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Lore EP

by Lisa Rigby

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1.
Building 07:02
All along your walls and your stairways grand There's writ the pain o my family The blood o the ancestors streaked through sand, Of forerunners no just my ain And there's no denying the beauty in these halls (sic an honesty wouldnae remove) But we'll look at the darkness it stands upon The weight that we all helped to move And I have been told I have no land or rather I have it all I've been saved by liberators from falling down By being made to crawl My kin have seen truths And though you cut my tongue to try to stop me to sing Others will hold the tune You'll hear your downfall ring And I hear a sound There's a drumming in the air The building of something for someone Is built out of hope or of fear The walls of my heart, tempered by history As strong and as fragile as shell Echoes collective memory Pins me to the floor and I'm watching us Onto the boats We're sailing where we do not know And there is a line Will take us where it will And we will try For its all that we can ever do The margin is fine But we walk it still Mother, in chains, I miss my mother The one who would tell me when everything isnae alright But who would sing me to sleep While uncertainty cuts through the night Pray for the fathers 'fore violence cuts them from sight Onto the boats We're sailing where we do not know And there is a line Will take us where it will And we will try For its all that we can ever do The margin is fine But we walk it still You hear your downfall ring
2.
Worked all my life and working still The mountain lies afore me The history of Fortingall lie within these fingers Fingers digging ever more, as long as memory lingers CH Here's where I bury ma hairt Here lies the world That bid me kneel agin the wheel Tae deith fae laughin girl I hae nae time to stop and greet For all that lies ahind me In younger days when I would cry I'd make sure nane could hear me Noo Deith an I staun in the field There's nothing left I'm feared eh CH One by one cam fa'in doon Birks fa'in in the forest Til nane but silence moved aroon' and deith moved through the glen Noo it's wi the pirrie birds I bide Nae women, bairns or men CH I'm old in life but no as old as Deith noo maks me feel My weary bones that dig the earth As I mak ma deadly reel Willna rest like those I lay Forever lying still CH No til the last is in the groun An corbies willna dine No til they're all the gither Aneath this silent stand It's then I'll gang across the fields Awa tae rest ma ain CH
3.
The holes they made, I think you fill It gets me high and makes me ill I brew it up as I was taught To give me power o'er who I'm not - Is this my lot, is this my love? Disgrace, abomination here You see the secret skin I wear The knowledge stains your eye and skin Bear witness to our mortal sin The river burn me deep within Consuming fire A war is coming I'm claimed from left, I'm claimed from right My John Crow waiting Obeah and Jesus coming through the night Tell we bout the hell that break loose In screams and screeches Just owl and moon and devil here Our punishment for us to bear Ask did we know or did we care Consuming fire A war is raging I'm whipped from left, I'm whipped from right My John Crow waiting Obeah and Jesus running through the night

about

I recorded these tracks, and others, in 2018 with the amazing help of the lovely John Farrell (Shaky Egg Productions), then came a house move, child starting school, job role changes, pandemic etc etc. Excuses. I finally got back to finishing mixing in 2020 because I'm alive in 2020. Songs from the dark real, and imagined, corners of our human stories, with love.

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released October 24, 2020

All songs written by Lisa Rigby
Recording by John Farrell
Mixing and mastering by Lisa Rigby

Lisa Rigby (voice, guitars, mandolin, shruti, programming)
Emma Smith (double bass)
Stuart Clark (cajon, percussion)
Allan Macdonald (flute)

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Singer and songwriter based in Edinburgh, Scotland

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