The Ferry Lane Bridge Song

from Ferry Lane EP by Will Riding

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I like walking down by the Tidal Dee near my home in Chester. It always helps me set myself up for the day. Love watching the Aerospace barges at work and the Beluga coming in low to land. This song wrote itself in my head over time… It's semi autobiographical but echoes a journey many of us take…
The third song in my "Footwear Trilogy".

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If time is money, I envy the rich,
Counting the hours and the days
Second hands and hour hands grind on, relentless
Leaving us all in it's wake

A place where I go, time can't touch me
My mind is clear as the day
I talk with the hawthorn, the bramble ,the elder
We have so much to say..

Time doesn't fly, it creeps up behind you
We can't waste it all on the blues
I'll treasure the wind, me four- legged friend
And the mud on me shoes

I sail on a vessel that once passed this way
Bringing the cargoes to port
My footsteps now follow the ebb and the flow
As the tides rise and fall

I swim with the salmon in the silted water
To where the tide reaches the weir
Running a gauntlet of net and of line
Year after year

Time isn't money, it's the size of the cosmos
Time is a stone in the sea
Time is holding us captive and
One day will set each of us free

© Will Riding

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from Ferry Lane EP, released April 29, 2016

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Will Riding Chester

A Lancashire born, Chester based singer-songwriter with a deft and playful turn of phrase and acoustic/folk sensibilities inspired by, amongst other things, 70’s Children’s TV.

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