Get your copy of Rising Tribe's debut album, Back to the Water, featuring original songs by Tiffany Gassett. It's available now, both as a digital download (singles and the whole album) and as a CD for our more traditional fans (visit the Buy Music page to purchase the songs). We hope all who listen to us live can recognize some of the fan pleasers, such as "Think," "In Pain" and "Walking Song."
FYI: You can hear some of the songs off this album as well as a few from the second album (in process) on the Music/Video page. You can also here samples of every song on the album by visiting the Buy Music page which links to CD Baby and iTunes.
* Note: For more information on the follow up album, Land of the Free, click here.
Back to the Water (2008) album information:
Click on the following links or simply scroll down the page.
Back to the Water songs:
- Walking Song
- In Pain
- Broken
- Six O'Clock
- Think
- Back to the Water
- Come and Go
- Montana
- No Hard Feelings
Back to the Water album credits:
All songs written by Tiffany Gassett
Rhythm guitar and vocals - Tiffany Gassett
Violin - Clara Kebabian
Drums and percussion - Joe Willis
Bass guitar and guitar on "In Pain" - Brian Silver
Piano, organ, pedal steel, mandolin, and banjo; percussion on "Montana"; guitar on "Broken" - Steve Buzzell
Violin on "Broken" and "Six O'Clock" - Larry DeJong
Banjo on "Six O'Clock" - John Rawlings
Organ and rhodes on "Think" - Soni Armstrong
Upright bass - Lee Whalen
Irish whistle and bagpipes - Tom Childs
Flute - Kenny Wenzel
Co-produced, recorded, and mixed by Brian Silver at 9B Studio in Milford MA
Mastered by Bob St. John at PDQ Productions (MySpace page) in Miramar FL
CD design and front and back photography by Tom Rhinelander
Black and white photo of band on CD insert by Nichol Gonzales
Special thanks to Brian and Bird
Walking Song
As I was walking in the snowWIth my hands in my pockets so they wouldn't be cold
I have no certain place to go
So I look at the scenery as I'm kicking stones
I see some people pass me by
And my feet feel heavy and my mouth is dry
But since I have you on my mind
I forget all my troubles and I feel just fine
You melt the snow
You carry me home
You let me know
I'm not alone
Though I still have a ways to go
'Til I reach where I'm headed and I'm on my own
I know that deep beneath the snow
There's a place where in time I'll see the flowers grow
I know that in you I have found
Such a place that I feel as I have been before
It's you who plant them in the ground
It is I who admire them forever more
I'll watch them grow
But it's unknown
If I may ever
Carry them home
In Pain
When I find myself longing for more I'm reminded that I should be gladFor I have come along way from before and I've more now than I've ever had
I may walk alone but I know where I'm going I just don't know how long it will be
You cannot create love when someone has a pain like the one inside me
I'm afraid by the way that things go that I'll never get my chance to say
All the things that you really should know but you must play the cards the right way
I have already learned that it isn't my turn I just don't know how long it will be
You cannot create love when someone is in pain and I know you must be
When I'm thinking alone to myself I envision that I'm in her place
I'd be able to live with myself I'd be able to look at your face
I may walk by your side I may follow your stride I just don't know how long it will be
You cannot create love when someone is in pain no there's no room for three
But I know you and you're not untrue and I never would ask you to be
You cannot create love when someone is in pain no your heart must be free
Broken
I will hold a place for you in my heart if it is not brokenI'd forget how far we are apart if I had a token of your love
I have been so strong all this time though no words were spoken
And I closed every door inside so yours could stay open
You know I won't be leaving your side while you keep me hoping
So I'll hold a place for you in my heart if it is not broken
I would not feel so all alone if you were alone too
But when we say good night and go home I know she'll be with you
I would not have let myself fall if I'd known the real truth
But when you help me stand back up tall I though I had real proof
You loved me too
You I will not keep holding on if you do not want me to
But I would d not feel so all alone if you were alone too
Six O'Clock
It's six o'clock and I'm wishing you'd callYou probably won't be responding at all
I really should not be depending this way
But it's my only hope at the end of the day
It's seven o'clock and I can't call you first
I might be intruding I think of the worst
You're probably enjoying your own company
Not here all alone like the fool that is me
It's just one more night that I'm here all alone
It's silly that I really think that this phone
Could bring me that feeling that only you bring
That only I feel when the telephone rings
It's eight o'clock and I hear the phone ring
And something inside me is beginning to sing
I answer it only to find it's not you
I go back to doing whatever I do
It's nine o'clock and the longer I wait
I know you would never be calling this late
If I could just talk for a minute to you
At least I would feel you were seeing me through
It's just one more night that I'm here all alone
It's silly that I really think that this phone
Could bring me that feeling that only you bring
That only I feel when the telephone rings
It's now ten o'clock and I can't get to bed
I'm tossing and turning and thinking instead
If only you'd called you'd keep my love alive
Instead I'm unsure as another day dies
Think
I've found a new way to live for I am trying to find peace of mindThere's nothing that's better than when life reminds you there's not much time
I feel could fly away although I don't even have any wings
But then again who's to say it ain't so
I like to think about these things
I opened the door to the world when I stopped thinking what the future would bring
And I closed the one that was telling me I couldn't have everything
If I knew of all the things I want I'd think about how to get them
And then when I called them mine you know the reason for my want I'd forget
So think of the joys that are in your view even if there's only some
And take it all in as it comes to you and one day it will surely come
If we are expecting all the things that we suppose life is to bring
Then we will forget the true meaning
I like to think about these things
Back to the Water
All souls are journeying on the same trailSame things to learn same things to teach
All of the lessons are written in braille
Feel to the touch, touch what you reach
All life was born when the ocean was free
One way to flow no hints of land
All of us one day were washed from the sea
Broken apart pieces of sand
Back to the water
Back to the flow
Back to the water
Let yourself go
Each bird is saying a different thing
Voices of truths not in our view
Each has a different message to bring
Open your eyes, sing along to
Some tell you of what the future may hold
One day we knew the language they speak
Some tell you stories of past days of old
When we were once fragile and meek
Back to the water
Back to the flow
Back to the water
Let yourself go
Come and Go
We're going away on a long tripIt hasn't been easy here living like this
I've waited so long and I've needed you so
Now the best is to come and it all comes and goes
This is the first time we'll be somewhere unknown
We'll still hold inside all the things we can't show
But somewhere we know where the words are not spoken
That the best is to come and we all come and go
Where do we go from here
Where have we been
How do you hold on strong
To something that's not in your hand
When we're flying over this land that we roam
Just look to my eyes to see the story they've told
And all those to come as the future unfolds
For the best is to come and it all comes and goes
We're going away on a long trip
I might have to kiss you but not with my lips
You've given me wings to set free a lost soul
Now the best is to come and we all come and go
Where do we go from here
Where have we been
How do you hold on strong
To something that's not in your hand
We're going away on a long trip
It hasn't been easy here living like this
I've waited so long and I've needed you so
Now the best is to come and we all come and go
Montana
He has been riding down an old roadOut in Montana where the hills roll
And it's been such a way he's come
On the back of a stallion
But his traveling isn't done
So he heads for the setting sun
He has been riding down an old road
Where he envisions all the days of old
It is barren and it is bare
But he likes it so much out there
In the stillness where life is fair
He is breathing a different air
He rides a trail that is all his own
He has been riding down an old road
He is the child of an old soul
And he carries the wounds that have healed
But he searches for what is real
Anything that can make him feel
And you know he's the kind who feels
He has been riding down an old road
Straight through the winds and through the hard cold
That's the way that it's always been
When he feels it against his skin
He can shelter himself within
Where a fire has been burning
He rides a trail that is all his own
He has been riding down an old road
He has a story that is untold
But he hasn't the need to talk
Of the road that he's made to walk
For he's always been like the hawk
Who looks down as we all look up
No Hard Feelings
When I know you don't need me you will put out my flameThere will be no hard feelings it?s myself who's to blame
Even if you deceive me when you play in my game
There will be no hard feelings it's myself who's to blame
I'll tell myself I told you so
Then I will hang my head down low
It was within my knowledge you might put me to shame
There will be no hard feelings it?s myself who's to blame
You won't need to apologize I shouldn't complain
There will be no hard feelings it's myself who's to blame
I'll tell myself I told you so
Then I will hang my head down low
When it comes time to choosing if you leave or remain
There will be no hard feelings it's myself who's to blame
For if I'd known I'd lose you I'd have loved you the same
There will be no hard feelings it's myself who's to blame
I'll tell myself I told you so
Then I will hang my head down low
I'll tell myself you should have known
Then I will have to let you go
