Name: Blue Star
Duration: P00H03M48S
Description: For Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Blue Star

from I Know There Is an Ocean by Alex P. Whyte

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For Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe.

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If there was a way that all this came down
To the day I saw you first
Would you let me or forget
We ever vowed to break this curse?

On the day now don’t you let me
Roll away boxed in a hearse.
Just remember it was November
We flew away on mockingbirds.

Hey little blue star stay where you are
There’s no one else who can do what you came for,
What you’re made for
You had the softest heart I ever knew.

So I painted pictures, strung beads for my sisters
You drew and wrote your heart away
We made a pile of our desires
And danced around our empty room.

Fate came down slowly “wait”, you told me
“The sun always follows the moon”
Our love was true, you always knew
But the work I made it was for you

It’s hard to leave so baby grieve
Roll your tears down into one big
Pool to swim in where I could live in
I’ll wade your waters to no shore.

Hey little blue star don’t go to far
I had I dream that you flew from me into thin air
Hey little blue star what’s out in the dark?
I drove all night just to prove I stayed within your sight.

To be your ghost, and you’d be my star
Stay where you are.

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from I Know There Is an Ocean, released August 30, 2012

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Alex P. Whyte Calgary, Alberta

Alex P. Whyte: guitar, vocals
Sheena Hozsko: bass
Anne Gauthier: drums

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Recorded and mixed by Heather Kirby
At Lincoln County Social Club, Toronto, 2012.
CD art by Sara Glaberson ... more

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