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The first time I saw the lake at the monastery I fell in love. I felt at home. It is completely isolated and enclosed by a small, thick, magical wood. The landscape is like something from a fairytale and we feel the peace of Nature there. It feels like a retreat from the horrors.
This song started as a very sweet and simple dance between a couple of notes on the guitar. As I was playing I could feel a certain sense of freedom, a sense of something different for me, lighter somehow. Memories of my first visit to the lake started to stir in me and the lyric came very quickly. It’s odd when you think of the luxurious life some of the monks must have lived there over the centuries. We bring our own life experiences to such reflection, and I remembered the housing estate I grew up on in East Kilbride; which had its magic, but also had a fair share of dysfunction and madness, deprivation and poverty. Some of these people were the very people that the monks were praying to save, as they were daydreaming about God on the frontiers of bliss. Life is lived in this gulf between suffering and bliss, and, although the Mystic Lake drifts between these poles, it chooses the bliss of innocence over the ardours of experience. It’s a song that’s happy to dance with the dragonflies and butterflies.
lyrics
This landscape’s a memory
Of monks in a monastery,
Praying for the world
To be free.
The green that lights the forest glade,
Shimmers on the mystic lake
And I know,
And I know -
You’re crossing the water to find me
In the mists of some ancient song
And I know we could live here forever,
I could stay here and build us a home.
The buzzing of the dragon-flies,
Ballerina butterflies,
Dancing in the morning light
Of your soul,
As the green that lights the forest glade,
Shimmers on the mystic lake
And I know,
And I know -
You’re crossing the water to find me
In the mists of some ancient song
And I know we could live here forever,
I could stay here and build us a home…
On the mystic lake
The mystic lake
On the mystic lake
The mystic lake…
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
Harp: Eleonor Picas
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