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about
My father (he is buried by the sea) hated to travel. So much that he even skipped our only family vacation since we were kids, to Hawaii. In December 2022 I was flying to Southeast Asia (at that moment, passing the lights of Manila) when I suddenly remembered stories he had told me of being in the Philippines in his early 20’s, and I realized how odd that was. What had this man who hated travel so much been doing across the world? So much of that time in my father’s life will forever remain a mystery, but in that moment up in the air I saw him down there in the sea. Feeling a generational echo that I was in a sense, repeating what he had done. He had looked down on this flight too- and in that moment, it felt like he was the one doing the looking. This is a song from that feeling, seeing his apparition in the sea, experiencing at the same time my father’s closeness but the irrecoverable mystery of his only adventure- and that for any of his faults, it forever seems like he was one step ahead of me. This is a song about heaven. Keith David Goldfarb, I see you in the sea.
lyrics
We were meant to be
Sundays at the train yard
Now you’re by the sea
I couldn’t foresee
Strolling down our driveway
Heaven was so close to me
We will never be
Reconciled truly
Only in a dream
Sometimes
Sometimes I feel like I wasted our time
And I wonder when I’ll see your apparition before me
Saw you in the sea
The lights over manila
Heaven is so far from me
And I see
Heaven was so close to me
And I see
And I see
Heaven was so close to me
Sometimes I feel like I wasted our time
And I wonder when I’ll see your apparition before me
Sometimes I feel like I wasted our time
And I wonder when I’ll see your apparition before me
credits
released August 21, 2023
Music and Lyrics by Alec Goldfarb (BMI 2023)
Mixed by Alec Goldfarb in Ho Chi Minh City at Quan Studios
Album Art by Alec Goldfarb
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