Where The River Meets The Sea

from Torn Pages, She Wrote To Me (2018) by The ThinMan with Songs Sung by Lady Sakara

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£1 GBP or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

Where the river meets the Sea
(Poem read over intro)
Rise up, arise ye mighty and behold
The archangel is riding on the wind
Singing with the angels and saints upon the moor
Of ancients, of ancestors that rest below the marsh.

Where the river meets the sea
There stand I.

From o’er Stert flats the sea breeze rides
Across Huntspill levels along the ancient Brue
And as it blows it catches ten thousand voices
Of ancients, of ancestors lost upon the marsh.

Where the river meets the sea
There stand I.

For so comes the flowing air to lick the foot of the tor
To bless this earth with the salt of the sea
Carrying the voices ten thousand strong
Of ancients, of ancestors who sleep within the marsh.

Where the river meets the sea
There stand I.

Betwixt Mendip and Polden it flows upon the waters
Still as the Moon, deep as the blood in our veins
Gently caressing the apples of the vale
It shall become our prayer; for

Where the river meets the sea
The knife shall sear the cord
Of flesh and blood and bone.

(Refrain Sung)
Where the river meets the sea,
Where the river meets the sea,
Where the river meets the sea,
There I stand.

There's a child in your arms,
Hey You! There's a Child in your arms
For the moon is in the sky
Yes the moon is in the sky
And the stars begin to shine,
Yes the stars begin to shine.
And the candles burn tonight

Where the river meets the sea, where the river meets the sea, Where the river meets the sea,
There I stand.

credits

from Torn Pages, She Wrote To Me (2018), released August 15, 2018

license

about

The ThinMan UK

The ThinMan has been writing and performing since first using the stage name in 1988.

contact / help

Contact The ThinMan

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like The ThinMan, you may also like:

Pensées Noires
by Tout Debord

Slashing, ice-cold, irresistible goth from Paris—your perfect haunted house soundtrack. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2023
go to album
Strangers
by Grey Gallows

“Strangers” is packed with wonderfully menacing electro-goth—late-night horror movie music for vampire dance parties. Bandcamp New & Notable May 8, 2023
go to album
This Is The Healing (Remastered)
by L.S.Underground

An early ’90s cult classic of goth/dark folk gets a vinyl reissue, its haunting songs as gripping and resonant as ever. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2022
go to album
Leucovorin Rescue b/w What Is Owed
by The True Faith

Boston goth/post-punk band True Faith offer two punchy, hooky, perfectly melodramatic cuts on this new 7-inch. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 15, 2021
go to album
MD133 - CANDELABRE "For to have time is to have wings"
by Candélabre

French darkwave outfit Candélabre channel New Romantic pop, dousing big melodies with a healthy amount of foggy, swirling atmosphere. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2021
go to album
The End Is the Beginning
by Mirror Of Haze

Perfectly gloomy Norwegian goth/post-punk, anchored by a punchy rhythm section and driven by chiming guitar lines and morose vocals. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 16, 2021
go to album
Lost Shadows EP
by Patrick Samuel

Packed with big riffs and psychedelic arrangements, the five songs on the this electrifying EP were recorded during lockdown. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 3, 2020
go to album