I'll be the first to admit that most of the selections for the iTunes' Free Single of the Week are rather disappointing, but the four songs that I have selected for this week were pleasant little surprises!!!
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Okay, so this one was released on iTunes in 2011, and this band has a rather interesting start-up story; so I will share with you what Wikipedia has to say about them:
"Tennis is an American indie pop band from Denver made up of husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. During their first tour, James Barone joined the band on drums. The couple met each other while studying philosophy in college, and started the band after they got back from a seven-month sailing expedition down the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard. They took their name from a joke about Patrick Riley playing tennis in college. Prior to joining Tennis, Moore's earliest singing experience was in church choirs during her youth."
Apparently, this song, "Marathon", references that seven-month sailing expedition down the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard and is about sailing at night along the Florida coast. I like to listen to this one as I'm drifting off to sleep...it has a lullaby-like nature to it!
Coconut Grove
Is a very small cove
separated from the sea
by a shifting shoal
we didn't realize that
we had arrived
at high tide, high tide
barely made it out alive
red over white
fishermen working at night
not even once
did we see a light
we didn't realize
the forecast had been revised
by moonless skies and
shifty wind that gusts and dies
on the sand our keel is heaving
but tonight we've got to be leaving
travel through the day and into the evening
Marathon how long we've been gone
and still not yet set foot upon you
your low lying shore opens welcomingly
to one who's spent the night at sea
Adrift in the shallows, a modest repose
adorn with coral, your bright colors show
ushered in through a bridge that is never closed
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