Ian Telfer
Running Man Records 2022
First released on: Read The Sky, 2022
Dolores left her flute in a Hong Kong taxi never thought she’d see that silver wand again so we lit a bit of joss in a Tin Hau temple made a little wish as it burned to ash, amen the goddess’ face had no expression anything the lady knew, she wasn’t letting on - Star of the Sea take these prayers and throw them to the wind for me everything gone wrong and broken lost weekends & love unspoken shine a light & make ‘em right for me: save this sailor from the sea the moon was riding high over Hong Kong harbour shining on the rich and the poor with an equal light and the selling and the buying and the living and the dying never stop, even in the middle of the night but somewhere in the city is a stranger sound it’s the ghost of a flute or it’s the wind over Galway Bay - Star of the Sea take these prayers and throw them to the wind for me promises I didn’t keep times we made each other weep shine a light & make ‘em right for me: save this sailor from the sea and the odds are against us winning & losing love but stranger things can happen than I was dreaming of : Dolores took a call from hotel reception a stranger left a box and vanished like the wind - Star of the Sea take these prayers and throw them to the wind for me everything gone wrong and broken lost weekends & love unspoken shine a light & make ‘em right for me: save this sailor from the sea save this sailor from the sea