night Where nothing of worth will survive Why not just chase the own Paying back on the loan The Argentines cross a bay Given the time I’d have gone Don’t you stay Or delay Well defined and often tried The center ring the tie that binds Do we decide on evermore Or meddle on to even scores Angel Isle to Treasure Is. Sir Francis Drake the claim of dibs Inverness of Scottish lore Tomales Bay to Bolinas Shores I couldn’t tell what was tried Living our lives on the side They’ll be a year in the night Where nothing of worth will survive Why not just chase the own Paying back on the loan The Argentines cross a bay Given the time I’d have gone Don’t you stay Or delay I wasn’t always wise 140 Miles The banks of the River Plate In the city across the bay There is a heart that beats so hard, Three feet or less a common yard It wasn’t yours or mine or better than There’s rarely time to miss a friend It’s OAK to SFO A water way to hang a mistletoe So sing the songs your mother sang Ring the bells your father rang I couldn’t tell what was tried Living our lives on the side They’ll be a year in the night Where nothing of worth will survive Why not just chase the own Paying back on the loan The Argentines cross a bay Given the time I’d have gone Don’t you stay Or delay
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Well Lit Plan 03:51
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Blisses B – Well Lit Plan I promise you were singing the same song As if everyone around in love weren’t wrong I could never tell you beforehand We all have our reasons and well lit plans I could never write on the right days They’re never the version you complete with peers Why not just define all the right years We could be affirming your lower gears The land would appear We are what we fear What was the right year Love as a new cheer When everyone else moves What will we all do I can divide them You can provide when That was the last bend Together we ground them I promise you were singing the same song As if everyone around in love weren’t wrong I could never tell you beforehand We all have our reasons and well lit plans The land would appear We are what we fear What was the right year Love as a new cheer When everyone else moves What will we all do I can divide them You can provide when That was the last bend Together we ground them
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Weapons Grade 02:33
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Blisses B – Weapons Grade It wasn’t heaven sent White lightning or Weapons Grade Even if we pull a punch It will read as a lover’s hunch Even if we get it right You decide on what’s wrong and right I lift like a dungeon gate You jump like a barricade I am the oldest of olden times You can’t be everything all the time We are the youngest of that divide They don’t resemble what we were like There’s an olden term Use to block like an ocean berm It relied on an open fate Now we sink like a sailor’s name When will it all return Lack of and a spotty perm Civilization’s plan Technologies golden graham I am the oldest of olden times You can’t be everything all the time We are the youngest of that divide They don’t resemble what we were like It wasn’t heaven sent White lightning or Weapons Grade Even if we pull a punch It will read as a lover’s hunch Even if we get it right You decide on what’s wrong and right I lift like a dungeon gate You jump like a barricade I am the oldest of olden times You can’t be everything all the time We are the youngest of that divide They don’t resemble what we were like
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Side Hug 03:18
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Blisses B – Side Hug I’ve termed well, it wasn’t like that There was a time This old heart is beating harder Downed power line When we prove above all else That there is a prime We can behoove in earnest Theo and Muir’s Mind Even if it wasn’t on time This was what’s meant of a life I couldn’t decide on what’s right Do we ever portray it at night? When we all testify Do we pretend to suffice? Given the standards today We can improve on its size Immerse one’s self as if deliberate Learn a trade Tie that cause to one another Absurd yet brave Focus polls a line drawn Roads less paved Tuolumne to Mariposa, Madera engrained Even if it wasn’t on time This was what’s meant of a life I couldn’t decide on what’s right Do we ever portray it at night? When we all testify Do we pretend to suffice? Given the standards today We can improve on its size I’ve termed well, it wasn’t like that There was a time This old heart is beating harder Downed power line When we prove above all else That there is a prime We can behoove in earnest Theo and Muir’s Mind Even if it wasn’t on time This was what’s meant of a life I couldn’t decide on what’s right Do we ever portray it at night? When we all testify Do we pretend to suffice? Given the standards today We can improve on its size Even if it wasn’t on time This was what’s meant of a life I couldn’t decide on what’s right Do we ever portray it at night? When we all testify Do we pretend to suffice? Given the standards today We can improve on its size
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Figurative Light 03:34
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Blisses B - Figurative Light As I reach back I can hear this well Nettled socks host a moonlit wealth Wild chasms of pioneers You were promised a proven sphere I can’t beat back What’s the gross? When relied on A maven host A chosen course is a line less drawn Science hosted a map forced dawn Yorba Linda to Diamond Bar An L shaped route of directions pared I can’t beat back What’s the gross? When relied on A maven host And we will Divide our time Defend our friends Designer crimes We could devise Plans that provide Despite reproach Strengthen ties We’ll all sing it like a friend again Your heart hoping is an open end We can all approach with heavy guise A prime example, or a mammoth spine
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Years In The Evening 01:54
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Blisses B – Years In The Evening I heard these bells rings so loudly that night I could tell you in time like I told you I might I could see you As load bearing season Time spent with me Is like years in the evening Why try so hard when you’ve known all along We could tell you in time Or reserve it in song I could see you As load bearing season Time spent with me Is like years in the evening If I get it all back There’d be lines calling treason Time spent with me Is like years in the evening I heard these bells rings so loudly that night I could tell you in time like I told you I might I could see you As load bearing season Time spent with me Is like years in the evening If I get it all back There’d be lines calling treason Time spent with me Is like years in the evening
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Tenné 04:07
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Blisses B – Tenne I was born upon a hill Where farmers wrote and read their will It was never quite that far All hearts design a star Let’s get wise let’s tell it well Define your heart and decide your wealth We can tear it from the wall I do believe in you Even if I get wise Or believe in an olden time I knew it well Relief from a nickname The Ark versus the son of Shem There will be time when we get on To grow or impede the sun It was lying on shore Within the years of yore I’ve seen friends divide their spine The lower half was resigned to crime It was all such a bore I do believe in you Even if I get wise Or believe in an olden time I knew it well Relief from a nickname The Ark versus the son of Shem I was born upon a hill Where farmers wrote and read their will It was never quite that far All hearts design a star Let’s get wise let’s tell it well Define your heart and decide your wealth We can tear it from the wall I do believe in you Even if I get wise Or believe in an olden time I knew it well Relief from a nickname The Ark versus the son of Shem Even if I get wise Or believe in an olden time I knew it well Relief from a nickname The Ark versus the son of Shem
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Sea Level Astronomy 02:52
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Blisses B – Sea Level Astronomy When there’s time We’ll walk downstairs to an open field To view the sky With a child’s eye It’s hard to tell But way far left is a holy grail It’s a lonely host or a past cosmos In just two years You gave way to Archimedes peers That old heart Was a Slavic bard When we prove Beyond all doubt that we can lose These grains of sand like a sojourn plan That’s fine and I should say A line drawn from far away Sea Level is fine It’s hard to debate with blind eye We can see from afar really what we want from a dark star It is hard on one’s self to be a judge of a light sky Travel farther along and you can tell me that I might Be one Takes times Two light years When there’s time We’ll walk downstairs to an open field To view the sky With a child’s eye It’s hard to tell But way far left is a holy grail It’s a lonely host or a past cosmos That’s fine and I should say A line drawn from far away Sea Level is fine It’s hard to debate with blind eye We can see from afar really what we want from a dark star It is hard on one’s self to be a judge of a light sky Travel farther along and you can tell me that I might Be one Takes times Two light years
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Living Trust 02:45
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Blisses B - Living Trust I’ve tried to tell it all back as wise If it’s wild, why won’t grow outside Alone at night you took a turn to side With a lonely tact, given the circumstance We were just lifelines and living trusts More than just, hardwires and others lust I can rush, proof what we need as us More than just lifelines and living trusts Wealth of design you took a chance in skies Price per pound let you define those lies When a line is drawn we absorb all surprise Left to act you peddled off thus spracht We were just lifelines and living trusts More than just, hardwires and others lust I can rush, proof what we need as us More than just lifelines and living trusts We were just lifelines and living trusts More than just, hardwires and others lust I can rush, proof what we need as us More than just
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Epoch 03:54
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Blisses B – Epoch We heard the call It could be the reason that tried this at all We won’t dissolve Please don’t just divide it by itself or not at all On your own As it should be Pleasant tones As it could be Wild and Free That’s how it should be Grain and plough Everything we need When we find control Practicing compassion through a lens of the bold A tiger’s growl Is older than Primorsky and the dive of a fishing owl On your own As it should be Pleasant tones As it could be Wild and Free That’s how it should be Grain and plough Everything we need I’d save an honest working day To divide the plans you had in mind We could believe in what we should Or decline the invitation blind We heard the call It could be the reason that tried this at all We won’t dissolve Please don’t just divide it by itself or not at all On your own As it should be Pleasant tones As it could be Wild and Free That’s how it should be Grain and plough Everything we need I’d save an honest working day To divide the plans you had in mind We could believe in what we should Or decline the invitation blind

about

Sea Level Astronomy is the third full-length album from Blisses B. The release this fall is the culmination of more than a year of songwriting, recording, and producing, intertwined with regular live performances. The San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic folk quartet completed the album with support from their loyal fan base through a Kickstarter campaign.

Sea Level Astronomy centers on the theme of what appears to be underdog perspectives and the unexpected findings those perspectives can produce. A vantage point that appears limited by physical location and mindset is very capable of feats on an epic scale, such as a sea-level observatory discovering a Jupiter-sized planet. Considering possibilities from other perspectives than our own can have a profound impact on art, music, stargazing, anything.

Sea Level Astronomy was recorded in the Spring of 2014 at Stout Recording Studio in Hayward, CA and mastered by John Golden at Golden Mastering in Ventura, CA. Blisses B is Noah Libby (vocals, guitar, mandolin, banjo), Benjamin Keegan (keyboard, guitar, mandolin, vocals), Evan Bautista (drums, percussion), and James Touzel (bass, vocals).

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released September 23, 2014

Music by Blisses B
Lyrics by Noah Libby
ASCAP 2014
www.blissesb.com
blissesbmusic@gmail.com

"It’s been three years since Blisses B put out a full-length record, but by the almighty power of a Kickstarter campaign, their new album is here! Sea Level Astronomy is ten tracks of gloriously balanced lyrical elements and body-rockin’ rhythms blessed by the rock gods...Their sound? Imagine Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors and the Naked and Famous had a love child. In “Weapons Grade,” the mandolin is making love to your ears and the bass is making your heart flutter. “Side Hug” perfectly blends the drums, guitar, bass and vocals together resulting in one masterful rock anthem. Vocals center on the theme of considering multiple perspectives and the profound, and the songs titles accurately depict the mood of each song. Sea Level Astronomy is definitely an album to play on repeat."
-- Performer Magazine


"Folk/psychedelic/alt-rock quartet Blisses B have a new LP out, one full of bouncy melodies, undaunted optimism, and dance-inducing rhythms. Entitled Sea Level Astronomy, the band was inspired by the realization of how seemingly limited perspectives, like an observatory placed at sea level, have the potential to achieve great things, like discovering a Jupiter-sized planet. It is this belief in the overlooked power of perspective that drives the positive energy pulsating throughout the record.

From the funky eponymous track to the laid back groove of “Weapons Grade,” Blisses B guarantees that each song on the album will jangle around your brain for days on end. Opener “Montevideo” is particularly seductive with its charging tom-tom drumbeat, exuberant chorus and killer bass line. It’s a style that recalls musical influences as varied as TV On The Radio to Phish to Blitzen Trapper."
-- The Bay Bridged

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Blisses B has pioneered a sound that is all their own using a medley of acoustic and electric instruments in dynamic ways. Their motto: We will see you down at the shore, in your canoe, and give you the push you won’t admit you need.

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