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Brea Hill

from Windhover by Jeremy Harmer

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Overlooking Daymer Bay and the restless North Atlantic, where the River Camel joins the sea, 'Brea Hill is.a place of sweet memory, a place of repeated pilgrimages.

And somehow those memories got mixed up with a famous speech improvised by the actor Rutger Hauer in the seminal film 'Blade Runner' - the original version.

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Brea Hill (Tears in rain)

High on the hill in the quickening air
With the mist rolling over, salt wind in my hair
And the cry of the gulls with the tide surging in
With the long swell of memory, beached whale and shark fin
Every time that I’m down here I climb to this place
For the sting on my cheek, or the sun on my face
And I cast my eyes seaward, horizon looks back
On the unyielding rock, sharp spines, bladderwrack
That’s when I think maybe life’s just a game
And these moments will be lost, like tears in rain

There once was a love that I thought was secure
But one wanted less and the other wanted more.
So we drifted apart, as the land slips away
In the gathering dusk at the end of the day
But when I remember sweet comfort I miss
All the laughter and sadness, the passion, the bliss
They will not return; they’re behind the closed door
Locked and bolted from inside in the time of before
That’s when I think with the joy comes the pain
Until they’re both washed away like tears in rain

I worked on a song that I thought could be fine
With a haunting sweet melody that I hoped was mine
Words tumbled out about the world that we share
The things we have witnessed and how we should care
As usual the beauty just wouldn’t come through
And the phrases I searched for stayed hidden from view
The tunes I was choosing seemed to hang in the air
As if in my dreaming I’d heard them somewhere
That’s when I wondered is all music the same
And it all blends together like tears in rain?

So I’m back on the hill looking over Doom Bar
Reliving my life as if from afar
While down on the shore by the sparkling sea
Are the ghosts of the people who mean most to me
Each has a story to tell in their time
Of the light and the half light sweet cherry bitter wine
Cos we all have our triumphs and the thoughts that we dread
And the things that we’ve done seem to fill up our head
That’s when I hear this pure sad refrain
And the guilt floats away like tears in rain.

And now I know that life’s not just a game
Cos we’re all part of something just like tears in the rain

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from Windhover, released November 16, 2021
Written and performed by Jeremy Harmer

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Jeremy Harmer is a multi instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and interpreter in the folk tradition (contemporary & traditional). Described by Unicorn folk magazine as "a 21st century troubadour" he writes about love (and loss), injustice, refugee agony, climate change. His songs are thoughtful, beautiful and sometimes humorous. ... more

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