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Clear Mountain

from Redemption Road by Sandy Kilpatrick

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about

This was written in one sitting on the day that US President Barack Obama gave his inauguration speech. The world was fascinated by how well Obama spoke, how rousing his rhetoric was. It occurred to me that we all have a right to express our own deepest feelings about how the world should be. So this was my own attempt to mark the general feeling of the world having lost its way, highlighting the sense of hope that Obama communicated so well on that historic day.

At the time of writing this text, the world has just witnessed a revolution in Egypt, and it looks like Gaddafi is about to lose his stranglehold on the long suffering Libya. The issues behind the Middle East are deeply complex of course, but what we seem to be seeing at the moment is, largely through the internet and social networks, a mobilization of the common people. Arabs, Africans, Europeans, Muslims, Catholics and Jews, all of us seem to share a common need for justice, for respect and humility, humanity and love. However, in times of crisis people have always mobilized and moved.

During the 18th and 19th Centuries thousands of Scottish and Irish settlers moved to America. In search of new kinds of freedom they often travelled as far as the Appalachian Mountains and stopped moving west when the peaks got too high. Some great music gets made in the mountain air. In Clear Mountain there’s a happy family like the Von Trapp family, singing life into the realms of the forest. Somewhere in this song there is a beautiful woman dressed in white hanging out the washing; on a back drop of pine trees, green fields and white clothes. She’s singing, waiting for her husband to return. The children are at school. She wishes that the love she feels internally, for her home, and for her family, was accessible to the leaders of the world.

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Brothers we struggle,
Economies shamed,
But nobody knows who
to blame.
Our history’s been written
on the back of a war
and nobody knows
what it’s for:
Just as love can bring us through,
We know that love can also break you,
We spent too much time with nowhere to go -
Now we have joy in our souls!

We woke up this morning
as dawn turned to day,
The blackbirds were singing
in change.
Breakfast and song,
All change starts at home -
If this world will be
re-arranged:

Just as love can bring us through,
We know that love can also break you,
We spent too much time with nowhere to go -
Now we have joy in our souls!

In the clear mountain light
In the clear mountain light
In the clear mountain light,
In the snow.

credits

from Redemption Road, released April 25, 2012
Voice and acoustic guitar: Sandy Kilpatrick
Electric guitar: Emmanuel Martins Coelho
Drums: Sérgio Vicente
Bass: Mario Mamede
Violin: Elisabete Gomes
Additional Voices: Inês Kilpatrick, Ana Margarida Pinto Oliveira, Ana Luisa Gomes Ferreira, Adriana Sofia da Silva Oliveira, Joana Margarida Vieira da Silva, Rute Daniela Gomes Duarte.

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Sandy Kilpatrick is a soulful singer and songwriter from Scotland, currently based in Portugal.

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