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Neah Bay

from Strings by Rachel Zylstra

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It’s raining on my face
It’s raining in my hair
Oh didn’t you hear the forecast, it’s to be raining everywhere

My fingers are soaked and cold
My neck is cold and wet
Oh let me go inside to be dry, warm my fingers and my hands

I took my shawl, that’s all
You took a light spring jacket
A lot of good these did us when the thunder clouds rolled in

We were gonna go on a boat
Would have gotten wet anyway
Gone off to explore the high tide off the shores of Neah Bay

I don’t know how it feels
Seeing these neat little rows
Rows of aluminum -sided houses each with newly built car ports

Compared to what once was lived in
Log structures on the ocean
Would I be seeing logs or car ports if my kind had not rolled in

I think I smell smoked fish
I think I smell a tourist
We’re pressing near that smoke shack where the New York Times guy said the salmon is best

How do I know? Because the smoker
Taped up the clipping from the Times
Next to his rack of poles and knives at a smoke shack in Neah Bay

It’s tickling at my ears
It’s pointing to the dark
The salty breeze that carries with it sounds I can’t explain

Perhaps it would make sense
If voices lived in whitecaps
Perhaps it would make sense that I hear stories in the wind

My brother says he hears them from time to time
Could they be lying? Could they be only in our minds
And sure we’ll leave here more confused than when we came in yesterday
Who am I to say I have an answer for the world of Neah Bay

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from Strings, released April 24, 2012
Music & lyrics by Rachel Zylstra
Strings arrangement by Matt Gelfer

Rachel Zylstra: piano and vocal
Matt Gelfer: violin
Greg Williams: viola
Paul Wolfram: cello

Engineered and mixed by Justin Milner

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