Live acoustic pass of Boat of Sorrow with drums. Two lines are borrowed from William Butler Yeats poem - The Cloak, The Boat and Shoes, but the rest of the lyrics take it in a whole other direction.
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Story behind the song
The song started with a couple lines from William Butler Yeats poem - The Cloak, The Boat and Shoes, but the rest of the lyrics take it in a whole other direction. I tried to do a more uptempo version and it just didn't fit the song. This one pass demo seems to capture that dark spirit that fits the lyrics and it just maybe one of the darkest songs I've done. Lyrically it has a classical poem feel, so I will let it self interpret.
Lyrics
1. Lingering unfamiliar hands
Mouths gasping for air
Buried my tears in your hair
Oh that time could remember youth
Love used up kiss by kiss
Never give all your heart
Surrendering all your hope,
Only to be left with none
CHO
2. Of pen and paper, ink and blood
Words eulogizing dead love
There’s no flame left in the past
Only dust and anger
I weave the shoes of sorrow*
And in old age I shall wear them in the light
I will only recall unspent tomorrow’s
And I will give up the fight
I build a boat of sorrow – Old and Gray and full of sleep
Full of passionless tomorrow’s as passions fall asleep
Of sun and moon and hollow wood
Where love does not stay where it should
3. Nothing here but nothing there
Mortal wounds and earthy cares
A chance at memories half remembered
And love not properly tended
Opportunities lost in time
Youth tends toward the blind
There’s always time to build
A boat built of sorrow
Cho
* Lines borrowed from William Butler Yeats – The Cloak, The Boat and Shoes
