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Live at FilKONtario 2019

by Summer Russell

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Jupiter stands like a sentinel under a searchlight Venus is reaching her arms in the gulf of the night to baptize the shadow the fallow moon keeps in her cradle wrapped in her mantle of light While down on the earth there is silence in spaces between us distance outreaching the lonely expanse of the stars thinking if only our fingertips touched in the darkness maybe the world could be ours But if you looked From not so very far away Suddenly every star we can name Would fit in the pin-light That sits in the frame of your eye And we are as small as a universe Born in a burst of "I've known you before" Aren't you the heat I have carried So long in my core? And we are the dust from the first dawn Made of the same flames we wish upon Traveling longer than eons All to be standing here Scattering starlight the moment we meet in the darkness Burning out loud with the blossoming heat of the sun Waking a world that awaited the spark of creation Waited love's will to be done Here there is nothing but trembling starlight between us, Reaching unseen from the heart of my heart into yours And all we have been will be wakened again, and remembered Wondrous and tender Brighter and stronger than before.
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Wind is in the east, across the water Grey the waves that softly seek the harbor There a white ship waits to bear me far away Far beyond the old wounds and the dwindling day And in your eyes That see they cannot follow Sorrow takes hold My friend, I know But silver on the hills, the rain returning Golden light upon the face of morning Green has come again, and soon the flowers grow Spare a loving hand to help them as they go And in your eyes I see the years run onward Long with a love That overflows Stand with me, to look awhile together-- Night was deep, but morning shines forever We are meant to live, and will be whole again And I will carry, far as any heart can wend, What your eyes In all their kindness show I know now, my friend It has no end.
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Pale in the distance stood fast-fading Avalon Perched on the lonely and sundering sea There the waves reached out, and there the mist gathered And soon as I saw, it was taken from me But I will make you stay, somehow I will find a way Nevermore slip away, evermore remain For as long as I carry your name. I watched the sun dip below the green fields And the flowers all sleeping in bright Tír na nÓg Even the stars will fall, someday the clarion Call of the night will come, finding them gone But I will make you stay, somehow I will find a way Nevermore slip away, evermore remain For as long as I carry your name. All love is fleeting, the white wings are beating To carry the last of its promise from me All life is fading, and memory is changing But time cannot steal what is already free And I will keep you here with me I have found a way Nevermore slip away, evermore remain For as long as I carry your name Nevermore slip away, evermore remain For as long as I carry your name. *** I chase your every vision And I follow every scheme When you dial the tune, I'm ready To strike up an Earthly theme My watchers of the planets, My searchers of the skies You bade me stay for ninety days But the wonder struck my eyes The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there So hold the line and it's on I'll climb You'll find me everywhere 'Cause I'm a rover. As the ocean craves the moon's face And rises toward her light I need the furnace of your sun To keep me burning bright I'm simple in my spirit Resourceful in my quest Solving every puzzle in my path Surpassing every test The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there So hold the line and it's on I'll climb You'll find me everywhere 'Cause I'm a rover. Set me in a high place Beyond the dust of time But save your grief, I never was Designed to make you cry Neither lost nor am I losing I have forged my way this far I'm still here, and I'll be rising In the light of every star The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there So hold the line and it's on I'll climb You'll find me everywhere The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there So hold the line and it's on I'll climb You'll find me everywhere 'Cause I'm a rover.

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Recorded live in Toronto on April 13, 2019, during the Interfilk Guest concert at FilKONtario 29.

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released April 13, 2020

Photo credit: Sue Alexander

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