Track listing

1. "Are We Feeling Comfortable Yet?" (Rowe, Taylor) - 3:15
2. "Bottle Rocket" (Bach, Palacios, Rowe, Taylor) - 3:43
3. "Coffee Can" (Palacios, Taylor) - 3:44
4. "Revelation" (Bach, Rowe) - 3:46
5. "What Does It Take?" (Rowe, Taylor) - 4:09
6. "Babble On" (Palacios, Rowe, Taylor) - 4:26
7. "Blue Light Special" (Bach, Palacios, Taylor) - 2:43
8. "Break Me Down" (Palacios) - 3:40
9. "The Water Is Fine" (Palacios, Taylor) - 2:45
10. "My Queen Esther" (Palacios) - 3:47
11. "Hell to Pay" (Palacios, Taylor) - 3:22
12. "Fear the Auctioneer" (Palacios, Taylor) - 2:56
13. "Harder Than It Seems" (Rowe, Taylor) - 4:15
14. "Salvation" (Bach, Palacios, Rowe) - 3:58

Song Meanings

• "Coffee Can" was written by guitarist Tony Palacios and was inspired by a recurring dream his mother had shortly before she died of cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . In the dream she was trying to fly to heaven on a coffee can, but couldn't get it more than a foot or two off the ground. "The dream image became a metaphor for the futility of trusting in one's own strength, and consequently a metaphor of the deep need for grace".
• "My Queen Esther" and "What Does It Take" deal with the easing of burdens at the foot of the cross for "those who labor and are heavy laden."
• The title cut, "Bottle Rocket," (a 90's version of "This Little Light of Mine") is an encouragement to live out your faith in view of the world.

Personnel

• Jamie Rowe
  Jamie Rowe
  Jamie Rowe is the lead vocalist of the Christian hard rock band, Guardian. He is also the lead vocalist for power pop band, The Ruled...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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• David Bach - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
  Singing
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• Karl Ney - drums
  Drum kit
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• Tony Palacios
  Tony Palacios
  Tony Palacios is the lead guitarist of the Christian hard rock band, Guardian. Palacios joined the band in 1989 and has remained with them since, releasing nine studio albums, including three in Spanish....
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  

Guest Musicians

• Eric Darken - percussion
• John Painter - theremin
  Theremin
  The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...
  
   on "Bottle Rocket", strings on "Bottle Rocket", mellotron
  Mellotron
  The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
  
   on "My Queen Esther", "Hell To Pay" and "Bottle Rocket", keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   on "Fear The Auctioneer".
• Russ Long - tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  on "Babble On"
• Shane Boyd - poetic recitation on "Blue Light Special"