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Open Water

from Lay Your Dark Low by Salt House

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Music - Euan Burton (MCPS & PRS)
Lyrics - Euan Burton and Jenn Butterworth

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Open water,
See no shore but you try to swim.
Tide’s changing, waging
Wars on a life that is yet to begin.

Chapters, pages,
We were wrong.
Unforgiven, histories,
Sold as new that were there all along.

Life's opening,
Swallowing you, nearly giving in.
Searching for way to find the ground,
Start again.

Open water,
Try to choose, to sink or swim.
Current’s taking over,
Either way you cannot win.

Faces, places,
Old and new, still together as one.
Another broken memory,
They can try, it can't be undone.

Write another one,
New pages, the start of a another song.
New stages, a life we carry on.
Another mountain’s climbed to the sky,
We're falling down, the other side.

Falling down, falling down,
Who knows where, who knows where?

Open water,
Try to swim.

Open water,
You are in.

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from Lay Your Dark Low, released November 11, 2013

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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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