We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

Tracklist

• 1
  March Into the Sea
  3:30
  3.2 ★
• 2
  Dashboard
  4:06
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Fire It Up
  4:34
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Florida
  2:57
  2.9 ★
• 5
  Parting of the Sensory
  5:34
  3.6 ★
• 6
  Missed the Boat
  4:24
  4.0 ★
• 7
  We’ve Got Everything
  3:40
  3.4 ★
• 8
  Fly Trapped in a Jar
  4:29
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Education
  3:56
  2.9 ★
• 10
  Little Motel
  4:44
  3.4 ★
• 11
  Steam Engenius
  4:26
  2.6 ★
• 12
  Spitting Venom
  8:27
  3.5 ★
• 13
  People as Places as People
  3:42
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Invisible
  3:59
  2.5 ★

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Release credits

• Clay Jones
  acoustic guitar [6], engineer, programming [4], shakers [2]
• Dennis Herring
  Rhodes piano [10], background vocals [11], mix, organ [12], producer
• James Mercer
  background vocals [4, 6-7]
• Joe Zook
  engineer, mix
• Kyle Johnson
  programming [2-3, 5, 10, 14]
• Naheed Simjee
  background vocals [3]

Issues

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  We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

  CD
  20 March 2007
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  20 March 2007
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  CD, DVD-Video
  6 June 2007
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  2x 12" Vinyl
  2007
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  CD (Re-Release)
  28 August 2009
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  2x Vinyl (blue / orange)
  29 January 2016