Wading in Waist-High Water by Robin Pecknold

Author:Robin Pecknold
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tin House Books

What if Kierkegaard wrote a nursery rhyme?

1. Sometimes people tell me they sing this song to their children at bedtime, and it’s such a beautiful image, but there’s a pessimism to the lyrics that makes it hard for me to imagine singing it to a kid of my own. Maybe someday.

GROWN OCEAN

HELPLESSNESS BLUES / 04:36

GROWN OCEAN1

In that dream, I’m as old as the mountains

Still as starlight reflected in fountains, then

Children grown on the edge of the ocean

Kept like jewelry, kept with devotion

In that dream, moving slow through the morning time

You would come to me then, without answers

Lick my wounds and remove my demands for now

Eucalyptus and orange trees are blooming

In that dream, there’s no darkness a’looming

In that dream, moving slow through the morning time

In that dream I could hardly contain it

All my life I will wait to attain it, then

I know someday the smoke will all burn off

All these voices I’ll someday have turned off, then

I will see you someday when I’ve woken

I’ll be so happy just to have spoken

I’ll have so much to tell you about it then

In that dream I could hardly contain it

All my life I will wait to attain it, then

Wide-eyed walker, don’t betray me

I will wake one day, don’t delay me

Wide-eyed leaver, always going

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