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The Ice Sculptor (isotope 14 version)

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This song appeared on our debut album "Common Knowledge", this is our reworking of it with lyric changes and more instruments.
lyrics
Behind the crowds in the struggling street
A man was carving curves of ice
Chiselling carbon’s isotopes
From a melting diamond slice
Someone asked him why he did not
Carve from stone or mould from clay
When he knew the ice would run to water
Before the end of day.

He said
Stone may last but it can’t reflect the sky
Clay may stay but it won’t seduce the eye
Ice only shines
For one dragonfly day
So let it have its wings
Before it melts away

So what are you building then
When at the close of every day
There’s nothing left to show
And all your hours have dripped away?
You can’t sell puddles for a living
If you want my advice
Go and carve yourself a future
Instead of shaping ice.

He said
Yesterday the future was the skill I have today
Tomorrow may bring finer ice on which my hands can play
Ice only shines
For one dragonfly day
So let it have its wings
Before it melts away

The isotopes were finished now
And stood in brilliant decay
And they shifted patterns in the minds
Of those who passed them on their way

The sculptor said
We each of us have got a block of ice to use
So leave yours blank until tomorrow
If that’s what you choose.

He said
You’ve been wasting so much of your time
Standing here, questioning what I do with mine
Ice only shines
For one dragonfly day
So let it have its wings
Before it melts away.
credits
released 27 December 2009
Song by Helen Bell
Arrangement and Production by Pillowfish
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