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Light Trails

by River Crombie

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Steve Peck This album is artistry of a high order. River Crombie stands head and shoulders over many, many other singer-songwriters with their guitar. A mood of autumnal melancholy permeates throughout, yet the lyrics are all about seeking. Somehow this music should get out to a wider audience. A lot of people would revere it's simple beauty.
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1.
The Planes 02:39
Like your shadow cast by summer light A shiver on the ground Earth to mold the autumn‘s end And I am closing down. People I‘m forgetting Through the ways I disappear I‘ll never come to know your name And I am leaving here The moon can tell me all my dreams Filtered through the planes Out to find the meaning When I wake up to the day But the dawn reveals the emptiness Creeping through the door Of my eyes I left behind Calling out for more..
2.
All I Can Do 02:51
I threw it all away and nothing Got me out of where I was I tried to make a plan to go I wanted to be taking you along All I can do when I‘m right on the edge Looking over and back into myself Fear that you hold and nurture as your own Will bind you and take you in the end I‘m not reading anything new That I haven‘t read before And I remember what you taught me And I won‘t ask you anymore
3.
I go by the field Where the wind has drifted in from the harbour Where the white breath that leaves me older Fades into nothing And all the wood that leans Against the tree where birds gather to meet in song Disappears like rain that's come and gone And I turn north, continue on And I have wasted time in the morning light I've seen the day go by the window And I would like to know where to find you And I can't look without The name that follows on through what I've come To know as real now what do I believe I saw it break way from me And I am left to go And alone I'll be walking through the park Along the creek that takes me further in To where I will be wandering
4.
The colours come back to me drained by time And over by the lake from sunlight I did hide And in the morning I felt once more alone And I could let you in if you wanted to come home When the moon goes down the night I've known goes too Then I lie and listen to the sounds that come with the dawn I'm looking for any word to help me feel Like I do belong but who will hear And I flew out on the night and left behind A body aching to know the reason why
5.
I'm waiting to be leaving Out of woods into air Forward on an open road Empty all my cares Of the world I know little Tell me something new I caught a storm To make it home to you Many turning years have gone They all seem like one Left to hide from haunting time Rapping on his drum All the falling leaves appear Twirling in the wind Floating down to rest a while And I keep wondering
6.
Bearing the weight of a world that is falling Where do we stand after change A pattern is only replaced by One that is often the same With life comes a cycle of pleasure With life comes a burden of fear And life is a motion, a river But many are swimming in tears Turning away from the problem Living on dreams and ideas We're always looking for something But the something may never appear The old is the old and that's final No day is ever the same No cloud the same formation No sunset can ever be framed If one is aware of the beauty Of what we've been given to share Then one will not keep on destroying And leading us all to despair We ought to be our own leaders We are the ones to perceive No one is going to see for us But many are out to deceive
7.
Start Anew 02:27
I will gather up all my worries And leave them all behind In a cloud of confusion I gave away a lot of time Thirty-five years have gone now Ten went by like yesterday And if I could I'd change a few Things I've done and start anew I'm putting down what I can for Tomorrow I might forget it all And the ones who came and left us We'll be going through that door
8.
Let It Go 03:29
Put the idea down Deep into my mind I'll think about now And let it go tomorrow I call you in my sleep To come and comfort me To get me out of here And down to where I can really be I never wanted to Hold the days of darkness Tried to light the way The candle only faded Our world is breaking up And scattering like leaves The autumn turns to gold Along the stormy trail I go It's only when I talk That I begin to fall Into what I think It's easy to be caught Out of what you are You fumble through the game If you don't win you draw And equal out the final score
9.
Well I laid my head down And dreamed that you were gone I came back in the winter But I could barely go Out to find you walking Alone and far away I never heard a whisper Returning from that place I caught my pale reflection In the water going by And the river held the answer To what happened in my life I'll fulfil the calling The calling of my fate And we'll go there together Turning on and on… And I forget there is nothing More that I can do Year to year I'm always changing I'll be coming back to you And I'll wait to be certain Before I make it all Right again to know you And to feel at home And help me climb higher Walk another line And in the beginning The end is never far behind
10.
Light Trails 02:38
The light trails led me through To end the dark I knew I'd paint the daylight cold Like forests in the morning glow Who am I when the name is gone? Who am I when I am no one? Only drifting till my fear dissolves All illusions begin to fall By the window I look on While the night rain beats along The road I walk now covered by The wounded hearts of many Hear the wind in harmony With life that came to be Now forever to the mystery I'm always returning

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released October 2, 2014

All songs written, performed and recorded by River Crombie
Cover Photo by Torben Stock. Layout by Johan Andréasson

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