Dolphin Song

[Julie]

Dolphin Song

Matthew bring in your fishing nets
Have you caught yourself a woman
Caught yourself a woman yet?
Sometimes you call me Melusine
After the Lady of the Fountain
In whose lake you took a drink
And boy
I know
I know that you burn
For your
Water spirit

Now that I know
I know the lengths that you’d go
To chase the roughest tide
That’s right behind me
Yes I know
I know the lengths that you’d go
To bring the roughest tide in
Smooth like dolphin
Smooth like dolphin

I sought shelter in our child’s room
She and me against the world
Safe in our cocoon
You raced a giant roller-skate
And said ‘The three of us must leave this place
song lines will guide our way’

And boy
I know
I know that you burn
For your
Water spirit

Now that I know
I know the lengths that you’d go
To chase the roughest tide
That’s right behind me
Yes I know
I know the lengths that you’d go
To bring the roughest tide in
Smooth like dolphin
Smooth like dolphin

Matthew bring in your fishing nets
I have been marked by your gospel
This daughter of a preacher man
'Cause boy I feel
I feel that you burn
For your
Water spirit
'Cause boy I feel
I feel that you burn
For your
Water girl

Now that I know
I know the lengths that you’d go
To chase the roughest tide
That’s right behind me
Yes I know
I know the lengths that you’d go
To bring the roughest tide in
Smooth like dolphin
Smooth like dolphin

Tori's description of it:

"Some songs seem to have a timeline for when they want to be finished and put out to the world. At the time when we were working on "Dolphin Song," I had all kinds of ideas for her development after the basic tracking had been done. Instead she got set aside for a while. But once we started to go through the tape library we put "Dolphin" up on the faders again, and I realized we didn't need to record anything else; it was finished."
From the A Piano: The Collection book.