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Dar Williams
Dar Williams


Background information
Birth name Dorothy Snowden Williams
Born April 19, 1967
Origin Mount Kisco, New York, United States
Genre(s) Singer-songwriter
Folk
Folk-Pop
Alternative Country
Years active 1990—present
Label(s) Razor & Tie Music Records
Associated acts Joan Baez
Cry Cry Cry
Website Website



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Dar Williams Lyrics

"The Tide Falls Away" lyrics


I walked a spiraling village one night,
Drawn by the word of a bell or a light.
Out on the flats saw it rose to a spire.
It all becomes clear as the tide falls away.

Parent and child and an ocean between.
One is not heard and the other not seen.
Too many bottles but each had a message inside.
It all becomes clear as the tide falls away.
It all becomes clear as the tide falls away.

Lucky we are when the starts leave us singing
A hymn or a dirge when the surge of the ocean is gone, is gone.

And the old woman just stares at her hands,
So many heroes have crumbled to sand.
All those cathedrals were merely by men.
It all becomes clear as the tide falls away.
It all becomes clear as the tide falls away.
All falls away.

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