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Sink or Swim

from The Fabulist by Ana Silvera

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lyrics

After the dawning
I rose up that morning
To find myself orphaned again
A 5am ring and a voice whispering
That it happened so fast in the end

After the tears, when I washed myself clean
And looked at the girl in the mirror
She was staring at me like she always had been
But this time she said: “Sink here or swim now -

Swim for your life
‘Cos a storm’s coming in
And you’ve got to be brave for your brother”

I held him close
But the current was stronger
Than all of our love put together

The sky had opened, the vessel it cracked
As we walked in weary procession
And the ties that had tethered me, weathered me snapped
I went spinning in every direction

If grief was a season, then the season was spring
With its fits and its absolutions
And when we first met in that Manhattan whirl
I was high-wire dancing with demons

If you were the sun
Then I was the moon
And when our paths crossed it was darkness

If you were the dancer
Than I was the tune
And I danced us to keep me from sadness

If you were the compass
Then I was the pin
I was spinning in circles, spinning in circles
Spinning in circles, spinning in circles…

credits

from The Fabulist, released April 22, 2022
Voice, synths, mellotron – Ana Silvera
Violin – Gerry Diver
Guitar (acoustic & electric) – Adrian Lever
Double Bass – Jasper Høiby
Drums – Pete Flood

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Ana Silvera London, UK

'Stunning...magical storytelling' -The Guardian

Ana Silvera is a London-born singer- songwriter and composer whose folk and bluegrass-tinged tunes are lyrical, intimate and emotive, works of ‘lavish, vivid imagination’ (Metro). ... more

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