"How Long Will I Love You?" is a song by folk-rock band The Waterboys from their fifth studio album, Room to Roam (1990). Written by Mike Scott, it was released as the album's lead single. The song was subsequently covered by English singer Ellie Goulding and released as the second single from her album Halcyon Days (2013). Goulding's version is included on the soundtrack to the 2013 film About Time, which also features a different cover by Jon Boden, Sam Sweeney and Ben Coleman.

How Long Will I Love You

The Great Divide

The Ashes And The Dust

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SALTWATER ON A WOUND                              by Scott/Rogers/Amburgey

Turn on the TV, everybody’s mad
Can’t find any good cause everything’s bad
Left and it’s right, no one meeting 
In the middle anymore

Jobs ain’t paying, at least not enough
Stocks are tanking, gas is going up
We all could all use a one-way ticket
to some distant shore

	Chorus
	If you’re a little bit broken, busted, and bruised
	Find yourself a sky you can dive into
	Walk yourself right into the tide
	And wash away the blues
	Cause there ain’t nothing like pouring 
	Saltwater on a wound

Million-dollar sunset, cheap tequila 
The rhythm of the waves, yeah, that’ll heal ya
The clock’s never tickin’
When you’re livin’ on island time

	Repeat Chorus

Bridge:
Life will cut you real deep, we all know it
Go on and rub a little sand on it

	Repeat Chorus

Saltwater On A Wound Mix1

You ever feel like you don’t know where home is? You keep searching but no matter where you go it never feels right. Or maybe you know exactly where home is, your searching made you realize that home is a specific person or place, home is where you make it.  

Danny Arcane hits ‘Home’ and your heart in his new VHS jammed video packed with footage of his hometown, past travels, and old friends. His lyrics describe a traveler trying his luck living all across the country with no success, “couldn’t live in the South, like to run my mouth,” with a hook that contemplates the idea of finally settling down but being unsure where he should plant his roots.  

“I’ve moved around quite a bit and it’s always been hard for me to form solid roots, I always felt like I was never truly home. I think I’ve finally reached a point in my life where I’ve realized I can turn wherever I am into the place I call home. Whether that’s in the midwest or the west coast, I’ve realized home is wherever you want it to be” - Danny Arcane  

Footage of a sunset in Los Angeles, the Statue of Liberty, and a BBQ in Milwaukee are displayed while jangly,  reverb drenched guitars surround your ears alongside punchy drums and a warm bass that feel like a hug from your old best friend in high school.

LYRICS

Want to be a Cali boy
But I really love the Midwest
Didn't really want to leave
But Winter had be depressed
Couple bucks pushed my luck
Tried living on the East Coast
Life fast, rent high
Couldn't get what I need most
Where do I go
from here
I don't know

Maybe I should start thinking 'bout settling down
Maybe I should start thinking 'bout going home
Where I've been
Where I've roamed
I don't know where to go
Are the mountain range or Great Lakes made for me

Couldn't live in the South
Like to run my mouth
Said the best headed West
To see the fuss is about 
Had the urge and a crave
For a trip and some change
Got distracted by the beauty of the mountain range
Where do I go
from here
I don't know

Maybe I should start thinking 'bout settling down
Maybe I should start thinking 'bout going home
Where I've been
Where I've roamed
I don't know where to go
Are the mountain range or Great Lakes made for me

Maybe I should start thinking 'bout settling down
Maybe I should start thinking 'bout going home
Where I've been
Where I've roamed
I don't know where to go
Are the mountain range or Great Lakes made for me

Home

Water runs down broken streets,
Boots heavy, can't find my feet.
Sky opens, a bitter laugh,
I’m here, caught in its aftermath.

Clouds hang like things unsaid,
The weight of words that filled my head.
I spin, hoping to blur it all—
But shadows cling when I start to fall.

Let it pour, let it sting, let it drown me (I'm still here)
Dance with the hurt, let it spin me around (take the pain)
Let it flood, let it break, let it pull me (hold my ground)
Living in the rain, it won’t wash me out (I won't fade)

Cold hands and the truth it burns,
Every drop a page that turns.
I keep moving, chasing breath,
Through the storm and every regret.

Eyes shut, can't face the glare,
Wind whispers things I can’t repair.
But I touch the rain to feel alive,
Hold its weight to survive the night.

Let it pour, let it sting, let it drown me (I'm still here)
Dance with the hurt, let it spin me around (take the pain)
Let it flood, let it break, let it pull me (hold my ground)
Living in the rain, it won’t wash me out (I won't fade)

When the sky cracks wide, I see it all (no more lies)
Breathe in the dark, let it settle deep (in my bones)
Rise through the ache, through every drop,
Find the strength I thought I’d lost.

Let it pour, let it sting, let it drown me (I'm still here)
Dance with the hurt, let it spin me around (take the pain)
Let it flood, let it break, let it pull me (hold my ground)
Living in the rain, it won’t wash me out (I won't fade)

Let it fall, let it mend, let it change me (won't turn back)
Moving through the storm, still whole (still my own)
Let it fall, let it heal, let it free me (in the end)
Living with the rain, I won’t be swept away (I'm not gone)

The Rain Won't Hide

Ambiguous Folk

Through both of you (Acoustic)

Dying For Your Love

Railroad Running

Indie Pop, Sophisti-Pop, Jangle Pop, Synth-Pop

Burn after reading

If you love something, set it free.  If it comes back to you, it was meant to be.  Unless you throw it in the river.

How Long Will I Love You

Scott Colton

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