The Great Lake Swimmers capture the contradictions of feeling sadness in seeing the world as it is, feeling melancholy for what you have experienced, yet expressing hope for the future in the beautiful, definitive moments of the singing. I heard them live in the USA in October and they are as good live as on recordings.
I've been looking in churches and looking in bars Thought that I saw you in the oncoming cars It was your reflection cast off by the light And into the sky of this dark city night And I thought that I saw you in the tallest of trees Swayed back and forth in the mid-autumn breeze When the leaves reddened and left too I knew then that it wasn't you Where in the world are you now? Where in the world are you now? Oh where in the world are you? Oh where in the world are you? Where in the world ..