Name: On the Ice
Duration: P00H02M28S
Description: Recorded and mixed late into the night at Patrick's studio, Unseasonable Sound. This song is normally performed by my band Traveling.

On the Ice

from Into the Void Tour Tracks by Ginger Alford

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Recorded and mixed late into the night at Patrick's studio, Unseasonable Sound. This song is normally performed by my band Traveling.

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Down Here, stuck in solid ice, there’s not a lot of things I wouldn’t do. I couldn’t spend more time with you if we were rafting on open seas. Back home I was frozen with indecision, too many options, no real plans. Down here there’s no demands except work and warmth. You have to agree, we’ll be bunking here tonight, if we weren’t feeling right, we’d still be bunking here tonight anyway. I felt like the unremarkable daughter of a famously predictable home. But I'm not some lamb for the slaughter on the altar of youthful enjoyment. I’ve got to feel something real. I came all the way here. Just to feel something real and not escape. Went out on the ice tonight. I’m still surprised when there’s not much to see. And the white’s as black as the blackest sky when you leave the light of base #3. Slipping and sliding along, it’s not the quickest or easiest path to destruction. I want to touch your skin under those layers of warmth and protection. Adrift, a drift, a snow drift, an endless sea. If we pass each other like ships without seeing I’ll lose all desire to see this drift, this drift, this snow drift this endless sea. If we pass each other like ships without seeing, I’ll lose all desire to see...

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from Into the Void Tour Tracks, released April 30, 2013
Engineered by Patrick Jennings at Unseasonable Sound.
Guitar and Vocals by Ginger, Rhodes Piano and vocals by Richard Wehrenberg Jr, Cello by Patrick Jennings.

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Ginger Alford Bloomington, Indiana

I am a human person from Bloomington, IN who played/plays in bands such as Good Luck, Traveling, High Dive, and Whelmed with other human people. I enjoy coffee, novels, and writing songs from the perspectives of other people who are still thinly veiled versions of me. ... more

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