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Flew the Nest

by Hayley Sabella

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1.
Ordinary 03:55
My love leads me to the water’s edge He knows the current like a friend Each ripple and bend, each pebbles weight That homestead heart does live in me But my youth will keep me on the move Least for a while, most embers cool Oh, this is all so ordinary Oh, all the things we carry You’re afraid of a change in rhythm I catch you listening as I sleep To the way my heart pounds It keeps switching beats I feel the seasons changing soon My lungs, they ache for a different air I was skipping beats, now I’m switching tunes Oh, this is all so ordinary Oh, all the things we carry Good things come from sewing seed But you can’t remember each one’s name You just feel its weight as it drops away
2.
It Was There 03:37
I should not have been your lover I thought all of the bending would break the mold But it just broke me, yeah it broke me down And I gave in to doubt Was it there inside me all along I made a room for you in my house But then i lost a place to be myself And when you were leaving, you said I’d become someone else That’s exactly how I felt But I was there inside me all along Tell me what in the world is stronger Than a woman who has built herself back up No I don’t thank you, I don’t thank you at all Why would I thank you for my strength It was there inside me all along
3.
Laying down my tired body Beside your warmth when it’s too warm already Breathing is like swimming in July Nostalgia got me flipping through my memory The sponge of summer dripping ‘till it’s dry I can’t recall a time I felt this way, I can’t recall a time I felt this way I feel my age, a pigeon calls. Turn the page, I see my sister giving breath Another brother flew the nest You spent the winter living on an island To take the cold and bring it to your core It’s kindling a different kind of fire I used to hate the sand for all its moving It hurt to feel the swirling all around But I think I may have healed around the scar of time, I may have healed around the scar of time I feel my age, a pigeon calls. Turn the page, I see my sister giving breath Another brother flew the nest He’s coming home You can close the door, or bow your head Wish I knew more Than how to get by, get by You wrote a letter asking for a reason Burned it up and turned it into smoke I can recall a time I felt that way, I can recall a time I felt that way.
4.
July Rain 03:55
Waxing gibbous, harbor light The tide creeps higher I gathered lavender, cause that’s all that I could do The thought of you as humid as a tomb And I’m waiting for We’re all waiting for July rain, July rain Break the heat, sweet relief Let it all fall down Oh your father, oh my god The atlantic couldn’t hold that kind of love The salinity that binds a father to his son Blood and water, break the levy down And he’s desperate for We’re all waiting for July rain, july rain Break the heat, sweet relief let it all fall down July rain, July rain Bow my head, bend my knees Can you hear me now, Let it all fall down How it all falls down What do you want me to say now
5.
Cape Cod 03:26
You blow my mind in a Cape Cod kinda way With a sandbar spine and a rose hip bush And cigarettes a pack a day I turned around at seventeen Learned to drive, I went the other way Said “anywhere, but east from here is where I wanna be” With a backpack full of principles And how things ought to be All figured out and folded neat Like my mother’s laundered sheets Self righteous as a pastor’s kid Before he learned what his father did I said “anywhere, but east from here is where I’m gonna be” Kindness used to come so easy How’d i learn to be so mean? Not to your face, but in my head I tossed you out like some book I read With which i disagreed, that tried to hard To hide the ugly that’s in you, and in me I’d lose my mind in a Cape Cod kinda way Getting mischievous when the summer-folk go With your pal since the third grade There’s two dozen of you at twenty two And then thirty four, and then fifty eight Still hangin ‘round downtown Slurping oysters in october How I learn to be so mean? Thinkin “anywhere but east from here is where I wanna be” Or where I ought to be
6.
Sorrow/Joy 02:35
You found me in the driveway Lights off, the engine humming Got home an hour ago Paralyzed by things unspoken Got so much I want to show you Nothing’s wrong i just feel the whole wide world Aooohhhhh I don’t like keeping secrets I just want my words to feel true Like how the way I feel about you Isn’t wild waves or fires But a slow start to desire The kind of warmth that doesn’t tire Aooohhhhh Joy feels a lot like sadness Just a cup that’s overflowing Impartial to what it’s holding Still water with an endless bottom Dive in, show ‘em if you got ‘em Hearts as heavy as an endless autumn Aoooohhhhh You found me in the driveway My car still full of groceries We’ve got a lot to carry
7.
I remember summer nights With cigarettes and bibles Underaged cocktails Wash down the confusion I thought you were safe But i was mistaken For you were just a person A person like me And we’d shout our rage Down by the water Rip off all our clothes Baptism only backwards I felt so lost, I prayed to be found I was jealous of your faith Just longing for home Now I count the cost Of what I might have lost By sheltering myself From feeling the storm Ignore the waves Pretend there is no rain Drink the wine and run towards Imaginary sunshine I was ashamed, I had to look away But when part of you escapes The rest of you remains
8.
Windy 02:11
It was windy the day that you left me It was windy I thought the wind took me Perhaps it blew through me Perhaps it spoke to soon And I am exposed Elementally alone Soil, fire, water failing To bring me back my home No need to feel sorry It’s okay to feel angry No need to love what is free For I am empty And surely that scares me It shakes the dust from wings And I am exposed Fundamentally alone Soil, fire, water falling To build me a new home

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released May 29, 2020

music and lyrics by Hayley Sabella.
produced and mixed by Daniel Radin.
mastered by Sunroom Audio.

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Hayley Sabella Plymouth, Massachusetts

Hayley Sabella is a singer-songwriter / local farmer / earnest truth-seeker / independent woman / dork, who originally did her thing in her hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts and is now doing her thing in other places, too.

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