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Bitter Wind Blown Reprise

from Brighter Than Today: A Secular Solstice by Raymond Arnold

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Little one, little one, bitter wind blown
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Sun barely rising above the horizon
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Flowers are withering, naked bark brittle oh,
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Good folk are gonna die, sun-god ain’t shedding tears
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

I just stare at the sky, digging the graves each year
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Sun, sailing away.
I don’t know where. I don’t know why.

Oh…. sky. Darkening grey,
Wishing there weren't so many goodbyes...

...little one, little one why...

Maybe if we looked a while and found a stone,
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Dragged it a hundred miles… till we got it home,
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

(We could) dig us a henge, raise those bluestones up high,
Little one, little one, bitter wind blowin.

(And in) two hundred years when we looked at the sky, oh,
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

(And our) children would know just when winter was coming,
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Lookin’ and laboring, doing what must be done
Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Sun, sailing away.
I don’t know where. I don’t know why.

Oh…. sky. Darkening grey, and
I’m tired of saying goodbye…

...little one, little one why...

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from Brighter Than Today: A Secular Solstice, released June 6, 2014
Written by Raymond Arnold
Performed by Myriam Phiro, Glen Raphael and Miya Perry

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