Brace yourself for a truly awful recording. Maybe by posting this mp3 here I’ll inspire myself to make a better one.
But bad as the recording is, this is the final version of Sewing, and that’s saying something for a song that’s had a fairly long evolution. I’m pleased with it now, as a song. Not as a recording. As a song. 
Sewing (mp3)
bolts and bobbins, scissors, fabric, bright debris
No other project could fit on the table of my life
while your work covered it
chorus 1: I had a plan, I knew the shapes that you should cut
the pattern and the cloth
and I thought you would deliver on my plan –
You were looking at me
Did I see some mischief in your smile, some irony?
And as your needle pierced the cloth, your plans were coming true
as all those plans of mine were lost….
bridge: I have never been so sure before that you were here but
I have never understood you less
chorus 2: You hold a dream, in colors you conceived for me
imagined long ago
And your thread holds across eternity –
You’re still sewing for me
your ancient hands can find a place for every mismatched piece
held within your loving gaze, one by one the pieces fit
and nothing goes to waste
♥
© 2010 Katarina Stenstedt
