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To The Four Winds

from Earth Rising by Chris Conway

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To The Four Winds
The east wind it blows cold
From the fen land to my home
The flicker of a winter candle
Angels walking on my grave
Ghosts walk the night
And trees roar like a wave
Whistling around the angles
Feelings in my bones
Release the whispered cries
Of souls forever locked
Inside the stones

The west wind brings the rain
From the mountains, across the plain
Landing on my window
Flowing down in racing trails
Is this the same west wind
I used to fill my sails
To carry me from the old country
To where I've found my place
Watching the west wind
With a smile of recognition
On my face

The south wind brings the heat
City dust spins down the street
A summer long ago
A veranda in the evening sun
Hands held across the sky
As we watched the colours run
Something in this sultry air
Blurs the future and the past
The wind in my hair makes
This summer seem to blend
Into the last

The north wind brings you back to me
Flying in across my memory
A house north of the border
This breeze blew past your door
Carried across hills and heather
To waft across my floor
Visions from disorder
I know how it all begins
I can see forever when I
Set my mind to fly
The four winds

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from Earth Rising, released February 2, 2000
Chris Conway - vocals, acoustic & electric 9string guitars, keyboards, samples, percussion
Sally Barker - vocals
Baluji Shrivastav - vocals
Linda Shanovitch - vocals
Clare Johnson - flute
Sarah Burt - appalacian dulcimer
Steve Cooke - double bass
Andy Fitzsimons - congas

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Think David Crosby on a journey taking in Ireland, a jazz club, and Outer Space.

"Songs of Love & Peace & Outer Space" is his slogan and that sums it up well.

He has toured with ex-Monkees Peter Tork, played with members of Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention as well as Vikki Clayton, Martin Carthy, Sally Barker, Pete Morton, Cathy Lesurf, & Tommy Emmanuel and Talvin Singh. ... more

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