Big Red Boat
by Grey Eye Glances

From the CD

"A Little Voodoo"
Sojourn Hills Records, 2002

Music: E. O’Dell, D. Keith, B.Kull; Lyrics: D. Keith

Big Red Boat has been a fan favorite ever since GEG started playing it live sometime around 1998.
It is about a woman who made a promise to her friend that she would build a big red boat in her back yard and if things ever got really bad they would sail away on it.
Big Red Boat was released as a single to radio in January of 2003.

Grey Eye Glances playing at WXPN's Singer-Songwriter weekend
Philadelphia, PA.

The band's name, "Grey Eye Glances," comes from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe called To One In Paradise.

...And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams,
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams,
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.

when I go walking,
i hear them talking all over town
they say I’m gone, i’ve lost my mind
well maybe i have,
and maybe that’s the point now
i’m building a big red boat
building a big red boat
with full intentions to set sail
and one day i’ll leave this all behind
and with your help, i’m certain not to fail
tell me are you still with me?
remember this was our great plan?
we’d build a boat, and sail away
we’d leave them all back on dry land
i’ve been building a big red boat
been building a big red boat
between my meetings and at night
i’m tired, but i stay inspired
by listening to the beach boys tape
you made for me when we were nine

darling, you seem uneasy,
i know this is a tad bizarre
but out here on the plains of nebraska
i swear i smell the ocean, can you
every time you look up to the stars?
i’m been building a big red boat
in my back yard building a big red boat
no one can tell me what to do
send doctors, send preachers, send lawyers,
they have their boats to build,
this boat’s a boat that’s built for two
i’ve been building a big red boat
in my back yard building a big red boat
with full intentions to set sail
and one day i’ll leave this all behind
one day, before I lose my mind
meet me when you’re ready
meet me when you’ve lost your head
you can meet me, I’ll be waiting
meet me by the water’s edge