The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112880   Message #2401307
Posted By: Azizi
30-Jul-08 - 11:08 AM
Thread Name: Bruce Murdoch CD-Matters of the Heart
Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch CD-Matters of the Heart
Hey, guys & gals! I've been meaning to post a general "Thank you" to all the people posting to this thread. I'm glad that Bruce re-considered and this thread is going to remain open.

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I have a question that I've been meaning to ask KenM about part of what he wrote in his   post to this thread. I know that I could just send a private electronic message {pm}, but maybe other people reading this has wondered the same thing.

Ken, where does this sentence come from? Is it from one of Bruce's old or new songs? If so, which one?

Also {and maybe this is for Bruce}:

I love these words from "I Can See You Now":

"Wind and waves that drift across the bow.
And morning doves sail across the sky

I can turn my head and I can close my eyes
I can see you now"

-snip-
First, of all, are those the right words to that verse?

Secondly, this speaks to the mistake I made earlier in this thread regarding the line from the "Last Man Standing" song {I knew it was "write to me when life's not so demanding" but I still wrote it wrong and then had the nerve to refer to mondegreens as montegreens.

But when I heard the first verse of Bruce's "I Can See You Now" song {that is posted above}, I wondered "How can wind and waves drift across a branch of a tree?" *

Then I looked up the word "bow" and saw that one definition of it is "The front section of a ship or boat".

All this to say, I'm wondering if I am the only one that got stuck on what a tree branch had to do with wind and waves in that beautifully written song?

*Just in case people don't get where I was comin from, "bow" is pronounced the same as "bough"