Great Big Sea - Demesduit Dream Lyrics
I dreamt I saw a woman standing by the strand,Waiting for her people to come in from the land.Waiting there for seven days, she built a fire in the sandWaiting for her people to come in from the land.She had the look of a refugee hiding in her eyesAnd when I tried to talk to her she answered with a cryAnd pointed to the water out beyond the harbour lineWhere a thousand ships lay waiting, they lay waiting for my sign.CHORUS:I remember days of sunlightWith my father by my sideAnd the children, ran before usLike the foam upon the tideWe ran like frightened partridge, when the strangers came to talkBringing sickness 'round them and the thunder in their walkWe ran into the valleys and we ran into the hillsThe young ran before us driven by the strangers' willCHORUSI'm waiting by the landwash with the giant standing nearI see them coming always, the cChildren in their fearI'm waiting on my blanket and the giant waits with meAnd I will wait here always as they fill the endless seaCHORUSrepeat