"TELLING TIME" aka "Can You Not See?" - The Avett Brothers in Tampa

The Avetts play a song that has yet to make the cut on any of their albums


As of summer 2009, Scott Avett noted they'd titled this song "Telling Time" (see My Old Kentucky Blog videos on Vimeo)
"Can You Not See
what you've done?
You gave your heart away like that.
I didn't want to fall, fall in love with anyone, but you did.
I can still hear the songs, the melody behind the kiss you gave me
You were wrong
I was right
So I walked away

And met you there, alone
I got so tired of talking on the telephone
How many times would we say those words "Goodbye"?
I made mistakes, and one,
was telling you that I'd be there
when telling time had come
I should have said that I won't be there
But all the time I could have saved
if I had been less willing to accomodate
You'd have been a little less likely to cry
You go back to the high life,
and I'll go back to the low
I should have known.
But now I know,
There'll be no word from you
describing how it felt to go through
what I put you through
It all makes perfect sense
The way you cut the rope
that kept you dangling from such pitiful amounts of hope
I would have cut it, too..."



Skipper's Smokehouse
Tampa, FL
12/8/07

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Avett
• Brothers
• TAB
• Tampa
• Skipper's
• unreleased
• blind
• Cut the rope

[michinspirado]

one of my all time youtube vids! Thx Ang, for this and all your other exquisite TAB vids from around the country. Here's to possibly the end of the front row seat/intimate venue era!

[angischy]

I'm so happy for all their success, yet selfishly a bit sad. We'll have to work on getting pit privileges, for life!

[michinspirado]

i just keep watching, and listening, and watching and listening, and watching and listening, and watching and listening, and watching and listening, and watching and listening, and watching and listening, and watching and listening, and watching and listening

[stigandr5]

I'm looking forward to this song being on CD.

[okojama]

i'm well impressed by these guys, love every single song .

puts a big smile on my face, and makes my heart bloom.

[matt0sauer]

they had a free download of this song when they performed at the pop machine laundro matinee studio on their website last summer, along with the song 'late in life'

[TABrmayes]

Scott and Seth if you ever read this please put this on a live album or the next gleam. It's just to ggod for me to not have it on an album that I can listen to whenever I want.

[TABrmayes]

I really wish they would put this on an album! maybe it will make a live album!

[justingarman]

Maybe the next Gleam?

[eviekling]

Exactly

[bullitt90]

so short but so meaningful....

[angischy]

It's unreleased, not on an album, but the play it occasionally.

[iam46moe]

They played it this past Friday at HOB in Orlando but I don't think they play it much or something. This is the only video I've seen of it on youtube? Any traveling fans that have seen this regularly?