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The Sea and the Sky

by Dana Wylie

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1.
The night you left the moon was full and bright It's almost full again I was thinking that night Full moon, empty city And I've been thinking 'bout the difference between Getting stuck and getting stuck in But thinking makes complex what's not complex at all I just miss you, my friend I'm full as the moon tonight I'm full as the moon tonight I'm full and bright as the moon tonight And everything is fine, it's just not right Since you left I've not quite been myself But I'm almost me again I've finally started to get my sense of humour back I've been drinking way too much perhaps But I've kind of been enjoying that Drinking doesn't make this feeling go away But it softens the edge These prehistoric hills can make you feel Like you've gone so far back in time Back to that pure white potent loneliness Of a beauty that you might not survive And I'm full, I'm full, I'm full
2.
The Cuckoo 03:28
The Cuckoo's a pretty bird She sings as she flies She brings us good tidings, tells us no lies She sucks the little birds eggs to keep her voice clear And when she sings cuckoo the summer draws near As I was walking by the side of a bush I heard two birds whistling, the blackbird and the thrush I asked them the reason so merry they be And the answer they gave me: We are single and we are free A-walking and a-talking, a-walking was I To meet my true lover He'll come by and by To meet him in the meadows is all my delight A-walking and a-talking from morning 'til the night Meeting is a pleasure, but parting is a grief And inconstant lover is worse than a thief A thief can but rob me and take all I have But an inconstant lover sends me to my grave And the grave it will rot me and bring me to dust An inconstant lover no maiden can trust He'll court you and he'll kiss you and swear he'll be true And the very next moment he'll bid you adieu The cuckoo's a pretty bird She sings as she flies She brings us good tidings, tells us no lies But when her time is come her voice we don't hear And where she goes we do not know Until another year
3.
Untroubled One Unadorned and unknowing one Show me the way of your untainted heart I've known trouble It's been with me from the start Untroubled One Teach me your art Untroubled One You are unadorned sunshine Beaming down on unknowing mountain snow I am heavy filled with memories of the good old days Untroubled One Could you melt my sins away? I've such a longing to be pure It's my sickness and my cure I admit I've got a lot to hide But I swear I'm all right on the inside Untroubled One I don't expect you to understand How the shape of your perfect hand Fill me with terror and joy I will try to keep those hands free From the heartache that I hold Untroubled One Could you lighten my load?
4.
Maybe you will wake up on the shortest day Having not seen it coming ahead But you'll see blue when you need to see blue And red when you need to see red Maybe you will get onto a bus at dusk And sit down beside a man whose lunchbox is the colour of the sky As if it all were planned All I want you to tell me All I want you to tell me All I want you to tell me Is how do you get what can't be deserved and can't be earned? Tell me, how are you defining grace? Maybe you will go into a picture show And sit down inside the past And come out thinking the world is new, well Just enjoy it while it lasts It won't last For God's sake, let it out of you You're never going to figure it out If the beast's worth taming you won't be able to tame it You want it You can't have it You can only give it away
5.
One evening fair, for to take the air Down by blackwaterside In gazing all around me 'Twas the Irish lad I spied And through the first part of the night We lay in sport and play 'Til this young man arose and gathered his clothes And said, Fare you well today That's not the promise that you gave to me When first you laid on my breast You could make me believe with your lying tongue That the sun rose in the west Go home, go home to your father's garden Go home and weep your fill And think on your own misfortune That you got with your wanton will There's not a girl in this whole wide world As easily led as I When fishes fly and the seas run dry It's then you'll marry I
6.
Yellow Skies 04:43
Drifter, maybe Dreamer, absolutely A fervent disbeliever in compromise Your mouth and your eyes always say the same thing That's a rare thing Rare as yellow skies Not a family man, so they say Are there certain things you never got over to this day? Could it have been any other way? Or would you do the same thing? You rare thing Rare as yellow skies And in the place where impossible meets inevitable That's where you'll find the glow The one in your eyes when you sing It's a pain that peaks just below unbearable It's the heart the breaks to reveal the morning So let the drifters drift And the dreamers absolutely And resolutely struggle through the compromise The whole thing is designed to take care of itself So take care of yourself Don't you worry 'bout the yellow skies
7.
Ophelia 03:38
Boards on the window Mail by the door What would anybody leave so quickly for? Ophelia, where have you gone? The old neighbourhood It just ain't the same Nobody knows just what became of Ophelia What went wrong? Was it something that somebody said? Mama I know we broke the rules Was somebody up against the law? Honey you know I'd die for you Ashes of laughter The ghost is clear Why do the best things always disappear? Like Ophelia Please darken my door They've got your number You're scared and running But I'm just waiting for the second coming of Ophelia Please come back home
8.
If the sons of company directors and judges' private daughters Had to go to school in a slum school Dumped by some joker in a dead-end back alley Had to herd into classrooms cramped with worry With a view over slag heaps and stagnant pools Had to walk down corridors grey with age And play in a cracked up concrete cage... Buttons would be pressed Rules would be broken Strings would be pulled And magic words spoken Invisible fingers would mould Palaces of Gold If Prime Ministers and advertising executives Royal personages and bank managers' wives Had to live out their lives in dank rooms Blinded by smoke and the foul air of sewers Rot in the walls and rats in the cellars In rows of damp houses like mouldering tombs Had to bring up their children And watch them grow in a wasteland of deadstreets Where nothing would grow... Buttons would be pressed Rules would be broken Strings would be pulled And magic words spoken Invisible fingers would mould Palaces of Gold I'm not saying that there's any sort of a plot Everyone knows there's not But you unborn millions might like to be warned: If you don't want to be buried alive by slag heaps Pit falls and dank walls and rat traps and dead streets Arrange to be democratically born the son of a company director Or a judge's fine and private daughter Buttons will be pressed Rules will be broken Strings will be pulled And magic words spoken Invisible fingers will mould Palaces of Gold
9.
Inevitability Oh, what do you want from me? Shall I get down on my knees? And say please take it easy on me? Inevitability How about a little mystery? Too overt to ignore But my poor old heart Can't take much more of this inevitability I used to see you around every once in a while In and about the town I admit I kind of liked your style Until you started following me around And now I can't go for a haircut No I can't go to the picture show How can I escape when your sitting right beside me Just a chomping on a tootsie roll?
10.
It's a bring-a-tear-to-your-eye day On Wind Tunnel Avenue Every eye that I meet on the street knows That something's on the brew To my right I can see meaty rainclouds Stacked up and rolling in My calm heart is free from sin Good hot coffee is just as tasty On a sunny afternoon These days I find the weather reflects, Rather than affects, my mood The temperature of the air today Feels the same as that of my skin My calm heart is free from sin I have floated on panic to many adventures Too many to name I've ridden waves of illusion I believed so real That real they became But when the sea and the sky put you down too hard The shock must be taken in My calm heart is free from sin I've been guilty of negligence and gross incuriosity I've demanded sustenance from worlds whose air Just wasn't meant for me I've fought with all my heart Battles I knew no one could win My calm heart is free from sin A few days before the longest I walked out into the night It's on the shortest ones I get impatient for the light But when the sun comes up And the mist clears out It thickens Just before it thins My calm heart is free from sin My calm heart is free from sin

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released May 24, 2014

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Dana Wylie Edmonton, Alberta

Dana Wylie is a musician and theatre artist from Edmonton, Alberta, whose original work is rootsy, spacious, thought- provoking, and essentially joyful. Her fifth and latest album, The Earth That You’re Made Of, earned her a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Contemporary Singer of the Year. ... more

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