The Novelists

Chapter 8 // Ausut 2013 // I Remind You // No One Watching Us

Joel Ackerson – vocals and baritone guitar
Eric Andersen – vocals, piano and Rhodes
Megan Slankard – vocals and guitars
Zack Teran – vocals and electric bass

“I Remind You” and “No One Watching Us”

Produced by The Novelists // “I Remind You” was engineered by Megan Slankard at Frankengoose // Additional Engineering by Eric Andersen // Trumpets for “I Remind You” were engineered by Tony Cataldo // Piano for “I Remind You” was engineered by Tom Gordon at Imirage Sound Lab // “No One Watching Us” was engineered by Joel Ackerson at True Story Records // Additional Engineering by Eric Andersen, Megan Slankard, and Zack Teran // Additional guitars for “No One Watching Us” were engineered by JJ Wiesler at Decibelle // “I Remind You” and “No One Wathcing Us” were mixed by JJ Wiesler

Guest Musician on “I Remind You”

Tony Cataldo – trumpets

Guest Musicians on “No One Watching Us”

Justin Kruger – drums

JJ Wiesler – guitars

Trumpet arrangement on “I Remind You” by Zack Teran.

“I Remind You” ©℗ 2013 Eric Andersen, Megan Slankard & Joel Ackerson

“No One Watching Us” ©℗ 2006 Joel Ackerson

 

 

LYRICS

I REMIND YOU (Andersen, Slankard, Ackerson)

 

I remind you of someone
So you take me in your arms

And hold me in the dark
To see a spark

 

(You don’t know what to say) Your voice is never sure

(You can’t tell if you want to) Of that melody you heard

(Show me how to play along) So you won’t give me a part

(Or cut the part right out of your song) Or share the words

 

I had followed you on your way (I had followed you)
To throw yourself deep in the ocean (Deep into the ocean)

I swallowed gallons of water (Where it’s cold and…)
To make it too shallow to drown in

 

I remind you of someone else (I remind you of someone else)

But when you hold me to yourself (But when you hold me)

I don’t care what you call me
I don’t care who you think I am…
I don’t care what you call me

 

(I don’t know what to say) You bring out your canvas
(I can’t tell if I want to) And tell me where to sit
(Let you show me how to play along) What at first I thought was art

(And make me sing another person’s song) I’m just a counterfeit

 

I’d follow you on your way (I would follow you)

To throw yourself deep in a fire (Deep into the fires)

Where you could smoke out all of your demons (Where it’s lighter)

I’d put you out with that ocean I devoured

 

I remind you of someone else (I remind you of someone else)

But when you hold me to yourself (But when you hold me)
I don’t care what you call me
I don’t care who you think I am…

I remind you of someone else (I don’t care what you call me)

But when you hold me to yourself
I don’t care what you call me

I don’t care who you think I am… think I am (Think I am, think I am)

I don’t care what you call me

Don’t care what you call me

 

 

 

NO ONE WATCHING US (Ackerson)

 

Two kids kissing in the back seat, by a back road bridge over Butternut Creek

We’d pull off there, so dark and discreet, to hide

The hot revenge of the reprimand, was the way I felt when I held your hand

Lying there, we made our stand, and we closed our eyes

 

You were mine that night

Everything was right

For the first time in our lives

There was no one watching us

 

The fogged-up windows a testament, to the words we said and the things we meant

In the space that hovers around intent, we made our vow

Whatever the cost of the blessed burn, as we lay there quietly taking turns

Nothing short of a lesson learned could stop us now

 

You were mine that night

Everything was right

For the first time in our lives

There was no one watching us

 

Panic woke me from sleep, you told me later that I screamed

But I swear I heard a tapping on the door

Then I remember all the light, and something tearing me inside

Sudden fear like I had never felt before

 

Stepped out of the back and held up our hands, to five cop cars and an unmarked van

But they knew we didn’t understand, and they said, “You’re free to go

But under this bridge, a girl just died, cause we found a bag with a body inside

And we think the killer was here tonight, you’re luckier than you know”

 

…you were mine, you were mine

There was no one watching us

 

You were mine tonight, all mine

You were mine, you were mine

There was no one watching us

There was no one watching us