1. |
The Window
02:41
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Open the window
To see
If the sea was all you ever
Thought it would be
Close the shutters,
I can't see the blinds
As for me from time to time
Well I can't see the light at all
The wind it is howling
The room disappears
How strange how our hopes
Come to look like our fears
And the waves make me nervous
The way they can change
Light to dark in an instant
The way it all goes away
The way it all goes away
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2. |
Ghost of the Great Lakes
04:05
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Enemy- remember me
As the man that I was
Not what I've become
Is such a sad shallow sight to see
An entity, an elegy
Is all I've got left
The skull on the desk
Is a momento memory
And it calls my name from the darkest space
I can't think of it now, I think I lost my place
And when I look back to see what could be chasing me
It turns around and reveals its face
It's just a ghost of the old great lakes
That carries me back this way
With the wind in my ears I can barely even hear
Any word that the waves might say
Any word that the waves might say
An effigy pretends to be
All that once was,
The relief in the cut
Is an intaglio printing
And the wind rolls up and the clouds cave in
It wasn't much of a fall from such a heavenly sin
And when I waited it out for the voice to begin
I think it sounds like I'm screaming
It's just a ghost of the old great lakes
That carries me back this way
With the wind in my ears I can barely even hear
Any word that the waves might say
Any word that the waves might say
I've become what I feared
I've become what I feared
One day that I'd become
I've become what I feared
I'd become that I feared I'd become
I've become
What I
It's just a ghost of the old great lakes
That carries me back this way
With the wind in my ears I can barely even hear
Any word that the waves might say
Any word that the waves might
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3. |
Dark Days
03:57
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I was floating
In the middle of the ocean
Couldn't find no port, no
I was captured
Overseas
All my guardians
Had abandoned me
They said, "Son you don't leave it behind,
Your destiny's the length of twine
The harder you struggle to get out
The more you're entwined"
Well,
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
Gone
What was I after,
Up in the rafters?
Can't find no peace
For no one but me
So I said to the Master
What're you after?
He said, "Nobody sees
'Til its Time, you can see"
Well,
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
And I know when we go
You can't hold onto the undertow
And I see parts of me
Return like rivers into the sea
And I know when we go
There's a little bit of you
You'll find in me
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
The dark days, the dark days are gone
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4. |
Salt and the Sea
04:34
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You said the waves are part of me
The way they part the seas
Pumping vessels to the heart
Of the inlet
If love was just some current
I've felt it pull me in
But I've also
Felt it let me out again
Again
But I'm the salt and you're the sea
Dissolving into everything
Cut from stone to coat
What makes me clean
And I've felt you underneath
Rising up to meet me
Will we break before we ever truly see
Or are we just part of everything
You said then time will show the way
The cracking in his hands
Shows the future
When they're held up to his face
But somehow either way
There's a space that holds a distance
So close
But still so far away
Away
But I'm the salt and you're the sea
Dissolving into everything
Cut from stone to coat
What makes me clean
And I've felt you underneath
Rising up to meet me
Will we break before we ever truly see
Or are we just part of everything
I'm the salt and you're the sea
Dissolving into everything
Cut from stone to coat
What makes me clean
And I've felt you underneath
Rising up to claim me
Like some treasure long forgotten in the deep
Or are we just part of everything
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5. |
Lake Superior Blues
05:00
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They say the cure
For anything
Is the sea, salt water, or tears
But I've only felt the sting
They say that time
Heals anything
But it always leaves a scar
Like a cold cup coffee ring, ring
So I set
Out on the lake
Tried to cast out
My past mistakes
But they'll come back
Just you wait
Oh you're all washed up
Thought I heard 'em say
And if I ever make it out of this country's interior
I guess I'll still be working on the Lake Superior blues
So I made
That journey back
Took that map,
Folded in half
And all those outlines
Traced in black
Well they looked like lungs
In a photograph
And if I ever make it out of this country's interior
I guess I'll still be working on the Lake Superior blues
Don't try to walk on
Water babe,
You've gotta swim
Just move those legs
I won't be no
Shipwrecked bay
I'm just the wind
Getting carried away
And if I ever make it out of this country's interior
I guess I'll still be working on the Lake Superior blues
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6. |
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Me and my brothers
Went down to the lake
To throw out our stones
At the waves
Stood there so still
From that high on the hill
The water looked
Just like a grave
Water will fill any space
It contains
It seems life and death
Act the same
And things that need anchor
Will always weigh down
The weightless will just
Float away
On the shores of the bay
Maybe we'll come back someday
On the storms of Georgian Bay
Maybe we're just like the waves
Fear is a phantom
No eyes can see
That watches each move
That you make
The closer you get
The more it recedes
And the more that you give
It just takes
Like the shores of the bay
Maybe we'll come back someday
On the storms of Georgian Bay
Maybe we're just like the waves
On the shores of the bay
Maybe we'll come back someday
On the storms of Georgian Bay
Maybe we're just like the waves
Now that I'm older
Those stones became boulders
That block everything
In their way
Now I can see
With the waves over me
The smallest of stones
Still has weight
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7. |
(Streams)
02:39
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8. |
River
04:48
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When I knelt beside the stream
It reflected back at me
For a moment there
I swore that I saw you
But the image it gets caught
Between what's real and what is not
Like a sailor's tale and
What we hold as true
When I started looking back
I only saw my tracks
The way I think I thought
I always knew
But the trees they drink the lakes
The air evaporates
It's a cycle, all in all
Becomes renewed
And I looked out for you then
In the trees above the wind
I waited for your form
To come in view
But the past it has no shape
Some ghost of the great lakes
In time we all return
To what we knew
And my veins became a river
In my blood I felt the stream
Pouring from my eyes
And falling to my feet
Oh i know this is not the answer
I know that there'll never be
All there is is ever was
And all that's supposed to be
But somewhere I swear
Like a river I'll be running back to you
Through the air and the clouds
Somehow everything it leads me back to you
Somewhere I swear
Like a river I'll be running back to you
Through the air and the clouds
Somehow everything it leads me back to you
Somewhere
Somewhere
I knelt beside the stream
It reflected back at me
For a moment there I swore
That I saw you
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9. |
St. John
04:05
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When I saw mama being baptized
I thought at first she drowned
In that chapel
Outside my hometown
At times I feel the same
Trying to keep my head above
The ocean
And the endless marching rain
And I thought of St. John
With the radio on
And I thought to myself
I don't have long
They say a man can lose his life
In a pool just inches deep
And sometimes I can feel the rain
In sheets on me while I sleep
And lie awake
If only but to dream
I am covered in my sweat
And I can't breathe
And I thought of St. John
With the radio on
And I thought to myself
I don't have long
And I thought of St. John
With the radio on
And I thought to myself
I don't have long
Remember the time
I almost drowned
In that river
By my house
For reasons why
I can't remember now
But something in there
Must have pulled me out
And I thought of St. John
With the radio on
And I thought to myself
I could be wrong
And I thought of St. John
Sing that song
The old man and the river
Just roll along
And maybe that river
Ain't as deep as it seems
I walk home
Muddy shoes and muddy feet
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10. |
Nova Scotia
04:32
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Set out alone
Head for the coast
Keep going east
'Til you find Peggy's Cove
Don't forget your coat
In case it gets cold
'Cause the further you get
The sooner you're home
And just so you know
I tried to find your ghost
I searched every river
And each open road
Didn't see you though
The trail just got cold
Even Nova Scotia
Didn't know which way to go
And I held onto hope
Like some kind of rope
'Til it twisted and burned me
And I had to let go
And I've seen the light
Since I left you that night
You said that leaving's the first part
Of meeting, it's alright
So I set to find
Some kind of sign
To let me know that
You're doing alright
Now I can see
What always was
It has to have been there
To know when it's gone
Set out alone
Head for the coast
Just let me know when
You're coming back home
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