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Sowing Acorns

from Sowing Acorns by Emma Langford

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    Track List:

    1. Birdsong
    Choir: Niamh Farrell, Sadbh Ní Shúilleabháin, Cari Q, Jess Leen, Ruth Smith, Alma Kelliher

    2. Sailor's Wife

    3. He Came From the Sea

    4. The Winding Way Down to Kells Bay

    5. Port Na nPúcaí - Alec Brown

    6. Sowing Acorns (feat. Vanessa Ifediora)

    7. Mariana

    8. Song For My Younger Self

    9. Ready O

    10. Goodbye Hawaii

    11. Demon Darling

    12. Free To Fall

    13. You Are Not Mine (AKA This Song Isn't About You, You Lying Bollix)

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lyrics

My loneliness reverberates around the thin cold walls. It's where I sleep, where I work
It's where I daydream

I’ve been holding out on you these past nights,
Hoping you’d find me yourself before light
Dreams they don’t come to me willingly now
Darkness no comfort, silence no shroud,
So I have to reason where reason allows

These eyes grow weary now tracing the lines,
Counting the cracks in a grey plaster sky
Dreams don’t entice them to rest for a while,
Dreams are the locked box kept deep in the mind
And some fear what hides behind their own closed eyes

I’ve been sowing acorns in my densely woven mind
I’ve been growing trees from memories for us to climb
And when we reach the top what will we see?
And when we’ve climbed them all what will we dream?
Or will we dream?
Will we dream?

My bed is the safest and saddest place I know. It's where I wrap a tired arm around myself when my skin hurts from exhaustion.
My bed is where I decide to survive.

So sleep will come to me now willingly
Peaceful and dreamless will overcome me
Words fade, this jaded mind gives up the fight,
Worries and thoughts tangle, twist and unwind
Lost now I drift in this blue black of night

I’ve been sowing acorns in my densely woven mind
I’ve been growing trees from memories for us to climb
And when we reach the top what will we see?
And when we’ve climbed them all what will we dream?
Or will we dream?
Oh, will we dream?
Oh, Will we dream?

My bed is where inspiration comes, where I drew my sketches. It's where I wrote these words.
My bed is where I imagine a gentle hand holding mine.

credits

from Sowing Acorns, track released February 28, 2020
Off-White Sheets written and performed by Vanessa Ifediora

Lyrics & Melody, vocal and guitar: Emma Langford

Additional guitars, bass and keys: Graham Murphy

Pedal Steel: Kealan Kenny

Drums: Davey Long

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Emma is a Limerick-based songwriter with strong folk, traditional influences that shine through her work

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