Auld Wives

Album: Red Earth & Pouring Rain (2016)
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  • Auld wives lifts
    Auld wives lifts
    How have you got here?
    Where do you come from?
    What do you tell?

    I see his face
    I see his face
    Carved deep in the stone
    Another mind you have taken away

    But I swam across the ocean to find your memory
    A trace of all you've left behind
    And the auld wives swore that you were born to die
    Without a child for to call out your name

    Now I call your name
    I call your name, but you can't hear me now
    No, you don't recognise my face

    Who are you?
    Who are you? And why do you call me that?
    How dare you call me that

    But I swam across the ocean to find your memory
    A trace of all you've left behind
    And the auld wives swore that you were born to die
    Without a child for to call out your name

    But I call your name
    I call your name
    I call your name
    I call your name

    But I swam across the ocean to find your memory
    A trace of all you've left behind
    And the auld wives swore that you were born to die
    Without a child for to call out your name Writer/s: ANDREW DAVIE, KEVIN JONES
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Stephanie Brown from CanadaIt’s such a beautiful, rich song. Not many these days will make your stop to listen on first hear, but this one does. Gives me vibes of old Spoons’ “Waterline” vibes. Stunning.
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