Hello, One Hundred Words for Water just got a lovely review here, in which the reviewer interpreted many of the lyrics on the album, so I've decided to post some of the lyrics. Here's a link to the review:
http://citizendick.org/2009/10/22/flotilla-one-hundred-words-for-water-album-review/
Cheers!
Veronica
Song
for Yannick....
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We came back from the trip
Without an answer, without an answer
He’d been waiting for us here
Rationing his food and water
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Turn the key in the dark
He’s like a chess piece, after two weeks
He’s still waiting for us here
Rationing his food and water.
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Our routine is looming while he’s grooming
Lie on the eiderdown, we go from lost to found.
In the backyard, he is free
offering his tune for three.
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It was all the same to him
the same bed,
it was all the same where
he’d rest his head.
He led us back to us.
He needs us less and less.
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We decide to feel it all
We forget about our angry scrawl
Our love, he did reinstall
So let’s get down to city hall.
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Prelude and Epilogue
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Hold on to the edge of the boat
we'll go 1, 2, 3 for broke.
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Shadows are longer as we clear the bay
Dinner bell is ringing as we sail away
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When we fall down to the bottom where we've never been.
Our feet touch the ocean floor
We step 8, 9, 10 ashore.
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We're on crown land, we run into the Queen
Just like us, she tries stay unseen
Public life…
this heat is getting to me.
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Autumn’s here it’s almost too late
To dive into this cold lake
Now I’m in over my head
The waves are what I must tread.
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A Thousand Jacobs
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..A thousand Jacobs make their way..
across the darkening causeway
and in my flip book
I can recall his every look.
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The pages turning make a breeze
Across my face putting me at ease
And oh his green eyes photograph well
Though he denies it.
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I’m losing sight of the day
I caught the ferry too late
You’ll never see my storage house
I stash, I stash all I can find of you
then, replay on my evening walk
You know, I’m holding you close when I cross
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1000 knotted laces come undone
with his embraces, it’s all or none
and in my quietude, the thought of his face
I can’t refuse
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I’m losing sight of the day
I caught the ferry too late
You’ll never reach my storage house
I stash, I stash all I can find of you
Then replay
On my evening walk
You know, I’m holding you close when I cross
Make my way home without a loss
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He lies on a bench above the snow
The wake he leaves behind is deep and colourful
I try to make my way home without a loss
The pages, I hold close when I cross,
Make my way home without a loss…
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..Ghost in a Landscape..
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You jumped to the ground
The jig is up now
Your hiding place
You tried to remember
What brought you here
To all the faces staring
They’ll take you out
Far from the country
Far from the country
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They put your portrait the corner
You were the only one in a landscape
Leaning against the ruins that they made
Everyone else was sitting with their hands in their laps,
With their hands in their laps, with their hands in their laps,
With their hands in their laps.
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And so you write from rooms
You pay for by the week until you can come home
The legends grow
You wish the crown would fall in your sleep
In your garden, under the arc they thought they saw you
passing through
You used to talk to ghosts
And now it seems that you have become one too.
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Ophelia
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I walked down the stairs
And saw the ground floor flooded
So I took off my robe
And I took off my slippers
I left them on the steps
And walked into the water.
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He might have left a note somewhere
By now, it’s floated down
I couldn’t be bothered fishing for a note
I couldn’t be bothered.
Below the window I float
I can’t see outside and no one sees in
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I’ve grown to like
Swimming in my living room
The dust is underwater
I can’t see it no more
The dust is underwater
No |I can’t see it no more.
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(Verse 2 repeats)
Below, below, below, lie low…
Below the window I float
I can’t see outside and no one sees in.
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..Charlie, I'm Through..
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You want me here to witness it all
So it will all be true
But Charlie I’m through, Charlie I’m through
I’m through seeing for you.
For seven months, I underscore
I was grieving a loss
You let me sleep on your living room floor
You became my boss.
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Now Charlie I’m through, Charlie I’m through
seeing for you.
Charlie I’m through, Charlie I’m through
seeing for you.
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When you had to find new limits
You wanted me to be your witness
Don’t want to watch you jump through fire
Don’t even want to enquire.
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Charlie I’m through, Charlie I’m through
seeing for you.
Charlie I’m through, Charlie I’m through
seeing for you.
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You showed me all your videotapes
To help me understand
Just how much thousands adore you
All across the land
And as soon as you open the door
They come calling for more
You want me here to help you ignore
But I can’t no more.
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Now, Charlie I’m through, Charlie I’m through
seeing for you.
Charlie I’m through, Charlie I’m through
seeing for you.
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..Two Boys..
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I left two boys on the roadside of love
I left two boys on the roadside
I saw them embrace from a mile away
then they were gone as my ride turned the corner
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On the roadside of love
I’d seen enough
On the roadside of love
We parted
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On the roadside of love
I gave them up
On the roadside of love
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We’d step aside, let the tanks roll by
The sound would bury their cries.
They kept me up, oh they kept me up
There were no curtains for me to shut
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On the roadside of love
I’d seen enough
On the roadside of love
We parted
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On the roadside of love
I gave them up
On the roadside of love
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They’ll be better off now
The river to the left widens out
The motor runs loud
Lets me space out
We don’t talk,
We don’t talk.
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Clouds
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We were well camouflaged in the clouds
I forgot all about the strings
That used to pull me left then right
On the tracks, the cabins that were small and tight.
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I have named all the cows in the field
Now they’re all too small to see
Even if we yelled out loud
Our voice couldn’t penetrate the cloud
Even if we yelled out loud
Our voice couldn’t penetrate the cloud.
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Off with your left and off with your right shoe
Watch how they quickly fall from view
Down to the ocean or slide off the side of a mountain
I can see the sign for 5 Roses
Clouds of flour under our noses