We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition

    Includes unlimited streaming of When I Go Home via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    6
    releases

    Get all 6 Sonya Cotton releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Look Back, Carry On, When I Go Home, More Of You, It is so, Red River, and Out of the Ocean. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $41.60 USD or more (20% OFF)

     

lyrics

On the banks of the Yuba River
by the water clear and warm
I beheld the rocks and the river snakes
and I swam from shore to shore

By the banks of the Yuba river
I received the dreaded call
that began the slow unwinding
of the life that I had known

From the mystery comes beauty
from the mystery comes strife
every moment at the mercy
of a force we cannot describe
But it gives and it takes our lives

Do you remember where we walked along the Delaware?
Across the bridge and through the town
along the Raritan Canal
The water was murky, the water was still
the coldest of winters upon our heels
it was not heaven but it was ours
under the autumn eastern stars

One year passed and I returned again
to the Yuba's bouldered slopes
with a heart heavy with sorrow
but a heart of stubborn hope

But in that golden land of promise
in that land so far from home
once again I heard the dreaded words
this time that you were gone

When I left the Yuba River
I was half the woman I was before
And my heart is ever weeping for
what I lost on that day by the shore

credits

from When I Go Home, released January 10, 2017

license

tags

about

Sonya Cotton image

Sonya Cotton Hopewell, New Jersey

contact / help

Contact Sonya Cotton

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Sonya Cotton, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now