One by One

Lyrics
Earth & The Wailing Wiccans
By David Husted

Scene1 [Guardians of the Trees]
when I see you through the candle light
The tears and the laughter bind
Big trees are coming down
The crazy man's eyes 
shout, 

Scene 2: [Tree Fall]
And I'm coming down now
I'm coming down now

Scene 3 [Gaia's Lamentation]
Can I kiss you? Tonight 
Can I kiss you? Goodbye 

Scene4 [Circle around the Trees]
We dance beside the moonlight
We dance inside the rain
As the Earth, she closes her eyes now
Through the shadow and the pain

Scene5: [Guardians Reprise]
when I see you through the candle light
The tears and the laughter bind
Big trees are coming down
The crazy man's eyes 
shout, 

Scene 6: [Wrath of Gaia]
And I'm coming down now
I'm coming down now

Scene 7:[Gaia's Lamentation: Earth]
Can I kiss you? Tonight 
Can I kiss you? Goodbye 

Scene 8: [Circle around the Earth]
dance beside the moonlight
dance inside the rain
As the Earth, she closes her eyes now
Through the shadow and the pain

[Scene 9: Trail of Tears: The Wailing Wiccans]
Can I kiss you? Tonight 
Can I kiss you? Goodbye 


The Overstory:

The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019. This novel by Richard Powers explores themes of the interconnectedness of life and the impact of humanity on nature. 

I found the book very powerful as I very much enjoyed the rich prose and the way he could make me see the world in a new way. He created different lenses to glimpse and better understand the hearts of widely different characters. This included the key player of nature herself. In the end, the book is both a beautiful meditation on nature and a call to action, urging readers to reconsider their relationship with the environment. 

My new song's theme was influenced by this novel not in a direct or intentional way but as something that emerged more slowly and organically. I finished this book during my song's build process. Reverberations, echoes and rhythms of the Overstory seem to lace the song lattice like vines on a tree. 

There were no wailing Wiccans in the book but plenty of very passionate earth connected characters. There was also some good cries of grief and pain. I think some of this grief informed my late arriving background vocals in the last chorus. They have a quality of choral witch-like wailing to my ears. I almost discarded them BUT the sound of this background texture grew on me like a fungus over time and really began to anchor my song direction. This was not intentional either until my brain later latched on to it as a means to inspire the final song form and ending.

My next original song, Earth and the Wailing Wiccans, will be officially released to all streaming services on Friday, 16 August 2024!

Thank You for sharing a moment with me.

Dave

Earth and the Wailing Wiccans

The Tree Perch

Have you ever thought how you would like if you made different choices and all the reality around you would be completely different? Today it is 7:52, I am in Warsaw, and I work on my PhD, and piano is my break from the stressful flow of the daily life. My main activities are research, gym, shopping, spending time with my fiance. However, there is another one Universe where BPC does different things. How we could know if he is still happy and what he does there? Maybe in this life I am not a scientist, maybe I did not decide to move abroad, maybe everything looks completely different, maybe even my personality is different. Who we are finally, if our past shapes so much who we are?

Me in a Different Universe

Found What I've Been Looking For

The wind blew all around me 
It was autumn in the park 
The leaves fell like stars 
And surely left their mark 
You run through my mind like a comet in the dark

Turn off the radio
Before that next song starts
They’re talking about the moon
Like a cosmic love backdrop
You run though my mind like a comet in the dark

I thought we had a season
Maybe one or two
But I feel like a witness now
To a life I never knew
You come out of the blue like a comet passing through 

You said we burned too bright
It was a cliche from the top
Like Christmas in July
We’re just too far apart
You run through my mind like a comet in the dark

Love can be a galaxy 
Lost souls and astronauts
The zodiac lights up
It flickers and it sparks
You run through my mind like a comet in the dark
Yeah you run through my mind like a comet in the dark

Love can be a galaxy
Lost souls and astronauts

Comet (with Joliz)

KISSIN' ASS FOR CHRISTMAS

Nightshade

Night Desert

Free Album

K G G - Strange Activity at Never Never

While sitting around.....

Me as a young boy playing my  Strat. In the studio with my first band Quizzical Smile.
Also the first time for me to be in the studio.

Waiting in Line ( take 1)

Just Jammin

Music lover & singer-songwriter. Many thanks for taking the time to listen.

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