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Dynamons Själ (Elmer Diktonius)

When my songwriting friend Colin Macduff (find his beautiful debut album 'The Past and the Sky" here: https://www.birnamcdshop.com/product/colin-macduff/) shared his poem 'The Rope', I asked if he'd mind if I tried to put a melody to it.

I did. This is the demo version which I'm hoping to record in a studio soon. There's an accompanying video created with footage from my phone: https://studio.youtube.com/video/yhxZxWGo0wY/edit


The Rope

Coiled, crossed, entangled in a corner
Old and wise and silent, silent as a snake
Left aside beside the new, unwanted
You dream of hands, the touch, their grip, their shape

Once you ran the span and moored our vessels
Safe between the capstan, the capstan and the quay
Once you were the rope that held us steady
Once you were the rope that cast us free

The push the pull, the swing, lasso and ladder
The tug of war when we were in our teens
The give, the take, that bound us all together
The start, the end, the knot, the way and means

Life line, last line, frayed and poorly
In my hand your strands so soft, soft and slack
In my dreams you’re running on beside me
With me all the long way – the long way out and back
With me all the long way – the long way out and back

© C Macduff & S Barr 2023

The Rope - Demo

Moves

The call you back song

Produced by Walter Zooi
Recorded and Mixed by Walter Zooi at Zero Sum Recording
Additional Mixing by Jeff Peters at The Pie
Mastered by Adam Samuels
Cover Photo: Harry Gruyaert, Magnum Photos
Inside Photos: Laura Heffington
All songs written by Chris Hickey (work-fire songs, ASCAP)
except “Monkey” written by Joe Henry (True North Music,
Lemz Music, WB Music Corp., ASCAP)
©2014 Work-fire Recordings. All rights reserved.

1 let me just straighten up a few things
2 waltzing to clinging to you
3 maya's day off
4 hospital
5 same train
6 down the turmoil
7 eye
8 broken
9 monkey
10 toss up
11 grapes from a thorn
12 see
13 i could live
14 so little time

Chris Hickey: vocals, guitar
Walter Zooi: guitars, bass, trumpet, keyboard, zither, yayli tambor
Alison Chesley: cello (3,5,9,10)
Charlie Hickey: vocals (7)
Sally Dworsky: vocals (6,11,12,14)
Rachel Ware Zooi: vocals (11), bass (5)
Anne McCue: vocals (5, 13)
Jay Bellerose: drums (2, 4)
Chris Garcia: drums (6, 7, 11, 12)
Jennifer Condos: bass (2, 4)
Dylan McKenzie: guitar (4)
David Greiman: piano (6, 12)
Max Zooi: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone (11)
Matt Rubin: trumpet (3, 10, 11)
Eric Patterson: clarinet, tenor saxophone (3, 10, 11)
Bill Plake: tenor saxophone (3, 10, 11)
Noah Levine: spoken (8) from a dharma talk at
Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society in Los Angeles, CA

So Little Time

prove me

A song written for Folkestone documentary film Whiskey Lemonade (dir. Joel Snowman). Recorded live in my bedroom at Folkestone harbour.

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