Seaward Sings
single
Seaward Sings
PCBender has built something genuinely ambitious here: a six-and-a-half minute song in C major that tracks a woman’s life through sailing metaphors, and it earns every second of its runtime. The verse writing is precise in the way good nautical language always is, with lines like ‘the telltales caution mind the vane’ doing double duty as rigging instruction and quiet life advice, and the chorus refrain ‘some things are lost and some remain’ lands with the plainspoken weight of a John Hiatt lyric. The production does exactly what the song needs, holding back through the searching, conversational verses before the guitars and layered vocals open up into something close to anthemic, the kind of lift that makes you want to replay the chorus just to live in it again. This is PCBender at his most purposeful.
Lyrics
Seaward slack, a stay unset She hides the things she can't forget A windward silhouette Of something waiting
She's drawing, a trailing sea A pulsing urge to feel the lee A drifting story Of something fading
Seaward sings her soft refrain Some things are lost and some remain The telltales caution "mind the vane" A rising tide when Seaward calls
Mast firm set, her headsail clean She sets her track to things unseen A wake without a sounding trace Like something silent missed
Her compass cast in pale reflection Still she draws her destination A quiet contradiction Like something dismissed
Seaward sings her soft refrain Some things are lost and some remain The telltales bold "you found your name" A flooding tide as Seaward calls
She bends the sheet, begins to heel Remembers how the stays feel Too few hours left to steal Like a ship upon a reef
She dreams the drawing mainsail The breakers do prevail No longer subject to the gale Time is not the thief
Seaward sings her soft refrain Some things are lost and some remain The telltales sigh "not the same" A falling tide as Seaward calls
Credits
Songwriter: Michael Anthony Rose