Em's Waltz

from Riding On the Back of the Wind by Carrie Ferguson

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Waltz for Emily
Words and music by Carrie Ferguson

Oh, she said, you look so cold
Come rest your head by my fire
I can see the grief you hold
This weight you bare makes you tired

And all of the pain you think you owe
Will never change the past
And all of the tears you do not show
Will never bring it back

And out on the water the world calls your name
She wants to love you, you just turn away

Look, she said, night then day
As life fulfills its task
You can make light from dark
Just let your heart ask

And all of the pain you think you owe
Will never change the past
And all of the tears you do nont show
Will never bring it back

And out on the water the world calls your name
She wants to love you, you just turn away
Out on the the water the world calls your name
She wants to love you, don’t turn away

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from Riding On the Back of the Wind, released January 6, 2010

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Carrie Ferguson Northampton, Massachusetts

Carrie grew up playing an enormous upright, chocolate-brown piano. It had a darkly booming, slightly furry quality to it, like the weather in her hometown of Arcata on the North Coast of California. Ferguson credits its sonorous voice, combined with the perpetual fog and clamminess as instilling in her the baseline aesthetic of melancholic optimism that permeates her words and music today. ... more

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