Libby Kirkpatrick - Through the Rubble

from More Songs About Birds and Trees by Various Artists

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Through the fall, rain and snow, we were headed for spring
And when the trees were all fuzzy as the freeze 
wore off, we realized the blow -
We’re not high on love but rather 
some electric fuzz of life 
keeps us buzzing through the night
and the sunlight brings us back

And when the myth doesn't fit through the door
the lock is engaged: we got no breadth anymore
Realize: the wall’d grown thickened with vine
And coffee and wine aren't enough
Are we high on love or rather
that electric fuzz of life
Higher and higher climbs a trouble and strife
“husband and wife” no longer 
grows stronger~
And now this song of longing is 
Breaking its belonging from my open door,
through the broken lock of my heart

We have the boy who brings us so much joy
And his gifts flow in like a tide 
Oh yes he grows to be taller than you 
and -he goes into a cave, too
Oh the broken door of my mythic fort
Heaves and buckles to the ground

And still the walls coming crumbling down
And rubbles fill the fields 
tho rainbows and the peels  of laughter above looking down they laugh with love
~No one extends a hand to lift us up 
And yet we rise
Wahoooooe, whahooooee
Yeah, we rise
~Rise through the rubble
through an open door,
past the broken-lock open-heart

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from More Songs About Birds and Trees, released April 13, 2021
Mastered by Ranier Gembalczyk for Sienna Digital
(c) 2021

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13 singer/songwriters plus one pandemic equals a lot of downtime. That's why the baker's dozen heard here started convening via Zoom once a week to share new songs with each other in the spring of 2020. Many were friends beforehand and some were strangers to each other. But gathering online each week, everyone became intimately acquainted pretty quickly, evolving into an extended musical family. ... more

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