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The Deer In The Waterbrook

from Apiary by The Carmelittles

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written and performed by henri poilevey
featuring...
grace barrington (vocals)
and many many friends and family saying congratulations to me

lyrics

i don't wanna be just inspired by the movies
what i wanna be, i don’t know
but if an angel dropped its stone
and nobody heard but me
i would drop everything i had
and they all keep digging deeper down
but not me
i would climb up the cherry tree
even if there were no leaves

as i wait for a word
like a heartbeat in a spleen
the winter gave its last bird
as an offer to the queen

i saw i was growing old
and forgetting what my prayer means
maybe this is all a dream
and my hands are clean

maybe first the wolf and the lamb
will have to lead the child
back into the wild
til our choirs all align
and sing in time
but every single word i speak
doesn’t even rhyme

as i wait for nothing, i shrug
and call the old wineskins
i'll cut a rug, with a drink and a face
think about how things should've been

but if God is waiting for me
why do i spite Him
by not waiting with Him
to be merely innocent and clean
doesn't mean to Him a thing

...

i made it wrong to give it a name
i drew a dream in the sand
so the serpent is tamed
i felt the stream approach like a tide
but when it came, it fell from my claw
the oasis lied
the desert is the law

if the deer finds the waterbrook
it’ll drown
it must thirst all its life to be found

i can’t believe how long it took
to admit it aloud
to have nothing is the answer
having nothing is the answer
to why nothing ever answers back

congratulations, you won
congratulations, you won
congratulations, you won
congratulations,
you figured out what this is all about

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from Apiary, released November 4, 2022

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