Fireworks Night - You, holding
from Sampler (FREE!) by Organ Grinder Records
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Taken from 'A mirror, a ghost' EP
lyrics
Did we walk to the woods?
Did I hold you a hand at a time?
Did I offer a body like mine?
A boy for a woman’s side
Did the trees bend to know
Our half-remembered songs?
Or just the wind help them clatter along
The rest our imagining?
Our coincidence seems too ripe to be accident
But did we just look for schemes amongst the din?
But for that speck of time
I felt a purpose clearly
Brushed your neck
Remembered your body
As a smooth pebble thrown back to a calm sea
As a thing I had held but never known entirely
And the sea seemed to mutter
‘You will never possess her’
But I’ll try to be true to you – my lady
Truer than a tide we know must turn
And though I may not last so long
Though I may not last so long
Never swallow the moon
Never cradle the sky
Still, there is a joy I can hardly bear
To be the one pulling leaves from the mess of you hair
But it comes and goes so secretly
How will I know it will come back to me?
And how do I wait so long?
How do I wait so long?
How do I wait?
Until you say
‘Stop, stop your rambling
There are pleasures still to be had
Our happiness may be fleeting
But we are not memories yet
Let others fret
And ponder why
It can not be held
Like that storm, like that sky
We’ll be as blind to how it goes
As we were blind when it arrived
So for this speck of time…
So for this speck of time…'
Did I hold you a hand at a time?
Did I offer a body like mine?
A boy for a woman’s side
Did the trees bend to know
Our half-remembered songs?
Or just the wind help them clatter along
The rest our imagining?
Our coincidence seems too ripe to be accident
But did we just look for schemes amongst the din?
But for that speck of time
I felt a purpose clearly
Brushed your neck
Remembered your body
As a smooth pebble thrown back to a calm sea
As a thing I had held but never known entirely
And the sea seemed to mutter
‘You will never possess her’
But I’ll try to be true to you – my lady
Truer than a tide we know must turn
And though I may not last so long
Though I may not last so long
Never swallow the moon
Never cradle the sky
Still, there is a joy I can hardly bear
To be the one pulling leaves from the mess of you hair
But it comes and goes so secretly
How will I know it will come back to me?
And how do I wait so long?
How do I wait so long?
How do I wait?
Until you say
‘Stop, stop your rambling
There are pleasures still to be had
Our happiness may be fleeting
But we are not memories yet
Let others fret
And ponder why
It can not be held
Like that storm, like that sky
We’ll be as blind to how it goes
As we were blind when it arrived
So for this speck of time…
So for this speck of time…'
credits
from Sampler (FREE!),
released December 1, 2008
James Lesslie - guitar, vox
Rhiannon Armstrong - violin, backing vox
Nick Gill - banjo, backing vox
Tim Hancock - piano, backing vox
Ed Seed - drums, backing vox
Neil Walsh - viola, backing vox
Recorded and engineered at Ascape Studios by Cesar Gimeno Lavin in April & May 2008. Produced by Fireworks Night & Cesar. Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering.
www.organgrinderrecords.com
James Lesslie - guitar, vox
Rhiannon Armstrong - violin, backing vox
Nick Gill - banjo, backing vox
Tim Hancock - piano, backing vox
Ed Seed - drums, backing vox
Neil Walsh - viola, backing vox
Recorded and engineered at Ascape Studios by Cesar Gimeno Lavin in April & May 2008. Produced by Fireworks Night & Cesar. Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering.
www.organgrinderrecords.com
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