All Seas

from Songs Of Serenity by Scott Perry

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I had a riff I wanted to write a song around, and the first line “I broke it to her – could it ever be gently?” just popped out. That led me to an imagined scenario of a couple losing a child and struggling to deal with it. It was not lost on me that I hadn’t experienced anything like that grief, but a writer must be empathetic and I tried hard to imagine myself in those shoes. Days after I wrote this, I learned my mother had cancer. Losing a parent is hard, but at least the natural order of things (unlike the death of a child), so despite that awful coincidence, I never cursed my imagination for stirring up the darkness. And I still feel blessed that I haven’t had to deal with tragedy like this song describes.

lyrics

I broke it to her – could it ever be gently?
We both wanted to believe it couldn’t happen, not to us
But reality can’t be denied, or swept aside
Caught in all seas
Caught in all seas

There’s no sense to be made of such an awful traumatic loss
How we struggled to see the point of living … on like this
Worst of all to have it come between us; so torn apart
Caught in all seas
Caught in all seas
Caught in all seas
Caught in all seas

Will we recover our wonder – at this world that we live in?
Ever just be happy to be with one another, once again?
When that part of us will always be missing, lost overboard
Caught in all seas
Caught in all seas
Caught in all seas
Caught in all seas

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from Songs Of Serenity, released September 8, 2017
© 2017 Scott Perry (SOCAN/BMI)
Recorded at Echoplant Studios, Coquitlam BC
Engineered by Matt Di Pomponio
Mixed by Adrian Buckley
Mastered by Craig Waddell at Gotham City
Scott Perry: Vocals, Guitars
Eric Lefebvre: Bass
Derek Macdonald: Keyboards
Adrian Buckley: Drums, Vocals
Graham Myrfield: Vocals

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Scott Perry Vancouver, British Columbia

“Where acoustic meets electric.” A singer-songwriter in the vintage mold of the 70s, Scott Perry launched The EastVangelicals with Songs of Serenity (2017) and Follow UP (2018), all about home, nostalgia, and love.
Suite:Dreams (2020) tells the story of a relationship in ten lovesongs.

His latest, Folks Songs (Aug 2022) treats the loss of parents: processing grief, and celebrating their lives. ... more

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