Cruel Sea
| I will go down to the sea call your name where shore meets sky carve your name in the black sands with white pebbles I build a grave for when you come back to me I will wear the dress you picked for me I will wait here for you A break from the relentless idealism, this song is our version of the traditional much sung story of waiting by the sea for your lost lover. But with a darker edge, who is the grave for, and why? I quite enjoy the gender ambiguity too, although it’s quite normal in folk song for men to sing songs from the woman’s point of view and vice versa. The music is meant to be suggestive of waves… TD |
