A Song, A Voice, A Guitar, A Sofa, A Camera…

A Song, A Voice, A Guitar, A Sofa, A Camera, Two Carry Outs, Some Diesel And A Taxi From North Belfast, A Film:

Directed and produced by renowned Northern Irish artist Seamus Harahan

* This Deathly Charm *

Let’s harvest when noon arrives

Before this winter comes to steal our lives

For I will take to give it back

And not for granted

For all that’s new why is this old

As I prepare to be on my own

So alas my dear

I’m only here to say sorry…

*

And there’s a full moon and all Hell’s outside

To get where I do want before I would die

So take a long hard look at what’s left inside

Would it be my bones or could it be my pride

*

The opposite of love is cold

And hate’s this word that we all bestow

Where every wound is a kiss

That blows to you personally

But I’ve found a love that needs

So woe betide my one soberest deed

‘Cos fix has come to these crippled wings

That were gave to me

(So I no longer will grope in the dark

For what is fear without this heart

And a wilderness that’s walked in part

Is now my homeland…)

*

And there’s a full moon and all Hell’s outside

To get where I do want before I would die

So take a long hard look at what’s left inside

Would it be my bones or could it be my pride

And as I walk with these shadows either arm in arm

With a book that’s nearly right or very much wrong

With the wind and the snow and this deathly charm

That was made for me.

***

Words and music by Robyn G. Shiels. Dedeicated to Granny “Hessie” Brownlow 1914-2007

The Blood of the Innocents is available now on vinyl and as a digital download.