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🍁🍂Last year this time, beneath a canopy of changing leaves at a “witches market” in Woodstock NY, the beginnings of this song sprang forth from my mouth as an on-the-spot improvisation to trade as a barter for a bottle of elderberry vinegar. The seller refused the offer of my heart’s music for his vinegar, (he was much too sour to be moved by it 😝) but I did leave the market with this song.
I believe I got the good end of the deal here. For though this song is sad, I think it’s one the most beautiful and honestly felt songs that my heart has ever written for Love. It’s called “Yours Alone” 🍂🍁
lyrics
Oh my Heart is a flower
Fallen to the ground
A shadow shifting by the hour
As the sun is dragging down
And that sun in the summer
Was fixed high and bright
But now in late October
I sleep much colder at night
For I once had a lover
Who was warm company
But he left to tend his mother
In the north country
By a lake in Minnesota
Where the snow falls with no sound
While here in Appalachia
My Heart and a hard rain pound
Oh my Heart is a soldier
Marching a sad sojourner's song
And no matter how love hurts her
She must keep on keepin on
So I'll keep a place at my table
Red wine and two candles set
But I can't say that I am able
To pray alone just yet
For I once had a lover
Who would sing with me to the moon
But now my words are answered
By echo in the room
And that lake in Minnesota
Is a clay bowl full of stars
And how I'd like to show ya
The light I hold in my Heart
Oh my Heart is a fancy napkin
That is folded like a crane
And she can fly, only when I'm laughin'
Or crying out your name
And she'll fly to Minnetonka
Where she'll sing just like a loon
Until the day you hear me
That my love is yours alone
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released October 29, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Elana Brody
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