first of all let me say | love is a wave | is this what I must learn | if her being I am to earn | |
love is a stream | that comes before what we can see | and then goes on in front of me | moving through the country | | once I hoped I could only be | happy when drenched by the sea | it twisted me, I would not flee | but made my heart change | you present yourself as the sea | and I fear the sea | |
love is a stream | that sometimes flows inside of me | first it's black and the it's green | a merwolfs dream | love is a stream | ending in the sea | you are the sea | you always were | | I'm not sure of it | I'm not sure of love | I'm not sure of me | I'm not sure of me | I hate this fear | I hate fear | I hate the sea | |
love is a stream | that sometimes is inside of me | first it's black and the it's blue | flowing cleanly around you | | the bed was boat and you and me | the room afloat and tossed so violently | you disappeared into the scenery | like huckle's raft I'm freed to be | and as a source and as an end | we are what we have always been | |
love is a stream | a fountain of what we deem | descendant drinking branching stream | you are the sea you always were | love is a stream | it is not what we see | it comes from somewhere else | and it goes to somewhere else |
by Will Oldham
credits
from Evolution Of Waters - EP,
released August 1, 2009
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Vocals | Nico Muhly: Piano | Guy Sigsworth: Celesta | Ólöf Arnalds: Backing Vocal | Samuli Kosminen: Drums | Una Sveinbjarnardóttir: Violin | Jónína Auður Hilmarsdóttir: Viola | Hrafnkell Orri Egilsson: Cello | Óskar Guðjónsson: Saxophone | VS: Programming, String Arrangement, Guitar, Bass, Keys | Written by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Will Oldham | Published by Pollination Music / Royal Stable Music (ASCAP)
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