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about

I wrote this song when I was 16 and probably stopped playing it by about the age of 19 or 20.

A couple of months before recording the "Quarrelling With the Spider Monkey" EP I was asked at a gig to play a song with a theme of nature. Although I have nature references in some of my songs - especially to ecological destruction. Nothing quite fit the bill. It was then that I remembered this song.

Although it is not ABOUT nature as such, I remember when I wrote it I wanted to try and evoke the feeling of being by the sea (hence the title). When the opportunity arose to record with an ad hoc string trio, it just seemed logical to record this almost lost to time and youth song

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I went to the sea
on a crisp winters day
with my lady, souls as one
as we went on our way
We exchanged vows of love
as we walked to the beach
How strong were their bonds,
how far was their reach

We found a place to lie , I lay for hours
with my head in her lap
softly talked in the way
that I guess all lover's must chat -
not disturbing the moment
and left it at that

Then she said, with her eyes turned down
and her smile falling flat
"I must leave you now, my love.
Got to go, sad to say"
and she gave me one last kiss
turned and went on her way

So alone I walked
across the tear wet, white sand
In solitude for hours
till I stumbled across an old man
Shaping in the sand, the saddest picture I ever had seen
His weary old hand carving
a crazy old dream.

The light it was fading
pink clouds marked the end of the day.
The old man hadn't seen me,
so went on my way
Old man, by the sea
shaping crazy dreams in the sand
When he knows that the tide will steal
this child from his hand
Old man, you're not the only one
that I do not...
undrerstand

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from Quarrelling With the Spider Monkey, released June 2, 2015

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Jamie David/Miracle Band X Fremantle, Australia

Jamie David is a uniquely idiosyncratic story-telling songwriter. His interests in a broad range of music and musical ideas - inside and outside of popular culture - have led to a one of a kind genre-defying, meta-eclectic style. Wanting to add colour and texture to the story-telling, he has long engaged a fabulous floating line up of exceptional musicians in his collective "Miracle Band X" ... more

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