Time On Earth
[Deluxe Edition]
Original album released June 2007.
Deluxe Edition released November 2016.
2007 album (Parlophone & ATO Records)
Nobody Wants To lyrics
*Don’t Stop Now lyrics
*She Called Up lyrics
Say That Again lyrics
Pour Le Monde lyrics
*Even A Child lyrics
Heaven That I’m Making lyrics
A Sigh lyrics
Silent House lyrics
English Trees lyrics
Walked Her Way Down lyrics
*Transit Lounge lyrics
You Are The One To Make Me Cry lyrics
People Are Like Suns lyrics
2016 Deluxe Edition bonus disc (Lester Records & Kobalt)
She Called Up (home demo) lyrics
A Sigh (home demo) lyrics
Here’s A Note (studio demo) lyrics
Purple Light (studio demo) lyrics
So Dramatic lyrics
Stare Me Out (alternative version) lyrics
Distance Across (studio demo) lyrics
Lost Island lyrics
Stare Me Out lyrics
Bound To Rescue (home demo) lyrics
Don’t Stop Now (home demo) lyrics
Won’t Be Silent (home demo) lyrics
People Are Like Suns (piano version) lyrics
Neil Finn: Vocals, guitars, Wurlitzer, piano and vibes
Nick Seymour: Bass, backing vocals, autoharp
*Mark Hart: Piano, keyboards, electric guitar and harmonies
*Matt Sherrod: Drums (bvs on track 3)
Original album produced by Ethan Johns, except ‘Don’t Stop Now’, She Called Up’, ‘Even A Child’ and ‘Transit Lounge’ produced by Steve Lillywhite. ’People Are Like Suns’ produced by Neil Finn and Nick Seymour.
Artwork by Nick Seymour.
See further credits in the LP and CD booklets.
The Making of Time On Earth
The Making of Time On Earth (EPK excerpt 2007)
Collaborators (EPK excerpt 2007)
Audio: An introduction to Time On Earth: Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, talking to Crowded House Deluxe Editions co-producer Jeremy Ansell in 2016.
“I had a song called Time On Earth which went through a transition and ended up not being a song that made the grade, but the song title just came back to me when we were examining our state of mind, probably in the shadow of Paul [Hester]’s passing to some degree but also as we get older. The idea that we have a transitory state we’re in and that you have to be here. There’s a lot of very simple and eloquent philosophy based on the principle of being where you are in the moment and I think it’s just another way of evoking that idea and as a band, so no time like now to inhabit this earth.
Overall I think Paul is a strong presence on the record and it’s not often really obviously literal, but there is definitely an underpinning of both sadness and reflection and hopefully some degree of reverence and honour paid to him as well. It was a profound event in our lives and will always be deeply mysterious in a sense. We miss the little bugger, so yeah, he’s all over the place.”
Nick Seymour talks about the concepts for the Time On Earth cover art.