Sailing On A Pool Of Tears

from Stripped Back (Studio Album) by Rebecca Downes

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This is a slow Blues/power ballad about separation and having just been told that you are being forced apart from your lover. It uses the metaphor of drowning to describe being overcome by grief.

The original track was released on Believe and had a film-scape vibe, but this version is very Spanish in feel. In addition to the original, there is a live version and a re-mix by the producer Chris Kimsey (Rolling Stones,Peter Frampton and others). It is without doubt the most popular song we have released thus far.

lyrics

It’s a cold night, I should hold you
As you tell me the bad news
That you’re locked away from me
That you’re leaving me lonely
It’s the wrong night to have bad dreams
Cause I know what it all means
As I’m dragged way down under
In the storm and the thunder

Longing for the walls to break down
No one hears you when you’re drowning
Somebody hold back the flood

Cause I’m sailing on a pool of tears
And I’m waiting, counting down our broken years
See I’m sailing on a pool of tears
And I’m waiting, as the day disappears

It’s a long night, I can’t sleep
Waters flowing round my feet
And it’s making me colder
Like we’ve grown so much older

There’s a river underneath us
Rising up to defeat us
Full of fear full of danger
Like a terrible stranger

Lonely but for all I stay home
Slowly sinking and I’m thinking
When is the dam gonna break?

Cos I’m sailing on a pool of tears
And I’m waiting, counting down our broken years
See I’m sailing on a pool of tears
And I’m waiting, as the day disappears

Longing for the walls to break down
No one hears you when you’re drowning
Somebody hold back the flood

It’s a cold night, I should hold you
As you tell me the bad news
That you’re locked away from me
That you’re leaving me lonely
It’s the wrong night to have bad dreams
Cause I know what it all means
As I’m dragged way down under
In the storm and the thunder

See I’m sailing on a pool of tears
And I’m waiting, counting down our broken years
See I’m sailing on a pool of tears
And I’m waiting, as the day disappears

See I’m sailing
And I’m waiting

See I’m sailing
And I’m waiting

credits

from Stripped Back (Studio Album), released April 9, 2021
Written by Steve Birkett and Rebecca Downes

Rebecca Downes: Vocal

Steve Birkett: All instruments and Backing Vocal

Musical Arrangement and Production by Steve Birkett

Recorded at Chez Birkett, Olton, Solihull

Engineered by Steve Birkett

Mixed and Mastered by Steve Birkett Jnr

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Rebecca Downes Birmingham, UK

Winner of Female Vocalist and Emerging Artist of the Year at the British Blues Awards 2016, and Female Blues Vocalist of the Year at the FORM UKBlues Awards 2018, Birmingham (UK)-based Rebecca is an independent artist creating original blues/rock music with her co-songwriter Steve Birkett and performing within a 5-piece band or as a duo with Steve. ... more

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