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You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea

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YOU WANTED TO BE THE SHORE BUT INSTEAD YOU WERE THE SEA

How could I have ever known
The house I lived in was not a home?
When I was a child I wanted to believe
You were the shore, but instead you were the sea.
It was not my fault, it’s not my fault,
I’ll say it again, so I remember it was not my fault.

How could I have ever known,
When my compass was broken in the storm?
I was so far West I couldn’t see
The sun rising in the East.
It was not my fault, it’s not my fault
I’ll say it again, so I remember it was not my fault.

If I was the sun you were the black cloud
The cumulus gathering inside my mouth.
If I was the sun you were the black cloud,
The murder of crows, like rain coming down.

Always there but never seen
I was lost, adrift in the deep blue-green.
It wasn’t about me it was about you,
You were never there when I needed you.
That’s the cold, blue feather of truth.
It was not my fault, it’s not my fault,
I’ll say it again, so I remember it was not my fault.

If I was the sun you were the black cloud,
The cumulus gathering inside my mouth.
If I was the sun you were the black cloud,
The murder of crows, like rain coming down.

When I was a child I wanted to believe
You were the shore, but instead you were the sea.

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from You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea, released September 30, 2020

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Natalie D-Napoleon Santa Barbara, California

Natalie D-Napoleon is an Australian-American singer-songwriter and poet who formed a US-based trio with Kenny Edwards (Linda Ronstadt) and Dan Phillips. Natalie’s latest album, You Wanted to Be the Shore But Instead You Were the Sea, was recorded with one mic in a hundred year old chapel and features Phillips along with James Connolly (Van Dyke Parkes) and Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams). ... more

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