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Prayer to the Ancestors

from All Sails to the Sun by Alex Seel

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lyrics

Let’s climb down the steep
From the clouds round our eyes on
Down ‘neath the graves
Through the soil, through the caves
Of our stories untold,
Forgotten though bold
All but gone

Cracked pots & old bones
Lost possessions & homes
Of peoples & things
Trashed thrones & old kings
And the treasured smithereens
Of foot soldiers & queens
All but gone

The shield & the sword
The plunder’s hoard
From exile, from flight
And farewells in the night
Both survival & greed
Now pushing up weeds
All but gone

O, come distant voices & guide me along here
Come long lost voices be present & strong here
And help us to live & love & live once again

The cradle, the plough
The shoes & the boat
The pedant, the needle
And broken wheel spoke
From the spear, the gourd
And the ochre that wrote
On the wall

Success & the failure
The accidents of birth
The bribes & grand gestures
And all the salt it was worth
From the recycled clay
In the ever-giving Earth
Some call home

Come distant voices guide us along here
Come long lost voices be present & strong here
Come lend your strength & grit to the strain here
And help us to live & love & live once again
And lead us to live & love & live once again

Who are you now?

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from All Sails to the Sun, released September 29, 2023
Written, recorded & preformed by Alex Seel
Drums by Sam Winwood

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