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The sea has always been a great symbol of freedom and adventure, of exploration and great danger, of great loss and treachery. For the last ten years I had this line about seabirds in flight, rattling around in my head. It had been the title of a song that never came to life, and in Song of The Sea it finally found a home. The seabirds serve to lead our imaginations, freely, across the epic world of the sea.
I think this epic quality of the song is interesting. Emotionally and lyrically it is quite grandiose, touching on the world crisis, on how cities and peoples can fall into decline. The story feels like an ancient one, a Romantic tale of crumbling castles and ruined palaces; the bloodthirsty masses are in there somewhere chasing Frankenstein’s monster; Robin Hood passes through with his compassion for the people. We are walking on a line of hypocrisy and paradox, where the people can be both loved and feared, where today’s freedom fighting citizen can become tomorrow’s guerrilla rebel.
Perhaps what’s really special about this song, however, is that the world it creates also feels very private and intimate; it feels like we are watching it in a cinema, or actually living in the story of the song itself. I can think of worse places to live than in a song.
lyrics
When the people have burned down the castles
And the palaces have all gone to ruin
And we’re caught in between all the princes and thieves
With a bow and a broken arrow
When the gardens have given up roses
And the summer abandons her breeze
We’re caught on a wave, don’t know where to go
I’ll sing you a song of the sea:
Oh, wide ocean bright
Oh, great starlit night
Oh great seabird in flight…
Oh, wide ocean bright
Oh, great starlit night
Oh great seabird in flight…
Won’t you lead me…
Won’t you lead me…
Into the arms
Of a world
That loves me.
credits
from Redemption Road,
released April 25, 2012
Voice and acoustic guitar: Sandy Kilpatrick
Electric guitar: Emmanuel Martins Coelho
Drums: Sérgio Vicente
Bass: Mario Mamede
Melodica: Samuel Coelho
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