Name: Hermitage
Duration: P00H03M58S
Description: As much as I enjoy the wonders of modernity and appreciate many of we fine homo sapiens, there comes the occasional moment (I know I'm not alone here) when I'm given to thinking "Bugger this for a lark, I'm off to live in a cave in the wilderness" - in truth I'm too pampered to be some Thoreau wannabe, but I did manage to write a song about it ...

Hermitage

by Red Sun Lewis

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As much as I enjoy the wonders of modernity and appreciate many of we fine homo sapiens, there comes the occasional moment (I know I'm not alone here) when I'm given to thinking "Bugger this for a lark, I'm off to live in a cave in the wilderness" - in truth I'm too pampered to be some Thoreau wannabe, but I did manage to write a song about it ...

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Said goodbye to reason
Said goodbye to season's falling
Said goodbye to justice
Said goodbye to lady luscious
Said goodbye to freedom
An' all I ever learnt from reading
Said goodbye to knowledge
All wisdom's fruit that I had foraged

Shed a sigh for morning
It's promise and it's crimson warning
Shed a tear for evening
It's dusky lumination leaving
Dry your eyes and settle
Gird your loins and grasp your mettle
Find your journey started
Blow kisses to the dear departed

Travel to the heavens
Where the devil said "I will not serve him"
The eternal party
Finished before it even started
And the gate to Eden
Collapsed, and Adam lies there bleeding
Only Eve can save him
Her tidy bones a nest for ravens

Said goodbye to lovers
Distant friends and all the others
Fare thee well society
In empty faith and hollow piety
Capitalist aggression
Screams so loud it needs no mention
For when all is reckoned
Hermitage doth gladly beckon

For when all is reckoned
Hermitage doth gladly beckon

For when all is reckoned
Hermitage doth gladly beckon

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released March 19, 2022

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Red Sun Lewis Edinburgh, UK

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Folky Rock ballads - if you prefer instrumental, check Barkhand page. ... more

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