The waves whisper dark all around me, I can’t see a thing in this fog
The whole world is shrouded, no stars I can chart for a path
This course that I’ve set, it’ll drown me, I still feel it drawing me on
The farther I go, the less that I know where I’ll land
I can taste the salt, thickening the air, it wakes a hunger too vast for a name
Fathomless and wild, is it my compass, or am I its prey?
Stay with me, memory, twine into thread
Weave with my dreams, with the grief I have bled
Oh, be my sails, catch the wind, carry me
Oh, be my sails, I’m at sea…
These clouds that I’m in, they confound me, even horizons are gone
This veil that enfolds me, I can’t even tell where I’ve passed
There’s nothing in reach that’ll ground me, such endless expanses I cross
How long must I journey till restlessness quiets at last
Still i taste the salt, thickening the air
Waking that hunger too vast for a name
Fathomless and wild, is it my compass, or am I its slave?
Stay with me, memory, twine into thread
Weave with my dreams, with the grief I have bled
Oh, be my sails, catch the wind, carry me
Oh, be my sails, I’m at sea…
The waves look endless to the small,
Have we grown just enough to see, but not to help at
All of these, poisoned seas, we’ll have to drink before we’re through…
Our lives seem endless when we’re small
Shortsighted eyes, they leave us free to harm…
All of your fine horses, all of your fine men, they can’t do a thing to stop the coming of the end…
credits
from Madness Blooms EP,
released January 29, 2016
Meghan Sinoff - Songwriter, Lead Vocals, Piano
Bradford King - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Terrance Mattson - Producer, Bass, Drums, Arp
When singers harmonize—when their voices consume them and fuse into a new whole—something blooms in them: a kind of bliss, a kind of madness. Bradford King and Meghan Sinoff follow this sensation into territory both eccentric and melodic.
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