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The Day We Ran Into The Sea is a musical memoir that details the raw, universal feelings and experiences we all go through when dealing with break-ups and shakes-ups, love and loss. Each song on the album has a commercial pop sensibility in line with bands like Fleetwood Mac, The Carpenters and The Corrs. However, Sarah’s distinct, haunting vocals portray a more left-field leaning, reminiscent of Beth Gibbons, Regina Spektor, and Kristin Hersh. The album is a mixture of folky, acoustic elements and electric guitars, laced with Celtic elements (contributed to by producer Jon Reynolds, who’s worked with the likes of Sinead O’Connor). The album also features sonic contributions from Head (PJ Harvey), Adrian Hall (Sugababes) and Matt Prime (Will Young).

• Cliché

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    Once upon a time
    All your thoughts were the same as mine
    We were good as gold together
    And the stars would align

    But lightening might never strike twice
    And sparks might never fly

    And it's a cliche and that's all I have
    Try to get over you but I can't
    Cliche not anything more
    But that's what I loved you for

    And though the songs have been sung before
    I sing along to everyone

    In those autumn day
    We'd hide away in the same cafes
    Watching the colors burn and simmer
    And get blown away

    But rain pours down over this town
    And life gets in the way

    And it's a cliche and that's all I have
    Try to get over you but I can't
    Cliche not anything more
    That's what I loved you for

    And though the songs have been sung before
    I sing along to everyone

    I still long for you
    My first tattoo
    My right and wrong
    You are my favorite song, sing along

    But lightening might never strike twice
    And sparks might never fly
    The rain pours down over this town
    The life just passes by

    And it's a cliche and that's all I have
    Try to get over you but I can't
    Cliche not anything more
    But that's what I loved you for

    And it's a cliche and that's all I have
    Try to get over you but I can't
    Cliche not anything more
    That's what I loved you for

    And though the songs have been sung before
    I sing along to everyone
    I sing along to everyone

• Freewheel

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    Holding my breath again
    Think something could be happening
    This feeling is a wrath from air

    hm-hm
    'Cuz you've taken me by surprise
    On the scenery and senses are undefined

    So I say,
    Hello winter, singing,
    Hello blue
    I'm stepping outside wearing my summer shoes
    Into a new night of only had that side of this hill
    Kick off the rusty colours and suck them wheel
    Like a red freewheel
    Like a red freewheel

    I was news and 16
    A hollowed heart inside the team
    The paintings from all of my childhood of dream
    From goat to grey

    hm-hm
    But you're everyone untied
    All tangled memories i got up inside

    Now i say,

    Hello winter, singing,
    Hello blue
    I'm stepping outside wearing my summer shoes
    Into a new night of only had that side off this hill
    Kick off the rust in the point and i stood them still

    Like a red freewheel
    Like a red freewheel

    Now you've pulled these broken colours from my side
    In-ambitions they were rented and bright
    Now to escape these from all this parallels tonight
    I'm just freewheel
    Like a red freewheel

    Hello winter (hello winter)
    Hello blue (hello blue)
    I'm stepping outside wearing my summer shoes
    Into a new night of only had that side of this hill
    Kick off the rusty colours and suck them wheel

    Like a red freewheel
    Like a red freewheel
    Like a red freewheel
    Like a red freewheel

• Lifelight

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    You see the truth is that I am simply useless
    At finding the right words to say
    And your fingers are frozen to notes you have chosen
    Letting the tune slip away

    When you shine so bright
    I can feel our eyes collide
    Soon you'll realize

    Why waste time?
    Your heartstrings are caught in mine
    So pull me up to your side
    And we will be alright
    You might be my lifelight

    And just hold still
    Hang by your window sill
    And all of this music will
    Still be there in sight
    You might be my lifelight

    Covered in caution and waves of distortion
    Your movements give you away
    And I'll bring the roses, write poetry and proses
    And prise you apart from your day

    'Cause when you shine so bright
    I can feel our eyes collide
    Soon you'll realize

    Why waste time?
    Your heartstrings are caught in mine

    So pull me onto your side
    And we will be alright
    You might be my lifelight

    And just hold still
    Hang by your window sill
    And all of this music will
    Still be there in sight
    You might be my lifelight

    'Cause I'm caught in this carousel
    Too tongue tied to ever tell
    And just circling 'round in the dark

    Why waste time?
    Your heartstrings are caught in mine
    So pull me onto your side
    And we will be alright
    You might be my lifelight

    And just hold still
    Hang by your window sill
    And all of this music will
    Still be there in sight
    You might be my lifelight

    Why waste time?
    [Incomprehensible]
    In time you might be my life light

• Pick Me

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    Pick me, I'm everything you wanted to pay for
    Pick me, I'm fashionable, I knew I could change you
    Pick me, I'm open to persuasion, I could be
    Pick me, I'll bite your head off slowly but carefully

    So just tell me that I'm right
    Tell me that this matters
    Tell me that persistence will pay off
    And illusions won't just shatter

    So pick me
    Come on and pick me

    Pick me, I'll let you pick my clothes out, my hair too
    Pick me, I'll consider a name change but just for you
    Pick me, I'll get you in the end just you wait and see
    Pick me, I think I might explode, it could get messy

    So just tell me that I'm right
    Tell me that this matters
    Tell me that persistence will pay off
    And illusions won't just shatter

    'Cause I have waited such a long, long time
    Just trying to make this matter
    Trying to get persistence to pay off
    'Til we're cynical and shattered

    So sit back, relax and open wide
    Let me pour some of this sound inside
    Count to three, do you see
    Just how sweet you'd be with me?

    Take the time to understand
    There's not many things that I'll demand
    Count to three until you see
    Just how sweet we both could be
    You could be with me

    So just tell me that I'm right
    Tell me that this matters
    Tell me that persistence will pay off
    And illusions won't just shatter

    'Cause I have waited such a long, long time
    Just trying to make this matter
    Trying to get persistence to pay off
    'Til we're cynical and shattered
    Shattered, shattered, shattered

    So pick me
    Come on and pick me
    Pick me

• Lost

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    Lost like the sun in the summer
    Lost like my west to your east
    Lost like an ocean of now and forever
    And like my comfortable years

    To go a long way 'round
    To find this out
    It seems you have so much to say
    And I drowned you out

    Shame that we didn't quite make it
    Shame 'cause you know me so well
    Shame that we'll wash off with sensory pleasure
    When I'm under another spell

    'Cause it's a long way 'round
    To find this out
    And it seems you have so much to say
    And I drowned you out

    Love like you've never loved before
    Love like you'll never again
    Love like you're lost in some old fashioned movie
    And it all works out right in the end

    'Cause it's a long way 'round
    To find this out
    And it seems you have so much to say
    And I drowned you out

    Take the long way 'round
    To find this out
    And it seems you have so much to say
    And I drowned you out

    And it seems you sang the sweetest songs
    And I'm lost without

• Skies On Fire

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    And you opened your eyes in a different way
    Never looked to the future
    And you play with your clothes in a distant way
    To avert a disaster

    And i'm just dying to find
    These fingers of mine
    Get lucky this time

    Skies on fire
    You look so good
    Skies on fire
    This rush of blood
    My heart rate higher
    And architects and artists
    Build towers to admire
    You control the floodgates
    And i'm on fire
    I'm on fire..

    And the words that you said never went away
    Happy endings and earthquakes
    And the look in your eye it can make my day
    When its gone gives me headaches

    But i'm just dying to find
    Some reason in rhyme
    Get lucky this time

    Skies on fire
    You look so good
    Skies on fire
    This rush of blood
    My heart beats higher
    'cause architects and artists
    Build towers to admire
    You control the floodgates
    And i'm on fire

    I'm on fire

    'cause those architects and artists
    Build towers to admire
    You control the floodgates
    And i'm on fire
    I'm on fire
    I'm on fire
    You look so good
    I'm on fire
    I'm on fire
    I'm on fire
    'cause you control the floodgates
    And i'm on fire

• Dancing Every Night

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    I never lied about this much
    I'd rather the shadow
    To be a girl with the golden touch
    Is just a part of the battle

    Tip toe around, tip toe around
    Without making a sound, making a sound

    But I kept dancing every night
    Then made everything alright
    Do you think that we'd still fight?
    When we're dancing, dancing

    'Cause everything's not black and white
    When we're dancing every night
    Maybe we should forget to fight
    When we're dancing, dancing

    So then I've practiced all the moves
    In front of the mirror
    Until a day when I'd have to prove
    That I can never deliver

    Tip toe around, tip toe around
    Without making a sound, making a sound

    But I kept dancing every night
    Then made everything alright
    Do you think that we'd still fight?

    When we're dancing, dancing

    'Cause everything's not black and white
    When we're dancing every night
    Maybe we should forget to fight
    When we're dancing, dancing
    When we're dancing, dancing
    When we're dancing, oh
    When we're dancing, dancing

    Well, I kept dancing every night
    Then made everything alright
    Do you think that we'd still fight?
    'Cause I kept dancing every night
    Then made everything alright
    Do you think that we'd still fight?
    When we're dancing, dancing

    'Cause everything's not black and white
    When we're dancing every night
    Maybe we'd forget to fight
    When we're dancing, dancing
    When we're dancing, dancing
    When we're dancing, oh
    When we're dancing, dancing
    When we're dancing, dancing

• Take It Easy

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    I grew up watching white horses
    You grew up fifty miles away from sea
    I was eggshells and shy secrets
    You were wading in possibilities

    It's the middle of June and rain pours down
    Is it raining with you?

    Take it easy
    Don't let borders break your heart
    Take it easy
    Make your own waves where you are

    When the sun comes up we'll be warm enough
    Take it easy
    Breathe in light, my love

    You were drinking and daydreaming
    And I was decaf and sober all the time
    You would look for the right reason
    I was too busy wallowing mine

    It's the middle of June and rain pours down
    Is it raining with you?

    Take it easy

    Don't let borders break your heart
    Take it easy
    Make your own waves where you are

    When the sun comes up we'll be warm enough
    Take it easy
    We're alright, my love

    As these moments move further apart, apart
    And the latitude lightens your heart, your heart

    It's the middle of June and rain pours down
    Is it raining with you?

    Take it easy
    Don't let borders break your heart
    Take it easy
    Make your own waves where you are

    When the sun comes up we'll be warm enough
    Take it easy
    Breathe in light, my love

• Not As Old

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    Saw your picture, by the mirror
    Your eyes were brighter from far away, you said
    Since you joined us, since the circus
    You'd lost a purpose and wilder ways with us till
    Underneath the surface, down beneath the dust
    In there lies all that you've lost

    You're not as old as you think
    You're not as afraid as it seems
    It's not as hard to be perfect
    It's even less to believe

    Not just imaginary people
    Living love songs and dreams
    Still meaning to remember and capture the scene
    You're not as old as you think
    Just don't let it take a lifetime to realize it

    A magazine says, your life's wasted
    But you can save it with beauty creams, they don't know
    These lines and spaces, across our faces are
    Maps and memories of where we've been
    Don't let them prey upon you, don't believe the hype
    Don't let it weigh on your minds

    You're not as old as you think
    You're not as afraid as it seems

    It's not as hard to be perfect
    It's even less to believe

    Not just imaginary people
    Living love songs and dreams
    Still meaning to remember and capture the scene
    You're not as old as you think
    Just don't let it take a lifetime to realize it

    You've got a body of a summertime
    You're not a number in a chorus line
    You're out of prison but you still have some time

    You're not as old as you think
    You're not as afraid as it seems
    It's not as hard to be perfect
    It's even less to believe

    Not just imaginary people
    Living love songs and dreams
    Still meaning to remember and capture the scene
    You're not as old as you think
    Just don't let it take a lifetime to realize it, to realize it
    Not as old as you think, so don't let it take a lifetime

• Newport Beach

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    We lay on our backs in the driveway
    made shapes in the stars with our hands
    Said we'd return every summer and no-one could ever change that
    but somehow we never went back

    With mist rolling down from the mountains
    you can't tell the sky from the sea
    can just see the lights down in Newport
    on a beach where the fireworks were free

    We stayed up all night telling stories

    i followed your steps through the sand
    they said we were wired up together
    until you left town with the band
    and i chose to stay on dry land

    Every day was a little victory
    something new we could be
    still recall what you said to me
    the day we ran into the sea

• My First Love

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    Well, this stone that I have swallowed
    Isn't going down so well
    And this road that I have followed
    Is leading me to Hell

    And you said it didn't matter
    But I think you're a liar
    Is this one of your talents
    Stokes the very fire that burns you

    Each time you try to live
    The earth will turn below you
    The pressure is building
    And something has to give

    And when I build you a steeple
    You say it's incomplete
    'Cause you need the whole cathedral

    To satisfy your need

    And you're like a paper aeroplane
    That never seems to land
    Flying blind through anything
    Straight into the hand that chokes you

    Each time you try to live
    The earth will turn below you
    The pressure is building
    And something has to give

    Something has to give
    Something has to give
    Something has to give

• Dry My Eyes

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    here i am, right here before you
    explaining it to you and it all comes out the wrong way.
    here i am, lying beside you.
    i'm dying inside and it all comes out the wrong way.

    can dry my eyes, stop fooling.
    dry my eyes and let it go.
    dry my eyes, stop calling.
    but i will never know why you had to go.

    it's no surprise; we were just reckless.
    now you're haunting my heart
    'cause it all turned out the wrong way.
    the room's alive with the memory of voices.
    had a ghost of a chance,
    but it all turned out the wrong way.

    and dry my eyes, stop fooling.
    dry my eyes, and let it go.
    i dry my eyes, stop calling.

    but i will never know.
    i'll dry my eyes, stop fooling.
    and dry my eyes, don't let it show.
    dry my eyes, stop calling.
    but i will never know why you had to go.

    now the weights of our love lifted into the air
    like the sigh of a breath held too long,
    or the souvenir sold and the secrets are told.
    every trace of your fingerprints gone.
    a new song await to be sung

    can dry my eyes, stop fooling.
    dry my eyes and let it go.
    dry my eyes, stop calling.
    but i will never know why you had to go.

• Make A Wish

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    Pick me, I'm everything you wanted to pay for
    Pick me, I'm fashionable, I knew I could change you
    Pick me, I'm open to persuasion, I could be
    Pick me, I'll bite your head off slowly but carefully

    So just tell me that I'm right
    Tell me that this matters
    Tell me that persistence will pay off
    And illusions won't just shatter

    So pick me
    Come on and pick me

    Pick me, I'll let you pick my clothes out, my hair too
    Pick me, I'll consider a name change but just for you
    Pick me, I'll get you in the end just you wait and see
    Pick me, I think I might explode, it could get messy

    So just tell me that I'm right
    Tell me that this matters
    Tell me that persistence will pay off
    And illusions won't just shatter

    'Cause I have waited such a long, long time
    Just trying to make this matter
    Trying to get persistence to pay off
    'Til we're cynical and shattered

    So sit back, relax and open wide
    Let me pour some of this sound inside
    Count to three, do you see
    Just how sweet you'd be with me?

    Take the time to understand
    There's not many things that I'll demand
    Count to three until you see
    Just how sweet we both could be
    You could be with me

    So just tell me that I'm right
    Tell me that this matters
    Tell me that persistence will pay off
    And illusions won't just shatter

    'Cause I have waited such a long, long time
    Just trying to make this matter
    Trying to get persistence to pay off
    'Til we're cynical and shattered
    Shattered, shattered, shattered

    So pick me
    Come on and pick me
    Pick me

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