Starlings and Crows

from The Light You Can't See in the Day by Alma Drake

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Starlings and Crows is a rare collaboration between my partner Michael and me. We have written other songs together, but this one is by far the best. We were visiting his parents in the wilds of Arkansas, and got really tired of being car sick because the roads are insane. Sebastian's cello is our safety net and our wings at the same time. Michael calls this song Ode To Millersburg, but I clearly do not. Yes, that's me singing the super high harmony. Yikes. But low just didn't sound right, so ... sometimes you have to risk permanent injury for your art.

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Fragments of blue behind the clouds
shine on waters mirror still
Starling chasin’ the sunset down
Hey, won’t you take me along
I can’t remember how the crow flies
Roads nothin’ but curves and hills
Gettin’ weary of this shotgun ride
Honey, take me home

Chorus
Home, take me home
I can’t take much more of these mobius roads
As much as I love bein’ with you alone
Ah honey, let’s get on home

Darkness falls upon us now
Memory sleeps in the northern hills
Starlings chasin’ my dreams around
Hey won’t you take me along
I can’t wait to get up and drive
Out of these Ozark hills
North to roads straight and wide
Honey, let’s go home
Chorus

Bridge
Oh starling guide my way
Oh crow, lead us straight
Back to where we belong
Cuz it’s time to get on home

credits

from The Light You Can't See in the Day, released October 25, 2022
Alma Drake: acoustic guitar, vocal, bg vocal
Christine Moad: bass, bg vocal
Ryan Rumery: drums
Sebastian Sauder: cello

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Alma Drake (fka Gayla Drake) has been playing and performing music for over 50 years, and writing songs for over 40. They are currently a full-time sound therapy practitioner, but they continue to create and perform music on their own, with several bands, and with the Family Folk Machine choir. ... more

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