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the water (2016 mix)

by windows to sky

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about

a very old song

lyrics

The water's edge is outside the town
We tread upon it lightly
We can see the lighthouse from every point of view
in the city
Our children play along the beach
As if they weren't frightened
Our parents watch the sunset, thinking
There's more they should be doing

And when there's no one around
We press an ear to the ground

It's lapping at our fleeting shores
It's washing away the sand
Where we stand,
To the water.

The water falls upon our backs
It gets hard not to look behind us
Half a billion years of evolution
And still it seems to haunt us
We spend our days as dry as we can
Then we shed our clothes and swim, a little
We've built the buildings, we keep appointments
And still find time to wonder

And when there's no one around
We might sink down to the ground
It's laughing at our bolted doors
It's indifferent to the pain
It's all the same,
To the water.

The water's edge is outside the town
-- We tread upon it lightly.
We can read the writing on every building
Dispensed with equanimity
We lose one another from time to time
I'm sorry, but it happens
And if we return, we don't recognize it
The change comes far too great and when there's

No one around
We dig our heels into the ground
It's singing your forgotten words
It's whispering what we lack
In coming back
To the water.

credits

released December 4, 2019
Joseph: guitars, piano, vocals, cello drone
Kat Elwynn Devlin and Jessica Ng: vocals
Burning Dan: didjeridoo
DJ Sally: upright bass drone
Daniel: bass
Mystic Pete: cellos
Larissa: violin loop
rY: brass
Patrick D'Arcy: uilleann pipes

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windows to sky Los Angeles, California

Three-part harmony, layers of guitars, flugelhorn, violin, glockenspiel, the crispness of modern digital editing and the scratch of an old 78.

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