The years grow expensive the faster they pass,
The moments are whispering all flesh is grass,
Your heart may be gold but your neck is of brass,
Love whom you love, love deeper.
The days stand in queues, the buses are full,
You can’t push your luck says the load you must pull,
There’s nothing to fortune but gathering wool,
Love whom you love, love deeper
Look back at the time grown shrunken and small,
How rich is the garden, how high is the wall?
And where’s now your Paradise after the Fall?
Love whom you love, love deeper.
Love fiercer, love faster, love longer, love well,
Don’t wait for the bellman, don’t wait for the bell,
The years are expensive, they’re yours for a spell,
Love whom you love, love deeper.
credits
from Arcana - A Winter EP,
track released December 1, 2017
Music by Ana Silvera; words by George Szirtes
Guitar, glockenspiel, voice – Ana Silvera
Cello – Bjarke Falgren
Double bass – Jasper Høiby
Backing vocals – Signe Trylle, Jacob Smedegaard & Ana Silvera
Engineered by Ana Silvera and August Wanngren
Mixed by August Wanngren at Oui Studios
Mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works
Ana Silvera is a London-born singer-
songwriter and composer whose folk and bluegrass-tinged tunes are lyrical, intimate and emotive, works of ‘lavish, vivid imagination’ (Metro)....more
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