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Ooh diving own, diving down!
What but a fisherman trying to drown?
Clawing water, turning white, a bloating face fixed with fright.

>"Why man, why would you want to die?
>Why man, why would you leave your life?
>Here's no place for a human soul,
>down with the fish and the dark coral."

"Ooh diving own, diving down!
I dove too far, there I started to drown.
My life's work is catching fish;
I spied one then I couldn't resist.
The storm-light plays tricks on my eyes
and that fish glamoured with a disguise.
I lost my wife many years ago
she haunts me now, I can't let go.

Ooh diving own, diving down!
When I lost that fish I decided to drown.
I'm too old for chasing tales, my hear'ts too weak and I've windless sails.

But why", said he, "you look like she.
And what's a woman like you doing under the sea?
Could it be now my death's drawn near, I've been returned to my lover-dear?"

> "I am nothing, but of your mind
> and here your love you'll never find.
> Your anchor's locked firm in the past
> and with that weight you'll never last
> Dare you cut loose from that girl?
> Maybe then you'll find a pearl.
> You cannot stay here very long;
> the water pressure is very strong.
> You've tied yourself up in your nets
> because you refuse to forget.
> With that curse you'll keep her bound
> so she must never leave the ground
> Dare you cut loose from that girl?
> Maybe then you'll find a pearl.
> You cannot stay here very long.
> the water pressure is very strong.
> You've tied yourself up in your nets
> because you refuse to forget.
> you've tied yourself up in your nets
> because you refuse to forget.

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from Diving Down LP (2009), released June 8, 2009

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Woodpecker Wooliams Brighton, UK

Musical project of Gemma Williams.

WW toured extensively around Europe, Russia and the Baltics and performed at Yoko Ono's Meltdown festival before this guise was put to rest in 2013.

'A stunning find.’ SUNDAY TIMES

"Musically and emotionally, it’s belting." BBC.CO.UK

THE GUARDIAN 'New Band of The Day' 06/09/12

‘Enchanting solo masterpieces’ - THE INDEPENDENT

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