Harvest

The Breath

Compositor: John Ellis / Luke Flowers / Philip France / Rioghnach Connolly / Stuart McCallum

Harvest heavy feet
Golden light across the fields
Ebb and flow clear as the stream
Heard his words in a dream

I’ll leave it all to you
But fruit must not be taken from its root
Until the stars they may
Call you from me or away

The land was not enough, enough to leave you
The land was not enough, enough to keep you
The land is not enough, enough to defeat, feed you
The land is all you’ll have, all you’ll have to meet you

And now you lie interned
Yearnings for home burn
Soft whispers guide you through
Return again in truth

Old ones now lost and gone
Another road you now go on
Grass grows on the stone
Embraces flesh now bone

The land was not enough, enough to leave you
The land was not enough, enough to keep you
The land is not enough, enough to defeat, feed you
The land is all you’ll have, all you’ll have to meet you