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To The Sea

from Cardboard Boat by David Berkeley

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Track 2 off Cardboard Boat, Berkeley's newest album, which pairs with his novella of accompanying stories, The Free Brontosaurus. This track features Sara Watkins on Background vocals

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Father father father I am coming home
Open up the gates please let me in.
Everybody needs a way to start again,
Yeah I’ve been on a road not always kind.
Yes it’s been a long hard climb.

Father father father lay your hand in mine.
Sometimes all we carry holds us down.
But letting go is hard somehow.

So let me be like the leaves on the trees,
They come back in the spring gold to green
Or let me be like the stream full of rain
It comes back eventually to the sea.
It comes back eventually to the sea.

Tell me will we ever reach the promised land.
There’s nothing we can do to change the past.
Will we ever get to say we’re free at last?
Yeah, don’t you know the war’s over and done?
But I think more lost than won.

So let me be like the leaves on the trees,
They come back in the spring gold to green
Or let me be like the stream full of rain
It comes back eventually to the sea.
It comes back eventually to the sea.

Father father father I am coming home.
Yeah everybody needs some place to lean
You and me both it seems.


So let me be like the leaves on the trees,
They come back in the spring gold to green
Or let me be like the stream full of rain
It comes back eventually to the sea.

Oh I have found my way back to you,
Please find your way back to me.
I have found my way back to you,
Please find your way back to me.

Cause father father father, I am home.

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from Cardboard Boat, released September 25, 2015
Straw Man Publishing 2015 ASCAP

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David Berkeley Santa Fe, New Mexico

The San Francisco Chronicle calls Santa Fe-based songwriter and author David Berkeley a “musical poet,” and the New York Times praises his “lustrous, melancholy voice with shades of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.” He was a guest on This American Life, and has released 7 studio albums and 2 books. He is also half of the wildly creative Trans-Atlantic costumed duo Son of Town Hall. ... more

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