Starlight

Having been inspired by the watching endless science documentaries with my son, it occurred to me that we look at space and the surrounding planets using more than just visible light, that we are looking back in time and in the same way any point in space looking at us see us at that moment. Meaning that what we do now and the love that I share is sent out into space, so if you could get to the right point in space that love will always be there as new as the minute it happened.


Starlight
Tracking the sky at night
No Moon out now
Just lit by the glow of you
And me
And all that we 
All that we could ever be
So shine out, tonight

So shine out, tonight
Love made of dust and nothing
So shine out, tonight
Love made of dust and nothing

Cause that’s all we are
Dust and nothing
So shine out
Shine out tonight
The sparks of us
Rise in the night
This is just our light
So shine out tonight

So shine out, tonight
Love made of dust and nothing
So shine out, tonight
Love made of dust and nothing


Starlight
Flicking through the clouds
Thousands of years old, yet new
When our light reaches out
Will it be new for all time to too

So shine out, tonight
Love made of dust and nothing
So shine out, tonight
Love made of dust and nothing


Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics and tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar, bass
Ciaran Algar, Violin

You Belong With Me

Starlight

Marriage Bands

Kiss All The Stars - 

This was a lullaby written for my wonderful son.

If I could just kiss all the stars in the sky
Moon grant my wish and together weed fly
Up Up Up away and Above
If I can just find the one that I love

This moment and place where magic is born
Happiness reigns, no sadness to mourn
The earth, the sky, the water and light
Coming together, the edge of the night

If I could just kiss all the stars in the sky
Moon grant my wish and together weed fly
Up Up Up away and Above
If I can just find the one that I love

There is magic around me wherever I see
weaves through the water it flows through the trees
I am the sun high up in the sky
I am the moon that gives love’s alibi

If I could just kiss all the stars in the sky
Moon grant my wish and together weed fly
Up Up Up away and Above
If I can just find the one that I love

There is magic way down in my soul
Draws us together and makes me feel hole
stronger steel and softer than light
 It’s love that binds and holds us tight

If I could just kiss all the stars in the sky
Moon grant my wish and together weed fly
Up Up Up away and Above
If I can just find the one that I love

Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics and tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar, bass
Ciaran Algar, Violin

The Woad - The Last Battle Of Maidens Castle

You Belong With Me

After meditating I am so at peace that I want everyone to feel the love and connection to the world that I feel.

I am contented I am complete
With the grass laid at my feet
As I stretch my sould out wide
There is no need in this moment  to hide

The sun lights up the land
Cut by my lifted hand
Like wild patterns of lace
Wreathed over my face

I am joy I am light 
I am the star filled sky at night
I am all that I can see
And you belong with me

Love is who I am
Love is my master plan
Bubbling up beneith my skin
Ripping out from within

You asked me if you can be this too
Just hold me tight and ill teach you
We can both be carried on the tide of light
Far out into the night far out into the night

I am joy I am light 
I am the star filled sky at night
I am all that I can see
And you belong with me


Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics and tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar, bass (tune)
Ciaran Algar, Violin

Grampa Sam

I was nervous when I moved to the country for the first time in my life at the age of 28, but was befriended by the loveliest man I have ever met called Sam. Who taught me gardening, the best way to make tea, a love for the magic of the place to which I have moved and many tales from his long life. He became a grandfather to my son, and we miss him every day.

Chorus
Oh down in the garden
Oh down
Oh down
Oh down in the garden

Verse
The birds are still singing and making their nests
As I sit in the place that you loved the best
I think of the time that we spent right hear
Know in my heart that I hold you dear

Your face broke with joy as held my young son
And that you filled his life with magic and fun
You taught him of fairies that lived by the bridge 
And the completeness of helping thing grow and live

You told me of times long gone and past
Of people and places that your memory makes last
Of bombing in London and being sent on a train 
And finding the mushrooms in the late summer rain

Your heart cried out for the daughter you lost
And the wife you watched die, life's hardest cost
I hope that right now you are sitting on high 
Holding your daughter and wife as I stare at the sky

Your tractor sits quiet, your tools in the shed
Awaiting the sound of your measured tread
We all sit and wait in the place you loved best
Where the birds are still singing and making their nest

Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics) Jim Causley (tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar, bass
Ciaran Algar, Violin

Grampa Sam

Northwest Passage

I was born in Canada and grew up with this classic being played in the background of my life. During my youth I was taught that the fabled Northwest Passage would never be a shipping route, however due to climate change the ships that were lost from the Franklin expedition have been found, transport ships are being built to take advantage of the loss of sea ice and it is even becoming a tourist destination. This change in the world is deadly for us all so I have adapted the verses of the song to reflect our current reality.

Chorus

Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea;
Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.

Verse

Three centuries thereafter, we have warmed the earth 
Leaving me to wonder how much gold and glory's worth 
The pack ice gone the water clear the passageway sits free
And the Orient is but a cruise to the sea

Terrors final resting place is found beneath the waves
A note catches the last words of souls that no one saved
The Erebus was found on tails passed from man to boy
But finding of the graves brings no joy 

Has our wish for free passage brought our own downfall
Will the warming up the earth cost be a price to tall
As nature wreaks it's havoc, and disasters wreck the land
Flood, fire, and disease, this is now the plan

So the Northwest passage now sits clear and  free
Can we learn to leave the last of the oil beneath the sea
Have learned the cost of spending far more than we earn
Or will gold and glory make the world burn


Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics)
Stan Rodgers (lyrics and tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar

Northwest Passage

The Moment Is Now

I spend so much of my life procrastinating, and looking at the problems around me that are both complicated and simple at the root. That the moment is now, the planet, my life and everything cannot wait…. well they can while I write a song about doing something about it, instead of doing something about it.

So when I look beyond me
At everything that I can see
The world's beauty and its pain
The goodness we bring and the shame

The moment is now, the moment is now
The moment is now, the moment is now

In our hearts we know what's right
Put on a TV and we give up the fight
Dazed and confused we Pointlessly loose
All the wonder and love there is to choose

The moment is now, the moment is now
The moment is now, the moment is now
Take my hand and stretch our arms out wide
Let the moon pull us into its tide
The moment is now, the moment is now
The moment is now, the moment is now


We belong to the earth not the other way round
Let our feet find its beat, dance to the sound


We stand right on the edge of a cliff
We could fall or take the wind and lift
Our eyes and just love this place
Leave behind money and stop the race

The moment is now, the moment is now
The moment is now, the moment is now
Take my hand and stretch our arms out wide
Let the moon pull us into its tide
The moment is now, the moment is now
The moment is now, the moment is now

Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics and tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar, bass
Ciaran Algar, Violin

The Moment Is Now

Down By The Fire

Sometimes there is a love from your youth where the memory of the time you shared crystallises into one perfect moment. So I cannot remember why the relationship didn't work, or the flaws of us, but I can remember how perfectly happy I was in this moment. Its a feeling that belongs to the young but should never be forgotten as you grow old.

Down by the fire
Down by the sea 
I dreamed you were waiting for me

Summers kiss still in the air 
Moon light glints in your hair
Hands pulling tight around waist
If I could just stay in this place

Down by the fire
Down by the sea 
I dreamed you were waiting for me

The warmth of you next to me
The Chilling breeze of the sea
Fire sparks dance into the sky
In my mind forever till I die

Down by the fire
Down by the sea 
I dreamed you were waiting for me

Sand is rough between our toes
Soft as we lie our eyes half closed
My love for you is always there
By the fire in a moment we share

Down by the fire
Down by the sea 
I dreamed you were waiting for me
Down by the fire
Down by the sea 

Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics and tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar, bass

Down By The Fire

This song was written a long time ago when I lived a very different life, as an officer worker by day and a biker at night. This made think about all the times in history that women have lived lives not of their choosing. And my job was really boring giving ample opportunity for my creative brain to distract itself.

My hearts not in this work I do
For I’m a warrior through and through
But I'll take this needle and sew for you 
The marriage bands of red and blue

I was free as a hawk and pure are a dove
Until I saw you there my love 
My father said we were to wed
Deep in my heart I wished you dead

My hearts not in this work I do
For I’m a warrior through and through
But I'll take this needle and sew for you 
The marriage bands of red and blue

Now my freedoms gone and my purifies fled
And all for one night in your bed
Without love you took my maidenhead
And now I'm your alone

My hearts not in this work I do
For I’m a warrior through and through
But I'll take this needle and sew for you 
The marriage bands of red and blue

Now I'm chained and held to your side 
A warrior wife a warrior bride
Spring has gone and Summer's fled 
And now I'm in my child birth bed

My hearts not in this work I do
For I’m a warrior through and through
But I'll take this needle and sew for you 
The marriage bands of red and blue

Lukas makes loveliness

Now my daughters grown up at my side
A warriors heart a warriors pride
But now it's time for her to wed 
Led away caged and dead 

My hearts not in this work I do
For I’m a warrior through and through
But I'll take this needle and sew for you 
The marriage bands of red and blue

My hearts not in this work I do
For I’m a warrior through and through
But I'll take this needle and sew for you 
The marriage bands of red and blue

Mo Dewdney, singer (lyrics and tune)
Lukas Drinkwater, guitar, bass
Ciaran Algar, violin

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