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Hand-me-down Memories
03:17
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I’ve built a collection of memories to share
How else to explain someone who’s no longer there
And hand-me-down memories are stitches in time
If I tell enough stories maybe he’ll be alive to you
The weight of his voice when he showed you he cared
The way that he stressed about airports and cars
When you had good news he’s the first one you’d call
The swell of his laughter, the heights he would throw you
But perhaps if I love you the best I know how
Drop all and come running the second you’re lost
In that moment is where you might finally meet
The pieces of him living on inside of me
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Mornings With You
03:37
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Sun and the moon and the falling rain
Hang over us, over our heads
We’re standing in the balance and the whole world’s still
Will you take this hand?
I will
I will
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Carrying morning in a coffee cup
Nothing is so sacred as the thing that wakes
Wake me up (Love, the day is here)
Make me rise (I set the coffee the night before)
Like the sun (Would you like a slice of toast?)
Like sourdough I grow up and
over the edge (How did you sleep? What did you dream about?)
Of the bowl (If you get out of bed we can just sit together)
Of the bed (Open the blinds)
Make me whole (Let the sun)
Feed me bread (Shine on in)
Give me eyes wide to wonder
Feet to wander in
Carrying something so sacred
The thing that wakes me up
Morning in a coffee cup
So wake with me, darling
Before our alarms
I know that you’re tired
That’s half of the charm
We’ll sit, sip, sigh, though your eyes are still closed
And I’ll feel the sunrise enough for us both
I hope that you know, baby
Hope that you know
That there’s more to my brewing
than coffee to go
It’s a promise, a prayer, a hopeful hue
That I might get to spend every morning with you
With morning in a coffee cup
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January/June
03:20
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Honey I know that when you walk in the door
You don’t know what you will find
Will I be the one you married or will I be
Just a ball on the floor?
And you get it, I know
I don’t change with the weather like you do
And for me it’s just
A January kind of June
There’s a colour, a light, a shade of the night
That seeps down into my soil
Where there was once a field of gold
Everything’s coming up blue
And you get it, I know
I don’t change with the weather like you do
And for me it’s just
A January kind of June
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Near
03:59
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This hunger it holds more than I can say
It lunges and lingers and drinks up the day
And waits eagerly for the first breath of Spring
That heavenly, heavenly thing
And quench now the thirst that’s been haunting my arms
To carry your weight and cradle your warmth
Oh hasten the day when there’s nothing to fear
So heavenly heavenly heavenly
Near
Shake hands with the past, bid old things adieu
Summer’s coming at last with the promise of you
We’ll bottle your sunshine, bottle your breeze
And bask in the music you
Music you bring
If sound were a touch from afar
I’d never stop singing to you
I’d never stop singing to you
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Moonlight Lullaby
03:42
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The moon was an eyelash on the cheek of the night
I was holding you tight, my love
Carry your worry in the crook of my arm
And sing until you’re asleep
I’d be lying if I said
I hadn’t thought of this moment for years
Though I’m tired, you’re tired, and we’re tired
I wouldn’t trade it for anything
Anything
The moon was an eyelash on the cheek of the night
You were shining as bright, my love
Oh night be forgiving give us over to sleep
At least before morning comes
I’d be lying if I said
I hadn’t thought of this moment for years
Though I’m tired, you’re tired, and we’re tired
I wouldn’t trade it for anything
Anything
This was always old
Like birds will find their way home
Holding you warm and close
Don’t think I’ll ever let go
Dreaming in the dawn
As darkness turns into day
The morning echoing
Some moments are meant to be
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The Risk
03:58
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Younger then, we were driving through
Open to hoping you might come true
October was setting and the glow was gold and blue
There it was
The risk of you
Joni’s bittersweet “Both Sides Now”
Wonder which of the stories we’ll be playing out
The happy ending, or the one we don’t talk about
Feels dangerous to worry out loud
Ooos
Winds of change tear across the roof above us
Another October, nothing’s like it was
Branches toss in time to our dear panicking chimes
While safe below I’m clinging on to keep you close
As if the comfort of holding you is the only kind I’ve ever known
Here it is: the risk that one day you’ll be gone
Been waiting for the worry to end
But it goes on and on and on and on and on
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Sweet & Sorrow
05:02
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I have met the wailing wind
Tumbling over and haunting my skin
Knotting my hair and carrying dust
Hear her mourn for us
She lifts my father, carries him home
Whispering courage, of which I have none
Blustery clinging to hillside and stone
Naming my losses one by one
The comfort of warmth
Only after the chill
Fight if I must, but I’ll have you know
I’d rather be still
Curled in a pocket
Small as a pea
Where I cannot be moved by a gust, or breeze
Or the last breath he breathed
But how it does reach me
Just see how I bleed
And yet it is well, and all shall be well
And all manner of thing shall be well
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Sweet and sorrow on the windy brae
Hallelujah, dust to dust we pray
Fly me home to where the oceans roar
One day we’ll meet on God’s golden shore
It is well
With my soul
It is well
It is well, it is well with my soul
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Catherine Ruth Vancouver, British Columbia
On the soggy west coast of Canada, singer-songwriter, Catherine Ruth, lives and sings and goes outside occasionally. With a foundation of melody-driven folk music, she writes when she needs to find her way out of the ache. “Her music captures loss and love and hope and fear in ways that are at once familiar and hopeful, a truly magical meeting of content and form.” ... more
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