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Turning

from Blood & Sand by Jade Sylvan

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lyrics

They say distance makes the heart grow fonder
and goodbye hides the kindest kiss.
If you’re born with feet, then you’re born to wander,
just be grateful you’ve got something to miss.

There’s no standing still, the earth just keeps moving,
so sister, you may as well roam.
I’ve never held anything that wasn’t worth losing,
never stopped somewhere I didn’t call home.

Turning and turning around again.

In the old folks home, Rebecca is dying
so she calls for her family to see.
They travel and gather, her daughters are crying
as she laughs at the old stories.

She asks to hold her youngest great-grandson,
his eyes so blue and so wide.
She smiles at him and says “Howdy hansom,
you’re in for quite a wild ride.”

Turning and turning around again.

The director quit, and the orchestra’s tired
and the actors have all gone home.
The audience left, except for one child
alone in the second row.

He writes in his playbook about armies and kings,
about star-crossed love and faith,
and in the empty house, he stands up and sings,
one song stops and another fills the space.

Turning and turning around again.

Now, I’m no scholar, and I’m not much on lessons
but I taught myself to read,
and if you walk a path long enough, it’s my impression
that where you start is where it leads.

I don’t want to go now, my love, believe me
but I’ve got lots to see, and more to do,
and when I head down that road, I’ll know the reason I’m leaving
is so I might return to you.

Turning and turning around again

credits

from Blood & Sand, track released April 5, 2011
written by Jade Sylvan.
geetar and vox by Jade Sylvan.
strings by Jonathan Cannon.
backing vox by Ian Harper and Alana Sacks.
produced by Lee Wizda.

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Jade Sylvan Somerville, Massachusetts

Jade Sylvan is a poet-turned-songwriter living in Somerville, Massachusetts. She fled her native Indiana shortly after graduating college to pursue dreams of becoming a writer. After getting her first book of poetry published and touring the country in 2009, she came home and began writing songs, which garnered instant attention in the famed Cambridge folk scene for their lyrics and melodies. ... more

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