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Lyrics - Ants

20150610 Ants

Just one, one of the ants in the hill,
One of the steps on the treadmill,
One of the tiles in the elevating wall.

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Lyrics - Sail On

Sail On - I wrote this song sort of by accident! It was Valentine’s Day last year, and I didn’t have a present for Michal... so I sat down at the piano and thought I would record him a little verse and chorus.

But, of course, as soon as I sat down and started to try to sum up my Valentine’s Day emotions, it got deep... and it got intense!

So Sail On is the song that came out... it has become the title track of the album, a beautiful metaphor for love through the thick and thin.

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I love it when you laugh, golden cheeks, golden sound.
Black pearl eyes, lights to all.
I love seeing what you see,
You hold my hands and gently guide me on to the sea.

Love is sailing on an ocean of trust and truth and tears and turning round.
And I will sail with you when it’s dark,
When my compass is stuck, when I’m all out of luck,
Sail on, sail on my sweet one.

I love it when we fight together for the same cause, winning wars,
Bringing light to what’s right.
I love it when we climb together to a new height,
Breathing in the sights we see.

Love is sailing on an ocean of trust and truth and tears and turning round.
And I will sail with you when it’s dark,
When my compass is stuck, when I’m all out of luck,
Sail on, sail on my sweet one.

Song of the Week

Stay Gold - First Aid Kit

This song is a little bit of an oxymoron. I have another favourite song by Sting that is this kind of oxymoron - it’s one of the saddest songs about failing as a father, but set to a deceptively uptempo country lilt.

Stay Gold is also wonderfully uplifting and upbeat. But it is about that one of the hardest questions that artists often face:

“What if our hard work ends in despair,
What if the road won’t take me there?”

The challenge is to stay gold. Stay true.

20150427 Stay Gold

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