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To The Water

by Daughters of Davis

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1.
Where do we go I’ve been so alone / Travelling out to the sea / Where do we go I’ve been so alone / Anchor me home with you here / I’m scared, I’m scared don’t wanna go / The devil is using my fears / You built a raft for me here / We could sail oceans not care where we go / I’ll bring the good book and light / Guide our way through as we head through the night / As we head through the night / Head through the night / Where do we go I’ve been so alone / Now I’ll be away for a year / Where do we go I’ve been so alone / Anchor me home with you here / Moved through the fabric the stiches I‘ve sown / Frayed are the edges of me / See I watched as the tide took all that I own / No possessions are mine left to keep / Where do we go I’ve been so alone / Travelling out to the sea/ Salt saturated colour and tone / Flooded disaster through me / I’m scared, I’m scared Lord save me / Take me from these fears
2.
He’s too honest to have a twisted, hidden agenda / He is one clever guy, but he could not read my mind / I’ve known him since seventeen so I think I have a claim, but you can’t trade in your hurt no / It’s not measured by your pain / Oh my, oh my // So I will keep my heart locked up / I will keep my heart locked up // Well, I know everything about him, he knows my middle name / I haven’t shared his bed, but we’ve shared the sun and rain / Now there’s nothing left to do, I’ll have to lock myself away / But don’t you dare come round no I couldn’t take the pain / These things that you’ll never know / I know that you’ll never be mine / I don’t wanna cry / Driving in his car
3.
Inglorious 03:22
You only understand when you get there / Blood on your face and your wet hair / I was travelling, said there’s only one way to get there / And I was foolish cause I was dead with or without it // Can you wade through the dirt inglorious / Gratitude’s thin, no one knows where you’ve been / Can you take all your pain and take your hurt / When caving in, risk to run it thin // Tighten my grip when my hands full / Wasting the time I could give all / I was troubled, narrowed all my vision no cut through / Not seeing, reckless to presume where you’ve been to / Swift the trick and play on streets where I untied / Visit seek, the hollow speech / I’m mocked and bleached / I will stun, the violent one / And hold your hand
4.
Lucky One 02:24
He was my day, he touched light to my face / I gave him the space, he took up my heart’s place / Sun went down upon the love that ran out / Smouldering glow, I was never to know // I was the lucky one / I was his only one / I was the lucky one / I was his only one // Promises carved into the evergreen bark / An era that’s past, I touched the lying mark / He left with the clocks, I saw the boat hit the rocks / I lived there before, now was I watching offshore // I was the lucky one / I was safe from harm / God I was the lucky one / I was safe from harm // He’s driftwood of what he used to be / Can’t hear his voice singing sweet / Siren calls to him to be free / I’m torn out now slow to see
5.
Butterfly 02:35
Water the earth, see the leaves and the trees come up from the ground from nothing / And the sun that’s up in the sky won’t give up its light ‘til wrong is split from right // Hello butterfly, hello butterfly / When I open my eyes / Help me realise I’m alive I said / I could get into this / I could get into this oh / I could get into this living life // I’m alone now, and I feel You standing by / And I know now, it’s not a waste of my life / It’s not wasted, it’s not wasted on me / It’s not wasted, it’s not wasted on me I said
6.
Take My Soul 03:33
//Take my soul down to the water / My red hands have nothing to offer / Pack up, was lost // I was loved from the start / There was a price on my heart / I was loved from the start / I could not see it I was afraid / But there’s life in these hands / But I know not when it ends / There is life in these hands / I cannot see it to my dismay / I saw struggle and strife / Easier may be to hide / But truth I can’t deny / It was not You who caused their crime / No church building You brought / No war condoned that men have fought / Without love it was not sought / We got it wrong, we used Your name in vain
7.
Just Let Go 03:59
When you wake in the morning feel the weight of your heart / Did you know that it’s broken from the start / That it’s broken from the start / Did I think I gained more time / When you wake in the morning, did you say a single word / Did you read, did you talk, did you breathe / I did not say a word / Did you spend your days running through the void of your culture / Could you feel through the cold / Did you grow any number / feel I did / The days are running from you / There’s darkness coming over / Your blood runs even number / You feel it // Just let go, just let go // Did you hide from yourself, from your prayers and your passions / Push it down say it’s nothing, but inside feel that something could have been
8.
Promise Me 03:11
This is something that is deeper than me / I tried to block it out, but it’s overwhelming me / Cause I never could be what I wanted to be / All of the things they said couldn’t get out my head / The only comfort to me was wishing that I were dead / Cause I couldn’t see a way out for me // Will you promise me you’ll never leave me /(Sometimes you feel you can’t go on, you’re struggling) / Even if things change you’ll never leave me / (Sometimes you feel you can’t go on, sickness leads you on) // Run down the shelter falling down over me / Feeding my vice was my security / Even though I knew it was no good for me / Standing in the rain now soaking through to my skin / Well you’ll never know cold ‘til the numbness kicks in / Hearing them saying this is all you will be / What you don’t understand is that you’re the only one I’ve ever trusted oh / Because I / I need you, said I) / I need, but I need you
9.
// When I wait on You I know I’ll be fine / When I reach for You I know I’ll see light // Terminal is my condition buried in the sand / Winds roll round my chest or uncovered by my hands / It’s far too heavy to take through the blue sky / I held the ropes so tight the weight’s become my life / Slip behind the waterfall, wait beneath its break / Time hollowed this safe place / Now I’m resting with a praying mouth / I fear my words I kept and traded out of place / I did not keep with time to listen, touch or taste
10.
So much has changed since you’ve been around / So much has changed since you broke me down / You would not recognise me / So much has changed since you’ve been here / The grounds you walked have all been cleared / I do not recognise this // We didn’t see in bloom of spring when love would burn in autumn’s turn / It used to hold the colours bold, and in their roots the secrets told / Their story / Those amateurs never to be // The season fades, the silent black out / Our words now lost in vacant resound / I do not recognise me
11.
Perspective calls, embrace the cold / I waited on and on and on / I waited ‘til the dark was sold / I walked the shadows all day long / I keep striking the match to put out the flame / I’m filling the glass to pour down the drain / Then I lock the door, but ask you to leave // Oh Lord, oh my / I’m nothing that I thought I was, and I cannot be careful / I feel I will fall // Inflicted those, contorts the pay / The line runs on and on and on / A risk that could not have made the day / The saying’s crushed, define what’s strong
12.
Words 03:33
I’ve been listening for hours on repeat to my heart being sung back to me / In every nuance I recognised the pain / My lover did that to me the same / In the most genuine of kiss / Even in the most genuine of kiss they can break their promises // Words can cut you strong, leave intent of an honest heart / Love can lead you on, never give what it said at the start // Perfect love turned out untrue, you left the message to soak through my body in the night / And even when the dusk defeats the day I fear, the night comes far too soon / And I wake up in the night with tears filling my eyes / If you find somebody new, and in time I do too / Know the past can never hide / i’ll be reaching for that time

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To The Water is the new album from Daughters of Davis. The recording captures the raw energy of the sisters whilst also offering delicate embellishments, giving the listener subtleties to enjoy when the tracks get lodged on repeat. This honest and expressive collection delves into deep issues lyrically with the top-lines and hooks drawing you in unassumingly.

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released May 7, 2012

All lyrics and music by Adrienne and Fern Davis except Nothing That I Thought I was, Promise Me, When I Wait On You, So Much Has Changed, and Take My Soul, where music was written with Andy Baker.

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Andy Baker. Vocals – Adrienne and Fern Davis. Acoustic guitar – Adrienne Davis. 2nd guitar, keys and bass - Andy Baker. Drums and percussion - Joel Cana. Typography by Simon Boult. Photography by Emily Baker.

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