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Winter Psalm

from Arcana - A Winter EP by Ana Silvera

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Winter Psalm (for my mother)

I woke on a winter morning
Before the blackbird said its psalm
Crept in to see the children sleeping
Their eyelids soft and bodies safe from harm

Who’s dream had I been dreaming?
About a boy on a red, red bike
He was so fast, I could not reach him
And I was blinded by the bright, bright light

I comb my long brown hair and leaving
The kettle making it’s complaint
Step out to see the day, a wafer
Melt upon the tongue of night

The glass fogged, this house is breathing
A sound that only love can make
Three walls can’t keep a roof from caving
But three’s a tipi, three’s a layer cake

And in their pictures, there are hearts
And there are houses
With windows made of honeycomb
A spider swinging in its cradle
With silver bells all in a row

With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids
And all the dreams we’ll someday sow
With muddy knees and frozen leaves
And spells that cast their purple shadows
in the snow

My lovers come and go like the weather
I keep their letters a in a box
I am their solace, I’m their saviour
I am the siren and the jagged rocks

But who’s to say if in the end I was forsaken?
Forgotten, misbegotten for a crown
Night falls like an absolution
Upon this unforgiving town

But in the night I had been dreaming
About a boy on a red, red bike
He was so fast, I could not reach him
And we were blinded by brightest light

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from Arcana - A Winter EP, track released December 1, 2017
Written, arranged & ukulele, guitar, harmonium, voice - Ana Silvera
Double bass – Jasper Høiby
Percussion - Jacob Smedegaard

Backing vocals – Signe Trylle & Ana Silvera
Engineered by Ana Silvera and August Wanngren
Mixed by August Wanngren at Oui Studios
Mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works

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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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