1. |
Keep Swimming
03:52
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Keep Swimming
The sea’s on the rise
over the wall.
Her fingers gone numb
undone they fall (one by one)
ah ah ah ah
ah ah ah ah
The calmer the breeze
The lights are green
The sharper the freeze
The less overseen
ah ah ah ah
ah ah ah ah
She held back the tide
She blew it away
And all but her shoes
were left in the bay
Keep Swimming…
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2. |
Crash
04:34
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Crash
Truth be told there’s quite the fight here
Undercurrents night after night
after night in
melting roads there’s
no sense stalling
what’s foretold
You crash,
everybody lands now
Hold hands edge back
never cross blind
faith will tell you
overtake but
build a human chain of glances
countdown, hardline
all it takes
You crash
everybody lands down
You crash
everybody lands
Close the door and lock the windows.
Notify your next of kin.
Cower under a patchwork blanket.
Never ever let light in.
Truth be told I like the debris
Severed hands and mangled feet
Folded rusted metal cages
Symbols of our earth’s defeat
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3. |
Like Rain
02:31
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Like Rain
Like water, like rain
you gather pools, in your palms
The flood falls on the land
You dam the flow, in your hands.
Swim and turn and twist and dive
Skull and float and miss and lie
Like water, like rain
it’s cleaning, streets again.
the streaming, riverrun
Your heart pulled, to the ocean
Swim and turn and twist and dive
Skull and float and miss and lie
Like water, like rain
it spells out, a name.
and vowels bounce
aff the roofs, the tide turns
rough to smooth
Swim and turn and twist and dive
Skull and float and miss and lie…
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4. |
Laundry Song
02:54
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Laundry Song
I think of you both, when I’m pairing the socks;
how one folds into the other
and how if you were a raffle and folk were drawing lots
you’d give them all out the same number.
Your kindness is leaving the earth and the feeling is hearth
and the home is a cave.
We remember you both sketching up the hillside
the sunset blazing away
your hiking boots rotten, your hunger forgotten
in the colours and lines of the day.
Your kindness is leaving the earth and the smoke goes on
curling right up to the sky. It curls in a Y
And weeks spinning by of not hearing a word,
you were climbing in a desert of snow.
Then the one thing we heard, was a kite like a bird
flying low, to let us know
Your kindness was leaving the earth and the grieving
is hearth
and the home is a cave.
Your kindness was leaving the earth
and the smoke goes on
curling right up to the sky….
And if you were a raffle and folk were drawing lots,
you’d hand them all out the same number.
I think of you both when I’m pairing the socks.
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5. |
Sydney, Walking
04:31
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Sydney, Walking
Let’s go, for a walk.
Underground where folk
can’t see and keep close quarter.
Walk slowly, down to the water’s
edge.
In time, you’ll go slowly out of your mind
In time you’ll sh…
Let’s stay, out late
Let’s take, a reprobate
Let’s tie them to the pier,
watch the water rise and they disappear.
In time, you’ll go out of your mind
In the end you’ll be twisted around the bend
Never say, I didn’t warn you.
Never say, I didn’t tell.
Let’s go, for a ride.
There’s a river mouth, that’s open wide.
Wide open, to the quays
let’s go now,
you and me
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6. |
Loch Dan
03:54
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7. |
Charcoal Wings
05:28
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Charcoal Wings
He woke up, late again.
Scurried off without a word.
But he left his wings
lying on the chair.
They weighed me down at first.
Six stones of feathers and dust.
He’s not the cleanest angel but
That’s what I like
I put them on my shoulders.
I pulled the straps on tight.
I walked out on the windowsill.
I stepped out into the night
I flew over cities and towns,
up over the trees and the clouds.
I kicked up a storm, over the zoo.
I could spiral by the end of the land,
I could swoop, touch the stars with my hand.
But like my angel, it had to end.
Then came the rain, the rain
the wings got waterlogged.
They dragged me down and down
flaiIing fast fell I fell right to the ground.
I caught the bus back home again.
Spent an hour with a hairdryer and some talc.
Then he walked in and closed the door.
I’m sorry… I started to say. But he lifted me up, anyway
‘are you okay, are you okay?’
‘Forget the wings’, he said, ‘forget the wings
I am an Archangel and I forgive all things.
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8. |
Raft
03:38
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Raft
In faraway harbours
they’d make a raft
set your body out to sea
lay you out
on a raft of driftwood
and
push your body out to sea.
come home
and I salute you from the shallows
wading out to watch the lanterns shine and fade
we brought you, washed you, made you holy
and
pushed your body out to sea
come home
And there will be no exultated rescue.
And there will be no litany of your treasure.
There will be no sound except the sea,
sigh, cry, wave on wave
no sound except the shore
come home
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In far off Lands
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Mary and the Pigeons Dublin, Ireland
Mary & The Pigeons is a band run by composer and cellist Mary Barnecutt. Debut album,
Into Air, was
released in 2016 to critical acclaim and the second album, Like Water, will be released March 1st 2024
Like Rain, a single will be released Feb 16th 2024
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