We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Across The Water

from jiguma dreaming by Neil Porter

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The CD includes all 13 downloadable tracks except the "bonus track". Comes in thin-line case with 4 page insert. High quality audio.

    Also includes immediate download of 14 track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    6
    releases

    Get all 6 Neil Porter releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of THE DISAPPEARING MAN, Looking Like The Real Thing, Into The Blue, Life On The Trapeze, Signs Of Life, and jiguma dreaming. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $21 USD or more (50% OFF)

     

about

A reflective song about my mother and, inevitably, about my father. Lyrically, this was an experiment in looking at the core of one small aspect of my parents' lives, but in a very oblique way (does that make sense?). My dad was a British sailor who met my mother when he was on RnR in Sydney in WW2.

Musically it's all me this time - one acoustic (Seagull) track (recorded in stereo), two Telecaster tracks, bass, keys and midi drums. Lead and harmony vocals each double tracked (with reduced volume on the echo Peter!).

This was quite difficult for me to write.

lyrics

Across The Water
© Neil Porter 2007

You were a young and lovely Sydney girl
Your first love had come undone
You were a builder’s youngest daughter
You met a mother’s only son

I hear he swept you off your feet
You thought the good times had begun
You were a builder’s youngest daughter
You had a sailor’s only son

He sailed across the water
Then you were settling down
A builder’s youngest daughter
He was a new man in town

You always did your best for him
And I know he made you smile
He wasn’t quite the man you’d hoped he’d be
Perhaps you knew that all the while

He sailed across the water
You thought you’d settle him down
A builder’s youngest daughter
He was a man about town

I still see you in your lonely chair
And it always makes me sad
I don’t think he meant to leave you there
He never knew you felt so bad

credits

from jiguma dreaming, released July 7, 2007
All vocals and instruments - Neil Porter

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Neil Porter image

Neil Porter Pambula Beach, Australia

Singer songwriter from Pambula Beach in Australia.

contact / help

Contact Neil Porter

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Neil Porter recommends:

If you like Neil Porter, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now