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The Boat Builder

by Simon de Voil

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1.
Do you remember that I wrote you this song? it was late in the afternoon and we’d just eaten chocolate cake sun was streaming through the windows making beautiful light you were looking radiant and I was so full of joy on your wedding day It was seven years ago but not that that matters now and this was our sacred place, this was our special day sun was streaming into the room making beautiful light you were looking radiant and I was so full of joy on our wedding day Will you remember that I wrote you this song and the life we shared before things went wrong? I meant every word I said, think you did too but now there’s nothing left but this love that I give to you on your wedding day
2.
I don’t know how to hold your hand and reach beyond broken vows. You shared my world and it was beautiful sowing our dreams, it was just beautiful. I’ll take my time in letting go and make sure that I can still hold your hand. You shared my world and it was beautiful broken and whole and it was beautiful. I can’t let this soil my world so I reach for you but darling where’s your hands now? You share my world and it’s so different now violated and scorned but still beautiful. I don’t know how to hold your hand and reach beyond spoken vows. This is my world it’s so different now sacred and scarred, it’s just beautiful
3.
Dreich (free) 02:04
It rains more in my heart than the hills on a dreich wet day so I reach out to my friends and they hold me with such grace the sun will shine No I wouldn’t have made it through without you Come I’ll give you rest I will give you rest the sun will shine
4.
Acid Rain 03:04
The anger falls down on my skin like acid rain You can go your way and I will pack my own things we’ll be on our best behaviour now but don’t dare we say it’s ok cause it’s not ok I don’t cry so often my truth’s more clearly spoken sun shines in my heart every now and then but don’t dare you say it’s ok this is not ok How come in my mind’s eye I see you trapped and lonely locked up in a tower and I watch you lying there? So I can’t say that it’s ok cause I know you’re not ok I will go my own way high up on this mountain plant these seeds and maybe some forgiveness might grow so maybe one day I can say that it turned out ok but the anger falls down on my skin like a gentle acid rain
5.
It’s been a long long night I’m waiting for the rising sun my arctic winter weathering the storms. Wish you could hold my hand I know you share the same fate too but we’re poles apart now and your winter ’s still to come. At first I searched for you the pull to be there by your side but when the moon rose could see I was alone. And the sea froze cold It’s made up of a billion tears shed there by all of us since the beginning of time. When the first storm came I thought that I would die right there that there’d be nothing left but a soul can’t freeze. And when I opened my eyes I saw the most beautiful lights shining all around me I knew I was lucky to be alive. Wish I could take your tears and wipe all of my pain away but it’s our humanity and it’s your Antarctic sun. You know it’s been a long long night still waiting for the coming dawn been months of winter now I’m waiting for the sun.
6.
Frozen 03:45
Love is such a thing that we might die for in a world that’s not quite so pure. Come and take my hand and I will follow you to a place so calm and still. He goes to where his bride lies sleeping beautiful, beneath the ice. It’s cold and he’s not sure if he’s gonna die here but he lies down, reaches out to touch her hair. Love is such a thing that I might live for in a world so full of pain. Come and take my hand and you could follow me to a sacred grove so full of life. My love I called I called for you I called your name four hundred times.
7.
Cosmic 02:22
He’s cosmic falling through a vacuum in time spiral ever downward through a dark and empty void. Maybe I’ve been here before but I know it was a long long time ago I saw myself as an angel charred and falling through the void. Cosmic maybe I’m cosmic Maybe I live here But maybe I’m stuck here It’s just empty a place devoid of any noise everything’s just waiting watch him as he falls. And it pulls him tugging at the fabric of his form bursting to be open so the new life can be born. Cosmic maybe I’m cosmic Maybe I know this But maybe I’m stuck here now.
8.
I could not stay, it’s just I could not stay without you by my side so I built myself a round wee boat. I wove my boat from willow and birch and pushed my way out through the surf to where the tide would carry me away. It took some time for me to build myself a sturdy clinker boat I did not know how to work the grain. But I built my boat from oak and pine and found a way to scarf the joins steam the wood so it would fit just right. I raised my sail and I rowed my boat across the sea of tears of pain and grief and shame. To find the croft where we both lived we worked the land with love and care till you broke down and said “I need to go”. I found the ruin of our home and there’s no roof there now the foxgloves they grow tall. The wren’s still there, the blackbird too where once I grew those pansies for you and in the kitchen garden the herbs still grow. Before I left I took my seed bag out the one you mended for me I broadcast on the wind. So when you come and look around you’ll see my flowers for miles around the flowers hold the colours of my love for you.
9.
Circle Dance (free) 02:07
We sow these these seeds of love and human kindness the light to shine in nights of darkness bright stars to help us find our way
10.
Feel like I died and went to Maine to learn to be myself again. I’m in a cabin all alone with tomorrow’s porridge cooking on the open fire. Learning to use a chisel and a plane and build in myself a sense of home again. Open my palm, breathe deeply turn and face the wind. Won’t hold my dreams too tightly lest they fall through my fingers like sand. Feel like I died and went to Maine to learn to be myself again. I’m on an island all alone with tomorrow’s porridge cooking on the open fire. The stars are shining overhead and I am lucky and I am blest to be following my dreams.
11.
Can’t quite believe what I see with my eyes so I have to reach out check that it’s there. It’s only my life but it’s good now beautiful and kind now and gentle and I’m more wise now. And how could it all work out? How could it be this fine now? Look at my life I survived somehow and I’m building a brand new home. Still the tears of betrayal are just endless but keeping them alive would be useless hurts nobody else but me. It’s time to see things differently. I was finding my way when the snow came down covering over my tracks on the path to where I belonged was now a place that time had moved on. So I look above at the stars tonight so crisp and clear and there’s no moonlight the air is cold on my face but I’m warm inside and there’s a fire in my new home. I look outside at the snow tonight it’s barely light by my candle light. My lover she calls for me draws the fire deep in my soul. And how could it all work out? How could it be this fine now? Look at my life it’s so good somehow and I’m building a brand new home. Can’t quite believe what I see with my eyes so I have to look twice check that it’s there. It’s only my life but it’s good now beautiful and kind now and gentle and I’m more whole now.
12.
Master Carpenter (free) 01:35
Christ you are the master carpenter wield well your tools in the workshop of our world so that I who come rough hewn to your bench may become a truer beauty of your hand and touch Christ you gave to me the gifts of courage and faith and laughter and took my hand and pushed me out from your sacred nest to go where I don’t know where soldiers spit and curse to carry your light of truth out to an endangered world this world of ours, this world of mine
13.
Longing (free) 03:57
I long for you thirst to be home with you run to you feel this longing inside. In sorrow I called to you in joy now I smile with you reach out with open heart. I am one with you I long to be there beside you I will run to you, run home and be waiting for you I will look to you, remember and look for you. In love and separation in our broken perfection we heal and grow beyond. In darkness I could see light so in life now I see shadows like a river walk beneath some tall beech trees. I am one with you... In love and separation when you’re broken wide open standing there with nothing left to hide. So fragile with such beauty and your candle burns so brightly lantern held high through the long wild nights. I am one with you... In love and separation in our broken perfection we heal and grow beyond ourselves.

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released February 1, 2011

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Simon de Voil UK

Simon de Voil is a Scottish singer/songwriter and sacred musician, now living in Vermont. Known for soulful, often haunting songs that invoke the spirit of his homeland, as well as his own personal story, Simon pairs thoughtful and inspiring lyrics with compelling piano melodies, and a rich, tender vocal style. ... more

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