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I think I appreciated it for the first time, really appreciated what it had all meant.
Hi Heather.
Hi.
I think this album is for you, it feels like coming home, right?
Musically maybe with the band and also with the themes of the album.
Yeah, there are a lot of songs about coming home on this record and indeed I did make
the record with my original team of people I started out with in London, almost, it's
hard to believe, 20 years ago [Gb] now.
So it was nice to [E] get those people all together again.
[Ab] I wanted to capture some of that rawness that I got on my early records and really bring
a full band sound to it again, because the album before had been an acoustic thing.
The album is inspired by the boat, the ship Moon, that you lived on during the 70s.
When did your father build the boat?
My father built the boat when I was a kid, so I was like 8, 9 years old and he and my
mom had this dream and when I look back at it now it's just incredible to me that they
actually just did that and they gave everything up, their jobs and just built this boat and
took us sailing.
And it was a beautiful boat but it was very simple, it wasn't like these fancy yachts
that you see today, there was no [G] running water or electric lights or anything, it was
very [Gm]
simple living.
[Gb] Can you describe how you lived on the boat?
Were you on sea for 1, 2 or 3 months in a row?
No, I mean we would [G] be at sea just to get to the next place, so sometimes [Ab] it would be
a week at sea.
When we crossed the Atlantic it was like almost 3 weeks.
But we were mostly living in the Caribbean islands so we would sail between the islands
and sometimes stay at one for 3 months, sometimes we would stay at one for 3 weeks, whatever
they felt [Eb] like really.
And there was a [E] really beautiful kind of freedom to that and of course we weren't in school
so we were just running around and [G] exploring and doing what kids do.
[C] And how did you get the money to buy food?
Well, my parents, when we left Bermuda we lived [Eb] in a little cottage there and they just
rented out the cottage while we were away.
And so we were on a very tight budget, I mean we ate a lot of, well a lot of fresh fish
but a lot of [Ab] tinned food and just basic stuff.
And then in the islands there's always people selling the vegetables on the dock.
You know, it's pretty easy to live simply [Gb] there.
And how long did you live this life?
Well, up until I was about 14.
So 4 or 5 years then.
So was it, I think it was an important period of your [Eb] life I guess.
It was.
It was really important and I think really when this event happened, when this guy gave
me the compass off the boat which had sunk [Gb] and he'd dived us up and he gave this to me,
it really, it [G] brought it all back in a way that was different, [Ab] you know.
I think I appreciated it, maybe [G] for the first time really appreciated what [Eb] it had all meant.
And that's when I started writing these songs.
What is the [G] story of the boat?
When you, well, when you set foot on solid ground again, what did happen to the boat?
My parents sold the boat because my dad got arthritis in his shoulders, he couldn't sail
it anymore basically, so they had to sell it.
And after it was sold, it went up on the rocks and so that was the end of the boat, the end [Gb] of the moon.
But did you know it was on the rocks?
Yeah, I did.
I knew at the time, yeah.
And so how did this guy who died, who
Well, what happens, if a boat wrecks on the rocks, it then has to be towed out to sea,
the remains of it, so it's not all over the, you know, the shoreline.
So, you know, someone towed it out to sea and this guy knew where it was and he dived
on it and he got the compass.
So he said he'd been waiting for [F] years to give it to me, but [Gb] this was the time, so
So when did he [Gb] get the compass?
I don't know when he found it, but he gave it to me last year.
And how did he know it was your boat, the moon?
Because Bermuda is a small place, he knows, everybody knows who everybody is.
And he said he'd been following, he liked my music and that's why he wanted to give this to me.
And anyway, it was [Abm] very symbolic for me to have this compass returning after that had been the thing
that had taken us around the world.
And that's the thing that really struck me.
And so there's a song in the album called Turn the Compass Round and [A] it's really about a search
for that feeling of home again and coming [G] back to that.
And when you got the compass, what was the first song that you [F] wrote?
That one, [Ab] Turn the Compass Round, yeah.
[Abm] Did it
well, you were saying, well, it made me appreciate the period, [N] that period of my life.
In what way?
In so many ways, you know, for the memories, but [Ab] also I have a child myself now
and [N] it drew me into thinking about him and his future and I wrote a song called
Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow, which [A] is really, you know, we live on [Ab] sea level like you do here.
[Db] And [A] so I was thinking about a time in the future when he might want to come back and see his childhood home
and it would be underwater due to the climate change and global warming.
So, you know, the [E] idea with that song is images of him [G] swimming over, through the water
looking down [A] at the rack of the house.
And so it [Ab] had me looking back but also looking forward.
Hi Heather.
Hi.
I think this album is for you, it feels like coming home, right?
Musically maybe with the band and also with the themes of the album.
Yeah, there are a lot of songs about coming home on this record and indeed I did make
the record with my original team of people I started out with in London, almost, it's
hard to believe, 20 years ago [Gb] now.
So it was nice to [E] get those people all together again.
[Ab] I wanted to capture some of that rawness that I got on my early records and really bring
a full band sound to it again, because the album before had been an acoustic thing.
The album is inspired by the boat, the ship Moon, that you lived on during the 70s.
When did your father build the boat?
My father built the boat when I was a kid, so I was like 8, 9 years old and he and my
mom had this dream and when I look back at it now it's just incredible to me that they
actually just did that and they gave everything up, their jobs and just built this boat and
took us sailing.
And it was a beautiful boat but it was very simple, it wasn't like these fancy yachts
that you see today, there was no [G] running water or electric lights or anything, it was
very [Gm]
simple living.
[Gb] Can you describe how you lived on the boat?
Were you on sea for 1, 2 or 3 months in a row?
No, I mean we would [G] be at sea just to get to the next place, so sometimes [Ab] it would be
a week at sea.
When we crossed the Atlantic it was like almost 3 weeks.
But we were mostly living in the Caribbean islands so we would sail between the islands
and sometimes stay at one for 3 months, sometimes we would stay at one for 3 weeks, whatever
they felt [Eb] like really.
And there was a [E] really beautiful kind of freedom to that and of course we weren't in school
so we were just running around and [G] exploring and doing what kids do.
[C] And how did you get the money to buy food?
Well, my parents, when we left Bermuda we lived [Eb] in a little cottage there and they just
rented out the cottage while we were away.
And so we were on a very tight budget, I mean we ate a lot of, well a lot of fresh fish
but a lot of [Ab] tinned food and just basic stuff.
And then in the islands there's always people selling the vegetables on the dock.
You know, it's pretty easy to live simply [Gb] there.
And how long did you live this life?
Well, up until I was about 14.
So 4 or 5 years then.
So was it, I think it was an important period of your [Eb] life I guess.
It was.
It was really important and I think really when this event happened, when this guy gave
me the compass off the boat which had sunk [Gb] and he'd dived us up and he gave this to me,
it really, it [G] brought it all back in a way that was different, [Ab] you know.
I think I appreciated it, maybe [G] for the first time really appreciated what [Eb] it had all meant.
And that's when I started writing these songs.
What is the [G] story of the boat?
When you, well, when you set foot on solid ground again, what did happen to the boat?
My parents sold the boat because my dad got arthritis in his shoulders, he couldn't sail
it anymore basically, so they had to sell it.
And after it was sold, it went up on the rocks and so that was the end of the boat, the end [Gb] of the moon.
But did you know it was on the rocks?
Yeah, I did.
I knew at the time, yeah.
And so how did this guy who died, who
Well, what happens, if a boat wrecks on the rocks, it then has to be towed out to sea,
the remains of it, so it's not all over the, you know, the shoreline.
So, you know, someone towed it out to sea and this guy knew where it was and he dived
on it and he got the compass.
So he said he'd been waiting for [F] years to give it to me, but [Gb] this was the time, so
So when did he [Gb] get the compass?
I don't know when he found it, but he gave it to me last year.
And how did he know it was your boat, the moon?
Because Bermuda is a small place, he knows, everybody knows who everybody is.
And he said he'd been following, he liked my music and that's why he wanted to give this to me.
And anyway, it was [Abm] very symbolic for me to have this compass returning after that had been the thing
that had taken us around the world.
And that's the thing that really struck me.
And so there's a song in the album called Turn the Compass Round and [A] it's really about a search
for that feeling of home again and coming [G] back to that.
And when you got the compass, what was the first song that you [F] wrote?
That one, [Ab] Turn the Compass Round, yeah.
[Abm] Did it
well, you were saying, well, it made me appreciate the period, [N] that period of my life.
In what way?
In so many ways, you know, for the memories, but [Ab] also I have a child myself now
and [N] it drew me into thinking about him and his future and I wrote a song called
Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow, which [A] is really, you know, we live on [Ab] sea level like you do here.
[Db] And [A] so I was thinking about a time in the future when he might want to come back and see his childhood home
and it would be underwater due to the climate change and global warming.
So, you know, the [E] idea with that song is images of him [G] swimming over, through the water
looking down [A] at the rack of the house.
And so it [Ab] had me looking back but also looking forward.
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_ _ I think I appreciated it for the first time, really appreciated what it had all meant.
Hi Heather.
Hi.
I think this album is for you, it feels like coming home, right?
Musically maybe with the band and also with the themes of the album.
Yeah, there are a lot of songs about coming home on this record and indeed I did make
the record with my original team of people I started out with in London, almost, it's
hard to believe, 20 years ago [Gb] now.
So it was nice to [E] get those people all together again.
[Ab] I wanted to capture some of that rawness that I got on my early records and really bring
a full band sound to it again, because the album before had been an acoustic thing.
The album is inspired by the boat, the ship Moon, that you lived on during the 70s.
_ When did your father build the boat?
My father built the boat when I was a kid, so I was like 8, 9 years old and he and my
mom had this dream and when I look back at it now it's just incredible to me that they
actually just did that and they gave everything up, their jobs and just built this boat and
took us sailing.
And it was a beautiful boat but it was very simple, it wasn't like these fancy yachts
that you see today, there was no [G] running water or electric lights or anything, it was
very [Gm]
simple living.
[Gb] Can you describe how you lived on the boat?
Were you on sea for 1, 2 or 3 months in a row?
No, I mean we would [G] be at sea just to get to the next place, so sometimes [Ab] it would be
a week at sea.
When we crossed the Atlantic it was like almost 3 weeks.
But we were mostly living in the Caribbean islands so we would sail between the islands
and sometimes stay at one for 3 months, sometimes we would stay at one for 3 weeks, whatever
they felt [Eb] like really.
And there was a [E] really beautiful kind of freedom to that and of course we weren't in school
so we were just running around and [G] exploring and doing what kids do.
[C] And how did you get the money to buy food?
Well, my parents, when we left Bermuda we lived [Eb] in a little cottage there and they just
rented out the cottage while we were away.
And so we were on a very tight budget, I mean we ate a lot of, well a lot of fresh fish
but a lot of [Ab] tinned food and just basic stuff.
And then in the islands there's always people selling the vegetables on the dock.
You know, it's pretty easy to live simply [Gb] there.
And how long did you live this life?
Well, up until I was about 14.
So 4 or 5 years then.
So was it, I think it was an important period of your [Eb] life I guess.
It was.
It was really important and I think really when this event happened, when this guy gave
me the compass off the boat which had sunk [Gb] and he'd dived us up and he gave this to me,
it really, it [G] brought it all back in a way that was different, [Ab] you know.
I think I appreciated it, maybe [G] for the first time really appreciated what [Eb] it had all meant.
And that's when I started writing these songs. _ _
What is the [G] story of the boat?
When you, well, when you set foot on solid ground again, what did happen to the boat?
My parents sold the boat because my dad got arthritis in his shoulders, he couldn't sail
it anymore basically, so they had to sell it.
And after it was sold, it went up on the rocks _ and so that was the end of the boat, the end [Gb] of the moon.
But did you know it was on the rocks?
Yeah, I did.
I knew at the time, yeah.
And so how did this guy who died, who_
Well, what happens, if a boat wrecks on the rocks, it then has to be towed out to sea,
the remains of it, so it's not all over the, you know, the shoreline.
So, you know, someone towed it out to sea and this guy knew where it was and he dived
on it and he got the compass.
So he said he'd been waiting for [F] years to give it to me, but [Gb] this was the time, so_
So when did he [Gb] get the compass?
I don't know when he found it, but he gave it to me last year.
And how did he know it was your boat, the moon?
Because Bermuda is a small place, he knows, everybody knows who everybody is.
And he said he'd been following, he liked my music and that's why he wanted to give this to me.
And anyway, it was [Abm] very symbolic for me to have this compass returning after that had been the thing
that had taken us around the world.
And that's the thing that really struck me.
And so there's a song in the album called Turn the Compass Round and [A] it's really about a search
for that feeling of home again and coming [G] back to that.
And when you got the compass, what was the first song that you [F] wrote?
That one, [Ab] Turn the Compass Round, yeah.
[Abm] Did it_
well, you were saying, well, it made me appreciate the period, [N] that period of my life.
In what way?
In so many ways, you know, for the memories, but [Ab] also I have a child myself now
_ and [N] it drew me into thinking about him and his future and I wrote a song called
Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow, which [A] is really, you know, we live on [Ab] sea level like you do here.
[Db] And [A] so I was thinking about a time in the future when he might want to come back and see his childhood home
and it would be underwater due to the climate change and global warming.
So, you know, the [E] idea with that song is images of him [G] swimming over, through the water
looking down [A] at the rack of the house. _
And so it [Ab] had me looking back but also looking forward. _ _ _
Hi Heather.
Hi.
I think this album is for you, it feels like coming home, right?
Musically maybe with the band and also with the themes of the album.
Yeah, there are a lot of songs about coming home on this record and indeed I did make
the record with my original team of people I started out with in London, almost, it's
hard to believe, 20 years ago [Gb] now.
So it was nice to [E] get those people all together again.
[Ab] I wanted to capture some of that rawness that I got on my early records and really bring
a full band sound to it again, because the album before had been an acoustic thing.
The album is inspired by the boat, the ship Moon, that you lived on during the 70s.
_ When did your father build the boat?
My father built the boat when I was a kid, so I was like 8, 9 years old and he and my
mom had this dream and when I look back at it now it's just incredible to me that they
actually just did that and they gave everything up, their jobs and just built this boat and
took us sailing.
And it was a beautiful boat but it was very simple, it wasn't like these fancy yachts
that you see today, there was no [G] running water or electric lights or anything, it was
very [Gm]
simple living.
[Gb] Can you describe how you lived on the boat?
Were you on sea for 1, 2 or 3 months in a row?
No, I mean we would [G] be at sea just to get to the next place, so sometimes [Ab] it would be
a week at sea.
When we crossed the Atlantic it was like almost 3 weeks.
But we were mostly living in the Caribbean islands so we would sail between the islands
and sometimes stay at one for 3 months, sometimes we would stay at one for 3 weeks, whatever
they felt [Eb] like really.
And there was a [E] really beautiful kind of freedom to that and of course we weren't in school
so we were just running around and [G] exploring and doing what kids do.
[C] And how did you get the money to buy food?
Well, my parents, when we left Bermuda we lived [Eb] in a little cottage there and they just
rented out the cottage while we were away.
And so we were on a very tight budget, I mean we ate a lot of, well a lot of fresh fish
but a lot of [Ab] tinned food and just basic stuff.
And then in the islands there's always people selling the vegetables on the dock.
You know, it's pretty easy to live simply [Gb] there.
And how long did you live this life?
Well, up until I was about 14.
So 4 or 5 years then.
So was it, I think it was an important period of your [Eb] life I guess.
It was.
It was really important and I think really when this event happened, when this guy gave
me the compass off the boat which had sunk [Gb] and he'd dived us up and he gave this to me,
it really, it [G] brought it all back in a way that was different, [Ab] you know.
I think I appreciated it, maybe [G] for the first time really appreciated what [Eb] it had all meant.
And that's when I started writing these songs. _ _
What is the [G] story of the boat?
When you, well, when you set foot on solid ground again, what did happen to the boat?
My parents sold the boat because my dad got arthritis in his shoulders, he couldn't sail
it anymore basically, so they had to sell it.
And after it was sold, it went up on the rocks _ and so that was the end of the boat, the end [Gb] of the moon.
But did you know it was on the rocks?
Yeah, I did.
I knew at the time, yeah.
And so how did this guy who died, who_
Well, what happens, if a boat wrecks on the rocks, it then has to be towed out to sea,
the remains of it, so it's not all over the, you know, the shoreline.
So, you know, someone towed it out to sea and this guy knew where it was and he dived
on it and he got the compass.
So he said he'd been waiting for [F] years to give it to me, but [Gb] this was the time, so_
So when did he [Gb] get the compass?
I don't know when he found it, but he gave it to me last year.
And how did he know it was your boat, the moon?
Because Bermuda is a small place, he knows, everybody knows who everybody is.
And he said he'd been following, he liked my music and that's why he wanted to give this to me.
And anyway, it was [Abm] very symbolic for me to have this compass returning after that had been the thing
that had taken us around the world.
And that's the thing that really struck me.
And so there's a song in the album called Turn the Compass Round and [A] it's really about a search
for that feeling of home again and coming [G] back to that.
And when you got the compass, what was the first song that you [F] wrote?
That one, [Ab] Turn the Compass Round, yeah.
[Abm] Did it_
well, you were saying, well, it made me appreciate the period, [N] that period of my life.
In what way?
In so many ways, you know, for the memories, but [Ab] also I have a child myself now
_ and [N] it drew me into thinking about him and his future and I wrote a song called
Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow, which [A] is really, you know, we live on [Ab] sea level like you do here.
[Db] And [A] so I was thinking about a time in the future when he might want to come back and see his childhood home
and it would be underwater due to the climate change and global warming.
So, you know, the [E] idea with that song is images of him [G] swimming over, through the water
looking down [A] at the rack of the house. _
And so it [Ab] had me looking back but also looking forward. _ _ _