Name: Dawn Song
Duration: P00H05M17S
Description: In the tradition of the medieval aubade, a song of lovers parting in the early dawn. Recorded with ambient birdsong just before sunrise. And wind. Probably a little too much wind.

Dawn Song

from 2017 New Releases by Summer Russell

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In the tradition of the medieval aubade, a song of lovers parting in the early dawn. Recorded with ambient birdsong just before sunrise. And wind. Probably a little too much wind.

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Oh the night she is blue as the candles that you
Hide behind your eyes, peacefully sleeping,
And the candles that died hours ago at the bedside
Were likewise too brief for my keeping
But the moon is alive, and the stars she has cried
Light your face with the trails of her weeping.

Not for all the gold and riches in the world, my love
Would I leave you ere the rising of the morning sun
For the dawn will hurry in to carry me away
But it's in your arms another hour I fain would lay.

For grim is the road, and uncaring the load
I will bear when the sun takes me riding
Many miles and more, too far from your door
Where the warmth of your love is abiding
And if heaven were mine, I would drive away time
To stay here and hold you beside me.

Not for all the gold and riches I have ever known
Would I leave you if the choice were mine to stay or go
And the dawn would never come at all, had I my way,
For it's in the shelter of your arms I fain would stay.

But the first leaves of light chase the shadows of night
From your face as the morning comes calling
And you wake with a kiss and a whisper
That carries me on whither I must be going
But I swear by my soul I could never be whole
Without you to await my returning.

And some other night will bring me swiftly to your arms again
Will there ever be a night that brings me home and has no end?
When the sun will rise and find us sleeping through the early light,
And no dawn that ever comes again will take me from your side?

The night she is blue as the candles that you
Hide behind your eyes, peacefully sleeping,
But the moon is alive, and the stars in the sky
Light your face with the look of my dreaming.

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from 2017 New Releases, released July 21, 2017

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