Name: Windhover
Duration: P00H05M35S
Description: What happens when the muse goes absent? Maybe it's found high about a stormy Cornwall cliff, hovering in the wind...

Windhover

from Windhover by Jeremy Harmer

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What happens when the muse goes absent? Maybe it's found high about a stormy Cornwall cliff, hovering in the wind...

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Windhover

I looked for you along the ancient paths
Above the crashing spray, the jagged rocks
The storm flecked waves
The moon and tides in their eternal infernal dance
I looked for you
I looked in vain to see you hover in the wind
But storm lash closed my eyes and ears
And you were gone when I looked again.

I walked down lanes by streams and rivers
Past the muddy autumnal fields
But all I heard
Was the sighing of the tired leaves
a distant mournful peel
The countryside seemed bare and drear
And empty as the sweet air disappeared
And still I searched for you
To hear your voice
And fill the silence that I fear

CHORUS
Won’t anybody tell me where you are
And why you’ve gone away.
I need to hear you on the wind
And get the calls you send my way
Cause without them what it feels like is
I’ve got nothing left to say

So tell me now when you’ll be back
To hover in the wind
Waiting for your prey
And then the music will return
The words come floating after
I’ll know what to say.
The songs we sing when we are happy
Or to make sad times go away -
Cause when you’re here
Putting lines to melody is as easy
As when the night follows day.

CHORUS

But when you’re here
Putting lines to melodies is as easy
As night follows day

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

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Jeremy Harmer UK

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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