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Horizon Blessed

by David Heavenor

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I wrote this song in my twenties in Greatham Hampshire on retreat in an old Manor House which had a lovely large room with an open fire. In Dec 21 I sang it at a gathering of the Wayfarer Trust in Edinburgh following a summer visit I made to Freswick Castle near Wick to visit old friend and colleague Murray Watts and Monique Sliedrecht a visual artist based there. The photo is from a walk I made on the beach. We spent some nights by an open fire in a lovely candlelit room. Another song connection here was a visit I made to the grave of Anne Clark in Wick (Song : My Edinburgh Picture)

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HORIZON BLESSED

Late in the evening I’m feeling my breathing
Relaxed as a breeze through the trees
I know that I’m needing, know that love’s leading me
Down to your house by the sea
And taking time to build a rhyme
This gift once lost, at such a cost
But through the pall, one time for all
Some barrier has been crossed


I want to reflect this, want to detect this
Spinning song in my sense
Now there’s no need to bother to seek any other
For there is truth in this tense
And I find the truth does really soothe
The jangling pain of unease
Exposing all against a wall
The storms, the sleights, the pain, the fear


Now there’s no need to borrow the way to tomorrow
Time is the day to be lived
And through all my contriving, I was really deriding
The full wide world that I’d sieved
And in the joy, I’m just a boy
Discovering a hidden hoard
Horizon blessed, I now address
A blue, blue sky where I just soar


Now things are not random, they’re one for a kingdom
That makes you reply from your soul
It’s the way it’s been made, it’s the way it’s been laid down
But I was caught in a hole
With that dark print I’ve just seen since
This binding light came to my world
And in that fright, I saw that night
Keeping me from the world.

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released December 15, 2021

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David Heavenor is a Scottish singer songwriter based in Edinburgh Scotland. He has produced 8 albums plus 3 EP's.

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