Sarah Slean – The One True Love

[cowboyjunkeyParticipant]

This has to be my favourite song right now.  There’s not more to say other than start the player and follow the words.
(If the player doesn’t work go to http://soundcloud.com/sarahslean/sarah-slean-the-one-true-love/ )

I saw Sarah in Winnipeg many years ago and there is no one who matches her in stage performance.  I recently saw her in Lethbridge and she brought along a string quartet and this was one of the songs she performed.  I’d never heard it before but loved it as soon as I heard it.

all across the battlefield

bells of death and sorrow peeled

but in the air above the silence

there were birds

a song that rose from the earth

a song of mourning,

the yearning

yearning of the one true love.

the world, at last, our only church

we bow to thank the universe

for blessings and distressing revelations

every word,

every whisper you heard,

even the darkness is burning

burning with the one true love

the magic wand of empathy

said I am you and you are me

but somewhere on the way we have forgotten

who we are

and we drifted so far

but now and ever

returning, turning to the one true…

Love undoes the mystery

of time before and yet to be

the axle of a wheel that’s ever-turning,

is now

as within, so without

feel it in you, the yearning

yearning of the one true love

let us sing a final verse

lovers dance it unrehearsed,

the beating of their hearts is an ovation

for God

this name we give to it all

wherein the names all dissolve

and turn into the one true love.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by  cowboyjunkey.
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[David HaywardKeymaster]

Love that song. Love Sarah. She’s so funky cool and independent.

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