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What can I say about this song... It's an instruction set, it's a metaphor. It's bringing all the lessons that sailing my way through life's storms and good times has taught me, for me to apply to the next wind that blows or stalls in my ship of life

Heaving-to on a sailboat, particularly a small one like mine, is like magic. One minute the winds are howling around, heeling us over at 45 degrees, and then you back the jib and put the helm to lee, and she points up into the wind. First the jib gently lifts the bow across the wind to starboard, and then stalls. The main grabs just enough wind to tick us back to port, and the process starts all over again.

It's finding calm within the storm. The seas are raging, but I'm sipping a cup of tea while I catch my breath.

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Tie the wind to the water, let it flow along my keel
It keeps me in motion while my spirit heals
One hand for the wind, and one hand for the water
I navigate by starlight, I am guided by wonder

(chorus)
Oh we are sailing
Oh we are sailing
Oh we are sailing, on an ocean of love!
(repeat)

Heave-to for a while, when the winds blow strong
A new course we'll set when the skies clear 'fore long
Reef your sails or not, when the winds are fair
As long as I can see the sky, I'll always be somewhere

(chorus)

I'll learn the winds by name, and perhaps they'll learn mine
If it wasn't for all this water, I'd have nothin' but time
When supplies are low and I've had my fill
I'll turn my bow towards morning
Chart a course for familiar shore
And a grand returning

(chorus)

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from The No Spoons Sessions, released April 28, 2023

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Jennifer Vena Wood Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jennifer Vena Wood is a singer-songwriter, who writes ballads, vignettes, and earnest, multipart circle songs -- occasionally reaching into other vernaculars as the song requires. Lifting voices and spirits with music and good company, in the richest of folk tradition. ... more

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