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This River

by Amy Soucy

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1.
Here goes my Little wooden boat over the deep dark sea Gotta get across You were meant for me And though I'm all alone Sea is gettin' rough Though I'm always told I am not enough Chorus: I'm gonna make my dreams come true I'm gonna make my dreams come true The sky is lookin grim The anchor's been lost I will reach you still Though I'm tempest tossed And when I feel this lost, And the horizon never ends Days so desolate I'll remember then (Chorus) Well I've been lost and lonely ridin out these waves But I can see the perfect skies Shinin through the haze (Chorus) We're all just tiny human beings Doomed to sail a restless sea We can sail on suffering Or set our sorrows free We're gonna make our dreams come true We're gonna make our dreams come true...
2.
Old Crows 02:44
Old crows fly home on a Sunday Dark wings wide Down here gets a little lonely While I watch, while I wait as they fly when winter blows its ragged breath and shards of you are all that's left then spring comes down on a great wide wing the trees make sound the crows will sing Old crows fly home on a Sunday... when summer shines your footprints fade but where you've gone its hard to say when autumn leaves, the shifting skies mean now its time to say goodbye Old crows fly home on a Sunday Dark wings wide Down here gets a little lonely While I watch, while I wait While I watch, while I wait While I watch, while I wait As they fly...
3.
Winter Man 03:59
Winter Man, like a trembling leaf Blew in from the north one August week He had eyes like razors hands of earth Singing songs I'd never heard before He sang about his leaving and second chances lost I could hear the heartache in his song I was drawn to the wreckage, I could not resist  A call that I'd been hearing for so long When he sang, it was clear Day heard night's siren call And knew as she was rising  She would fall  Among the yellow birches, on tracks above your town  Orion hovered aiming for our hearts We sang every song we knew, verses and refrain Voices rose above the wind and then softly fell apart  On bones and stones we took your town by storm  Plans were made and open roads appeared We went walking backward to see the tracks we laid  There we met the shadows that we feared But when we sang there was hope  Sun felt moon's lonely call And knew as they were rising  They would fall Beyond the trouble here Beyond the hope and fear  When the swallows learn to fly  We will sing a soft goodbye   Beyond these shadows all our tears will dry  Winter Man disappeared just before the thaw Rivers raged beneath the frozen ground  Little leaf I let you go, grateful now I know, That sometimes being lost is better off than being found And oh Winter Man you were right Oh my dear, you said it all That everything that rises must fall
4.
Last Days 03:54
These are the last days, a storm’s blowin’ in Earth shakes her back, she warns us again High on a hillside, a tree stands all alone Looking out over miles of wire and cities of stone  Now it's rations of hope We hold in our pockets like a last hit of dope Out of a dark sky a lonely eagle flies There’s nowhere to land. She doesn’t ask why CHORUS: Oh we could be children in the garden We could be waves inside the wind  But we build our towers higher And we dig ourselves deeper in We are running on empty promises, And hollow kisses on the cheek We are dealing with the Devil my friends, But the goods they come so cheap But we could be (Oh, what we could be)   Nobody remembers when the tides turned And no one can tell you why the rivers burned Or how the seas rose or where to lay the blame It's just an ocean of suffering… for a thimble of gain CHORUS: Oh we could build ourselves a paradise We have the means within our reach Instead of endless war, and dying whales Stranded on the beach We could be children in the garden We could be rising up in song We could carry those who cannot stand And right our every wrong What we could be, oh What we could be, oh When we hand this world over, how will it look? For those who come after, could we rewrite the book? The book of our Last Days, it is not carved... in stone
5.
Danny Boy was dancing in the colored light of day We drove the clouds into the ocean, watched them roll away I could hear you breathing, and I said a silent grace suspend me here forever, inside this time and place And if I'm only dreaming and we cannot scale this wall, May the ocean raise its arms and catch us where we fall Across a lonely continent you will hear me call And I will go on dreaming... love will save us all Clear cuts broke the tree line and light defined the land Our shadows folded into one and danced along the sand The climb was steep and twisted, around another bend lay the great Pacific, a promise to extend Let the bees keep buzzing, may the red kite's sway Lift our vision high enough to see a better way And if this day must die here, let the memory stay And let me go on dreaming... love will save the day Oh underneath a hollow tree, far above the swirl, Hoping every breath I take will stop The turnings of this world Now I go on hoping the messages I send Ride the rolling surf until they reach you friend For what is bruised and broken surely wants to mend And grace it is an ocean just around the bend And I will go on dreaming I will go on dreaming... love will save us in the end.
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Comes a Time 02:44
7.
This River 04:52
When Darkness Calls And my house on the hill is Shut up and silent I Breathe in the chill And the waiting begins Like the whole world's at bay Darkness has promised me Just one more day CHORUS And by day this river bathes me I never knew that it would save me from my past And the light in this place Is frozen in memory Where soft sullen lullabies Drifted in sweetly And parted the night With their holy refrain And you could not promise me One more day CHORUS I am merely passing through here Hoping with my lonely heart I believe you look right through me You don't see me come apart I believe you can't imagine what I see CHORUS

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"This River" is timeless, poetic songwriting exploring what it means to be human. From the lilting singalong "Little Wooden Boat," to the folk-rock climate change anthem "Last Days" and the bluegrass homage "Old Crows," to the folky heartbreak of "Winter Man" and "Around the Bend," Amy's comforting voice — at once precious, powerful and poised — assures us everything will work out in the end.

"Right from the first note, this project is a stunner, with Amy's powerful and angelic voice at the very center shining brightly. If I had to describe this record with only one word, the word would be ENCHANTING!"
— Sloan Wainwright

"It a knockout!"
- Dick Hageman, WMNR FM, CT

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released June 6, 2015

Produced by Stephen Murphy
Co-produced by Amy Soucy
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Mark Dann
©2015 Amy Soucy

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Amy Soucy New York, New York

Gifted with a versatile, powerful and fluid voice, Amy Soucy grew up in a musical family and began singing and performing at an early age. Compelled to express the longings of the human heart through voice and song, Amy has performed, recorded, written & harmonized with a wide variety of artists. Her debut CD, "This River," was released in June 2015. ... more

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