This song was found/left on an old guitar that was given to my wife as a little girl. It was returned years later to her. She doesn't play guitar, so it fell into my son's possession. He was two or three at the time, and would play it like a double bass, and often just walk away from it, mid-song. The guitar was already falling apart, but constant crashing helped it along. It had one last song left in it though. Oddly about passing-on, and I guess the sadness of losing one-another. It was a song to the guitar, and a family member who, too, was leaving us. One of my favourite singers joins me on this song.
lyrics
The Boat
SOCAN/BMI/Radiolatte, 2006
Key C / BPM
There’s a boat
Waiting in the river
A boat that’ll take you home
Push out
Into the evening
Goodbye to the ones you love
Take care
Love to the others
Who traveled on early boats
When you’re there
Please be my pigeon
To your leg, I have tied my note
Chorus:
What Happens to all of the love?
What happens to all of the pain?
What happens to the thing in our hearts/cars?
Will it happen again and again and again?
Tell me please
The secrets of the seasons
When the window’s open and the cold winds come
That song we’ll hear
When we’re all leaving
A melody that’ll haunt our run
Chorus
Bridge - Be free
There’s a boat
Waiting in the river
A boat that’ll take you home
Slip out into the ether
Good bye to the ones we love (x4)
We won’t forget the ones we’ve loved (x3)
Good bye to the ones we love
credits
from Sundumb,
released October 10, 2010
Jay Harris - Git/Vox
Paul Langlois - Vox
