First song in awhile I've kinda felt OK about. This one was born to be played uptempo, full-band, and I see my new band playing it, and I'm trying to get away from demos that dictate too much of the potential arrangement. Having said that, I'm enjoying the melancholic approach here. Lyrics need a thorough overhaul, but I finally think that there are a couple of ideas and concepts here that are worth chewing on. I love the idea that one's object of love can be compared to the fixed object that you focus when you're spinning too fast. Dunno where that came from; I'm sure I nicked it from something ...
lyrics
Hold me closer
Inside your coat
Til the shaking runs out
I speak in riddles
Without an answer
Let me stumble and shout
moontide pulls the ocean
The river to the sea
Ever in motion
Sometimes it just seems
I can’t even breathe
Without you beside me
I was not lost
Dragged down or damaged
But I was surely not found
I sang the seasons
I listened freely
I never heard such a sound
moontide pulls the ocean
The river to the sea
Ever in motion
Sometimes it just seems
I can’t even breathe
Without you beside me
I just want to thank you this night
For sparing my sins
I’ll go down the river with you
All over again
You don’t know
How I bleed
To think what might have been
My momma told me
When I was younger
Dizzy on the Ferris wheel
Find somebody
To fix your eyes on
Hold her ’til the world stands still
moontide pulls the ocean
The river to the sea
Ever in motion
Sometimes it just seems
I can’t even breathe
Without you beside me
I just want to thank you this night
For sparing my sins
I’ll go down the river with you
All over again
You don’t know
How I bleed
To think what might have been
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