Not Finished Yet

Not Finished Yet MP3
Click on the spinning note to download the mp3 of the single for the new
CD. Each of the songs on the disc tries to evoke a particular season or
specific time of year, and as we are bringing the disc out now, heading
towards the middle of spring, this one, for May Day, or Beltaine, seemed
appropriate. Although a special edit made for this release, the mp3 also
includes a small taste of the sort of sound atmospheres that bridge all
the songs on the actual CD, too.
Below are lyrics and some more pics.
Further info on the album to follow soon

The marble spins out of the shade,
and suddenly, the chill is gone.
White/purple melts to green and gold.
The sky is shot with streaks of dawn.
…and in a stumbling dance,
the summer gives it’s chase to catch the spring,
so by the turn of winter
they will hold the harvest autumn brings.

(chorus)
The Earth sits warm and ready now
to hold some seed,
and you’re not sure how,
but there’s no ‘now’ or ‘there’
and it’s enough to stand and be aware.
You’ve given something space to grow.
Will it catch root? Well, you just don’t know.
For now, that’s all you get,
but stick around, ‘cause we’re not finished yet.

Flat tan and matted umber
give way to moist and verdant ground,
and where the stream stood silent,
it giggles now with surplus sound.
…and in a stumbling dance,
the ribbon circles ‘round the laughing bride
she knots her own to it,
turns to take the summer’s breath inside.

(chorus)



You’ve carried the winter
around with you all this passing time.
One foot down, the other
and so on, up the long incline.
But with your head bowed so low
you never could see the sunlight shine…

So in the name of all things new,
gather the lost, the fear, the blame.
Carry them stately in your arms,
and let them fall into the flames.
…and, in a stumbling dance
the May Queen pulls the summer to the grass
to taste what might be tasted
‘tween the blades once circle has been cast.

(chorus)

music and lyrics copyright 2005 by Colin Halyk
recording copyright 2005 by Another 1000 Miles

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