THE TUG OF THE MOON
Words and music by Sarah McQuaid
Recorded on If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (2018),
The St Buryan Sessions (2021)
The tug of the moon
Is slowing us down
Drawing the tide
Buckling the ground
Little by little as centuries pass
It stretches our days
The years growing longer by such small degrees
We don’t notice the change
Until noon comes a moment too late
So we make an adjustment in time
At the end of the countdown
Before Auld Lang Syne
One second to add before midnight
And then we all cheer
With tears and with kisses
We greet the new year
While the moon passes over us
Ever more distantly pulling away
As we turn toward the sunrise
And night becomes day
We count up the lengthening hours
That remain till the end comes too soon
For an earth spinning under
The tug of the moon
