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Closer

from Not This Room by Roddy Ellias

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lyrics

Closer

And when we turned / toward the future
With our hearts bared /a thousand drums were heard
The empty towers / rose again
We looked so far / into the distance
We could hardly see / and time was hiding
In the mirror / in the dark
We took our dreams / and all our demons
To the edge of days / their gentle wings
And scarlet feathers / led us to a place
Where we were quiet / with the wonder
Of it all / the children sang
And all the arrows / fell apart
And lay in / patterns on the ground
That spoke of ancient stories / seldom told
And rhymes that whispered / deep inside

There were no Gods above / to name
Only the broken hallelujah / that we mended
And we played / until the moon herself
That once bore witness / to the starry night
Was dancing in our eyes / again
And we were free to wander / through the golden fields
Follow the river / to the sea
We raised the flag of truth / so we would not forget
And gathered all the children near / and brought them
To a safe / and higher ground
And as we watched / in private galaxies / of memory
We knew at once / what we had come / to find
And held it closer / than we’d ever done before

credits

from Not This Room, track released October 26, 2021
Roddy Ellias (g), Kellylee Evans (v), Marc Copland (p), Chris Pond (b), Jose Garcia (perc), Petr Cancura (sax, cl.), Guy Pelletier (flutes), Richard Page (b. cl.), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola da gamba). Music by Roddy Ellias, Words by Sandra Nicholls

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