Name: Light a Candle
Duration: P00H03M54S
Description: I wrote the first version of this song in 2006. The lyrics started off as melancholy memories from childhood beach holidays, but in 2011 I added the spoken word surreal story over the original lyrics.

Light a Candle

by Vulpine Choir

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I wrote the first version of this song in 2006. The lyrics started off as melancholy memories from childhood beach holidays, but in 2011 I added the spoken word surreal story over the original lyrics.

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Come on and light a candle
Between the dunes, down on the beach
It’ll be so bright that’s how they’ll say the curtains got bleached

It lit up the arcades
Pushed kids on the swings in the parks
Burnt right through the comic shop
Blew all the balls across the tennis courts

You read a book on hypnotising
I watch the boats listing out on the horizon
Your parents were quiet
They barely even noticed us
And despite all that happened I just left the next day on the bus

We were down by the river
Had a few lines
Just dipping them in
Saw it in the water
While picking oysters from under the bridge

We took it to your caravan
Put it in the sink and washed off the sand
You hurt my brother
He cried then I took him and we ran

Expectations are sometimes as strange as dreams
And now matter how hard I try they always seem to be fraying at the seams
All of the angels
They swim with sharks
While dogs attack
On the shore they attack the failed lifeguards
Our bodies they’re still out there
Just bobbing in the sea
And all I’ve done is tread water in the decades now between

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released December 19, 2013
The photo is of a hail storm in Alderley, Brisbane QLD 1971. It was taken by my grandparents.

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