When We Lived By The Sea

7 weeks ago by @davidtaro · @billwhite51

Liner Notes

Bill sent me these gorgeous lyrics at the start of the month, but initially I really struggled to write a melody that felt right. You know when you can’t quite wrap your head around the cadence of the lines... anyway, what you hear is the third treatment that I wrote for it - loosely inspired by some comments from Bill about Bob Dylan’s Infidels album, which I’ve always loved the sound and production on. Thank you, Bill, as ever, for sharing such excellent poetry.

#softrock #collab #80s #gratuitousbackgroundnoodling

Lyrics

Two yellow moons
Against a graying sky
Was all we hoped to be
In day as well as night
floating close to paradise
in the time of jubilee
When we lived by the sea

The sky slashed to ribbons
In broken rainbow dyes
We watched the cargo ships come in
Through burnt and sun closed eyes
Like birds between the blossoms
Along the limbs of trees
When we lived by the sea

why why did we leave
behind the things
we could never retrieve
the happy days
when life was gay
when we lived by the sea

The leaving ships sank slowly
beneath horizons line
Some seeking a golden fleece
That cloaked an ancient shrine
Gone long past the buckled waves
Of actuality
When we lived by the sea

why why did we leave
behind the things
we could never retrieve
the happy days
when life was gay
when we lived by the sea

The horses walked the railroad track
Above a town perched high
And when the waves came crashing in
We climbed the grassy sky
Collecting bits of coral
On the bottoms of our feet
When we lived by the sea

why why did we leave
behind the things
we could never retrieve
the happy days
when life was gay
when we lived by the sea

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