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Ocean Songs

by Ardent

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Our Raft in this Endless Sea 02:34
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Oh tell me, the secret Behind your locked heart Give me the sequence Before we depart Out there is a truth Lying lost in our youth Smile once for me That's all I want to see Our raft in this endless sea Is falling apart at the seams We're sinking and sinking And sinking and sinking To where we came from Oh tell me, the secret Within this risen sea Give me the sequence Before we're swallowed whole Down there is what we survived Submerged is our youth Smile once for me That's all I want to see
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Island 02:46
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She's still stuck there On that island The seagull's gone Gone forever The island was of Her own devise Her own demise Lost forever A whale has beached itself It watches her with pitied eyes She huddles afar In the center The whale asks if she's alright It has become bloated and ill She lowers her head Pretends not to hear She hopes for the crash of the waves To clamor and clangor and deafen her ears She hopes for the reach of the tide To spill forth and claim her to hide
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The Wayward Ones 03:20
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They sank the sun The wayward ones They pulled it down By rope homespun An ocean of light The sky given to night The sun tethered by chain Its lost its reign A million stars Pinprick scars A sea risen Is its prison Beneath the waves There's a giant cave The sun rests in its nest And the wayward ones fest They dance with the fish They've gotten their wish The sun sits below Never again to show
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The Witch of the Sea 02:42
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The witch of the sea She came to me Within my dream She bade of me 'Come visit, sweet child Seat yourself and drink all my tea I've fashioned a crown Of coral for thee I've created a throne To sit beside me' The witch of the sea She came to me In my reflection Not one, but three 'Come stay, young prince If I'm not enough Then have these sirens They'll sing for you Melodies to ripen Please, come off your island' The witch of the sea She came to me Stones in the tide They spelled for me: 'Come help, my liege The ocean is displeased It froths and rages None of us are free And so I beg of you Do not give up on me'
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Beneath the Waves 01:23
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Beneath the waves We've left one billion graves We've always known But what's left to atone?

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A follow-up stylistically and tonally to both Autumnal and Druid, ‘Ocean Songs’ focuses on another aspect of nature: the sea. The stories sung exist in a drowned world, beneath the waters and on dotted islands of once great continents. The music is driven primarily by the acoustic guitar, and accompanied by haunting, harmonising vocals.

‘Ocean Songs’ was written between March and July of 2017.

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released August 25, 2017

All lyrics and music written and performed by Skye Burnett.

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Ardent Montreal, Québec

Ardent: having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate.

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