(Eire, c.1000 CE)
This song is based on and borrows heavily from the mediaeval Irish poem, ‘The Lament of the Hag of Beare.’ This lament is one of the oldest Irish poems, centred on the divine veiled Cailleach, who appears as a crone, bringing winter. The poem also acknowledges the way as humans, our fickle lives ebb and flow, not unlike the sea.
lyrics
I wish I could withstand what the coast does
And my erosion was a slower process
A million years of weathering
Parallels women’s strength
A land that bore our mothers
An earth that slowly crumbles beneath us
Transforming year to year
Until the darkness engulfs us
Ebb tide to me
As to the sea
The wave of the great sea is speaking
The water buries us with it / the winter is striking us with it
I do not look to welcome today
As the earth sleeps
We struggle to breathe
credits
from Tapestry,
released September 2, 2022
Shout out to Jay Whalley for phrasing mentorship on this one.
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