Salt Sea Wind

from Fever Dream by The Bedlam Furnaces

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This is a bitter-sweet love song about self-sacrifice and playing second-fiddle to another’s obsessions. While I wrote the verses, the chorus is actually anonymous – translated from an ancient Greek source in 1926 by Frederick Adam Wright. You can find it in ‘Complete Love Poems of the Pallatine Anthology’, based on the lost collection of Constantine Caphelus C7BC – 600AD. This song is actually from a series I’m writing based on the story ‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ by HP Lovecraft. Lovecraft fans should know I’ve taken a couple of liberties, which I’ll explain if I ever release the EP, or in the even more unlikely event of an interviewer asking me. Featuring Alison Allison (vocals, recorder) Reuben Allison (cello) and Thaddeus Allison (additional classical guitar and electric rhythm guitar).

lyrics

I say a prayer to the sea.
The fruit, I plucked from the tree.
I wished to set your spirit free.

And We must know…
(I couldn’t stop you if I tired.)
What lies below…
(My eyes forgave you but they lied.)
Called, we all must go.
(I call the tides).

Oh would I were the salt sea wind, and
you upon the beach would
bare your breast, and let me blow
until your heart I reach.

Our dream insisted you must fly
to where the ocean meets the sky
(the only failure not to try).

And we must know…

Oh would I were…

I wish that I were by your side;
explore the words I opened wide.
Awake a world that wants to hide.

And we must know…

Oh would I were…

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from Fever Dream, released February 12, 2021

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Sysiphus

Nov 2023
Cursed (Goat Mix)

Oct 2023
Cursed (Wicker Man Mix)

Oct 2023
Loss Of Innocence

Dec 2022
Pulling Wires

May 2022
Worlds Apart

Oct 2021
Maybe. Maybe not.

Aug 2021
Fever Dream

Feb 2021
Wild Rocket

Jun 2020
Interrobang

May 2020
Bestiary

Nov 2014

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