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Seaweed Dreams

from I, Autumnus by Autumn Dawn Leader

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'One word can make a million images...' Oh, yes it can! In the instance of this next song, that word was 'seaweed'.

Whether or not it was really just a jest, one night after one of his gigs that I had attended, that same Andy Griffiths with whom I had the wonderful honour of writing The Bridge of Abermaw, challeneged me to write a song about - or inspired by - of all things, SEAWEED.

But, words are excpeionally powerful. And, what was, most likely, inteded as a joke, became for me an incantation, an invocation, a summons. Conjuring up dreams. Conjuring Seaweed Dreams.

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I'm tangled up in seaweed dreams
Saltwater running from my eyes
I taste it on my word-stained lips
Where dragons wake and will not lie
Where dragons wake and will not lie

You hold me tight in seaweed dreams
Hold me for a moment more
To taste the salt and sweet alike
Before we're washed up on the shore
Before we're washed up on the shore

Run your fingers through my hair
Play me like I'm your guitar
We'll leave our echo in the sand
And we'll leave our footprints in each other's hearts

You hold me tight in seaweed dreams
Hold me for a moment more
To taste the salt and sweet alike
Before we're washed up on the shore
Before we're washed up on the shore
Before we're all washed up

Run your fingers through my hair
Play me like I'm your guitar
We'll leave our echo in the sand
And we'll leave our footprints in each other's hearts
Yes, we'll leave footprints in each other's hearts
We're in each other's hearts
Saltwater running, from my eyes
Saltwater running in these dreams of mine
I will see you in my seaweed dreams
You are mine in these seaweed dreams

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from I, Autumnus, released June 25, 2021
Music and lyrics written by Autumn Dawn Leader
All vocals and instrumentation by Autumn Dawn Leader

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Autumn Dawn Leader Loughborough, UK

Critics call Autumn Dawn Leader - aka The Songmistress - a musical maverick. Autumn is a classically trained contrakto vocalist & multi-instrumentalist songwriter with a unique dark, emotive & bewitching flavour. Difficult to impossible to put her in a genre box, she's best known for delicious chord changes, sublime vocal sorcery, poweful lyrical hammer blows & intensely passionate performances. ... more

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