We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

My apologies for the weak vocals on this one - I had a cold, and couldn't sing very loudly. Please feel very free to read the lyrics below if you can't make out what I'm singing! If this ends up on an album, it'll sound a lot more dynamic!

It's a song about the way we treat our oceans. Too much plastic, too many fish being taken - water is getting too hot, and too acidic. It'll come back to bite us, in time.

lyrics

Watch the dancing strands
of foam throwing strings of nylon
rope upon the sands. Bottles, butts
nappies, bones and Fanta cans
bashing on the rocks and blowing through the land.
They say Old Man Pelican
can fit more fish in his bill than his belly can.
I saw one dead. His guts were puffed
with plastic bags. Miaboolya turtles
hollowed by the sun. Mullet and tailor
lying dead, as one, in a grave that is
gnawing into everyone.
Who is profiting
when the bitter tide is raked trawled?
Time and tide
spare nobody at all.
They wait for none at all.
They said our ways would change
my whole life. Our ways remain the same.
They say when the body over-sates,
the spirit starves and pines away.
boil the roiling seas away
take out the salt that remains,
and salt the fields our children scrape
time and tide, trickle away.
Trickle, roll, lap and sap away.
And who is profiting
when the rivers are glowing with ore?
Time and tide
have mercy upon us all.
Please have mercy on us all.

credits

from On Blue Days - the demo tapes, released July 9, 2021
Darcy Hay - guitar, vocals, lyrics

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Darcy Hay image

Darcy Hay Geraldton, Australia

Folk, country and blues singer-songwriter from the Midwest of Western Australia with a penchant for political and poetic lyricism, energetic guitar playing, authentic vocals and deft harmonica work

contact / help

Contact Darcy Hay

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like Darcy Hay, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring interviews with LA music scene pillar Kamasi Washington, and new London-based duo Mrcy.

listen now