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We Will Not Be Lost To These Times (single)

by Eleanor Brown

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I’ve been living in the wasteland / I’ve been clinging in the dark / I’ve been hearing all these voices and losing hope and heart / from a lineage of silence now I break the biggest vow / so I’m rising from these ashes and speaking truth to power / Oh Yion Do - be my witness be my guide / let me grow a different skin like the selkie in the tides / Oh Yion Da - be my witness be my guide / let me grow a different skin / one thats suited to these times / oh I will not be lost to these times / so I drove into the distance into the blue that won’t arrive / getting lost in all the back roads and in the mountains of my mind / in the highland vast expanses / found an empty barren land / in the sanctity of silence / brought the breath I'd searched to find / Oh Yion Do - be my witness be my guide / let me grow a different skin like the selkie in the tides / Oh Yion Da - be my witness be my guide / let me grow a different skin / one thats suited to these times / oh I will not be lost to these times / Saw a man amongst the forest / when we crossed across the fire / he laid his life down by the oak tree as we breathed his final prayer / we intertwine in our estrangement / we parallel in tender time / so I choose a different story / I choose to face what's mine / Oh Yion Do - be my witness be my guide / let me grow a different skin like the selkie in the tides / Oh Yion Da - be my witness be my guide / let me grow a different skin / one thats suited to these tides / so come back from the edges in this wilderness of mind / on a bruised and broken planet that renews without our kind / this is more than just my story / it is written in the land / in the roots amongst the fir trees yes we rise to overcome / oh we will not be lost to these tides / no we will not be lost to these times...

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released November 24, 2018
Written by Eleanor Brown
(Yion Do: Trad. Hebridean Seal Song)

Performed/Produced by Simeon Smith/Eleanor Brown

Artwork by Lucy H Pearce

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'SONGS OF SAD DEFIANCE' - BBC Introducing

“A FOLK POET WITH HER FEET FIRMLY ON THE GROUND, BRAVELY GOING FORTH” – Luke Concannon (Nizlopi)

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