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Luiz & The Crew

from Three Circles & A Speaker by Steve Leaf

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about

Luis Váez de Torres was a 17th century explorer who tried several times to find Australia however never did. On his final expedition, he ended up going through the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia. Although he came incredibly close, he never found it. He pretty much threaded the needle.

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Luiz made a wager with Mr. Ortiz
That there was land beyond the farthest of far
And heʼd welcome the toil just to bring back the soil
Under the light of a bright southern star
A star only seen by those men who seemed
To worry about what was on board
To never think or even dream of a continent lost
And to step out onto a new shore

Luiz gathered his crew and frost turned to dew
He set out from the Gibraltar Straits
And they heard the din of the wildest of winds
Which sent straight around the African cape
The constellations which guided navigation
All changed as they headed down
The weather grew grim and chances seemed slim
Of return if the ship ran aground

But morale made a rise and the crew steadied its eyes
On what they thought was dry land
But it turned out that it was just a broken mast
Of a ship with a similar plan
So with beleaguered minds and running out of time
They made one last dash east
A white squall came and it started to rain
Now in the belly of a beast
They looked to the north and then to the south
But the haze prevented the sight
Of a desert filled land cascades, and sand
A place they couldʼve spent the night
Little had he known, a lack of clouds wouldʼve shown
The captainʼs destination
Oh how proud, heʼd tell the story out loud
Less a miscalculation

credits

from Three Circles & A Speaker, released June 17, 2014
Steve Leaf: Vocals, Guitar
Dan Haefs: Drums, Rhodes
Nick Young: Bass
Recorded at Double Phelix Studios Kalamazoo, MI: July 2013

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Steve Leaf Grand Rapids, Michigan

There is a quiet confidence to the music of Steve Leaf. He has been writing songs for fifteen years now. Some songs about love, some songs about love lost, and others about everything else to cover all the bases. Steve hails from Michigan and cut his teeth in the singer/songwriter scene of Chicago which is to say he usually tries to sneak a Wilco cover into his set. ... more

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