Name: Mats Mats Bay
Duration: P00H03M21S
Description: I wrote this song for my brother Jonathan the summer he was 15, fishing and daydreaming from a little rowboat on Puget Sound. I was living in Norway, missing the sound of the bell buoys hitting waves outside Mats Mats Bay.

Mats Mats Bay

from The Wait For Green by Kat Parent

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I wrote this song for my brother Jonathan the summer he was 15, fishing and daydreaming from a little rowboat on Puget Sound. I was living in Norway, missing the sound of the bell buoys hitting waves outside Mats Mats Bay.

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Tall boy adrift in your old rowboat,
drop your feet on the gunwale and sigh
For your sisters and summer and the blue-eyed girl
Another year’s August goodbyes

Your keel glides low in the evening tide
on its long journey in from the sea
Somewhere far on another shore
the waves bring the same music to me

I go downshore when I’m missing you,
little brother an ocean away
And feel the bell buoy in my heart
making time
swinging day by day

A message in a bottle at the end of your line is trailing its own wake of foam
Grown friends with jobs and their too-far dreams
Oh, why won’t they all come home?

I go downshore when I’m missing you,
little brother an ocean away
And feel the bell buoy in my heart
making time
swinging day by day

So wave to the moon we’ll all see tonight
Row back up the darkening bay
Dreaming of school and the salmon run
And next summer an ocean away

I go downshore when I’m missing you,
little brother an ocean away
And feel the bell buoy in my heart
making time
swinging day by day

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from The Wait For Green, released September 11, 2017
Katherine Parent: vocals, guitar
Sarah Larsson: harmony vocals, French horn

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Kat Parent Minneapolis, Minnesota

Katherine writes gentle and passionate songs that speak to work of healing and resistance. She sings new folk music inspired by generations of family lullabies, by lament and rage, and by vivid dreams.

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