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The Ancient Sea EP, 2019
The sky is falling out into the ocean
The stars are tumbling down
One by one they start to drown
And I sit in this house Atlantis frozen
And I could cry out loud
But I've made braver vows
But not all mermaids learn to swim like you
And in nature chances are few
Chorus
And you lost your nerve in a graceful verve
No one could save you
You left your crown and your shining gown
In the ancient sea
You took me to your grave
You were barely sleeping
Dreamless as the moon
On a blameless ocean
Time after time, and the ragged will
Venus and Jupiter let the heavens spill
Chorus
Bridge
I awoke to the sound of waves
On a far off shore
On a raft made of mermaids’ tails
And an open door
Chorus
Live Video, 2020
Roses bloom in pink and white
And the petals are veined and thin
Like skin in the early springtime light
While the moon is sleeping in
After whisky and gin
After whisky and gin
I woke after a frozen sleep
My limbs were tight and sore
Oh and how I did weep
For the tales I’d see no more
But dreams aren’t made to keep
No, dreams aren’t made to keep
Chorus
And I dreamt of home and the moon and stars
And the weather and the snow
And I found a land that I forgot
Was buried far below
Like a story book that comes to life
In the flicker of a child’s eye
Time passes in a zoetrope
And I watched it all spin by
Oh I watched it all spin by
Picking at the seams of an old worn dress
Save the fabric for later
To sew something I’ll never make
But I guess it’s always safer
‘Cause you never know
When you need to fix things as they grow
When you need to fix things as they grow
Oh the snow came down on the daffodils
But the daffodils stood strong
And it buried them but three feet deep
While the winter carried on
Stubborn, sad, and strong
Like it had never gone
Chorus Repeat
Live Video, 2020
The day you recovered was the day you felt alive
When you rose from the ash you nearly crashed but you survived
We walked in the rain under a sky that sometimes lies
And uncovered the heart that your body left behind
And all the time the leaves turned
To umber and cyanide
Throw seeds to the wind
And some of them will fly
Into the mouths of swallows,
And songbirds in the sky
And some of them will bury
Themselves too deep in the ground
Where Persephone will eat them
And Hades will confound
Her heart
And I can paint trees and I can paint birds
And sometimes I can even paint the abstract and absurd
But somehow I can’t even say the holy written words
That allow me to return to ashes and earth
And all the time the trees
Are whispering your birth
And some seeds will settle
And form a sprout and grain
And grow into the child
Of the seed that comes again
And some of them will drift
Into a cave high on a hill
And hibernate as long
As they can till summer will
Claim them again
Release them still
And watch them scatter
You can’t do much
No you can’t let it matter
Because Seasons change
Even faster
Than the sorrow can blame you
For the time you took after
Some will reach the ocean
And float to a great land
Saved from the fishes
By a kind sailor on the strand
But some of them will stick
Inside the palm in your hand
And glisten like the stars
As they grow to demand
Your heart
The Ancient Sea EP, 2019
Build me a boat and I’ll sail to the moon
And I'll capture the sea for me and you
You take starboard and I’ll take port
And you’ll never drown in the ocean blue x2
Oh make me some wings of feather and twine
And I'll fly to the stars for me and you
But don’t use wax, and don’t use glue
Or we’ll learn a bitter fate that only Icarus knew x2
Oh plant me a tree in a meadow green
And every year it’s leaves will sprout anew
Frost will come, frost will go
But Spring shall come again and bring the morning dew x2
Oh give me a ring of silver and gold
And I'll hold your hand my whole life through
You’ll promise me, and I’ll promise you
But you’ll never know if you don’t ask me to x2
Oh dig me a grave, and make it deep
For when I finally sleep, I’ll wait for you
And we will sail just like we planned
There’ll be two more stars in the infinite blue x2
Ghost Letters from the Sea, 2010
Over and under hill
You will be searching still
In meadows made of stone
Are where these seeds are sewn
Chorus
And no you’ll never know
Unless you search high and low
For golden apples grow
In places that you would never think to go
And if you find one take it home
It’s yours and yours alone
So spin from it a golden thread
To wrap around you when you’re dead
Chorus
With your own slight of hand
Bury yourself in the sand
And wait for the rain to come
And deal with your deeds undone
Chorus
And no, you’ll never know
When it’s your time to go
But if you reap the seeds that you sew
Your golden apples will never grow
Second Sun EP, 2012
The briar grows so tall
Now you're far away and the garden mourns
The thorns protect your form
From the wind and the rain and the ruby dawn
But when the sun goes down and the Yew tree bends and sways and breaks
Will your soul awake with a fire in your belly and a piercing ache?
Did you know your heart when you took that pen and you signed your name?
And now you will depart never knowing if you'll be back again
And now you've fixed your fate
You're bound to the fate of your pack and gun
Purgatory waits for you untamed soul in a setting sun
And no, the bells won't ring
For the common man in Canaan's Land
Your history's long gone
Like a beating heart held out in your own hands
Life will this impart when the circle makes it all around
You never know your part till your body is buried under ground
And now you've fixed your fate
You're bound to the weight of your unborn son
Willed in hope and grace still you're traveling on with your song unsung
And no, the choirs don't sing
For the common man in Canaan's Land
Your history's long gone
Like a beating heart held out in your own hands
I Wish, I Wish, 2017
I once knew a boy with the face of a May morning
So bold and sweet and charming at the first, at the first
He took my hand a guided me through forests bathed in starry dew
And there we’d meet the morning with the lark
There we’d meet the morning with the lark
Oh he professed to me that I was his one true love
Such mesmerizing sweetness was his gaze, was his gaze
He took my hand and walked with me through meadows of the deepest hue,
And there he’d meet the Devil in the dark
Chorus
Butterflies and thieves are but one in the same
They’ll blind you with their beauty and then steal from you again
And then they’ll fly to freedom, leave you sorry and alone,
Touched by the devil and no one to call your own
And when the moon shone brightest against a velvet sky
It cast a terrible image on this place, on this place
For when the shadows formed they revealed to me the truth
This charming boy had pointed horns to mark
Chorus
Bridge
Never fall in love with the devil’s son
He’ll bind you and unwind you until your heart is stone
He’ll leave you cold and ruined, and unable to love
Until you meet him on your dying day
Chorus
Ghost Letters from the Sea, 2010
Some people they go to India to find their inner peace
And others they go to Thailand and places so far from this land
But where I loved the most were the fields I grew up in
Far out between the border hills and the valleys
Where history is so old yet from father to son the same stories are told
Whilst walking the winding path across the Long Mynd
And some people turn to religion, and some people go it alone
And others they have each other to call their home
But where I find my soul is in the blades of grass
Which grow from the richest soil in the land
Where castles center towns that keep the same old market square
Where the people still congregate on occasions
And now I climb bigger mountains and the valleys are so wide
And the rivers are laced with cabins of the Gold Rush kind
And cliffs overhang lakes that are deep as they are wide
And the hawk circles round and around every morning
And where I loved the most
were the fields I grew up in
Far out between the border hills and the valleys
Where people and places and names are all intertwined
And sound like they come from the same page of the story
I Wish, I Wish, 2017
In the river she lies, Ophelia
While the willows and the boughs conceal her
The fish and the fallow deer do mourn her
And kiss her frozen brow to thaw the winter
The sweet and the ragged rue the heart brings
The sallow words of love on broken strings
The promises of keepsakes and kinder things
Are figments in the wind as the final bell rings
Chorus
Dive deep down as the water sings
And keep your frozen heart safe for finer things
Dive deep down into the river
When you’re bound to yourself you cannot falter
They sing of lullabies and boys in blue
But never of goodbyes or the law of two
The moth and the butterfly will both claim you
Till you’re swimming in the dark between the old and the new
Chorus
The Ancient Sea EP, 2019
I have lived under the waves
A hundred years or more
How many lives I’ve saved
For which I’ve seen a thousand more
Sink to the ocean floor
For I was young and silvery gowned
The current clear and bright
But the frightful tides and watery graves
Writhed in the shadowy night
Till you were in my sight
Chorus
And no, there is no doubt
That you can’t breathe out
If you can’t breathe in
And no, there is no doubt
You can’t scream and shout
When you can’t breathe in
Then I walked upon the land
Trapped by human hands
Till I unearthed my secret coat
And swam back to the ocean floor
A servant maid no more
And I tried to save you
When your ship went down
But I was weak against the storm
She took you without a sound
Chorus
Bridge
Life is long and salt-crack scarred
The sea so far away
You couldn’t tame my gentle touch
Or hide my skin to make me stay
Verse 1 repeat
Chorus
Live from the Rockwood, 2015
Snow falls upon the river
Cold and clear and bright
On a crisp and frozen night
A long way from home
And this reunion is bitter sweet
You’ve seen it in your mind
In the book you seek to find
With it’s title unknown
Chorus
And your story will carry on
When you’re broken
And your words won’t weigh you down
Just because you spoke them
And your bones become the paper pages
When you release them
You’re bound by flesh and bone no more
Oh and it’s a test of courage
When you feel that mortal bite
Weighing down your perfect flight
Like you’ve leaden bones
Oh but if you can deliver
Without a fuss or a fight
With a calm and gentle might
Then you’ll make it home
Chorus
Ghost Letters from the Sea, 2010
Do you know, when a star falls
A flower grows in its place?
And when the garden is full
The sky will be an empty place
Bridge
And somehow I know if I glitter and glow
It won’t keep me from falling
In the star signs, a bow and arrow is mine
And I will shoot before I think
If you go, then I’ll go
Find a feather and a pail of ink
But if you move like a hummingbird
I can’t stay still long enough to think
And how could you tell
That my stars were unwell
When you moved them out of place
You switched them around, so far from the ground
That the constellations changed
Chorus
And I can’t move them back
For if I do they’ll crack
And gravity has changed along the Milky Way
Bridge
And this I have learned
Is that stars are just stones all bathed in light
And the spectrum will fade, so this time we’ll say
That it just worked out all right
Chorus
The Ancient Sea EP, 2019
Is it something I said
That made you resent me somehow
I know that I’m cold
And fell farthest from the bough
It takes me three lifetimes
To get where you do in a year
And it’s always snowing
In in my atmosphere
But don’t take me for a stationary comet
Or satellite that fell out of orbit
Oh you decided that you couldn’t stay
And somehow you’ve changed your ways
And I know I’m a planet now
Is it something I did
To make you fear me so
I know that I live
Inhumanly far below
So far from the sun
And the warmth of it soothing touch
But even in darkness
I know what it means to love so much
But don’t take me for a lonely moon
Or a piece of a star dead too soon
Oh you decided that you couldn’t stay
And somehow you’ve changed your ways
And I know I’m a planet now
Oh spin me around and around
Don’t keep me buried under the ground
Spin me, spin me around
Oh spin me around and around
Don’t keep me buried under the ground
Spin me, spin me around
Second Sun EP, 2012
In this life you’ll learn a lot
Some intended, some forgot
And in this life you will learn pain
For it will come time and time again
And we’ve become just like the wolf
We hunt and prowl, and prey engulf
We hunt and howl, “Oh, flesh beware,”
Still we’re all afraid of the bear
Still we hunt and kill
Stealing from law and will
So keep me now for I am done
I’ll never find your second sun
In this life, you will know war
Nothing like what came before
And in this life you will learn love
But it won’t come from above
Under tree and root and leaf
Confined to Hades for disbelief
But you won’t burn and you won’t die
You’ll eat fruit not sanctified
And I would choose to be
Underground with burr and seed
Oh, keep me now for I am done
You’ll never find your second sun