All we need OR I live on a boat

Rehearsal notes 2018 (J accompanying)

This song is based on a true story.

This recording is one of a rehearsal with JK for a show in 2018. There is something so lovely about the harmonies and two guitars, as loose as it is, probably never to be repeated the same way again. A story of hope, childhood and plastic.

I live on a boat

mum and dad live on the same boat

Everywhere we go

Our home goes

There's not a lot of space on

A boat that's built for three

But where the Sky meets the Sea

There's more than we need

Tucked up tight

Feet below the bow

Rocked asleep

By the waves

There There There There

I live on a boat

mum and dad live on the same boat

Everywhere we go

Our home goes

One night a big storm came through

We batten down the hatches

Through the tiny window I watch

Ocean splash and lightening flashes

Tucked up tight

Feet below the bow

Told to go to sleep

Ignore the waves You're safe safe there there

I'm shaken awake told to

put your lifejacket on

It's time to swim to shore

you don't have to worry

But hurry up darling

We have to go now coz

Our boat

It's sinking

Sinking

holding hands

We jump into the water

I oughta be more scared but

I know mum and dad are there

there there there

Easy does it slow and steady

We will get there when we're ready

When you're tired just lean back

We'll hold your head

Look how close we are now darling

The sun in coming up up you've been so

Brave you are so good at swimming

We are almost there

there there

feel the sand

rub between our fingers

Roll together on dry land

safe safe

Used to live on a boat

mum and dad used to live on the same boat

Everywhere we went

our home would follow

We walk along the salty shore

Our boat lies on the ocean floor

Everything I've ever known is

gone.

Tucked up tight

Feet below the bow

how will I ever sleep without the waves?

there there

Look over there what's that says dad

all up the beach washed up on the sand

Bends down to the water and holds up his hand

Red Yellow and Blue

Do these belong to you????

All we need is the three of us

and a bag of shipwrecked

lego my lego my lego.

Used to live on a boat

mum and dad used to live on the same boat

but everywhere you go

your home goes.

PS at the the end of the story, the adult storyteller got up and ran to his cupboard: and brought back a bag of lego: the only thing left from his childhood. I guess in 45,000 years it'll still be here ;)