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Siren Sister
03:42
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SIREN SISTER
I’m on a roll
Drift and swirl
Dip and curl
Swoon unfurl
Dive and hurl
My marble body
To the wave
I’m on a high
Siren cry
Croon and sigh
Breathe me dry
Shoot the lie
Watch me plummet
To the deep
My ships are sailing
Send my fleet into the bloodied sun
The winds are fair with fury
So billow on my galleon
Billow on on on on on
This lady’s not for turning
This city’s not for burning
This life is rigged for learning
Prow forward dark sea churning
To the world’s end
To the world’s end la la la la la
I’m in a bind
Nailed to the tree
Cold and free
Gilded she
Looks like me
Crash my bones
Into white horses
I’m deaf and blind
Lashed to the mast
Bind me fast
Died and cast
Call me last
Breathe in the sweetness
Of the ocean
My ships are sailing
Send my fleet into the bloodied sun
The winds are fair with fury
So billow on my galleon
Billow on on on on on
This body’s not for spurning
This heart will not stop yearning
This mind wakes to hear her sing
Prow forward dark sea churning
To the world’s end
To the world’s end la la la la la
My ships are sailing
Send my fleet into the bloodied sun
The winds are fair with fury
So billow on my galleon
Billow on on on on on
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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2. |
Shell
03:31
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SHELL
There was a girl
You loved
Tough little fist
In a velvet glove
And she would take you
To the water’s edge
She gave you a shell
Smaller than a fingernail
And the gift of second sight
And she
She got washed ashore
One night
And he
Couldn’t see
The moon was too bright
And the waves played over and over
On the sand
There was a place
You stood
Dry as a bone and
Drained of blood
The tide would scour
Your mother of pearl
To make you a shell
For the winds to howl through
And the sands to fill
With the gift of second sight
And he
He got washed ashore
One night
And she
Couldn’t see
The moon was too bright
And the waves played over and over
On the sand
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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3. |
Mermaid's Work
04:43
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MERMAID’S WORK
She could catch the evening star
Hold it in her hand
Fix him with her diamond tears
Falling on the sand
Burning through
His heart like flame
Storm-tossed waif
Without a name
She coiled him softly
In her raven hair
Sharpening her pearly nail
She wrote upon his skin
I am all you ever wanted
Won’t you let me in
You and I
A dance of death
A serpent’s tail
The sweetest breath
Of sunlight through the waters
Of your dreams
Kiss me and a thousand nights
Spiral into one
Take me in a thousand ways
Hide your smoking gun
Oh ho
It was only mermaid’s work
Straddled on her silk divan
Stilettos to the sky
Hungry for another man
No good reason why
Stories weaving
Through his mind
Hypnotized
Beloved and blind
He sank beneath her kisses
Like a stone
Naked as the tide came in
Blood upon her hands
She was sculpted by the waves
Beaten by the sands
There was never
Anyone
Who stole his heart
Who blew apart
His certainty
And sanity
For fun
Kiss me and a thousand nights
Spiral into one
Take me in a thousand ways
Hide your smoking gun
Oh ho
It was only mermaid’s
Kiss me and a thousand nights
Spiral into one
Take me in a thousand ways
Hide your smoking gun
Oh ho
It was only mermaid’s work
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Let me see the land where corals lie
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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4. |
Forest
04:28
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FOREST
You gave me a forest girl
Somewhere in my mind’s eye
A place to get lost
A place to wonder why
Indigos, greens and aquamarines
Slim, stark shadows against the sky
Where foggy twilight curls and turns
In watery lullaby
You stood there at the edge girl
Where the day drains away
Into sudden night
A turning-point in light
You put it onto canvass with your own fair hand
The dreamscape of a northern land
Swept those oils across your space
With bravado and grace
You took on my darkness made it real
You gave me your blues and let me heal
I’ve been there in your forest girl
Felt its needles brush my skin
Immersed myself in the mystery
Of contemplating sin
It’s beautiful deep among those trees
Cold and clear and sharp as the frost
A neverland where my thoughts can unfurl
To live and know the cost
I’ve been submerged in ice and fire
Call myself crazy, call myself a liar
I see beyond the forest line
I see the future and claim it mine
Thank you for your forest girl
I’m going there when the world gets too much
Take a step back from the human race
But today I’ll stand in the fields with the sun on my face and
You took on my darkness made it real
You gave me your blues and let me heal
You took on my darkness made it real
You gave me your blues and let me heal
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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5. |
Still Waters
02:59
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STILL WATERS
Never thought your eyes would look at me and say
All the holy water
In the world can’t wash this away
Never thought our ship would go down so quietly
It hit the iceberg
Heading for the open sea and
Still waters run deep
Cover me when I’m asleep
Dream it all away
Dream it all away and
Wash me clean
When they carved me up they took my heart
I put it in a chapel
Erected to my vanity
You and I both know that’s not the start
I was overboard
Before I ever thought about mortality and
Still waters run deep
Cover me when I’m asleep
Dream it all away
Dream it all away and
Wash me clean
Once you said that I was beautiful,
Mysterious woman
The world caught fire as I entered the room
Did the scales fall from your eyes?
Did you learn that woman
From the dawn of time was born for lies and
Still waters run deep
Cover me when I’m asleep
Dream it all away
Dream it all away and
Wash me clean
But you, you held me
In the throes of birth
When I diced with death
When I fought for breath
Yes you, you loved me
All my flesh and bone
All too close to home
Why should I wish to be free
I’ll wish myself alone on the strand
Watching the ice-floes
Dreaming of your tender hand
Do you think that I can’t understand
We have made so much
That was greater than the two of us and
Still waters run deep
Cover me when I’m asleep
Dream it all away
Dream it all away and
Wash me clean
Dream it all and dream it all and
Dream it all and dream it all and
Dream it all and dream it all away
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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6. |
Toward the Moon
04:13
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TOWARD THE MOON
O lay me down to rest
Blow me wide to the western sky
Never love me best
Read the silver runes at my fingertips
It’s the shadow of myself
I’ve stretched along this glittering beach
Never say what else
All we know is what we cannot reach
And she runs through my veins
And she burns me like fire
And she tilts the world toward the moon
And she draws me higher
Surf rush through my hair
Shifting sands that slip between my limbs
Never call me fair
Just a mermaid singing silent hymns
I am grounded on this shore
I will wear like a pebble with the ebb and flow
Never know me more
Surrender me to the undertow
And she runs through my veins
And she burns me like fire
And she tilts the world toward the moon
And she draws me higher
Ah when she comes to me
When she comes her kiss it stills me
Ah when she lifts me up so high
When she pulls me to her breast it fills me
Fling your surf to me
Venus born in dancing waves
Never set me free
Orchestrate these shards of light
I will open to the sun
Arch my body to the foam
There’s a white light in my mind
All the sad songs left behind
And she runs through my veins
And she burns me like fire
And she tilts the world toward the moon
And she draws me higher
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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7. |
Migrant
02:47
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MIGRANT
Defying space you are
Perfectly airborne in your
Sleek dark suit
Amid the many, you dive
Without thought, without fear
Knowing nothing
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
Submerged in water glassy green
Locked by gravity and cold
I am a Naiad
I’ve been here a hundred years
Hair streaming constant as my tears
Under the stars
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
Catch my eyeline skimming softly
Darting sheer my kamikaze
Cross the void
Suspend your body over me
Razor down pure energy
Live geometry
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
Restless migrant, you’re a hunter
Feeding appetite on the wing
What do you see
Is your jewelled eye fixed sharp
On the vanishing point of your desire
Do you see me
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
I want to watch you fly
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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8. |
Estrogen
04:10
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ESTROGEN
Springtime (all those years locked inside you)
Floodtide (secrets spilling through the keyhole)
Ocean rushing through your body
Giving head
Flux and flow
All the hidden things you couldn’t know
Nothing anyone said
You came (hurt your power just to feel it)
Your flesh (like a bruise you press to heal it)
Mapping what was left behind
Afterglow
Dragged you deep
Ebbing at the dark shore of your mind
A burning star
It was
Something in the water, in the way you moved
Something in the ozone, can’t be nothing good
Something in your paintbox, in the tales you told
Something in your genome, now you’re growing cold
Roaring forties (such a beauty no one knew it)
Storm broken (fingering a thread of lightning)
Raindance on your desert beach
All your love
Out of reach
Breakers crashing at your painted feet
To set you free
You kick (mermaid pearls and glancing fishtail)
Too quick (keeling over on your mainsail)
Snatching at the rags of time
Take me now
As I am
Strung out in this need for rhyme and
Play to lose
It was
Something in the water, in the way you moved
Something in the ozone, can’t be nothing good
Something in your paintbox, in the tales you told
Something in your genome, now you’re growing cold
Red autumn (dry sands blowing paper thin skin)
Your sundown (planets halted when they took you in)
Everything your body didn’t need
Bolted green
Run to seed
All the cycles frozen as you bleed
Nothing foreseen
Your life (all you lost you won by dreaming)
Your time (riptide currency of feeling)
Trade winds blow your flame to black
All your love
Draws them back
Waiting in the wings to watch them fly
Your bitter pill
It was
Something in the water, in the way you moved
Something in the ozone, can’t be nothing good
Something in your paintbox, in the tales you told
Something in your genome, now you’re growing cold
Something
You drank it in
Such a good girl
© 2015 Fiona Howe
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Fiona Howe London, UK
Fiona Howe is producer and composer of award-nominated feature films 'Desire', 'Delight' and 'Delirium'. The 'Delirium' soundtrack 'Requiem for the Living' was Nominated Best Original Score for a Drama Feature by Reel Music Awards 2017. Her début singer-songwriter album 'Mermaid’s' Work, 8 songs exploring the connection between the female psyche and the sea was first released in 2016. ... more
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