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Two If by Sea

by Sarah Segal-Lazar

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1.
Gotham 03:11
And I squandered my money Like I squandered my heart On this broken-down city That turns tricks after dark And I squandered my fortune Like I squandered my time I sold my soul to the devil But the devil was you So I’m burning my bridges So I can finally be free They say no man is an island But this island’s been A dead-beat man to me And you’ve been the world to me But I’ve been just a grain of sand to you In an hour glass And oh the hours go by so fast Another hundred people got off that train And one of them will soon replace me Pavement has no memory For the footprints of a girl like me And you let the world Roll off of you Like a cantaloupe Or honeydew Honey don’t misinterpret my meaning You may have style but I’ve got the feeling And I squandered my money Like I squandered my heart On this broken-down city That turns tricks after dark And I squandered my fortune Like I squandered my time I sold my soul to the devil But the devil was you So I’m burning my bridges So I can finally be free They say no man is an island But this island’s been A dead-beat man to me And I squandered my money Like I squandered my heart On this broken-down city That turns tricks after dark And I squandered my fortune Like I squandered my time I sold my soul to the devil
2.
3rd Avenue 02:22
There's a hole in my heart Where you used to be Everyone knows the story Everyone but you and me And I know there've been times When I've been wrong To leave you in the morning To leave you on your own And your shoulders were Bigger than they first appeared And your face got older So you covered it up with a beard Where's the boy I used to know Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow Now there's a hole in my hand Which you used to hold Everyone knows the story But the story's getting old And I know there've been times When I've been right To leave you in the morning But to stay for the night And your shoulders were Bigger than they first appeared And your face got older So you covered it up with a beard Where's the boy I used to know Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow And now jeans are blue and eyes are red From all the wicked things you said I've been sitting here alone For days, for weeks, for years Friends fall out when words fall in And I can't tell where to begin Drinks get downed and cards get swapped But I'm falling on deaf ears Where's the boy I used to know Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow Where's the boy I used to know Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow
3.
Letters 03:56
I just found a brand new key To sing the blues But it’s deceiving It won’t change the meaning I wrapped it up in minor chords But it’s no use And words confound me With the way they’ve bound me But I’m going to lose you Just like the rest I’m going to lose you It’s what I do best I’m going to lose you Like each one before I keep hoping that this time is different But I know the score We talk in riddles We talk in rhymes We talk into each others’ mouths And try to read between the lines We talk in cyphers We talk in tongues We talk staring at the ceiling Right until the morning comes And when you leave my bed That space still smells of you Like alcohol and cigarettes And foggy flashes and regrets But as you pin me down you say “It never will be you” Cos hands move quick and hands move fast But hands are not enough to last But it took me far too long to realize I couldn’t fill the hollow of your bones And I couldn’t find the words to verbalize The hurt I felt deep hidden in the moans I’ve seen the future And it’s looking grim So hand me a lemon And a bottle of gin I’ve got an aching head I’ve got an empty bed I’m feeling wasted Wasted on you Cupid’s bow missed my chest So I’ll take second best If you’ll still have me I’ll settle on you But I’m going to lose you Just like the rest I’m going to lose you It’s what I do best I’m going to lose you Like each one before I keep hoping that this time is different But I know the score And all that’s left are letters Written on a page Ink may bleed and paper tear But words don’t fade with age All that’s left are letters Folded into squares So weary with the weight of all The heart could never bear
4.
Maple Song 03:09
You tell me that the maples are dying That's why they haven't changed colour You say there's something going around And it'll kill off all the others But I'll take that leaf Whether it's red or it's brown I'll tattoo it to my shoulder As I head out of town So I'll keep driving Past the borders of home I'll keep stretching out my boundaries To see where I belong I keep your penny in my pocket Where the copper maple never dies You say the caterpillar's come And eaten all of the leaves And there's no beauty in the butterfly If it kills all it sees And it could be years 'Til I come back to you I don't know when I'll return But it won't be soon So I'll keep driving Past the borders of home I'll keep stretching out my boundaries To see where I belong I keep your penny in my pocket Where the copper maple never dies And you can hate me for deserting To the red white and blue But when I said it was me I hope you know it was you Still as I cross the 49 I leave a part of me behind I lose me when I leave you So I'll keep driving Past the borders of home I'll keep stretching out my boundaries To see where I belong I keep your penny in my pocket Where the copper maple never dies So I'll keep driving Past the borders of home I'll keep stretching out my boundaries To see where I belong I keep your penny in my pocket Where the copper maple never dies So I'll keep driving Past the borders of home I'll keep stretching out my boundaries To see where I belong I keep your penny in my pocket Where the copper maple never dies
5.
I'm gonna leave this town For the rocky coast of Newfoundland For the Rockies and the Prairies And the streets of your hometown I will travel far and wide With your ghost pressed to my side Yes I will travel with your memory in me From sea to sea They say absence makes the heart grow fonder But I hope to lose your spirit yonder Over the hills and far away I will forget you too someday And irony of ironies I left you for memories of other men Who haunted me back then I know I bruised your feelings I know I let you down But I had the best intentions When I dragged your heart through town So I'm gonna leave this town For the rocky coast of Newfoundland For the Rockies and the Prairies And the streets of your hometown I will travel far and wide With your ghost pressed to my side Yes I will travel with you memory in me From sea to sea Leave this town For the rocky coast of Newfoundland For the Rockies and the Prairies And the streets of your hometown I will travel far and wide With your ghost pressed to my side Yes I will travel with you memory in me From sea to sea From sea to sea From sea to sea From sea to sea
6.
My daddy was a writer He told me 'bout the world 'Bout kings and queens, things he'd never seen That were perfect for a little girl But now I am a sailor And it's all I will ever be Seen the setting sun, been to hell and beyond The devil and the deep blue sea Oh the world keeps crumbling around Oh but I can't stand to plant my tired sea-legs on the ground The sea's a lonely place it's true What good's a captain without a crew The sea's a lonely place I know But I can't, I can't, I can't Live upon the shore High upon the sea I want to be, I want to be High upon the waves Is where I will spend the rest of my days High upon the sea I want to be, I want to be High upon the waves Is where I will spend the rest of my days The sea's a lonely place it's true The sea's a lonely place it's true So point me home lighthouse beacon I've been following the stars but they won't lead the way Point me home lighthouse beacon In the darkest night, I can't find my way But when the morning comes, I'll be on my way My daddy was a writer He told me 'bout the world 'Bout kings and queens, things he'd never seen That were perfect for a little girl But now I am a sailor And it's all I will ever be If I have my way, at the end of days I'll take the locker over Fiddler's Green High upon the sea I want to be, I want to be High upon the waves Is where I will spend the rest of my days High upon the sea I want to be, I want to be High upon the waves Is where I will spend the rest of my days
7.
Old October 03:31
I travelled the country Witnessed it through other people's fingerprints Pressed my nose to the glass and found This land was made on sweat and tears and innocence A road is just a road is just a road I have noticed Blindfold me and spin me 'round And I won't know the difference Where I've gone, where I'm going Where the bearing wind is blowing I don't know what I am searching for Or where I'm headed to There's no man that I am chasing Got no memories to erase I'm just making my way through the green Old glory helped construe I travelled the country Let the waters guide me As the rain came down like Genesis We were seated two by two And the South provides no shelter From the weather's helter skelter I will ride this storm to morning I will finally follow through To where I've gone, where I'm going Where the bearing wind is blowing I don't know what I am searching for Or where I'm headed to There's no man that I am chasing Got no memories to erase I'm just making my way through the green Old glory helped construe And when I get there I will know The least travelled path leads home When I get there I will see That home resides inside of me It's where I've gone Where I'm going Where the bearing wind is blowing Doesn't matter what I am searching for Or where I'm headed to I will find a man worth chasing Make some memories to erase I'm just making my way through the green Old glory helped construe Where I've gone, where I'm going Where the bearing wind is blowing I don't know what I am searching for Or where I'm headed to There's no man that I am chasing Got no memories to erase I'm just making my way through the green Old glory helped construe I'm just making my way through the green Old glory helped construe
8.
Spiders 03:29
And the spiders come out in the autumn And the flies breed between the walls You may not have the words but I’ve got ‘em Scrawled on scraps and palmed into a ball And the wind moans like lovers caught reeling And the trees bow like people in prayer And I long to be void of all feeling I could tell you my truths but I will not dare And in autumn we wither But in winter we fall So I’m counting the days ‘Til the sea takes us all And I loved you a thousand times over I loved you when you were a child But I knew you would live as a rover So I bade you farewell with a lie and a smile And the sun projects stored recollections On the fields as the wheat turns to gold But the memories that play all too soon fade away As the sun travels west like a prisoner paroled And I’m told that she was a beauty I’m told she stood out in the crowds I’m told that you flew off together To discover the world from the heights of the clouds And the birds call me home in the autumn As they take to the sky in a V As they practice their intuned formation I would fly through the night, up and over the sea I would fly with my brothers and sisters I would fly with my kin, southward bound But too scared of changed things I cut off my wings For without any choice I will never leave ground And the spiders come out in the autumn And the flies breed between the walls You may not have the words, but I’ve got ‘em Scrawled on scraps and palmed into a ball
9.
Odysseus 02:18
You will be Odysseus And I will be the rock Which you evade, I'm not a Siren I can't sing and I can't talk to you My words impact like paper When it lands upon the sea And watch the ink run out and turn to mud Where my hopes used to be You will be Ulysses Nobly tied up to the mast And no one else but you can hear me With their ears stuffed up with wax I watch as women made of feathers Try to direly lure you in As they sit perched upon my back Digging their claws into my skin My imagination's greater than mythology So fantastical a plotline it'll never come to be It'll never come to be Forget about Penelope You'll never have as good as me
10.
You offered a finger When I reached for your hand You lived like a boy But you dressed like a man And as your beard grew longer And wrinkles waged war on your face You said, “I can’t give you anything but age” And I picked off the polish That covered my nails As I harkened your rues And conquistory tales But your mumbled contrition’s Become just a song you replay Like saying “I can’t give you anything but age” And you proved you were different By hanging around With the girls with the faces And the hair and the frowns And as you lay there beside her And try to remember her name You whisper, “I can’t give you anything but age” And you fed me clichés Which I swallowed intact But I still can’t decide If you thought they were fact And as I walk from the room Where I thought I had turned a new page You don’t say anything at all But what you told me all along “You know that I can’t give you anything but age”
11.
Timothy and Isabelle They met one night when darkness fell Along the rocky shoreline of the coast Said Isabelle to Timothy I'd die you know if you left me When you are gone, I'm giving up my ghost Oh my love if you should leave I'll feed myself unto the sea Poseidon take me under As the brother of the thunder I'd offer myself to the sky But what goes up comes down they cry And I've long lost the stairwell To lead me down to Hades hell Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you But like the water he grew cold It happens to some men I'm told She woke up in December all alone They found him laying on the rocks His heartbeat ticked like broken clocks As she called out to him upon the stones They tell me you've been losing blood But Timothy, I know they lied Cos your veins are filled with salt water And like the changing of the tide An hour or two before dawn Like the fleeing waves, you too were gone My vampire of the shore You drained me, left me wanting more Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you When Timothy left Isabelle It left its mark, the stories tell She cried out to the ocean on her knees I promised all those moons ago I'd inundate if he should go And now he's gone, so let me rest in peace Oh my love's deserted me And left me staring at the sea I'm going to join Poseidon A man I can rely on I've added my salt to the blue In drops of tears I made for you Instead of staying on my own I'm off to swallow my way home Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you Oh water Push me over, pull me under, I've Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
12.
Well they say home is where the heart is But I lost my heart so long ago Got buried 'neath the vast expanse Of hundred wattage snow And winter turned to spring But then how mud encompassed everything So I resigned to bide my time And left my heart below So I bought myself a compass Placed it where my own heart ought to be And since all compasses point north I guess the Great White North is home to me Levees may break The earth may quake And buildings will fall down And craters may appear in every street of my town Brittle as bones They stand exposed These trees on hollow ground If they can plant their roots I guess that I can too On these streets of my town Well no man is a nomad For his whole life it seems to me Feet get tired and soles wear thin When wandering for eternity And fate can be a fickle thing When you don't believe in anything But somehow I wound up Back where the streets are paved with memories So I bought myself a pocket watch Just to hear that ticking sound And I felt the wind pick up outside As I watched the hours count down Levees may break The earth may quake And buildings will fall down And craters may appear in every street of my town Brittle as bones They stand exposed These trees on hollow ground If they can plant their roots I guess that I can too On these streets of my town And I don't know if I'll stay this time If it's different than before But these streets will keep my heart safe 'Til I find the home I'm looking for Levees may break The earth may quake And buildings will fall down And craters may appear in every street of my town Brittle as bones They stand exposed These trees on hollow ground If they can plant their roots I guess that I can too On these streets of my town Levees may break The earth may quake And buildings will fall down And craters may appear in every street of my town Brittle as bones They stand exposed These trees on hollow ground If they can plant their roots I guess that I can too On these streets of my town If they can plant their roots I guess that I can too On these streets of my town

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released January 30, 2015

All songs written & performed by Sarah Segal-Lazar
Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Al Lafrance

Bass by Elijah Fisch
Additional vocals by Nathalie Gagnon-Joseph
Additional vocals and djembe by Jonah Carson
Artwork by Sophie Post-Croteau

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