Lyrics
The Altona ferry slip is slick with rain, it's February again.
My thumb has worn the ink right off this week's plan.
The air is thick with diesel and with salt.
It's no one's fault, it's just the way things are.
[Chorus]
And the level mark is holding fine
On the good side of the tide line.
We're building something true here, you and I,
Underneath a perfect normal sky.
[Verse 2]
I'm sanding down a cabinet door we found,
Its pine frame calloused, but structurally sound.
You said, "The grain remembers everything, you know."
And laughed at the dust settling soft and slow.
[Chorus]
And the level mark is holding fine
On the good side of the tide line.
We're building something true here, you and I,
Underneath a perfect normal sky.
[Bridge]
The gulls are screaming warnings to the cranes,
But all I hear's the rhythm of the S-Bahns.
Your hands stained dark with varnish from the tin.
[Chorus]
And the level mark is holding fine
On the good side of the tide line.
We're building something true here, you and I,
Underneath a perfect normal sky.
[Outro]
The water's quiet on the Elbe tonight.
A perfect normal sky.
About Søren Strand
Søren Strand was raised in the port district of Hamburg-Altona by his single mother, a Filipina nurse who worked double shifts. He learned to play on his grandmother's old upright piano, writing melodies to match the rhythm of the cargo cranes outside his window. His music, a unique blend of tropical-pop and North Sea melancholy, is shaped by a decade-long, on-and-off love with a maritime…
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