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Grey Rocks

from Where It All Began by daviesteelman

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Grey Rocks

The wind wheels
From a place of grey rocks
Black stones
And stinging spray.

It whirls and returns
Its voice loud and empty.
The rocks fall, pulverise, consolidate, rise up, and fall again.

The sea surges
To the tug of the moon
Advancing, receding,
Restless and cold.

The spaces seethe
There’s a mist of ancient stars in tatters across the sky
And the wordless voice of the yawning spaces calls.

And I am filled with that cry,
Dumb, and charged with longing
Oh, come Lord, quickly come.

Round up the scattering stars;
Give language to the voice of silence;
Take all the old things
And make them new;
Tie off this unravelling thread of time;
Come and rescue your desolate bride;
Break open the universe and come in,
Come in, come in, oh, come in.

Tectonic plates move
Land masses break up and drift apart
Life teems and swarms on sea and land.

Epochs unfold.
Exploiting resources, jostling for dominance,
Species adapt or fail.

Down on the savannah
One species stands up and looks around,
Desires lordship of all it surveys.

Millennia pass.
The human tide washes over continents;
The silence retreats.

Centuries pass.
The tide of human affairs rises and falls.
Everything changes; it all stays the same.

Endless recombinations
But the same old fault lines run right through
- Under the sun there’s nothing new.

Tune in to the chatter
It all merges into a single sound
- It’s that same old wordless cry.

And I am filled with that cry,
Dumb, and charged with longing
Oh, come Lord,come Lord, quickly come.

Round up the scattering stars;
Give language to the voice of silence;
Take all the old things
And make them new;
Tie off this unravelling thread of time;
Come and rescue your desolate bride;
Break open the universe and come in,
Come in, come in, oh, come in.

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In the space between heartbeats
Between breaths out and in
Your hand is protecting the flame of my life.

In sunlight and in shadow
In starlight and in moonglow
You always are my guide and my direction
My protection
My direction
My protection.

credits

from Where It All Began, released May 21, 2018
Acoustic arpeggio guitar - Marco Neves
Guitar solo - James Mudie
All other instruments, voices, programming, production, mixing and mastering - David Mudie

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daviesteelman London, UK

David lives in south London, UK. He has been writing and recording (but rarely finishing!) music for a number of years. He plays keyboards, guitar and bass, and enjoys the process of recording, producing and mixing.
He has played keyboards in The Arrivists and The Othersides, both London-based bands, and regularly played in blues-rock jam nights in south London (before Covid! Those were the days).
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