Memoirs in a Song...
Stories, Stones and Bones is a name given to me in a dream some 10+ years ago. I used the title for my first book of lyrics when I sent it to be copywritten... This blog is a compendium of my book of lyrics, from 1996 to present.
The name holds a sense of ancient wisdom, which I hope begins to seep thru my songs: What are the stories the earth tells, that are written on our ancestral bones? What is the deeper pool of knowledge that we can drink from as we birth ourselves into creative evolutionary beings? Where are our roots? What is the journey we have taken, personally and collectively?...
And so begins the story, woven in song, as fallen through the lyrics of my music...
More lyrics will be coming soon (I've written well over 100 songs!)... In the meantime, I hope you enjoy!
[Please note that you will want to read from bottom to top (in reverse). The "archive by date" list on the lefthand side will help your journey - which begins in March of 1996, when the first song flew out of my lips... You can also search by THEMES: the songs which I like a lot or are in current performance rotation are in the theme of *favorites*]
My love for the mother runs deep and long. I feel for all the ways we unconsciously abuse her in the name of 'progress' and capitalism... I love her sweet bounty, her tender rains, her epic beauty...
Oh mother, Mother Earth
My world, my home
Upon your body we do roam
Oh mother, Mother Earth...
My body, my soul
My joy, my pain
You make it rain
Oh mother...
I’m your daughter and your friend
I don’t want to see you end
Oh mother, Mother Earth
Won’t you show us where you’ve been hurt
Oh mother, Mother Earth
...
© Spring 1997, Boulder, CO
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