Hostello, Tangiers

From Old Sand Mill's debut album “The World Is Getting Colder”

Music & Lyrics by Chip Miller & Michael Reynolds

Produced & Arranged by Chip Miller

I did hear a poet singing

Upon a sun, upon a meadow

Set sail his wish, upon a rise

Entrusting me to hear it well, ring my bell!

Ring it loudly, fill your ears

The poet’s wish…Hostello, Tangiers

Take me, take me to, take me to

Hostello, Tangiers

I did see a painter’s dreaming

Flee with the tide, to Africa

Free with his brush, to borrowed parchments

They’re cunning me to see it well, ring my bell!

Ring it loudly, fill your ears

The painter’s dream…Hostello, Tangiers

Take me, take me to, take me to

Hostello, Tangiers

I did know a princess deeply

How deep the heart, how deep the yearning

How soft the cry, how loud the aching

Believing me to know it well, ring my bell!

Ring it loudly, fill your ears

The princess cries…Hostello, Tangiers

Take me, take me to, take me to

Hostello, Tangiers

I did wish upon my listening

To hear, to see, to know its meaning

Then all at once, I heard myself

Thinking how, I knew it well, ring my bell!

Ring it loudly, fill your ears

Like you, I see…Hostello, Tangiers

Take me, take me to, take me to

Hostello, Tangiers

Take me, take me to, take me to

Hostello, Tangiers

Old Sand Mill Music, Ltd/BMI Music International

An epic poem put to a trippy composition.  Written originally in Tangiers.