Written during the supermoon eclipse, May 2021.

This fell out pretty quickly and with a sense of ease, as songs very occasionally do. 

It's a response to the sense that some things have to go into deep storage whilst we get through the tough bits in life, and it takes time and patience and sometimes a lot of hard work to recover those things, or even to remember they were there in the first place.

It's also in reference to the online communities and new or rebuilt connections many of us found ourselves in over the last few years.

This song is also an ode to songwriting itself, which, despite alluding me as a practice for large stretches, has also sustained me for twenty years now, for which I'm ever grateful.
lyrics
On a Tuesday we meet at eight
With the seagulls still singing outside
My distrustful heart is being rebuilt
By this tribe, by this belonging
I won’t hide, from my own longing anymore

As I crawl out from seclusion
And all my beautiful delusion
I will carry in my belly all your care
All your muscle, buried gifts
We are vessels of it all

There never was a cool adventure
That didn’t feature some fear and doom
Follow fallow times just as you
Chase the moon call the children

And when we can’t speak for laughin’
And the dandelion snows around
We will carry in our bellies boundless things
Rivers bending 
Everlong
Evolution
Buried gifts
My own longing
Lay an altar
We are vessels, of it all.
credits
released December 2, 2021 
Beccy Owen - Vocals and the rest
Produced and mixed by Beccy Owen
Mastered by Andy Walter at Abbey Road
Artwork by Beccy Owen

Buried Gifts

http://www.beccyowen.bandcamp.com The opening track on the new album Imago, by Beccy Owen (released December 2013). 

Available now as a digital download, on CD and on vinyl

"Astonishing" NARC Magazine

"Album of the Year" Plug In Baby

"Wildly creative and endlessly beautiful" Spindle

You Keep Flooding In

http://www.beccyowen.bandcamp.com The second track on the new album Imago, by Beccy Owen (released December 2013). 

Available now as a digital download, on CD and on vinyl

"Astonishing" NARC Magazine

"Album of the Year" Plug In Baby

"Wildly creative and endlessly beautiful" Spindle

Boy At The Wedding

http://www.beccyowen.bandcamp.com The title track on the new album Imago, by Beccy Owen (released December 2013). 

Available now as a digital download, on CD and on vinyl

"Astonishing" NARC Magazine

"Album of the Year" Plug In Baby

"Wildly creative and endlessly beautiful" Spindle

Imago

Here 
Hear

Running through are thoughts of you
Though I do not want to fall again but
Running through are thoughts of you
And I do not mind at all

I won’t throw you in the fire
Don’t throw me in the fire
Ok throw me in the fire
It gets cold without the fire

Heaven sent desire
Heaven sent desire
You don’t believe but you feel it anyway

DAY TWENTY NINE  Kindling Part II

I lick the dust off your skin and then take a drink
Sketch you a portrait in black indelible  ink
I’ll choose the moment but you’ll picked the song
I’ll choose the game but then you’ll play along
 We don’t have a name yet
We don’t have a name yet

Crunch up the shoulds, the musts, tread ‘em underfoot
Start a new song let it rise up from down in your  guts 
I’ll pick the pitch boy if you pick the words
I’ll get us up there if you tell the birds

We don’t have a name yet
We don’t have a name yet


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Guitar and harmonic/co-writer: John Nellist.



DAY THIRTY Tell The Birds

Rachael Ogden
Hannah Gibbs
Samm Gibbs
Joanne Monaghan
Ceri Murphy
Adam Kent
Adam Cooper
Nik Alevryonis
Keith Mills
Matt Stalker
Nikkie Rushdon
Gem Andrews
James  Sebright
John Nellist
Sarah Jellie
Joel and Susie White

To each everyone, each and everyone of you who 
Took the time to come took the time to come you
Made it so much fun, each of every one,
So thank you


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Recorded on an omnichord, c/o Matt Stalker.

I really hope I haven't missed anyone out. What an ace start to the year - thank you so much for everyone's contribution to the songs. Thanks also to everyone who has stopped by the listen. I'm gonna leave the songs up here for a while, then make some available for download. 

To the collaborators and the listeners alike: there were days when I absolutely couldn't be arsed, and you pulled me through with your enthusiasm for this 'project'.

I'm going to continue to shape some of the songs into fully fledged 'numbers' to gig with. I'm also going to write either a poem or a song a day for the whole of february, although I may not be posting as much. 

I have solo gigs coming up and also a tour to release the debut Sharks Took The Rest album. Have posted some dates below (STTR dates TBC) and some of the songs that came out of this Songathon will feature in future live performances. It'd be great if you could make it to a gig some time!

Much love and thanks again, as ever, for all your support and your ears.

Beccy x


Wednesday 7th February 2013 - Durham Gala Theatre (for The Polite Room)

Friday 9th February 2013 - The Cluny 2 (for Bridie Jackson's single launch)





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