Salt and the Sea (Live from Dorchester) EP
by Alex Mason
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Salt and the Sea
04:11
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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
that are we just part of everything?
you said, then time will show the way
the cracking in his hands
tells the future
when they're held up to his face
and 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 felt you underneath
rising up to meet me
will we break before we ever
truly see
that are we just part of everything
but I'm the salt and you're the sea
dissolving into everything
cut from stone to coat
what makes me clean
and I felt you underneath
rising up to claim me
like some treasure long forgotten
in the deep
but are we just part of everything
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Lake Superior Blues
04:14
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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 everything
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
you're all washed up, thought I heard 'em say
and if I ever get 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 it in half
and all those outlines, traced in black
well they looked like lungs
or a photograph
and if I ever make it out of this country's interior
i guess I'll still be working out the lake superior blues
don't try to walk on water babe,
you've gotta swim- just move those legs
and 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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River
04:51
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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
my blood i felt the stream
pouring through my eyes
and falling to my feet
and 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
when i knelt beside the stream
it reflected back at me
for a moment there I swore
that I saw you
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credits
released August 11, 2018
Recorded in a barn from the 1800s in Dorchester, outside of London Ontario by Simon Larochette.
Produced by Simon Larochette and Alex Mason
All songs and lyrics by Alex Mason
(c) Alex Mason 2018
Recorded in a barn from the 1800s in Dorchester, outside of London Ontario by Simon Larochette.
Produced by Simon Larochette and Alex Mason
All songs and lyrics by Alex Mason
(c) Alex Mason 2018
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