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Timelessness

from The Glassy Mountain by Sophie Ramsay

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I came from timelessness and you went to it.
I was born between annals and mists
In the house of the she-ghosts and the
Wind blown warm from the aged-stone chimney.
I was a savage tamed, ballet footed and blundering,
Out of the root system I came, like a beanstalk,
Into the ballroom, where we began to spin
Into a new world dance with steps as old as night.

I was rudimentary, subsisting off sunsets
You were suited and soft palmed and bellied with meats.
Or so it seemed.
I was mistaken.
We taught each other grace.
We breathed fire and forests
Milk and soft somethings.
We didn't quite agree about God.

Now is the murk time,
Now is the dust time.
Now is the forgotten sister of despair.
Now is the freewheel of skin-sores
And pale eyes and red heartedness.
Now there are green grown bulbs and foraging air farers
Lip-synchers of sunken syllables.
Now there are window-down cruising cars
And men who loiter and leer,
Blind to your having been.

I came from timelessness, and you left for it,
High up in the no-man's place in the white snow,
I came from timelessness, and you left for it,
In the meet of the ice and fire
When the mountain fell down.

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from The Glassy Mountain, released November 2, 2013

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Sophie Ramsay sings old and new folk: songs from her native Scotland alongside originals with poetic lyrics. ‘The Glassy Mountain' (2013): ‘undeniably beautiful’ (fRoots), 'Joanna Newsom meets Belle and Sebastian' (R2). ‘The Seas Between Us’ (2016): 'Atmospheric, elegant and beguiling.' (Songlines). ‘Deeply moving’ (fRoots). Sophie tours regularly with cellist singer Sarah Smout. ... more

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