Finding Home

by Lindsey Shields

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Echoes of Scotland 03:40
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Echoes of Scotland The old songs resound in these new hills We dance the old kilted dances still And for every ship that to these shores comes New glens echo with the pipes and the drums We left Scotia and travelled the great southern oceans And we crossed the Atlantic wide But though we have settled these far distant shores In our hearts you will ever abide We sailed on the tall ships all timber and canvas Boarded the great liners from the steel ship yards Took all we could carry, enough to get by on At times the going was hard, oh oh hard. Instrumental It’s the same moon, but a different constellation The same sun shines in these foreign skies The same old earth, just a different location The same heart beating down the generation lines It’s the same old heartbeat The pipes and the drums The pipes and the drums
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Sometimes She Wonders 03:44
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SOMETIMES SHE WONDERS Sometimes she wonders, where did the babies go? She finds herself wondering about the babies Rosebud mouth, perfect tiny fingers Nappies on the line, everything fine Sometimes she wonders, where did the children go? She finds herself wondering about the children Off to school first day wide eyed Last day teenage-wise and a little wild All the house is silent there's no one breathing No footsteps creaking on the floor (Just the) old clock steadily ticking Sometimes she wonders, where did her dream man go? She catches herself wondering about the dream Flew her to the moon exploding through the clouds Escape the atmosphere then headed for the sun Sometimes she wonders, where did the time go? Looking back down the years … Picture on the wall, china on the shelf Letters in the drawer, tied in ribbons of blue Just when she thought she had life comfy she finds the armchair empty So many words unspoken (and) books unread Just the old clock steadily ticking
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Cottage For Sale 03:10
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COTTAGE FOR SALE North coastal areas, cottage for sale Suit young couple, inquire today Goodbye landlord, goodbye rent Excellent location, inquire today Your lucky day Auction Saturday, mortgagee sale, this one must go. Sitting pretty, just some finishing to do, The things they didn’t get done, didn’t get done Before the bailiff came to call, came to call Heart of the country, this one’s for you Extensive views, inquire today Your lucky day (Instrumental?) For further details just phone, ignore the GV, the bank says sell. He’s got the fridge and TV She’s got the bed and the microwave, the microwave Split the CD collection into his and hers, his and hers. Heart of the country, this one’s for you Extensive views, inquire today Buyer beware, your lucky day, check the small print, you’re on your way, your lucky day
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Finding Home 04:34
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Finding Home Over there, I don’t have to try too hard Among my own, my heart is free It’s the place where I don’t have to prove anything Finding home, I can just be. There’s cousin Jean and Aunt Ella Taking tea and reminiscing Over frozen moments photographed and fading Great grandpa’s work boots polished up And the dog at his knee Shed a tear for the loved ones No longer here and waiting Finding home, I can feel my mother there Though her ashes lie strewn beneath some distant tree Now I know what left the chimney on that day Was her spirit heading home across the sea And they’re singing songs of lochs and glens And highlands far away Roamin’ in the gloamin’ Gangin’ hame tae Mingulay Tak’ the high road, tak’ the low road Tak’ yer lassie tae Glen Shee The bonnie banks and braes The far Cuillins call tae me. I can hear Aunt Mary play the bagpipes still Even though she’s just turned eighty eight Uncle Bobby, scything weeds down by the roadside And the weans swinging on the gate Chickens running in the yard Jenny standing in the doorway And the baby on his Grandpa’s knee Aunt Martha churning butter And the men out making hay That’s the way things always used to be The journey taken many years ago Migration half a world from home The circle now has been completed And I’m safe, here among my own No matter where I roam Finding home.
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Avis 05:43
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AVIS I was born I had a mother In a castle with a cat She took me walking in a place where seagulls wheel overhead and clouds feather the sky and the ocean stretches out as far as you can see Is it the roll of the dice, the flip of a coin that decides? Somehow I lost my mother Between the castle and the shop And they took me into care. That’s what they choose to call it But no proper family Just hospitals for me and an endless chain of change and punishments and laundry work Is it the roll of the dice, the flip of a coin that decides? Long corridors, locked doors and windows Radios in cages, jackets with long sleeves and buckles Electrodes on my temples Somehow they got inside my head And muddled it around Said it couldn't have been that way - not a Mum in a castle Perhaps a picture on a wall Somewhere when I was small Better settle down and just accept that this would be my life Is it the roll of the dice, the flip of a coin that decides? Found a place of sanctuary In the space beneath the floor That I shared with wild cats and other twilight dwellers Or escape down to the tracks Squashed pennies and hurry back Smash a window for a dare -more punishments and laundry work Is it the roll of the dice, the flip of a coin that decides? Unfit to inhabit the world Time passed is gone forever Somehow I found my brother and the others - my real family And the place where my mother used to be A flat in Cargill's castle In a place where seagulls wheel overhead And clouds feather the sky And the ocean stretches out every bit as far as I can see It’s the stroke of the pen, the curl of the sneer, the turned-away head, perhaps ignorance and fear that decides I was born, I had a mother.

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An EP of original songs that explore ideas of home, this is a simple guitar and voice taster of some songs destined for a full studio album to be released in 2017. Proceeds from sales of this EP will help to support recording the new album.

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released November 3, 2016

All songs written and performed by Lindsey Shields. Recorded and engineered by Nigel Jenkins.

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Lindsey Shields Dunedin, New Zealand

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