Through Brake and Briar
from Winternight (EP) by Kevin Adams
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about
A strange one, this. The first verse came to me while out walking in Salcey Forest late one winter’s afternoon, over ten years ago. I wrote it down when I got home. Earlier this year I rediscovered it, and the rest just appeared within minutes. I don’t know why I began to imagine this Mediaeval swineherd, or why he felt so bleakly insignificant- but I did, and he did. He is not me, I hasten to add.
lyrics
Through Brake and Briar
Through brake and briar I make my way
My homeward way through brake and briar
Old grows the year, dark grows the day
I set my thoughts on food and fire.
My master’s swine have fed right well
The acorn harvest fattens them
They go before, I walk behind
I bar the gate and pen them in.
Orion’s belt shines bright and clear
He spins his way across the sky
The leafless trees, the frosted grass
The waxing moon, the stealthy breeze.
I feel the weight of all the years
I feel the cold, the arching void
Such empty black immensity
Is crushing me, is crushing me.
Through brake and briar I make my way
My homeward way through brake and briar
Old grows the year, dark grows the day
I set my thoughts on food and fire.
My master’s swine have fed right well
The acorn harvest fattens them
They go before, I walk behind
I bar the gate and pen them in.
Orion’s belt shines bright and clear
He spins his way across the sky
The leafless trees, the frosted grass
The waxing moon, the stealthy breeze.
I feel the weight of all the years
I feel the cold, the arching void
Such empty black immensity
Is crushing me, is crushing me.
credits
from Winternight (EP),
released June 30, 2017
Words & music: K Adams
Words & music: K Adams
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Kevin Adams Milton Keynes, UK
Blending traditional folk music with a love of other genres- classical, jazz, folk-rock, prog-rock, pop… music, music, music…
discography
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Jun 2002
contact / help
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