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The Water​-​Carver

from Charcoal Essex Park by Black Pepper Sea

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My opus. By far the longest song I've ever recorded. I tried to make it shorter, but it just didn't work. Sorry. :)

lyrics

Cut my fingers on your hip
Wrote a novel on your back
You say I’m drawing blood
But I haven’t started yet

And the water-carver, I
Launch my boat in the street
In your deep dark harbor sky
Casting off incomplete

Hold a message in your mouth
Unravelled like a hook
I’m tying up my nerves
So keep it to yourself

And the heaven-gazer, I
Swallow whole every spark
In your warm blue Parrish sky
Drifting off in the dark

The curtain drops on the meager stage
We made
We disagree about the course
The tide revolves around the life
You save
So I turn
And I drop my oars

I’m tracing out a lie
On a wall beside the shore
You’re pulling out the nails
That’s what I’ve waited for

And the water-carver, I
Walk my net through the waves
In your sweet black velvet sky
Offer me a kiss that saves

And the water-carver, I
Launch my boat in the streets
In your deep dark harbor sky
Casting off...

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from Charcoal Essex Park, released March 1, 2010
Uses a sample from Stereolab's "Changer" (Gane/Sadier)

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