Eliza writes: Cleaning the Stones is a song about a fish, of course, but it is more than that. It is a song about the need sometimes to draw a boundary, a need we may not acknowledge or see, to move on from people that we have thought of as central to our lives, to move on in a way that almost denies the ferocity and passion of their existence, two different lives in one mind, neither acknowledging the other, a total separation of consciousness and perception. One minute a body is the sum of your existence, and the next they may never have been as someone new steps, or swims, into the frame, only a three-minute loss of memory having occurred.
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from Songs of Separation,
released January 29, 2016
Music and lyrics by Eliza Carthy
supported by 6 fans who also own “Cleaning The Stones”
a friend introduced me to this album two winters ago, and it's very quickly become a staple in my household (it isn't the holiday season until sing we all merrily plays).
the tracks that particularly strike me though are heading for home, the bear song, and the old churchyard - the way the world cycles on, the turning of the wheel, life and death in a beautiful dance. we could despair that our time is short, but we seek joy and love again and again.
I love this album. sophie
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