Turnstones

from Turnstones by That Nitrogen Thing

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Turnstones

She waits and shelters from the rain
Counts seabirds, waiting for a train
From empty time he’s come again

We tear ourselves from other lives
Pretend we’re holding hands
Walk miles under a heavy sky
To map the border lands
Where I ask you and you reply
We try to understand
What made our lives, what filled the time
We’re turnstones on our sands

Miles that fill time on the sand
He doesn’t take her by the hand
He is a shelter from the rain
Planning when he’ll come again

On lonely trains we try to think
How change in time appears
Too far between, face indistinct
The cost of losing years
And soon we’re back to other lives
Before we’re holding hands
Remember miles of heavy sky
Leave you on border lands
Then unloved notes and you reply
And I don’t understand
You stare at walls to fill the time
No turnstone on your sand

He didn’t say he’d come again
She didn’t turn and wave to the train

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from Turnstones, released November 6, 2020

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That Nitrogen Thing Scotland, UK

Collaborations between two songwriters from the Scottish central lowlands, reanimating demos on occasional mornings and afternoons, depending on availability.

Includes the 26th November 2017, the day Motherwell lost 2-0 to Celtic in the 2017-2018 Scottish League Cup Final ... more

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