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THE BRITTLE RIVER POOL

by David Heavenor

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A story song set on Skye by the Fairy Pools which are fed by the Brittle river which has its source in the black Cuillin mountains. In homage to those strong women journalists whose convictions and courage lead them into peril and like Marie Colvin sometimes pay the ultimate price.

Sitting by a log fire in a ruined chapel a couple realise that their relationship can't work out as she has to travel back to her homeland in Syria to report on the war.

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THE BRITTLE RIVER POOL

Oh my lord I can’t stand here in this church any more
There’s a boy and his sister beating hard on my door

I wanted to remember, I wanted to recall
The day that we went swimming in the Brittle river pool
And in the still of evening, in the glow of summer as the smoke curled round the lee
We heard the river dancing and you turned and said to me
In deepest grief

You wanted to remember, in a moment of desire
How we gazed into the embers of the ruined chapel fire
You turned and spilled your secrets, you turned and shared your passions while staring out to sea
Then sang your song so sweetly saying you were not for me
In deepest grief

You told me to remember, you told me to recall
You had to take a mountain journey to the cauldron of that war
It was written in you dreams it was written in a story of your peoples lost in shame
Overwritten by a nation who would desecrate your name
In deepest grief

So you followed foreign armies as they burned those buildings down
You raged against the cruelty set loose upon those towns
And when the stranger told you of your broken village, you trekked all through the night
To blaze their story plainly in a bitter winter light
In deepest grief

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released December 26, 2018
David Heavenor Voice and guitar plus instrument samples.

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

I'm Watching Rosanna. ' An insightful song....beautifully written and observed. Iain Anderson. BBC Radio

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