Every week we will publish the lyrics of one of our songs from the latest album, Skeletons Of Memory: Songs from the West Coast and a little info about each track.
Enjoy!
SKELETON COAST
I want you to feel the wind
Want you to feel the desert wind inside your mind
Want you to feel the empty desert wind
Want you to feel the desert wind inside your mind - inside your mind
I want you to feel that swift cold stream
Want you to feel the backwash tugging at your mind
Feel the reefs and currents streaming through – streaming through
I want you to feel the cold inside your mind – inside your mind
I want you to feel that cold wild sea
I want you to feel it smash into your mind
I want you to hear the thunder of that surf
I want you to hear the thunder in your mind – inside your mind
I want you to feel the wind
I want you to feel the desert wind inside your mind
Want you to feel that cold and cruel sea
Want you to feel the cold inside your mind – inside your mind
I want you to feel the wind
Want you to feel the desert wind inside your mind
Want you to feel the empty desert wind
Want you to feel the stinging wind inside your mind
Inside your mind
Inside your mind
The Skeleton Coast is about emptiness: miles and miles of it. It is about the clean line between sand and blue sky, the sensuous contours of the mountainous, wind-sculpted dunes. On those dunes I felt I was travelling across a giant sculpture. Inland the desert is hot and the wind is a welcome relief. On the coast, the wind-driven sand bites into you. Everything disappears in the damp and chilling fog that comes off the Benguela Current. It is a fog that only the fiercest sun can burn off.
- Barbara Fairhead