Quiet Flame

Caitlin Canty - Vocals, guitar

Chris Eldridge - Guitar

Brittany Haas - Fiddle

Sarah Jarosz - Octave mandolin, mandolin, banjo, vocals

Paul Kowert - Bass

Andrew Marlin - Vocals

Noam Pikelny - Plectrum guitar

Produced by Chris Eldridge

Engineered and mixed by Sean Sullivan at The Tractor Shed, Nashville, TN

Additional engineering by Jeff Crawford at Arbor Ridge Studios, Chapel Hill, NC

Additional editing by Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge and Diana Walsh

Mastered by Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, Los Angeles, CA

Lacquer cut by Jeff Powell

Photography by David McClister

Art direction by Fetzer Design

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY CAITLIN CANTY, QUIET FLAME PUBLISHING (ASCAP) EXCEPT, “BLUE SKY MOON” CANTY / PHILIPPE BRONCHTEIN, HIP HATCHET PUBLISHING (ASCAP); “SILVER SUNSET” CANTY / JAMEY JOHNSON, POLISHIT (SESAC); “WILD HEART” CANTY / ANNIE LYNCH, BUTTON FACTORY (BMI); “SEE THE DAY” CANTY / SEAN STAPLES, WESLEY PARK MUSIC (BMI); “ODDS OF GETTING EVEN” CANTY / MAYA ELIZABETH DE VITRY (BMI); AND "COME BY THE HIGHWAY HOME” CANTY / STAPLES, INCLUDES A LINE FROM THE ROBERT FROST POEM, "RELUCTANCE"

1. Blue Sky Moon

2. Heart of My Country

3. Pull the Moon

4. Salt Water

5. Silver Sunset

6. I Don’t Think of You

7. Wild Heart

8. See the Day

9. Odds of Getting Even

10. Quiet Flame

11. Come by the Highway Home

QUIET FLAME LYRICS

1. Blue Sky Moon

Blue sky moon on the rise

Stubborn light in a fading sky

Easy wind blowing

Caked in clay at the water line

Dusty branches hanging high

Riverbanks are glowing

Standing still in the river wide

Heavy current rushing by

I don’t follow where it’s going

Between two lines

In the middle of the road

Can’t pass me by

In the middle of the road

Gonna take my time

In the middle of the road

Rock in my tire keeping time

With the strobing light between the pines

My heartbeat finds the rhythm

Breakneck boy goes speeding by

In a hellbent race to some finish line

I ain’t going with him

Between two lines

In the middle of the road

Can’t pass me by

In the middle of the road

Gonna take my time

In the middle of the road

Standing still in the river wide

Blue sky moon on the rise

Stubborn light in a fading sky

2. Heart of My Country

It’s raining in Los Angeles hallelujah hallelu

Moonflowers open to breathe the night’s perfume

The city climbs the hillside just to see the color bloom

Petals turn a sidewalk stream jacaranda blue

Where is the heart of my country

Flying over Oklahoma fields and broken ground

Every mile cut up into squares of green and brown

Like a quilt unfinished like a fiddle singing a low and lonesome sound

See the land before black gold and heavy plow

Where is the heart of my country

Where is the heart of my country now

Golden skyway westbound highway birds in a church choir

The sun sets down in the grass like wildfire

Young horse runs at the fence line just to test his own desire

Plastic bags like prayer flags the wind caught on the wire

Where is the heart of my country

Where is the heart of my country now

Radio tower’s red light warning carried on the wind

In the shadow of the mountain a church bell’s ringing

From California’s burning forests to the New York island

Can you hear the chorus of voices asking…

Where is the heart of my country

Where is the heart of my country now

3. Pull the Moon

Sundown burns out a long day

Played it by the book it won’t swing your way

Wonder when it’s gonna get to the good part

Rolled your pennies paid your dues

Put your hard earned trust in fools

Night falls hard and heavy on an empty heart

Let it roll Let it ride

Let your sweet heart open wide

They’ll pull the moon out of the sky

Dam the river and drink it dry

You’re down to one headlight

Running headlong into the long night

Hear it come in loud and clear

Hold it high for many years

Til a bad hand trades you broken glass for your guitar

Now you catalog your sweat and tears

What got you there won’t get you here

The miles are hard and heavy in an empty car

Let it roll Let it ride

Let your sweet heart open wide

While they pull the moon out of the sky

Dam the river and drink it dry

You’re down to one headlight

Running headlong into the long night

Ride the river roads the blue highways

The heartland’s arteries and veins

To the darkest night pulsing with every star

Watch her light a quiet flame

She poured it out when no one came

Words fall hard and heavy in an empty bar

Let it roll Let it ride

Let your sweet heart open wide

They pulled the moon out of the sky

Dammed the river and drank it dry

You’re down to one headlight

Running headlong into the long night

4. Salt Water

I worked my fingers to the bone

Fingers to bone skin to stone

Trying to please you alone

I shoveled and cursed I shoveled black earth

The sweat and the dirt Only deepened my thirst

For you alone

Salt water

Tobacco guitar, nicotine dark

Tobacco guitar, red wine, cigar

Only cotton between White sails, white sheets

No cotton between two bodies come clean

For the salt water

Salt, salt water

I saw the heavy night fall

Every star fall

I heard them all in a cry in a call

Waning moon Down to a sliver

She dances alone A candle flicker

On the salt water

Salt salt water

What good is water you can’t drink

What good is love you can’t hold

Stare all you want out to sea

Salt water pours through the cracks in your soul

What good is love you cannot hold

I wrote an ocean of ink

To keep at bay oceans of ink

And what can words say

Some letters don't burn

Some lessons don’t learn

Oceans of ink have already been spilled

On this kind of love

On this kind of thrill

5. Silver Sunset

Waiting on the winter at the edge of the fall

Watching the summer leaves wither

Frozen memories hanging on the wall

That’ll be all he leaves with her

Think it might be best

To head your pony west

And fade into that silver sunset

Like an old movie star

Cutting a dark silhouette

Pulling on the embers of his last cigarette

What kind of man runs from the cold

Are you a fairweather lover

Who takes his direction from wherever the wind blows

All you ever had to do was love her

Think it might be best

To head your pony west

And fade into that silver sunset

Like an old movie star

Cutting a dark silhouette

Pulling on the embers of his last cigarette

Like some old movie star

Cutting a dark silhouette

Pulling on the embers of his last cigarette

6. I Don’t Think Of You

If I think of you

I don’t think of you for long

My mind’s inclined to drift

That muddy old river

Watch the memories flow by

I don’t try to catch one

Like a fisherman with his fly

I don’t think of you

If I think of you

If I hear your name

It won’t spark a flame

Won’t ignite the pain

A lit match don’t light again

Smoke in a ring

Curling and climbing

A kite that broke its string

Watch the memory fly

White cloud in a blue sky

I don’t think of you

If I don’t think of you

A heart cannot outsmart itself

It only knows the truth

I don’t think of you

7. Wild Heart

It was a strange land we were wolves in the night

Howling at the moon like we’d finally seen the light

It was a damp heat there was sweat on the air

We were pointing our noses to the wind when it was there

Ooo wild heart, wild heart

Ooo wild heart

Deeper into the dark we ran

Moon so low you could hold it in your hand

Call of our kin a forgotten prayer

Pointing our noses to the wind when it was there

Ooo wild heart, wild heart

Ooo wild heart

All the while hunger keeps us running

Never stop moving til the morning

Dawn will cut brighter than a new knife

Sharper than first light

Come the morning a cold sun breaks

The monochrome stars and shadow made

Birdsong takes up our cry

The world we knew slinks back into the night

8. See the Day

Finally slept straight on through the night

Feels so good to finally feel all right

Been telling all my friends I'm over you

Finally feels this morning like it's true

I was saying I was fine now I mean it

Was looking for tomorrow now I see it

The sunlight through the shades was dusty gray

I never thought I would see the day

I let myself give so much away

I never thought I would see the day

I'd walk all over town like a ghost

Haunting all the joints we loved the most

I always chose a stool that faced the door

just hoping I might see you once more

I never thought I would see the day

I let myself give so much away

I never thought I would see the day

Back home to sleep with open empty arms

Trying not to do any harm

Hearing what the night has to say

I never thought I would see the day

Now a baby’s crying wakes me in the night

He’s crawling down the hall in morning light

They all told me love could feel this way

I never thought I would see the day

9. Odds of Getting Even

What are the odds of getting even

What is the cost of dreaming

I’ve carried the cross of believing

Asking god for a reason

Counted the days I waited

Shuffling cards cleaning tables

If you’ve got a heart you’ve got to play it

You only feel it when it’s racing

Come the morning I’ll be leaving

It’s too late in the evening

To play the odds of getting even

There’s this field, I gotta find it

With a horse running wild

Every night I run beside it

Someday I’m gonna ride it

Out in the air out in the moonlight

You’ll be a flash in the back of my mind

Placing your bets watching the mud fly

Rolling your dice back on the sideline

Come the morning I’ll be leaving

It’s too late in the evening

To play the odds of getting even

You can hold it without showing

But the cracks will keep on growing

and I hear they don't let no one

Bring a grudge where I'm going

I don’t have time for crying

I might be falling or flying

I might be water or lightning

When I watch that gold sun rising

Come the morning I’ll be leaving

It’s too late in the evening

To play the odds of getting even

Can’t you feel the ground turning

Can’t you feel the hours burning

O the odds of getting even

Will no longer be my burden

10. Quiet Flame

for Billy Conway

Sitting here with a quiet flame dancing on the window pane

Dancing on the window

The fire beckoning

Can you see the moon tonight shining through the parted clouds

Bright enough to make a sound

The quiet deafening

Nothing’s gone

Only changed

All I gave to you

All I made with you

All the love we gave away

Is sitting here in a quiet flame dancing on the window pane

dancing on the window

Moonlight is nothing but a memory of a sunny day

Memory of a sunny day that keeps on shining

11. Come by the Highway Home

The line of the horizon stretches far as I can see