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Well I know what you’ve been thinking I’m the sheep that’s gone astray but I can tell you that I’m drinking from a well that’s flowing away yes overflowing from the source of it I'm tumbling spinning clean I’m skipping jumping howling running with the wolves who came for me / I am unfettered unencumbered I’m the rock that’s set for me I’m in the Nant Gorllewin threshold flowing down the West Grove stream and I will lick this land of honey and the milk will flow from me I’m in the exile of the east at least I’m finally set free / I climb a mountain out the city searching for the great sublime I race away from rhyme and reason ’cos the path just was not mine I travel on the road less travelled, in mindfulness this time I’m now a drifter and a wanderer; a sinner of the nicest kind / Oh hell I tried to write the sea today and it washed right over me I needed washing in the waves a babe baptised in the raging seas I am awake asleep awake I dream the desert endlessly I got to vanish in the vastness in this heavenly purgatory / Then I ride up to the border and I walk an ancient path, listen to the truth of redwoods a synchronicity that lasts I hear the voice of elders speaking feel the sacredness they mark I rest in sun and moon and water and I move on from the past / So now I’m making with the makers and I’m living in time with grain I make my home from what I have reject the dulled-down dumbing ways, I’m kinda sure I’m heading westward like the old communities o’ grapes of wrath, the past, the aftermath, it’s now we’ve come to save / I am a wolf in sheepish clothing and sometimes I'm the lamb and sometimes I’m the serpent oh yes definitely I Am unravelling narrative of bursting fruit, the rising of Devine yes Sheela I can see ya and that cross you got hidden behind. . .
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(For C.W.)
I looked to the heavens, where does my help come from and I looked to the earth and saw the stories all these stories of the old / now I’m looking around at all the faces staring right on back at me, in all these faces I’m displaced and then I just can’t seem to see / This train ’aint coming round, it just ’aint coming round / This train ’aint slowing down, it really ’aint slowing down / And I got this funny feeling running all over me / ’Aint no-one gonna stop this goddamn train for me, o no / So I keep walking down this same old fucking road and I keep on falling down the same old murky hole / I know it’s there but still I feel that gentle call, that safe embrace of wasted space and womb-like hold I think I’m falling / chorus / So I’m still sitting here wondering what to do nothing is shifting and I don’t think I can move / not even sleep can help me dream away these blues oh well I guess I gotta keep pushing, might as well push on through /chorus/ Well there are many who can understand the fight we say you gotta get up stand up life ’aint black nor white / so don’t go giving up don’t go giving up your rights, get your shit together, walk towards the light /chorus/ I might as well just hop on the back and see where it leads . . .
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This is not the End
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(For C.J.)
Turning this all over again / here we are again my friends / well don’t lay down this is not the end of you or me / No don’t lay down this is not the end/ Keep rolling rolling rolling it over again / ’Cos I got about a hundred miles to walk / then I got another hundred thousand more / you know it goes, you keep on keeping on / ’cos when you feel like your back’s against the wall / sometimes you gotta leap instead of fall / I’ve never seen a life catch anyone quite like this before / chorus / and when you feel like a salmon up the stream / all of this uphill swimming endlessly / you know together we can change the tide /’cos there is more much more than we can see / you know there’s countless paths where we can free / unfolding evolution be our guide / chorus / o my soul, o my soul won’t you come on home / No don’t lay down this is not the end / Keep rolling rolling rolling right over my friends. . .
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Calling on the Wind
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(For K.H.)
I’ve been searching for this freedom and moving lots of ground / waiting on forgiveness to find its way around / I’ve been tasting sweet and sorrow as a way to give my soul / some respite for this questioning of things I’ll never know / I’ve journeyed to the desert and laid amongst the bones / fallen through the cracks of a life I used to know / I landed in a forest surrounded by these trees / emptying and emptying a life lived half asleep / So I will celebrate revival of a kind you’ve never seen / and I will sing over the ashes of a life escaping me / I will find my own redemption in a way I’m fit to live / O love I’m calling on the . . . / Hey-ho up she goes, never want to see you in another one’s soul / I’ve had to form some answers to justify your means / but weaving ends from nothing is harder than it seems / I questioned all my sanity, the things you had me see /’Cos living with delusion’s been this prison holding me /chorus / I know just where it happened, I know the game we played / following The Truth we got so lost along the way / I’ve fought to feel this freedom to believe in what I see /’Cos everything I thought I knew got stripped away from me / I’ve danced into the fire and come face to face with shame / reached towards the serpent and wrapped myself in fate / I’ve journeyed from the edges washed away from tidal path / shed a million lifetimes and found this beating heart / chorus /. . .
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Went east to the ocean I needed the edge / drove through the desert just to feel that open space oh I needed to feel this / saw a hawk in the park and a snake in the grass saw a spider in my dreams she was cautioning me oh I needed to feel this / I don’t want to leave this place and I don’t want to fade away oh I’ve been living in fear / I don’t want to leave this place and I don’t want to fade away oh I needed to feel this I needed to check that I existed here / Went to the country I just needed horizon I sang with the birds felt our song keep on rising oh I needed to feel this / I journeyed much deeper I was travelling through time I swam in the waters saw the owl on the island oh I needed to feel this / I don’t want to leave this place and I don’t want to fade away oh I’ve been walking through fear / I don’t want to leave this place and I don’t want to fade away oh I needed to feel this, I needed to check that I existed here / I climbed up the tower to be higher than people I felt so invincible yet felt really little oh I needed to feel this / saw the whale in the city and I lay underneath it I cried like a baby felt like something was finished oh I needed to feel this / I don’t want to leave this place and I don’t want to fade away oh I’ve walked through fear / I don’t want to leave this place and I don’t want to fade away oh I needed to feel this, I needed to check that I existed here / Put my head on the earth as I stood in the flow I prayed to the spirit what I learnt from the buffalo I needed to feel this / I shouted out loud I was ready to explore I wrote till it hurt then made footprints in snow oh, I needed to feel this, I needed to check that I existed here. . .
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Back to Life
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With the coming of the dawn and a turning spiral / hold on steady when the tide is rising / people get ready in a changing climate / falcon in the gyre cries wider wider / When the road is long and the walls need climbing / living in a world of itself devouring / watching a looming shadow rising / now is not a time for despair and hiding /’Cos we were made for this, yes / we’ve been waiting for this time / in the roots we’re gathering / in the deeps we find our tribe / oh, it’s happening the people are a-gathering / for earth and all humanity /we’re coming back to life / Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold / be the bridges where the love prevails / things fall apart, the centre cannot hold / be the edges, where the hope sets sail / O love is a radical way to walk and hope is a powerful choice of course / Yes love is a radical way to walk and hope is a powerful choice, it’s yours / chorus / Oh, it’s happening, the people are a-gathering we’re standing for each other and we’re standing for our lives. . .
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Meet You There
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Breathe into silence, breathe into the timeless, breathe into belief / Breathe into the broken, into the unspoken, let your stories free / Lean into the mystery, lean into the empty, trust what’s yet unseen / Take me to the mountain, take me to the sea, lay me in the river where I’ll wash this spirit clean / Take me to the mountain, take me to the sea, take me to the river and take me to this field / Lean into the mountain, feel the wind surrounding, blowing wild and free / Breathe into the water, let it flow unaltered, together we’ll run clean / Take me to the mountain, take me to the sea, lay me in the river where I’ll wash this spirit clean / Take me to the mountain, take me to the sea, take me to the river and take me to this field / Where my soul lies down in that green green grass that the world’s too full to talk about - I’ll meet you there / Give yourself permission, give yourself the reason / Loving of this, travel to this, revel in this field / Where my soul lies down in that green green grass that the world’s too full to talk about - I’ll meet you there / Dare to walk in darkness, trust the spark that lights us, don’t you lose your thread. . .
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Pilgrim Song
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I will walk through the weather this I know / I will walk ’till we’re together this I know / I will walk a ground that’s quaking I will rest when I can’t take it / Be the banks of the river, be the flow / There’s a stone that stands in balance on the sand / In the in-between of ocean and the land / I can feel it in the urgency / The only place I know to be / The edge it calls the centre to be found / chorus / Though the water’s rising higher all the time / we’re building walls of separation we can’t climb / when all around their waging war / we need the shelter in the storm / to keep creating through it all / chorus / Though my friend lies uncovered in the ground / Kissed her hands and mouth goodbye without a sound / She could not survive the current / Got taken down amongst the others / In her memory I’ll be running I will grow / We will walk through the weather this I know / we will walk ’till we’re together this I know / we will walk a ground that’s quaking / we will rest when we can’t take it / be the banks of the river, be the flow / We will rise and walk into the great unknown / We will rise. . .
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Lay of the Land
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So hold my hand, we’ll take this land we’ll fly from bay to bay / ‘cos hawthorn mends a broken heart it’s the giver of hope they say - o the giver of hope they say / Singing shallelai said the buds and the lyre, won’t you sing your song today / Plant your feet in the now, this is holy ground and this is the lay of the land – o – this is the lay of the land / The rhythm of the heart it is the only path in the beat there is always chance / cleansing in fire and spring comes fast we will sing we will love we will dance - o we will sing we will love we will dance / chorus / So dance into the sacred place in the grief, the blood and the thorns / wait without hope and wait without joy then ascend, release, transform - o ascend release transform / chorus / So the hawthorn mends a broken heart
when we join our selves inside / with he who does and she who feels this is the turning of the wedding tide - o the turning of the wedding tide / chorus /. . .
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Yours is the Sky
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Some say the sun will rise and fall on the wings of a bird you find the meaning of it all yes it can unfold; it’s the tiniest of miracles / It’s the call of the wild, it’s the echoing inside / I hear horizon calling I can see it in your eyes / I wish you well my friends, ’till the day we meet again / Yours is the sky, yes yours is the sky / Some say love is a never-ending song as the bud gets tight then the blossoming unfolds every moment starts anew; it’s the tiniest of miracles / chorus / May your way be wide open . . .
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Eleanor Brown UK
'BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS' - Joanna Macy (activist &
author)
'SONGS OF SAD DEFIANCE' - BBC Introducing
“A FOLK POET WITH HER FEET FIRMLY ON THE GROUND, BRAVELY GOING FORTH” – Luke Concannon (Nizlopi)
Welcome to my site. I write and sing songs. Find out more at www.eleanorbrownmusic.com
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