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Learning Your Name

from 'blongs' by Freddie Stevenson

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Learning Your Name

In a boat on the blackest of oceans
By the light of a high crescent moon
I float with on the sea’s gentle motion
Sleeping and dreaming of you

If I were more of a sailor
The stars would show me the way
You left a kiss on my hand
As I stepped off dry land
But I am still learning your name

A letter arrived this morning
The postman was covered in snow
It lit my soul up like lightening
It told me nothing I don’t already know

If I were more of a soldier
I would leap right into the fray
Spend the rest of my life
Fighting by your side
But I am still learning your name

Oh my love gives me grace in singing
The grace that I lack in living
Oh my love gives me grace in living
The grace that I lack in dying
Oh my love gives me grace in dying
The grace that I lack in being born again
I know every inch of your face my love
But I am still learning your name

At the bottom of a bottle of whiskey
Lives a woman with long flowing hair
She says, “Come here, my lover, and kiss me”
But you can’t because she’s not really there

If I were more of a dreamer
I would stay with her all night and day
But there’s no home for love
Outside flesh and blood
And I am still learning your name

Oh my love gives me grace in singing
The grace that I lack in living
Oh my love gives me grace in living
The grace that I lack in dying
Oh my love gives me grace in dying
The grace that I lack in being born again
I know every inch of your face my love
But I am still learning your name

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from 'blongs', released November 28, 2010

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Freddie Stevenson Glasgow, UK

Albums 'Body on the Line', 'All My Strange Companions', '50 Songs', 'The City Is King', 'The Brightening/The Darkening'. A Dirty Urchin of NYC. Co-writing and touring with the Waterboys. Lives in Scotland.

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