This is a reworking of a song that appears on the Music from Holy Vale CD. Holy Vale is a very special place on St. Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly. It is right in the centre of the island, and although the sea only a mile or so away it is about as far away as it gets, and it is, of course, only a matter of time …
I wanted to simplify the music a bit and add a few words, without completely reinventing it so it has kept the mandolin and recorder feel. The percussion sounds are quite different to the original.
Among the elm trees and the ivy
The silence pulls me down to the earth
Down to the roots
The sound of water, water falling from the leaves down to the earth
But the seagull overhead, she reminds me that time
Time will bring the sea
