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Song Information:

Song Four of the 09 RPM Challenge and the opening track of the album.

If You Steered By The Stars - I took a homeopathic remedy and lay on the bed during a flu bout early in January and got caught up in trying to describe all the sensations I felt over the next few minutes. Later I tried to write some of them down, but it's a fleeting thing. Come February the fragment began to reach out so I started to weave the story around it, or at least put it in the context of the Tale. This is almost like changing your stars. That sensation of a deep change overtaking you.

EDIT - this is now the CD version

Song Lyrics:

I finally took the poison,
as my heart start to swell,
and the ache in my head gives way

I feel my pulse building
slow quick quick slow
stumbling as we go
tripping through the snow
Cross your heart, hope to drown
grab your bag and go
watch the last ship leave town
if you steered by the stars you'd know

if you want to travel safe
then travel after dark
study the target, climb upon the Ark,

the casual, careful
and uninterrupted step
will get you there yet,
raise up that flag
Cross your heart, hope to drown
grab your bag and go
watch the last ship leave town
if you steered by the stars you'd know


the simplest little remedy
can tear you limb from limb
and scatter your bones to the wind

Once you feel it bite
for wrong or for right
cling to your coat
hear the words they wrote
Cross your heart, hope to drown
grab your bag and go
watch the last ship leave town
if you steered by the stars you'd know