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harbours [live at wedna]

from underfall yard (sketches 2010 - 2015) by ed lofstedt

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Here's another preview from the upcoming EP.

This country-tinged love song is being recorded as a foot-thumping guitar and fiddle number for that record, but here you'll hear it live as recorded at my wedding in 2016.

Harbours was the first song I wrote following a long hiatus from music, and whilst it channels Johnny Cash it's absolutely inspired by my new hometown, Bristol, and my marriage too.

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you were wrong to think the romance had flown
from the ages that shifted our dustbowl home
this hold was decades in its setting our bones
it was mundane surrender, it was coal to each coat

at once our harbours sigh
held in time inside that traveller's eye
if there's a hand you should hold it's mine
long flickers the candle that climbs in a rising tide

and cobwebs and cages mark the trail to mistakes
these peculiar attractions that fit and fall away
unique in your refusal to break
with the weather we reap when we reawake

and how we fall through life
sail home and climb that old harbourside
and if there's a hand you should hold it's mine
so quicken the pulse of this rusted remain of my heart

like notes sent out to sea, pounding in the deep
a light from silent centuries returns from sleep
a shuddered slip of years, don't scream another word

snuffed out, as our eyes unfolded
our anchors outlived every heart absconded
a whispered remain where our feet once fell

at once our harbours sigh
held in time inside that traveller's eye
if there's a hand you should hold it's mine
a shoreline restored to its ancient grace
our lungs push, your face remains the same

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from underfall yard (sketches 2010 - 2015), released December 4, 2016
music and lyrics © ed lofstedt 2015
guitars/vocals - ed lofstedt
recorded by Michal Jakosz

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ed lofstedt Bristol, UK

Plays folk. Channels post-rock. Dreams post-punk. Eats pop.

"One of the UK's best up and coming songwriters...a credit to his craft." - All Will Be Well

Ed channels electronica and post-rock through his folk songs, drawing in huge dynamic shifts, spellbinding stagecraft and bewitching lyrics.

Ed's new EP 'sweep me away' is out now! ... more

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