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# Foy Vance - "Sapling"
- URL: https://www.analogue.io/recommendations/foy-vance-sapling/
- Published: 2021-06-03T17:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-03T17:18:47.000Z
- Description: Foy Vance's substantive songwriting has given us another resonant gift in "Sapling".
- Author: Analogue
- Tags: Recommendations, Foy Vance, Matt Conner, #Import 2026-11-12 21:02, #color-orange, #blend-soft-light

*By* [*Matt Conner*](https://www.analogue.io/tag/matt-conner/)

**Album:** Foy Vance - "Sapling" · **Artist:** Foy Vance · **Released:** 3 June 2021 · **Label:** Warner Music

Few artists have the capacity to write kind of song. Perhaps it's not about a person's ability or an artist's creativity, but rather about the choice of the muse to visit some songwriters in such a tangible way. No matter.

Whatever it is about [**Foy Vance**](https://www.foyvance.com/?ref=analogue.io) that allows him to pen songs like "She Burns" or "Joy of Nothing" or "Guiding Light" has struck again in the form of "Sapling," a new single released recently in tangent with the title track from his forthcoming album*, Signs of Life*.

The melody itself is just beautiful, armed with a tense and insistent single note on the piano that won't let go for the song's duration but allows for an emotive backbone that swells with the song's chorus. Vance's best work lives in these musical dilations and "Sapling" certainly fits that mold.

However, "Sapling"'s resonant power is found in Vance's lyrical approach here, a vulnerable admission of a man who wishes to be rooted much deeper than he is as present. Those roots would have yielded stronger branches to provide shade and support to others and fruit from which others could find sustenance. Instead he searches inside and asks, "Am I strong enough?" for what really matters most to him.

It's not as if Foy Vance's catalog needed another devastating song like this one to speak to the substantive nature of his work, but he's gifted us all, once again, with language and imagery in which we find ourselves and our own struggles to grow and mature into our better selves.

"Sapling" Lyrics:

*I remember way back when* 
*I felt only ennui* 
*Like nothing could complete me* 
*No promise of a rising sun* 
*Illuminating everyone* 
*The very thought defeated* 
  
*My life was a blinded light* 
*Must be what it's like when worlds collide* 
*Especially when he sees her* 
*Pretty soon he'll tease her* 
*I was on the road too long* 
*My laboured lover only song* 
*Not one of them a keeper* 
  
*But if I woke in the morning to find you were gone* 
*I know I'd try and find the will to be strong* 
*But am I strong enough? Am I strong enough?* 
*I once built a bower, I could build you a home* 
*Together forever but forever and on* 
*Is still not long enough, it's still not long enough* 
  
*The look of fear was in your eyes* 
*And I could see myself as a child* 
*Such a devastating feeling* 
*I wished I could go back in time* 
*But all I could do was apologise* 
*Right there in your eyes were healing* 
*Healing* 
  
*Oh, if I woke in the morning to find you were gone* 
*I know I'd try and find the will to be strong* 
*But am I strong enough? Am I strong enough?* 
*I once built a bower, I could build you a home* 
*Together forever but forever and on* 
*Is still not long enough, it's still not long enough* 
  
*Oh, I've been Cain but I wanna be Abel* 
*Been a drunken fool but I wanted to be stable enough* 
*To lay every one of my cards on the table* 
*Hope it's not too late for us to find a way through* 
  
*If I woke in the morning to find you were gone* 
*I know I'd try and find the will to be strong* 
*But am I strong enough? Am I strong enough?* 
*I once built a bower, I could build you a home* 
*Together forever but forever and on* 
*Is still not long enough, it's still not long enough* 
  
*I will look, get inside myself for a home* 
*Find only a sapling in search of an oak* 
*But it's a start my love, oh it's a start my love* 
*But am I strong enough?*

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