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2.Every Direction Going 02:29

3.All You Ever 02:13

4.Selene 03:23

5.An Eachtra Tosaigh 02:59

6.Counting Song 02:11

7.Your Cause 02:10

8.Icy Sea 02:20

9.Seine Song 03:34

10.Foggy Dew 04:55

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Seine Song

By a birdbath of Connemara marble
I watched a girl draw another there
Her dress cut black with flowers like Kahlo
The corner of her mouth caught her wind-strewn hair

You could hear a tune from a river wedding
The band in bloom and the cameras out
It was something local they were singing
with my rusty French i could just make out

La Nouvelle Ville, c'est pas tranquille
Je reconnais que tu es très gentile
Where the hopeless spit and the helpless steal
The deal is split by morning

Under the bridge, up to the water
I never got close to the edge 'til I saw
A tangle of minnows all fighting over
A morsel of bread from the night before
They picked and they pecked
I followed beside them
I shouldn't've checked but most missed the prize
Cursing the luck of each interested party
I slipped past a couple lost watching the skies­­­

La nouvelle Ville, c'est pas facile,
Je reconnais que tu es très gentile
Where the blusher hides what the cheeks reveal
'n' tries conceal 'til morning

Crossing the path, passing the merchants,
wasting their time just by catching their eye
I don't have the room to be hanging such pictures
and having no room seems enough to get by
So, to spears, their cases entombing,
L'Quai Branly, I disappear
to trumpets, sabres, sceptres, diviners,
a worship fan of Oṣun, our seer.

La nouvelle ville, c'est versatile
Je reconnais que tu es tres gentile
Where you fall in apples if you miss your meal
but you'll be all healed by morning

I slipped in the street, the routes loosen quickly
grabbing the wrist of the first passer-by
He said
"Don't break your head, son, it's not worth the trouble,
It looks like you're laughing whenever you cry!
Just lay down dazed 'til your focusses steady
whatever you say they've heard before
I wouldn't go hitting the drink til you're ready
as soon as you start they start offering more..."

La nouvelle ville, c'est pas facile
je reconnais que tu es tres gentile
While the Sirens serve to crash your keel
So keep nerves of steel 'til morning



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from Where You Call Home, released December 11, 2015

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