A gorgeously gentle, evocative new number by the veteran Belgium-based Californian folk singer-songwriter and poet, with backing vocals by Adrianne Lenker and produced by her band Big Thief, who also play on Zimmerman’s forthcoming album, Dance of Love, out on 11 October via 4AD. To explore and enjoy more by Tucker, see also the other embedded links below.
Take me out to the edge of the sky
Fill me with laughter and a lopsided smile
Roll back the waves that cloud my eyes
I want to dance with the whales for a while
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
There's a message in a bottle
From fourteen hundred and ninety-two
Shipwrecked sailors on a rock
A stone's throw away from the village they plundered
"Our time is up, no more shall we count
The clicks of the clock"
Oh yeah, oh yеah, oh yeah
"Beware, bеware with sea-weed in her hair
A mermaid strums a haunted mandolin
She’ll take you deeper into the maze
Past the point where you'll survive
By doing tricks with your chin"
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
"Oh, the sleepers of the deep sweep from shore to floor
Chances are slim you'll come back the same
And if you wish to return to the shore
I’ll teach the gentle Vikings to remember your name.”
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
So drain me away to the far-flung sea
Measure me with mystery, weigh me with wonder
Slip me away between the sheets
Over the top and all the way under
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
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