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Away (flee this land)

from Land of the Long Grey Cloud (2010) by Mark Harrington

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This is another one where the original lyrics were eventually removed. The story goes like this - theres a boy walking along a desolate coastline, theres a heavy sky and a dark sort of atmosphere . . .

'Why do the birds fall from the sky?
and why do the pale fish, wide-eyed
rise up to the surface of the sea?

They lie here, strewn across the beach
their mouths move in some sort of song or speech that I can't understand . . .

'Away! Flee this land before its too late' . . .'

As he goes on there is a dawning awareness of the massive extent of the destruction and a final realization that it was he himself who brought it all about – an innocent accident?
Perhaps not.

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from Land of the Long Grey Cloud (2010), released August 22, 2010

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NZ-born instrument maker and musician, now living in the south of Argentina ... designer/builder for Dragonfly Tapping Instruments.

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