1. |
Waterline
03:25
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WATERLINE
Words and music G. S. MacLeod and Mark Caprani
Take me out to the waterline
Take me to the sea
Cry baby, cry tonight
Cry yourself to sleep
Cry baby, cry tonight
It's just another week
Old soldiers never die
They just fade away
Old soldiers mothers cry
Living from day to day
Belfast is burning in the night
I saw it in the news today
The bombs are going off at night
Where the children play
Take me out to the waterline
Take me to the sea
Take me out to the waterline
It's where I can be free
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2. |
Sailing 1847
03:29
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SAILING 1847
Words and music G. S. MacLeod
The year is 1847 / Half an hour before heaven
Our staple food is gone / Another migrant song
‘Cause I’m sailing 1847
Sailing half an hour before heaven
Ship greed on the water / Cholera for son’s and daughters
Left Cork city / Olive branch from the dove
‘Cause I’m sailing 1847
Sailing half an hour before heaven
Well the monarch may have its way / But our day will come
Take our right to culture / Take our Irish tongue
‘Cause I’m sailing 1847
Sailing half an hour before heaven
(Bridge)
Peace on earth, let the orphans, keep their names of family,
Peace on earth, bury me under, Celtic cross don’t damn me - silent stone,
Peace on earth, God bless the horror of Grosse-Isle earth,
‘Cause I’m sailing 1847
Sailing half an hour before heaven
Machiavellian principles / Hidden under the hood,
Dead grass in the mouth / You emptied our neighborhood.
‘Cause I’m sailing 1847
Sailing half an hour before heaven
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3. |
Thistle and the Rose
03:06
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THISTLE AND THE ROSE
Words and music G. S. MacLeod
The purpose of this flight
The purpose of this night
A rubbing from your stone
Just to say I’m home
CHORUS
Thistle and the rose
Cape Breton water keeps you still
I wake the grave with my uncle’s Glenlivet will
And the first thing he said
“I miss my brother he was my best friend”
CHORUS
The Eagle passes us now
The flight of will’s wind
The presence of his crest
From his military breast
CHORUS
Buried Bras D’or
Their marriage
Is in heaven once more
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A SONG TO JUSTIFY HER DEPARTURE
Words and music G. S. MacLeod
Soiled the hand of the earth
Cleansed myself in the ocean surf
It wasn’t what you would expect it to be
I found your hair on the balcony
And spring is the time for me
Sense the trigger of the rain
Perfumed places came to name
Change brings us to reason
CHORUS
I can only get it from here
Tell me what you want to hear
In a wilderness of mistrust
Don’t let it get the best of us
You can only make it if you try
And your charity gives us eyes
CHORUS
What will I do
Hate and Love
No one forces anyone
We only choose to react from
We shouldn’t get the currency
From the undeserved urgency
SOLO
What will I do
Hate and love
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5. |
Losing the Father
03:28
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LOSING THE FATHER
Words and music G. S. MacLeod
Zero fears
Zero tears
Holy water
Half-mast hearts
Flags resist
Burials
Good-bye kiss
Wake the death
Sunken chest
Place the pennies on the eyes
That won’t see
CHORUS
SOLO
Old boys pass whiskey
And tell the stories
Young boy spades ashes to dust
And you will find out about the man
You never knew
Burn back salt memories of foul tongue
Regret what you could have
Thy will be done
On earth as in heaven
CHORUS
‘Cause zero
Zero tears
Zero
Tears
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6. |
Père Lachaise Paris
03:29
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PERE LACHAISE PARIS
Words and music G. S. MacLeod
She said it was up to me
To let her know
Paris hotel - graveyard
I should have let her go
I don’t know how long
That you’ve felt this way
In Kilkenny
We hid our hearts away
A real rain came
To wash the dirty water
Eat from spirit hill
And walk with gods will
I’m going for a cleansing
Of my soul got to reach the real side
Before bitterness shows
CHORUS
For love, true love
Renewal of feelings
Into the unexpected
Just when you give up
Someone is there to open up
The heart is a landmark
Of mapped misery
But faith in true love
Well I stumble to the
CHORUS
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G.S. MacLeod Montreal, Québec
G. S. MacLeod is a descendent of Hiberno-Norse immigrants, he grew up in Montreal's multicultural community where he was exposed to blues, rock, jazz, folk, Celtic, punk and world music. MacLeod has written skillfully woven a lyrical tapestry in French and English to create an original Canadian storytelling voice from the pedigrees of ‘Rambling’ Jack Elliot, Gordon Downie and Daniel Lanois. ... more
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