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Throw Down Your Oar

from Companions by Watson & Lockett

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Throw Down your Oar is a story about a couple‘s journey - on a (perhaps metaphorical) boat (hence the oar) and their companionship, struggles, and eventually, their decision to let go of life. I wanted it to be a hopeful tale - in the knowledge that the current and the rapids keep going & new lives emerge with them

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Throw down the oars she said
Let them float away with the current
Churning fast with a fever
And a vitality

Abandon the river
You’ve been on it too long
You’re becoming the fever 
It’s too strong
 
Ashore you can rest
Sit back watch the river that has swept you along
Ashore you can rest
Let the fever break
 
Away with the oars he said
What can you mean
Without them we’ll drown and the current will
Sweep Us Away
 
The river’s my home
The rapids my blood
It’s a life force that rules me 
So sorry it’s no good
 
For years they travelled and the struggle ran on
The fights with the current and the rapids swept on
With a vitality
 
The wind whistled low and whipped up a storm
The water grew frenzied and the rain poured
The darkness was whole
The boat vanished in the blanket of the night
 
The morning was clear not a cloud in the sky
By evening the stream was a trickle
Almost run dry
And a boat sat moored
On a sheltered grassy bank
No wind in its sails and the oars swept away
 
The rapids down river kept tumbling, tripping
Despite the current, so weak
 
And the boat sat so still

credits

from Companions, released January 18, 2024
Georgie Lockett: main vocals, mandolin, violin
Hazel Watson: piano, viola, backing vocals
Andy Keaveny: bass
Alex Howes: drums

Production: Andy Keaveny
Master: Max Walley
Songwriting: Georgie Lockett

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Watson & Lockett Manchester, UK

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