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Mercy And The Sea

by Stella's Way

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gewart The band's second album, and what a beauty!! Recorded and mixed over 5 days (at Palamino studios - Myponga, SA), Mercy and the Sea has a rawer feel than their first album (Wonderland) and takes the trio to the 'next level' artistically, brilliantly showcasing their combined creativity with this set of diverse and moving songs. Hard to pick a favourite track - too many great songs! - but I went for Lilly of the Valley as maybe the album's "hidden gem". Favorite track: Lily Of The Valley.
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1.
I Saw It All 04:18
I saw it, I saw it all Secret eyes, broken smile Promises of more I saw it all We fought it, we fought it hard Ravaged hearts, wasted time Falling so far We fought it hard Maybe it’s an illusion For two lonely souls Shore’s not so distant Home’s never felt this close We bought it, we bought it all Dancing lights, naked highs Riding the storm We bought it all Say it ain't an illusion For two lonely souls Shore’s not so distant Home’s never been this close I saw it, I saw it all Secret eyes, broken smile Promises of more I saw it all
2.
Time is an arrow That’s what I believe But some things keep repeating Psychopathic killers Bred to deceive Same suit different face Our lives to defend Flowers in the morning breeze But even plastic roses Will prick you in the end Stay fast my friends Hang tight If we can stick together We’ll be alright We’ll be alright Crouching in the bunker Hidden out of sight Soldiers prowl the avenues Sycophantic lovers Creeping through the night Stay fast my friends Hang tight If we can stick together We will be alright We’ll be alright Time, time we wax sublime One more exhibit on the picket line But we enter the gateway conscious turn-style See what it is raw bloody and wild Pure and naked satiated The world dictated what was created Society of savage nonchalance Dim denial their immune response Don't look at me with those sugar coated eyes See your talons through your thin disguise You are just like me a billion years to evolve I'm just like you when I've got no soul Time is come the die is cast Its coming at you deadly deadly fast I see you face down on the ground tonight Flashing red and blue in the flickering light Give a cop a gun there's a price to pay Another brother lost in the world today And it's all it's just a matter of time Stay fast my friends Hang tight If we can stick together We’ll be alright We’ll be alright Time is an arrow Taken through the heart So hold it close in your quiver Find out what is real Or perish in the dark Stay fast my friends Hang tight If we can stick together We will be alright Stay fast my friends Hang tight If we can stick together We'll be alright We’ll be alright We’ll be alright We’ll be alright We’ll be alright You know we'll be alright
3.
Waves slap on the shore Your breathing rises and falls in time I came when you called I could hear your desperation Oh I would crawl Over broken glass Torn and bruised To get to you So don’t you dare Break my heart We’ve come too far Hurt too much I lost track of time Forgot where the light comes in You never made it clear You were looking for absolution (Don’t you know that) I would crawl Over broken glass Torn and bruised To get to you So don’t you dare Break my heart We’ve come too far Hurt too much
4.
History gone swept away Humiliation everyday We cannot go unreconciled Living like this a racist child I walk with you I walk with you Dark in heart time connection Dying in jail for generations Burden of shame wherever we are Diminished world, a blistering scar I walk with you I walk with you I I walk with you Land and spirit dust and sand Brutal truth it's time to stand Wisdom held hidden depth Beautiful heart inner strength I walk with you I walk with you Adam Goodes vilified Naked prejudice can't dignify The truth is dark we cannot see Blinded still we continue to bleed I walk with you I walk with you I I walk with you
5.
Come back from the edge Said the stranger on the bridge I’ve stood where you stand And wondered if I could I’ve listened to the wind And heard the flowing water I want to hear your story Before you take that final step And maybe we could Find some common ground Have the conversation Take a dose of hope You’ve got something to give Said the Stranger on the Bridge The devil in my head Throws my understanding It tells me how to live And where I should be running You know I found a dark place Sectioned in my hospital bed I know I need to talk But I can’t say how But if we could Find some common ground Have the conversation Take a dose of hope I’ve got something to give Like the Stranger on the Bridge I wander through the night Thinking about tomorrow It seems such a thin wire To always be balanced on You're never far away Perpetually a soldier Always near the edge Needing a Stranger on the Bridge And if we can Find some common ground Have the conversation Take a dose of hope You’ve got something to give Yes if you can Find some common ground Have the conversation Take a dose of hope You’ve got something to give Like the Stranger on the Bridge
6.
The sweet smell of tobacco Floating down the spur The bitter blues and the bloody reds They stay with me girl The light can rage before us The ocean it can start to swell We are only lovers Stay with me girl Stay with me girl Stay with me girl Let the sky crash around us The earth it will endure Let the birds be silent Stay with me girl Haunting and confounding Undefined and pure There will be no other Stay with me girl Stay with me girl Stay with me girl The love we take with us The decisions on which we dwell Hold us hostage forever They stay with us girl See the rider in the distance He’s coming for you Silhouette in the dying light Stay with me girl Silhouette in the dying light Stay with me girl Stay Oh Stay Stay with me girl Stay with me girl Stay with me girl Stay
7.
Insomnia 04:46
I want to sleep I want to dream Cos right now that’s the best place I could be I walk to your house, alone in the drive The light from the street lamps burns into my eyes Insomnia Gripping my head Insomnia Making me feel like I don’t know the difference between your arms and hell Your arms and hell I know these streets but they seem so strange The signs are all there but the words are rearranged I look to the sky I don’t know why Ain't nothing up there but this dirty unmade night Insomnia Gripping my head Insomnia Making me feel like I don’t know the difference between your arms and hell Your arms and hell So many thoughts staring at my innocence Too many memories dragging me down this dead end alleyway Insomnia Gripping my head Insomnia Making me feel like I don’t know the difference between your arms and hell Your arms and hell Insomnia, Gripping my head Insomnia Making me feel like I don’t know the difference between your arms and hell Your arms and hell
8.
It’s raining down hard You know it’s so hard And I’m doing it like so many are having to do The wind in my face It hits me so cold And I’ve just been told that my rent is due But I’ve got a solution now and bit by bit Degree by degree I'm gonna float me a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee There’s something so good When you’re swimming upstream But you get to the place that you need to be Spit in life’s eye And don’t back down Cos you know that the bastards won’t let you be free And I got to tell you that bit by bit Degree by degree I'm gonna float me a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee When the world is so bleak And you know it won’t turn And you see that the truth is dirty and stained It’s never all lost There’s always some way You don’t have to be the one wrapped in chains Cos I know you know that Bit by bit Degree by degree You can always float a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee Gonna float me Gonna float me Gonna float me a tepee
9.
Sweet Tunes 02:54
Sweet tunes rippling around my head Breaking free of the wild empty shadows A fierce heart can take you all the way home If that’s where you really need to go Nothing can make me walk this earthly fire Nothing can steal these memories Nothing can faze me when I make it to your door Nothing, nothing at all Good times shine like light through a prism Flickering colours from the dark A warm smile can get you all the way through When nothing else will really do Nothing can make me walk this earthly fire Nothing can steal these memories Nothing can faze me when I make it to your door Oh nothing, nothing at all If you can feel the breeze But cannot change the scene Then maybe it's time to haul in the line And sail to where you really want to be Where you really want to be Sweet tunes rippling around my head Breaking free of the wild empty shadows A fierce heart can take you all the way home If that’s where you really need to go Nothing can make me walk this earthly fire Nothing can steal these memories Nothing can faze me when I make it to your door Oh nothing, nothing at all Nothing can make me walk this earthly fire Nothing can steal these memories Nothing can faze me when I make it to your door Oh nothing, nothing at all
10.
Well I heard you called me Lily of the Valley Easy to look at Poison to touch Oh, maybe you think the devil was going to break me Maybe you just want me too much Ooh ooh ooh Baby you just want me too much I remember you from down in the Valley Being where you weren't supposed to be Oh, maybe you think the light would not find you Babe I've gotta tell you that ain't true Ooh ooh ooh Babe I gotta tell you that ain't true I ain't going back No I ain't 'going back You’re secret stays You’re secret stays with me Well I ain't going back No I ain't 'going back You’re secret stays You’re secret stays with me I heard you called me Lily of the Valley
11.
Summer Sun 02:40
I know I’m gonna see you again and I know that one day this time will end But for now I’m going to sit here in this summer sun and hope not much has changed As so much is said and done Its as clear as the setting sun When my words don’t seem to capture all I feel inside you’ll never leave my heart So I’ll put some time aside Let’s do whatever that we like oh yeah This time I feel I’m on the last train home but the weight feels fine I don’t know how to tell it to you As so much time has gone by But I know what I feel and when the time is right I’ll give myself all to you I sit here on the floor these days are different than before As memories fade I miss the older days but for me the change is fine Now I’m back here in my hometown Walking through the door of my family home It feels the same nothing ever seems to change and I feel happy here I move so fast these days as more of life gets in the way This city life makes me grow so tired but I’ll be good here for a while
12.
I’ve been sailing for so many years At the mercy of the sea So pleased to light on these shores So strange to find you here Isn’t it so very unusual? These battles that we fight Dying half a world away From my bridge it don’t seem right But we roll roll roll roll with the waves Yes we roll roll roll for the rest of our days We are both commanders of science Seafaring naturalists Twisting away through uncharted waters Through channels of time do we drift The animals and plants we collect Lie still in the hold We wonder at their strange eerie beauty And the stories that we stole But we roll roll roll roll with the waves Yes we roll roll roll for the rest of our days And her memory is clear to me now All through the spray and the mist of time I know I’ll never see her again But that’s the life of a sailing man And we roll roll roll roll with the waves Yes we roll roll roll for the rest of our days Only you and I really know The power of these waves The beauty of the dark horizon The majesty of sail Enduring all the anguished cries Of this strange wary coast We might be the most bitter of enemies But the devil takes us both And we roll roll roll roll with the waves Yes we roll roll roll for the rest of our days Yes we roll roll roll roll with the waves Yes we roll roll roll for the rest of our days

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Recorded at Palomino Sound Recorders, Myponga, South Australia, April 4-8, 2022. Produced by Tristen Bird, Mastered by Govinda Doyle.

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released May 20, 2022

Stella's Way - Mercy And The Sea
Stephen Sarre - Vocals, Rhythm/Folk Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica
Llara Weaver - Vocals, Djembe, Cajon, Percussion, Acoustic Guitar
Will Higgisson - Electric, 12 String, Accoustic, Slide & Bass guitars, Eboe, Keyboards, Piano, Drums

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Emma Luker - Fiddle and vocals (Roll With The Waves)

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Gary Ewart - keyboards on Stay With Me Girl, hand claps
Jacqui Meyers - hand claps, vocals on Roll With The Waves

Cover Photo “Strangers” by Jacqui Meyers

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Stella's Way Canberra, Australia

We are an eco-punky-folk trio blending vocal harmonies, guitar, and percussion with commentary on modern life. Formed by ecological geneticists we bring a biologist’s perspective to Australian folk.

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