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Snapping Sails

from Honey by Harper Meader

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I have the ocean in my blood. When my Honey suggested that I write a song of the sea, it came out in one sitting. Of course, it turned itself into a love song when I wasn't looking!

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Snapping Sails
by Eric Robbins, May, 2013

When I was a younger man I left to sail the seas, and
I told my father, well, I can’t say the reason,
But something’s calling me across the far horizon
And I’ll find it or I’ll die!

Snapping sails, rolling seas
Broaching whales, all called to me
Nights on deck with a shared mug of wine,
But none of these were what I sailed to find.

Once I asked the captain what he looked for in his roaming,
He said sometimes he rounds Cape Horn, sailing back from Nome,
And then it’s all downwind from there until he plants his boots at home,
And that’s all he said when I asked why.

Many years are gone now since the day I first departed,
And I’ve wondered why I journeyed off the edge of every chart,
But the day I found my reason was the day I lost my heart
To a lady who has oceans in her eyes.

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from Honey, released August 14, 2013
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by James Lindenschmidt for Crafted Recordings.

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Harper Meader Sidney, Maine

Harper Meader lives in Maine with his inspiration, Honey, in their unique cordwood masonry hideaway, where, when he's not writing new music for guitar and folk harp, he's pursuing numerous creative interests like scrimshaw jewelry, brewing mead, and writing poetry and fiction. Family, love, and the Land-spirits put a guitar on his knee and a pencil in his hand at every turn. ... more

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