1. |
Seaside
04:35
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Seaside
You can see her sipping wine
Beneath the old town tavern sign
Cross her palm with silver and
A fortune she’ll deliver
Counting each and every wave that breaks here
Each and every wave
Along the seaside by the seaside
By the seaside, by the sea, on the sea shore
Cuttlefish bones
Shellfish stones
Driftwood, glass
And crab claw carcass
Un-amusing game machines
Froth and foam and carton cream
Greasy chips with vinegar
Water here it’s not so- clear
Cuttlefish bones
Shellfish stones
Driftwood, glass
And crab claw carcass
Bottles thrown wash in wash out
Kids and dogs chasing about
Sea gulls scraping, feet are dangling
Teenage kicks and couples- hanging out,
Along the seaside by the seaside
By the seaside, by the sea, on the sea shore
Cuttlefish bones
Shellfish stones
Driftwood, glass
And crab claw carcass
Deck chair Frisbee families
With wind-breakers and flasks of tea
Seaweed, nets and wires twining
Oily bathers on their towels- reclining
Cuttlefish bones
Shellfish stones
Driftwood, glass
And crab claw carcass
Rock pool fossil barnacles
Beers cans for BBQ’s
Skyline scraping blue to grey
Now smoke-ring billowed clouds turn into rain
Along the seaside by the seaside
By the seaside by the seaside by… (continued in background)
She sells seashells and ice-cream cornets, plastic buckets
Picture postcards, Mr Punch, rock hard candy-floss and gum
Coffee served in polystyrene,
Kiosk coupons donkey riding,
She sells seashells on the seashore
Cross her palm with silver and
A fortune she’ll deliver
Counting each and every wave that breaks you
Each and every wave that breaks you
Each and every wave
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2. |
Somersaults
04:18
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Somersaults
Under this blue
Back somersaults
Who would miss me?
And why so much?
Keep staring up
Keep drifting out
Who would miss me?
And know my touch
Under this blue
Blue
Under this blue
Blue
Waving
Diving
Into this deep
Head back and kick
Tight to a ball
Head back
And fall
Keep turning
These summer
Summer somersaults
Waving
Diving
Into this deep
Head back and kick
Tight to a ball
Head back
And fall
Keep turning
These summer
Summer somersaults
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3. |
Summer Again
04:51
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Summer Again
Come with the morning girl
Salt resting on your eyes
This summer brings you now
This summer brings you right out loud
Right out loud
Into the sea return
Until we both become like shadows
On the morning sun
It’s summer again
Summer again
Summer again
Summer again
Lead me where the ocean meets the land
Let me understand
Lead me there come take my hand
Lift me
Oh lift me
From the sand
Seagulls and kites collide
Seagulls and kites divide these skies
Until the tide comes in
Until the tide comes in and over
My feet my toes my ankle bones
And now I know
I know, I know I’m home
It’s summer again
Summer again
Summer again
Summer again
Lead me where the ocean meets the land
Let me understand
Lead me there come take my hand
Lift me
Oh lift me
From the sand
Come with the morning girl
Salt resting on your eyes
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4. |
And May It Be
04:07
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And May It Be
And may it be so it may be
And may it be so it may be
This kiss, this mist
This dust of choice
This ghost, this myth
This void, this voice
This voice
And nothing costs as
As much heart does
And nothing costs as
As much as loss does
And may it be so it may be
And may it be
And may it be so it may be
And may it be
This kiss, this mist
This dust of choice
This ghost, this myth
This voice, this voice
And hidden deep
And hidden long
Revealed in sleep
Answered in song
And nothing costs as
As much as loss does
It’s been a long, long day
It’s been a long, long day
And may it be so it may be
This kiss, this mist
These dusts of choice
This ghost, this myth
This voiceless voice
No more to dread
No more to weep
No more to tread
These worn down feet
No more to fear
To fear no more
No more, no more
And may it be
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5. |
Restless
04:35
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Restless
Wherever it is that your head lies?
Restless as the spray that blinds you
Restless as the swell that twists you
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
Restless as the spray that blinds you
Restless as the swell that twists you
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
I fix no lock upon my door
The candle wax filling up the floor
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
Restless as the spray that blinds you
Restless as the swell that twists you
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
Restless as the spray that blinds you
Restless as the swell that twists you
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
Your children look for a hand to rock them
A voice rolling in with songs to sing them
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
Don’t sell today to buy a tomorrow
Don’t sell today to buy a tomorrow
Your children look for a hand to rock them
A voice rolling in with songs to sing them
Wherever it is hat your head lies
We keep breathing out and drinking in and around we go again
I fix no lock upon my door
The candle wax filling up the floor
Wherever it is hat your head lies
We keep breathing out and drinking in and around we go
And round we go and down
Restless as the spray that blinds you
Restless as the swell that twists you
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
Restless as the spray that blinds you
Restless as the swell that twists you
Where ever it is that your head lies
Tis not on this pillow beside me
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6. |
Stone's Throw
04:57
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Stone’s Throw
I’m a stone’s throw from nowhere
Pick any one and cast it high and long
I’m a stone’s throw from nowhere
Lean back into the breeze and spin it on
I’m a stone’s throw from nowhere
And no one knows the place where I belong
I’m a stone’s throw form nowhere
This beach I sit upon I can’t call home
This beach I sit upon I can’t call home
This beach I sit upon I can’t call home
Hey yeah, hey yeah
Hey yeah, hey yeah
Hey yeah, hey yeah
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7. |
Selkie's Song
04:29
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Selkie’s Song
So won’t you please turn me again?
Turn me again
To you
So won’t you please turn me again?
Turn me again
To you
This skin it won’t fit like it used to
These bones they don’t hold it so well
In too many ways I’m a stranger
And it’s a stranger who warms you right now
But darling remember before you care to regret
That song dark and wild, this skin soft and wet
Bride of the water ocean’s silk child
Well there’re times and there’s tides
And there’s days she’s got to hide,
She’s got to hide
Oh this skin it won’t fit like it used to
These bones they don’t hold it so well
In too many ways I’m a stranger
And it’s a stranger who warms you right now
Oh this skin it won’t fit like it used to
These bones they don’t hold it so well
In too many ways I’m a stranger
And it’s a stranger who warms you right now
So won’t you please turn me again?
Turn me again
To you
So won’t you please turn me again?
Turn me again
To you
(Skin it won’t fit…)
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8. |
In The Cold
04:51
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In The Cold
And I can’t say when
You grew so dark so cruel
Can’t say when – don’t care how
All of our Decembers - deciphered
Can this winter last much longer
Days get any lighter?
We’re just done trying
Done trying
The dog outside’s still barking
And anyway who’s fighting?
Now it’s our voices raised,
Like banners
Out in the cold
In the cold
Out in the cold
In the cold
And everyone who wants you
Can have you more than welcome
Your song it’s not my problem someone else can hum along
And I won’t be missing -second guessing
Nothing concealing
Not one frozen feeling
We’re just done trying
Done trying
The dog outside’s still barking
And anyway who’s fighting?
Now it’s our voices raised,
Like banners
Out in the cold
In the cold
Out in the cold
In the cold
In the cold
Out in the cold
And I can’t say when
And I don’t care how
Out in the cold
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9. |
Fall Into You
04:29
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Fall Into You
Take me under
Underneath the covers
Of this blanket so cruel
I fear no other
Save the lonesome hourglass
My body clings to
And I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall
Into you
And I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall
Into you
I hear you only
As this dark envelopes’ me
Enfolding me slow
Breathing shallow
Echoes of a great whale sighing
Stealing me home
I am no longer
I am no stranger to this bed of sinking
Drawing me under
Under these covers of your, restless dreaming
Rocking me, rocking me
Into the swelling ecstasy of every
Sailor who made you their lover
And I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall
Into you
And I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall
Into you
Take me under
Underneath the covers
Of this blanket so cruel
I fear no other
Save the lonesome hourglass
This body clings to
And I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall
Into you
And I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall
Into you
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10. |
Until The Snow
04:21
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Until The Snow
Dogtooth coat, digging that hole,
To climb down, to climb down, to climb down until
Singing only one song, a hymn of separation
A ragged refrain been winding from day she left him
Hmm, hmmm
They keep waving their bitter flags with no surrender now
He’s seeing signs and symbols here of older winters walking
Knuckles white and reeling, far too sharp, too loud this crowd
With nothing left just fragment shards of postcards lost and found
Hmm, hmmm
So we’ll play and we’ll play
And we’ll play these chords
Until the snow, until the snow
And we’ll play and we’ll play
And we’ll play these chords
Until the snow
Where now lies the man?
Where now lies the ghost?
Where now lies the lover?
Where now lies his thirst?
Where now lies the fire?
Where now lies the fool?
Where now lies the liar?
Where now lies his truce?
Where now lies the coward?
Where now lies her head?
Where now lies the future?
Where now lies a friend?
Where now lies the man?
Where now lies the ghost?
Where now lies the lover?
Where now lies his thirst?
But we’ll play and we’ll play
And we’ll play these chords
Until the snow, until the snow
And we’ll play and we’ll play
And we’ll play these chords
Until the snow, until the snow
And we’ll play and we’ll play
And we’ll play these chords
Until the snow, until the snow
And we’ll play and we’ll play
And we’ll play these chords
Until the snow
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11. |
Turning The Day
06:09
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Turning The Day
This rizla’s ash, this pay-cheque spent
Vacant guesthouse, cold park bench
Cast a thousand stones to sting this sun
A thousand stones ripple down upon her
Wading uneven
From the shelter of sand dunes
Losing these shallows
Chasing the light
Chasing the light
Chasing the light
In empty lots along the quay
Cruising for company
Salesmen return from sea
Their widows are not waiting
Now they’re dodging the seaweed
Tangling round here
In a playground of shadows
Chasing the light
Chasing the light
Chasing the light
This rizla’s ash and pay cheque spent
Dishwater coffee and unmade bed
Cast a thousand stones to sting this sun
A thousand stones ripple down upon her
Wading uneven
Shelter of sand dunes
But I’m losing these shallows
Chasing the light
Chasing the light
Chasing the light
Turning the day
I am not afraid
Gonna cast that rock into the sea
Repercussions reckoning
Turning the day
If only space and time would bend
Just to see your face again
Myth’s eroding, somersaulting
Grinder and that monkey falling
Rizla’s ash and pay cheque spent
Just to see your face again
If only space and time could bend
I would count these waves again
If only space and time could bend
I would count these waves
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12. |
Ghost Of A Reel
01:39
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Rachel Taylor-Beales Wales, UK
Singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist whose music meets on the crossroads between folk, roots, blues and jazz...
Described as “Musically exquisite and enthralling.” BBC Radio 4 / "Exceptional" Folk Radio UK and "Outstanding" BBC Radio Wales /
"Excellent and Original' Folking.com
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