Oceans Ago from Caterwaul by Ilia Nicoll

What a season of snow
Knee deep the summer that I left
Two years ago
There’s still a sadness in the gloom
Leftover murmurs are
Escaping from my room
How many feelings do I need?
How many fingers will be bleeding from Not writing you?

When you go
I wish to carry you
Safely through snow storms
When you fall
There’s something you can use
Bind the bruise: know home
For though it’s been a while, you still
Know I’m thinking of you and
Everywhere you smile, I can see through
Oceans ago

When will I see you again
May over absence and the distance
We be friends
And the years all be kind
It is my wish that all you look for
You will find
Be what you be, it’s all you need
Find your own reasons that define your Kind of harmony

When you go
I wish to carry you
Safely through snow storms
When you fall
There’s something you can use
Bind the bruise: know home
For though it’s been a while, you still
Know I’m thinking of you and
Everywhere you smile, I can see through
Oceans ago

• Folk
• pop folk singer songwriter
• pop-folk-indie
• Stratford