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Treading Water

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This is the second of only two sad love songs that I’ve recorded. I did record a third, but it was written by another artist on another site some years back. (I plan to eventually post that one as well…)

The other sad love song is called AFTER AUGUST, and will be posted… well… after August, in the first week of September. (How very ANAL of me!)

For those who have never read The Odyssey, the lyric “I hear the Sirens wailing! Please tie me to the mast” is Homeric imagery (The Odyssey, XII, 50; etc.).

I try to write all my stuff from experience and/or deep conviction. To write a truly sad love song, I literally have to reach back decades for any kind of emotional authenticity; so I pretty much confine myself to happier love songs. (Yes, I’ve been one of the “lucky” ones…)

This is one of those “What if things had turned out differently than they actually did?” kind of tunes. The sadness comes from some very old memories. The theme is sheer fantasy.

I’ve written the above because, back when I posted the demo on another site, one listener demanded to know “Who IS she?!?!?” Guess the feelings I conveyed therein were just a little too “authentic” for him. Ha ha…

Anyway, hope some of you can enjoy this one!

PS: The photo is of my younger brother Tom in a friend’s swimming pool. You’ll be relieved to know that he was never in any real danger!

;-)

Released: 08-Jan-2024

Category: Folk

Application: Logic Pro

File type: mp3

File size: 9.1 Mb

Plays: 32

Downloads: 1

Weekly plays: 1

Weekly downloads: 1

License: No derivative works allowed

Lyrics

TREADING WATER

I
I've loved you for a long time.
Of that you can be sure.
When I think of the years we've been apart,
it's more than I can endure.
While I wandered down life's alleys
you were always there with me;
shining brightly in my darkness,
although I could not see.

II
Now I wonder what it means:
you back in my life again.
Is there a purpose, or a goal?
Will I be left dangling without end?

With you I'm treading water.
Don't know if I'll sink or swim.
Don't know from one day to the next,
if it's me you love or him.

FIRST CHORUS:
Someone throw me out a lifeline!
You know I'm sinking fast.
Don't know how long I can stay afloat;
how much longer I can last.
I hear the Sirens wailing!
God please tie me to the mast!
Will I navigate this passageway,
or against the rocks be cast?

SECOND CHORUS:
Someone throw me out a lifeline!
You know I'm sinking fast.
Don't know how long I can stay afloat;
how much longer I can last.
I hear the Sirens wailing!
Please tie me to the mast!
Will I navigate this passageway,
or against the rocks be cast?

III
Don't know quite how to decipher
all those signals that you send;
but it'll be a death-sentence,
if you say we're “only friends.”

With you I'm treading water.
Don't know if I'll sink or swim.
Don't know from one day to the next,
if it's me you love or him.

Don't know from one day to the next,
if it's me you love,
---me you love or him.

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Daugrin

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A true ballad! Mike yer a hero! You wrote a cello line as well, I am impressed. Bravo my friend!

10 months ago