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from: http://www.opuszine.com/album_reviews/review.html?reviewID=714

Iron And Wine
"The Sea And The Rhythm"
Sub Pop • SPCD619 • 2003


Iron And Wine's Sam Beam is an absolute genius. I said so in my
review of his stunning Sub Pop debut and I have no problems
whatsoever repeating myself here. He is simply a brilliant writer
and performer, fusing his staggeringly poetic lyrics to a bed of
rolling acoustic guitar, banjo rhythms, and a hushed vocal delivery
that is a Nick Drake fan's wet dream. He has only two releases in his
young career, but Beam has already made a believer of me for life.

Perhaps it's best to simply let Beam speak for himself. "And how he
prays to find a man to blame", Beam whispers on the opening
track, "For every sleepless night he spends/And for every well that
he warned me of/But wound up falling in/And then for the kids beneath
the balcony/Who disregard the rain/To make sure the king won't
grant/The dead man one more day/Let's go out and see darling/What
shines tonight/And temper your dream about the dying horse/With
traffic, noise and light/And somewhere the soft-handed boys/Bleeding
hearts, and worker bees/Give to the holy mother begging change/Christ
across her knees." Brilliant stuff.

The Sea And The Rhythm is a 5 track EP and is apparently a somewhat
expanded version of a tour-only disc Beam carted around on his recent
tour, hoping to tide ravenous fans over until the release of his
sophomore full-length early in 2004. These 5 cuts were lifted from
the same home recorded sessions as The Creek Drank The Cradle's
songs, and they're of such uniformly high quality that it's maddening
to think that there's still a good album's worth of these recordings
gathering dust somewhere in Florida.

reviewed by Chris Brown
posted 11/03/2003 • modified 11/03/2003

--- In Iron_and_Wine@yahoogroups.com, "porcupinehoney"
<enders_junk@h...> wrote:
> Hey I was wondering if anyone knew of a resource besides the Muddy
Hymnal site that
> has lyrics? I keep listening to Beneath the Balcony, trying to
understand what its about
> as the music keeps grabbing me.
>
> Or, alternately, if someone just knows the lyrics would you mind
posting them?
>
> Thanks :)
> Chris