My grandparents on my mother's side fled from persecution in Kiev in 1900 and found a sanctuary in the UK. This song is for them. Gefehlt Mir Mein Heym is Yiddish for I Love My Home.

A Long March Home

Gefehlt Mir Mein Heym

This the title track from my album, More To Be Revealed, released on Irregular Records in 2011

More To Be Revealed

Artist: Ian Roland
Album: The Wood Wide Web
Release Date: Fri 24th February 2023

“Our hearts’ refuge of hope remains, Wilder things this Earth reclaim.” A song celebrating the positives of re-wilding.

WILDER THINGS			

VERSE 1
WILDER THINGS DISAPPEARED
FLATTENED OUT OVER YEARS, BUT THE
SPARKS OF LIGHT, IN THE SEEDS THAT FALL
SHOW WILDER THINGS CAN ENDURE
THE HEARTS REFUGE OF HOPE REMAINS
WILDER THINGS THIS EARTH RECLAIM

CHORUS 1
LIGHTENING BOLT FROM THE BLUE
SO CLEAR LIFE’S IN LOVE WITH YOU
COULD JUST, TEAR YOUR, SELF APART
WILD THINGS BEAT, WITHIN YOUR HEART

VERSE 2
WILDER THINGS SMOTHERED WHOLE
BLINDFOLDS GONE AND NOW WE KNOW
SPARKS OF LIGHT, IN THE SEEDS THAT FALL
PRAY FOR TREES TO GROW AS TALL 
AS HEARTS REFUGE OF HOPE REMAINS
WILDER THINGS THIS EARTH RECLAIM

CHORUS 2
FIRE, FIRE WITHIN YOUR SOUL
DON’T, EVER, LET IT GO
COULD JUST, THROW IT, ALL AWAY
WILDER THINGS, MAKE US STAY

CHORUS 1 
LIGHTENING BOLT FROM THE BLUE
SO CLEAR LIFE’S IN LOVE WITH YOU
COULD JUST, TEAR YOUR, SELF APART
WILD THINGS BEAT, WITHIN YOUR HEART

06. Wilder Things - Ian Roland

Here are some strings I have arranged to colour the end of a friends track on his EP - to hear, the combined result, search for Jake Martin and his new EP at the end of February :)

New Song Strings End Section

A Quick Demo recorded today with Ian Roland, Brione Jackson and me. - Pretty Epic!

2018 Drafts

In The Darkness Draft Demo

Unknown album (16/02/2015 10:22:26)

A Watchman For Your Heart

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Baylen Leonard - Amazing Radio
"Ian Roland's songs have a way of sneaking into your head and heart after just one listen. I find myself singing them long after hearing them. His songwriting somehow has the magical ability to transport me back to the front porch of my youth. They manage to sound both modern and like something from times gone by. Excellent." Baylen Leonard - Amazing Radio, http://amazingradio.com/?show=thefrontporch

Phil Widdows - FolkCast
"Ian Roland is a gifted songwriter and performer with an individual and refreshingly different approach to his art, producing songs that really are well worth getting to know." - Phil Widdows, folkcast.co.uk

06. Wilder Things - Ian Roland

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