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This song was created when Asheville, NC's only drawing Club, Newsworthy Drawing Club, asked me to write a song based on a newspaper article about a sick sea turtle. She swam her way to a clinic on the coast of Florida and waited for days until someone from the clinic came to pay her some attention. Turns out, she had a bacterial infection in her shell! She was treated and re-released to the wild.
As the songwriter, I decided to write from the perspective of the turtle, thinking, if she could wait for that long, there must be something pretty important waiting for her. I took creative license and made her a mama, desperate to get back to her kids at any cost.
lyrics
I will wait all night, and I will wait all day
If that is what it takes!
Baby, I won't go away.
I know I'm shy and I look sweet, I felt the sand beneath my feet
And it was guiding me to you.
I've got a sickness, I can feel it
You're the only one can heal it
Help me make it through
Because I'm miles from my home, I had a purpose when I roamed
Now or never!
Sink or swim!
Cause I've got mouths to feed, and I've got dreams to breed
My baby needs me, I won't go away!
Now the air has gotten cooler, all the chairs have got less full,
Around the corner we meet eyes
Please let this one be the time you touch me
Take me by surprise and rush me into refuge
Because I'm miles from my home, I had a purpose when I roamed
Now or never!
Sink or swim!
Cause I've got mouths to feed and I've got dreams to breed,
My baby needs me, I won't go away!
I feel better we spent time now,
I feel much more alive now, thanks to you!
I feel my baby getting closer, so much closer I could hold her
I guess it's true
That I was miles from my home, I had a purpose when I roamed
I choose now!
I choose swim!
Cause I've got mouths to feed, and I've got dreams to breed,
My baby needs me, I won't go away!
Baby, I would have waited all night.
Baby, I would have waited all day,
If that is what it would take.
Baby I won't go away.
I will never ever go away.
Dulci’s songwriting is thoughtful and provocative, and her clear and soaring vocal melodies have a nostalgic air, bound to
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