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Freshwater Salt

from Lay Your Dark Low by Salt House

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Ewan MacPherson (MCPS & PRS)

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The yellow hills, channel rain,
Bound for the sea, coming back again.
Landscapes kiss on a rushing sound,
There’s a hundred men trying to take us down.

Music on the left hand, money on the right,
I’m a battlefield in the morning light,
Where falls the sun on the chestnut ground,
I lost my soul in the heavy crowd.

There’s a hundred men in a hundred rooms,
In a hundred towns trying to take us down.

Following the low sun’s distant roar,
Summer will be mine forever more,
Dark-bellied trout will you take me where,
I am bound by a single hair.

Seven thousand weary hearts adrift,
But the boat’s got a hole and the sail’s ripped.
At night, we hear, the whale sound,
There’s a hundred men trying to take him down.

Fresh water weakens in the tide,
My love is salt and I cannot dive.
My love is salt and I cannot dive,
And I'm bound to the rhythm of a losing time.

Freshwater salt.

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from Lay Your Dark Low, released November 11, 2013

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Salt House UK

Salt House have been a mainstay of the folk scene for a decade. New songs that sound as if they’ve always been here. Ancient ballads woken up. Poems given the melodies they’ve long deserved. Songs strong rooted in place, people and their shared love of the natural world. Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson & Lauren MacColl ... more

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