The Green Ocean

from Feathers by Will O. Dear

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lyrics

All my friends in the city, I wrote them
There is a Tussock Grass here that’s so solemn
I’ve been watching it bow cleverly
before the gale

Every hare in the meadow is listening
over the plains if the Starlings are whistling
But onto their pointed ears whispers a wind
carrying Quails

Whether the Storks are tapping for courtship
or to applaud the lithe Penduline Tit
They have returned to their bumpy plots
carrying thy mail

Carpets of Goosegrass hinge onto Celandine
adorning the vent of a desolate copper mine
Is the green ocean hiding a shaft
wherein i wail?

All of my friends in the city, I wrote them
how a celestial tinge was unfolding
casting a reddish light onto the mirror
of a calm lake

Hidden in Pondweed under the surface
slumbers a pike that doesn’t turn, lest
the queen Bittern vectors her beads
onto his scales

A handful of Water Striders is sliding
for the invisible ones that are hiding
Are they performing a crooked ballet
wherein I wail?

Is it but an ocean
giving the poet’s voice a sound
Longing for emotion
because it’s cold and stark?

Every tree is brut for burning
whilst a seed bears its returning
Bump a bee out of the sky

credits

from Feathers, released January 28, 2016
All music and lyrics - Willem Waterschoot
Bass - Wouter Mollen
Backing vocals - Vera Dirkx, Dave Mollen
Trumpets - Hans Beijens
Additional sparkles - Dave Mollen
Artwork - Anneke Koster

Recorded by Wouter Mollen at Redlake Studios
Produced by Willem Waterschoot & Wouter Mollen
Mixed & mastered by Willem Waterschoot

For Eric & Anneke

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