Egrets by Will Riding
A lot of people struggle. Some show it, some don't, some have coping strategies, others need varying levels of assistance. We're being screwed down so tightly both personally and via the craziness going on at the top table that it's hardly surprising there's a mental health crisis. And you can't legislate it out of existence.
Those little pockets of peace,both physical and mental are essential. As are the opportunities to deconstruct and reconstruct with the right help.
Safe to say that musically this took a bit of a detour from my usual folky fayre. Channelling Martin Stephenson And The Daintees and also inadvertently in parts, err... Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. If you're of a mind,,you can even dance to it.
Hell, I just followed it where it went went...
Stay well x
Tracklist
| 1. | Egrets | 4:36 |
Lyrics
When the drip drip drip of poison is all we notice
And we're pummelled by a life which we've been sold
There's a place beyond the savage seas where we can rest a while
Beyond a world which leaves us cold
No flags or borders, no last orders; an open range
Where we learn to love ourselves once again
We can watch the stars fall in the evening
Feel the blood course through our veins
Our beating hearts will punctuate the silence
And summon hope of better days
We'll cackle like hyenas and sing between the showers
Buzzing like the honey bees which dart between the flowers
Don't want to be where egrets dare to flash their wings and blind me
I'll wrap myself in a cloak of calm, so they won't find me
So come and hear the tideline's whisper
Let's reconnect and redefine
No looking back, no looking forward
Let's take a moment in this time
Like limpets we can cling to the good times
And groan like rusty gates at bad rhymes
Don't want to be where egrets dare flash their wings and blind me
I'll wrap myself in a cloak of calm, so they won't find me
Don't want to be where egrets dare flash their wings and blind me
I'll wrap myself in a cloak of calm, so they won't find me
Credits
Written, composed, played and recorded by Will Ridng
License
All rights reserved.
A Lancashire born, Chester based singer-songwriter with a deft and playful turn of phrase and acoustic - folk sensibilities inspired by, amongst other things, 70’s Children’s TV.