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Red Balloon

from The Fabulist by Ana Silvera

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lyrics

You are from mountains
You’re gentle and you’re wild
I imagine myself on the road
That edges your house
Should I watch the chimney smoke
Rise up like a wraith, like a ghost?
Should I watch the lights
Illumine, darken like my hope?
Tell me your song
And I will sing it too
Sweet song of mystery -
The scorpion and the moon

But for the part that has no reason
That cannot hold the tiger’s jaw
The piece of me, the piece of me that would risk it all
For that moment when we touch
Fingers delirious
Fingers with eyes, inching across my skin
Trying, trying to see everything
And the ground drops away,
And my mind drops away…

Tell me your secrets
Let me trace them in your palm
When you first came to this city
Did you pine, oh did you yearn
For your green-gable land
With volcano sands?
Did the pound shops
And the tower blocks
Bring you down in the end?

Tell me your song
And I will sing it too
But the hourglass is running for
The scorpion and the moon

At this altitude
There’s no consequence
See the figurines, see your garden fence?
Don’t you want to know, to experience
All your lives un-led and your dreams undreamt?

Now I feel like
I feel like
A red balloon
Tugging at the string
Longing
To be weightless

credits

from The Fabulist, released April 22, 2022
Voice – Ana Silvera
Violin – Gerry Diver
Guitar (acoustic & electric) – Adrian Lever
Flutes / Recorders – Rosanna Ter-Berg
Double bass – Jasper Høiby
Drums – Pete Flood

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Ana Silvera London, UK

'Stunning...magical storytelling' -The Guardian

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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