Caspian Tern

I won’t capture, I won’t promise
Your kayak’s big enough for the both of us
We’re the last ones to see the flight of the heron
But the lamp does’t work unless we sing it a love song

Simplify joy to be swimming in moonlight
And loneliness must be the Caspian Tern’s flight
Then we must breathe parallel, calm as the morning
To get ourselves far as we can from the shoreline

The waters rise to alter our memory
Soon we’ll be closed in an iceberg-like symphony
I’m glad I’m with you so we can sing as the world ends
They’d be proud of the way our souls crack but our hearts bend

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   Recorded May 2019 in Keenan's attic
   Mixed by Keenan Reimer-Watts Mastered by Dylan King
   Album art by Abhilasha Dewan
   Special thanks to Keenan's cat Hijinx, the Spur Line Trail,
         Caspian Terns, the carbon cycle, the nightshade vine,
         and all life on Earth for the songwriting inspiration.

Caspian Tern is a song about looking to the natural world to better understand our own emotions. It’s also about how the rising sea levels are literally covering layers of history and knowledge we will never get back. The song’s name comes from a beautiful bird that looks like an elegant gull with a black cap and an orange bill, Veda’s favourite bird.