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Nomad
03:00
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Let me tell you bout one time I settled down
Six days of sleeping in a pretty northern town
Caught the train at sunrise when the sky was turning pink
Once you catch it, you can move or you can sink
Is it something in the air out here?
I’ll go crazy if I stay another year
Cause on the bus and in the station some days
There`s a little voice that tells me not to stay- here
I’m a nomad
A nomad
And soon my darling I’ll be going away
Cause I know now, I know now
I know that I can’t stay
These days I'm restless and I don’t know why
I can trick my body into thinking I can fly
You don’t believe when I tell you I’m lost
I say I chose this life; I never knew the cost
Of being nomad
A nomad
And soon my darling I’ll be going away
Cause I know now, I know now
I know I’ll be home someday
Climb the roof and climb the ladder
I don’t sleep at night these days
In the end it doesn’t matter
Now I know that I can’t stay
Climb the roof and climb the ladder
I don’t sleep at night these days
In the end it doesn’t matter
Now I know that I can’t stay
I’m a nomad
A nomad
And soon my darling I’ll be going away
Cause I know now, I know now
I know that I can't stay
I’m a nomad
A nomad
And soon my darling I’ll be going away
Cause I know now, I know now
I know I’ll be home someday
Climb the roof and climb the ladder
I don’t sleep at night these days
In the end it doesn’t matter
Now I know that I can’t stay
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Kites
03:10
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Another dawn, another day
Another wind to fly away
Dreams were always far away, my dear
If I'm the kite, then you're the string
You hold me down, you let me sing
But I am lost on painted wings
And you can't ground me
But the wind picks up across the foam
And rumbles through the bones of home
Hazy nights and easy dreams
Are not what they seem
You might be surprised: how easy it can be
The girl you think you know is not the one I see
And we skirt around each other
Like two kites out on the breeze
But now the cold invades my lungs
Steals the words I've never sung
The wind has tossed me so far-flung:
The ocean's cold, my love
And all the blueprints I designed
Skin and bones and painted lines
I've forgotten how to find
The wind beneath my wings
But the wind picks up across the foam
And rumbles through the bones of home
Hazy nights and easy dreams
Are hardly what they seem
You might be surprised: how easy it can be
You only have to ask, and you can come with me:
And we'll skirt around each other
Like two kites out on the breeze
Out on the breeze
Among a thousand paper kites
Rising up towards the light
If you want to keep me close
You'd better hold me tight
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Woodgreen
02:51
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The old grey house stands alone on the hill
And the light in the study is burning on still
Now the windows are dark, though you think you can see
Every bed filled, every child asleep
Come up and join me one hot summer night
Drinking tea on the porch in the last of the light
The sun will have set by the time we’re alone
for the ghosts in the stairwell will never come home
And if seven’s a family, tell me, what’s one
Alone in the house now the children are gone
Now she stays at the window, remembers the cost
Of the life that she lived and the love that she lost
Once there was a family, once there was love
But now we all bicker and where have we gone
How we longed to grow older and find our own ways
Never knowing that these were the best of our days
Sometimes I think he’ll be there in the den
He’ll smile to see me and hold me again
And the faces I love will return to the nest
And this family’s heart will come home for a rest
If two is company, tell me, what’s one,
In the echoing house now the mourners are gone
You know your dreams will all come with a cost
And this one’s the life and the home that you lost
Your lungs are burning in the cold spring air
There’s a ghost in the kitchen, the carved wooden chair
Memory hurts when you come back this year
Crying in the moonlight at the top of the stairs
If we were a family, why have we gone
From the woods of our childhood protective and strong
Now folded and creased in the words of a song
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When sight is gone and hair is grey
And light is dying from the day
When there is nothing I have left to say
I will sing to you
When night is coming, full of fear
And you can’t see the sunset here
I will give you hope and paint it for your ears
And I will sing for you
When in my arms you crack and break
You’ve made it through no harder day
When there is nothing left for me to say
I will sing to you
And someday when you’re far from me
Lost in doubt while I am lost at sea
You must remember I will always be
Singing here for you
And though your voice is growing thin
You fight the fight you cannot win
Don’t fear for me: we’ll be okay, you can give in
We'll sing on for you
I will sing for you.
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Homeward
03:03
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My shoes are worn to paper at the soles
My soul is worn to nothing from the road
But the rhythm of the train will be my drum
Tomorrow we will see who I become
Cause I can find a home
No matter where I go
It’s been a long time
Since I left the place I knew
But after all my journeys
I’ll be coming home to you
I fell in love with Paris in the rain
The wine we drank was darker than the waves
I danced the streets in Venice and in Spain
It somehow only seems like a delay
Though I can find a home
No matter where I go
I know to every city
I will someday bid adieu
But after all my journeys
I’ll be coming home to you
The road to home is shorter with every step
The wind tastes of winter songs and old regrets
But I know my summer dreams can still come true
I’ll be coming home to you
I have made a home
And it’s sweeter than the road
It’s been a long time
Since I left the place I knew
In the quiet misty morning
I’ll be coming home to you
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Evelyn Elgie Vancouver, British Columbia
When not lost in the woods of Ontario, Evelyn Elgie lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She likes playing the kazoo and singing very loudly. She works as a Disney princess in her spare time.
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