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Where Breakers Form

from Singing on the Wind by Anne Lister

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Started to write this looking out across Coulagh Bay, Beara. Finished it while remembering that view a few thousand miles further west. Beara and Washington DC, September/October 1998.

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There is a point that's out to sea, where breakers form
Where the water swells and builds to crash upon the shore
It may be just a tiny rock or bank of sand
But all the calmness of the sea now crashes into land.

And when you gaze more closely in a candle flame
You'll find inside the greater brightness something dark remains.
As if to remind us that when there's no hint of dark
Even when the world is full of light we risk a broken heart.

And if you're wondering now what's this to do with me
You are the point where breakers form there in my inland sea.

And well I know on a millpond sea, when there's no swell
Something deep within me calls out for a warning bell.
Some kind of wish for danger, but with a safety net
Some kind of wish to push beyond all of the limits set.

You have no way of knowing what you do to me
Just as the rock or sandbank lie there in the sea
But I will build a lighthouse to remind me to take care
And in the wildest storms there'll be some kind of warning there.

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from Singing on the Wind, released August 5, 2021
Mike O'Connor - fiddle. Annie Power - harmony. Julia Lane - harp.

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Anne Lister Wales, UK

Anne is best known for her song "Icarus", recorded and performed by a number of different singers, including Martin Simpson and Nic Jones. "Astrolabe" is her ninth solo album.

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