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Freedom of the Sea

from Glory In The Bone by Echoes and Edges

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lyrics

I’m egalitarian, wash to all shores
Embrace all customs continents
and offer bounty
My reliable moon drawn tides
Wash over , foam wash white
The detritus of Nations.
I’m relaxation and briney
Conviviality personified
And we do love to be beside the seaside
Don’t we ?
Don’t we ...
We crawled from that elemental
Liminal place , we
Formed of gills and scales
Gasped the air transformed by light
Scraped to survival
Evolved
Set Gods and Mythic creatures
Steadfast on those shores
To save our souls
whilst
we turned landwards
Foraged pillaged fished
Plentied
Filled the creels .
Yet I will always have my due
Will persist under
The moon’s argent
Apogee, perigee

To draw you closer.
You built craft, bridges
To span isthmus and estuary
As if one world was yours
As if to celebrate a oneness
You came to despise.

Now the freedom I once offered
All that bounteous plenty
Squandered once pellucid waters
With waste
And on,
To the dreadful terminations
Of frail life
Embarking disembarking hopeless
With loss to the shore .
Then,
Aeons of time and tide

Will wash and drift
Before my gift
Of freedom will appease.
Come to the shoreline then
Kneel in the intertidal space
Cast flowers of homage
Upon my wavelet forehead
Make art from death
Make penance
Fly a sea bleached
Freedom flag
Light beacons of welcome
restitution
Before it’s all too late
Before I take you all.

credits

from Glory In The Bone, released March 27, 2020
Poem - Gillie Harries
Vocals - Charlie Frances
Piano - Jakob op den Brouw

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Echoes and Edges is a collective of Bristol based poets and musicians, working together on ideas that incorporate and merge spoken word with improvised and composed pieces of music. We aim to bring new ideas to the words and new imagery to the music.

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