The Water Is So Wide Table of Contents


The Little Blue Horses, Franz Marc, 1911

Part I - The Apsara Dancers

  1.   Last Days Before the End of the World

  2.   City Strays & Seamstresses

  3.   Welcome to the NFL

  4.  Sideline Doll

  5.  The Apartment on 6th Avenue

Part II - The Train

  6.   The Field Where the Train Runs

  7.   Control Your Horses

  8.   My Only Glory

Part III - The Stables

 9.   The Water Is So Wide

10.   Your Dams Won’t Hold

11.   Stargazer

12.   And I Have Touched the Sky

13.  If You Were That Farmer

14.   Taking Liberties

15.   Tea in a Time of Uncertainty

16.   Before My Skin Was Broken

17.  Boxcars and Stockyards

18.   Chopin Dreaming

19.   Don’t You Like Birds, Mr. Sedlak? 

Epilogue

20.   Emily's Bell

21.   Auditoriums of the Adopted Bourgeoisie


TWISW’s title is taken from Mark Knopfler’s song, Je Suis Désolé

Je Suis Désolé
Words and Music by Mark Knopfler
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