Track 9 of the album Last Train Home · 2013
Paper Boat Harbour, Rain Ripples
by Moth Static
“Written on a rainy bank holiday, mostly with a pencil on a tea-stained notepad. It's the quietest one on the tape.”
dream pop · bedroom pop · tape haze · 3:11
Lyrics
Rain on the harbour, small and slow Rings on the water, row by row I folded a boat from a page of the day And set it down where the puddles lay Float, little paper boat, float Over the ripples, soft and remote Nowhere to be and nowhere to go Float, little boat, float slow Streetlights shiver in the wet Every worry a ripple, not yet The gutter is a river, the kerb is a shore Your sail is a sentence I don't need anymore Float, little paper boat, float Over the ripples, soft and remote Nowhere to be and nowhere to go Float, little boat, float slow If you sink, you sink so gently If you drift, you drift with me The rain keeps counting, one and two All the quiet things come true Float, little paper boat, float Over the ripples, soft and remote Nowhere to be and nowhere to go Float, little boat, float slow Float slow Float slow