Carried Album Lyrics / Don Macdonald
What a Change
Midnight flames were dancing,
waltzing in the sublime,
sharing delicate whispers
near the edge of time.
From the shadows a witness
wakened from his sleep,
spied the young lovers
and rose from his cover
and buried their dreams
neath’ a blanket of lies so deep.
What a shame, young lovers
that we blame you still now,
what a change, young lovers
had the fruit stayed on the bough.
What a change, what a change.
One young couple lay sleeping,
caused two worlds to collide
one where
one where
One night boots stormed the bedroom,
wakened them from sleep
grabbed the young lovers
ripped from their covers
and gave them a night in a cell
and a sentence so steep.
What a shame, young lovers
that they took you on that day
but a change, young lovers,
you began that fateful way.
What a change, what a change.
The stories of Adam and Eve and Richard and Mildred Loving had profound consequences on gender and race relations.
SIRENA
I saw her once, at night near
From the toss of the waves, she came and sang to me
That was the start of a strange infatuation
And I’ll never be the same,
and my
I think I’m
Since I heard her
The song hit me like a bullet
I can still hear the shot
The mist cleared and she was on her way
The next wave had come
And she was off into oblivion
And I’m never gonna be the same
Feeling oh so strange
And I’m in the darkness spinning
I think I’m going insane
Since I heard her
The song was a curse, crafted to perfection
Like a nightshade leaf, so innocent at first
With one note I was taken fast
And like a drug wished it would last
Last forever
Feeling oh so strange,
And I’m in the darkness spinning
I think I’m going insane
Since I heard her
Adrift with emotions
I’m drawn to the ocean
Is this real,
or just a fool’s fantasy?
The sea is a curtain
The depths uncertain
But for me
she will be worth the wait, worth the wait
and set me free.
Feelin oh so strange
I think I’m
Since I heard her
A Siren’s Song (The Sirena is a mythological sea creature from Filipino culture)
Carried
Over fences into trees
the children’s voices carry me
and even though I cannot run
through the open
their laughter
on a quiet street
echoing into the infinite
to grasses green and overrun
while backs ignore the setting sun
I join them in this magic place.
It’s so warm, so warm
these memories and reveries
calm the waters soothe the storm
On the lake and in the stream
the children’s voices carry me
and even though my legs are weak
through the open
their whispers
as they chart a course
past
to the impossible
to desert sand and mountain spire
only they can fly as high
I join them in this magic place.
It’s so warm, so warm
these memories and reveries
calm the waters soothe the storm
It’s so
these memories and reveries
give me
Morning Takes Her
In the cold of
And every night since she comes to me and always stay late
And I’m still in love with her but
heavy with knowing our fate,
that morning is coming it’s useless to fight
cause she will be gone with the first ray of light
I pray to the night to keep out the day
But morning still takes her,
We dance on the thin edge of time between night and day
It’s a
And she whispers to me and I can’t contain my hearts scream
So hold off the light, my enemy sun
Just one shaft of daylight and I’ll be undone
I pray to the night to keep out the day
But morning still takes her,
She melts in my arms like the first flake of winter’s caress
And she parts the crowd spinning in her silver dress
And we’re laughing and crying and oh how I’m now a mess
Cause morning is coming it’s useless to fight
cause she will be gone with the first ray of light
I pray to the night to keep out the day
But morning still takes her,
Suicide Squeeze
There’s a place by the fence where the ground just
It started as a patch but had grown to twice the size late last night
And the far white picket has turned to brown
And we’re the talk of this little town
There’s
I like my coffee, sometimes tea
but what’s in my cup looks new to me.
A curious blend so nouveau riche,
but there’s a slick on top and it’s thick beneath.
Where did you get it
There’s
When the shovel hits the ground there’s a screaming sound
It’s awake again awake again
When tree and stone meet earth and bone
then we shake again, shake again
There’s a shudder from beneath
When the ancients seas,
give up their hold in a suicide
a suicide squeeze below the ground
a suicide squeeze below the ground
We got new folks here from all across the nation
And a fools gold that caused this big migration
And last night we felt the rattle and roll
And then woke up to this big
There’s
When the shovel hits the ground there’s a screaming sound
It’s awake again wake again
When tree and stone meet earth and bone
then we shake again, shake again
There’s a shudder from beneath
When the ancients seas,
give up their hold in a suicide
a suicide squeeze below the ground
suicide squeeze below the ground
Suicide squeeze, suicide squeeze…
Fracking
Sweet Embrace
In the room across the
But
Maybe one day we’ll cross over
And meet face to face
And on that day I will hold her
In a sweet embrace
No guitar or violin just one voice gently swaying.
Through the hollow streets of
At times I think the touch of her is in that sad refrain
Maybe one day we’ll cross over
And meet face to face
And on that day I will hold her
In a sweet embrace
Maybe one day we’ll be closer
I can’t give up faith
and on that day I will hold her
in a sweet embrace.
In the day I’ve joined her tune, in
And wafting trails of our duet join in
Then at
Maybe one day we’ll cross over
And meet face to face
And on that day I will hold her
In a sweet embrace
Maybe one day we’ll be closer
I can’t give up faith
and on that day I will hold her
in a sweet embrace.
Walls that Separate Loved Ones
A White Bird on an Elephant’s Back
A White bird on an elephant’s back
keeping an eye out for trouble
for so long you have always been saving me
on those nights when the shadows emerge from the rubble
you hear them on the breeze
and sing me to the trees.
There are days when the elephant’s back
feels the weight of the struggle
and black flies fill the skies around me
my thick skin gets unbearably thin
when in trouble but
with your beat of wings
I’m sheltered from those things
Guarded by love I can do anything
but when you’re gone I end
crumbling…
I used to run with the scavengers
howling at night in the summer
our thrill rides under dark skies
kept you away
but when engines roared and rifles cracked I discovered
the thrill was in those things
beneath a pair of wings
Guarded by love I can do anything
But when you’re gone I end
Crumbling…
You are my white bird.
The Egret and the Elephant have a relationship where one protects the other
Last Night Train
been sittin’ here by the red firelight
but one door is all that stands in the way
between dreaming and
Headlights at the top of the hill,
gotta cut these roots and pry the lock
cause that night train’s got one last stop.
And nothin’s gonna hold or keep me
no
and nothin’s gonna hold or keep me
from
Memories are sown so deep
Locked away within
But yesterdays have walled me in
And I’m afraid of
But nothin’s gonna hold or keep me
no
and nothin’s gonna hold or keep me
from
Cause I’ve been
but
Summoning the determination to leave. People get stuck.
Fireworks
Out of Mind
We met at night on the 4th of July You were the light and I butterfly And there were fireworks right from the start two young souls shining in the dark. I knew our prospects were so very good you were my Marian, I your Robin Hood but expectations were maybe too high each day can’t be like the fourth of July fireworks fade as they fall from the sky. Fireworks fade, fireworks fade And then somehow, it all went away The early sparks: embers of gray Between us, a canyons divide with me on the left and you on the right and so far to the other side But here in this moment now looking back we were so young the more the earth circled the sun we would be fine. Fireworks fade, fireworks fade But there will be fireworks another day A few years later, here in the park my hand in yours, one in the dark our broken seams mended and sure all eyes fixed on a trail of light, as fireworks blaze so unearthly bright. Fireworks fade, fireworks fade But there will be fireworks another day
I walk for miles into memory tracing my footsteps in the past to find the place I can hide away where troubles gone and hard to find in yesterdays I leave it all behind Deep into valleys of memory you came and joined me at my side under the shade of the tallest tree I’m out of sight and out of mind where troubles gone and hard to find in yesterdays I leave it all behind I’m gone, gone, gone here where I belong We’re in the last days of summer out on the rooftop back at home it is a place like no other I’m out of sight and out of mind where troubles gone and hard to find in yesterdays I leave it all behind I’m gone, gone, gone back where I belong I’m long, long gone here from now on What goes around comes around…. When all the edges of the moment scrape at the surface of the skin I walk for miles into memory and find myself again
SIRENA I saw her once, at night near harbour station From the toss of the waves, she came and sang to me That was the start of a strange infatuation And I’ll never be the same, and my ears just won’t stop ringin’ I think I’m goin insane Since I heard her singin. The song hit me like a bullet I can still hear the shot The mist cleared and she was on her way The next wave had come And she was off into oblivion And I’m never gonna be the same Feeling oh so strange And I’m in the darkness spinning I think I’m going insane Since I heard her singin The song was a curse, crafted to perfection Like a nightshade leaf, so innocent at first With one note I was taken fast And like a drug wished it would last Last forever Feeling oh so strange, And I’m in the darkness spinning I think I’m going insane Since I heard her singin Adrift with emotions I’m drawn to the ocean Is this real, or just a fool’s fantasy? The sea is a curtain The depths uncertain But for me she will be worth the wait, worth the wait