Out to Sea

from The Swan by Old Sap

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O no a ripping cold wind blows snow, and it won't slow the big gust goes and it goes, it blows out to sea. Out to sea.
Out to see me pitched so steep like a leaning tree by the side of a stream, my leaves fall beneath, they sweep out to sea. Out to sea.

O I know life will throw everything you care for away.
Let go my soul, loose all your holds.
Summer's done, the winter has come down for long,
the weight of snow makes every limb grow strong.

Board the train, take me away in a day to someplace safe,
let the tracks ca-lack to relax my brain
till the snow turns to rain
and all is washed away. Washed away.

Washed, awake, two days away from the coast and I see the scenes
of plains horses galloping through fields
where the high winds blow and all is washed away. Washed away.

O I know life will throw everything I've cared for away.
Let go my soul, loose all your holds.
Summer's done, the winter has come down for long,
the weight of snow makes every limb grow strong.

Well the rain may fall through the dawn
but the train keeps rolling on.
To the left of me, the ground drops steep
to the river far below.
It will follow out to sea.
We all follow out to sea.

I talked for a while to an older man, he said
"You just do what you can
and the rest of life is beyond your control
and you gotta let it unfold.
We are goners, you and me.
We're all goners, you and me."

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from The Swan, released May 13, 2016

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Old Sap Asheville, North Carolina

Old Sap is a poet-banjoist currently located in Western North Carolina.

Folk, Folk Rock, and Americana.

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