Calendar, by Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo

Calendar

from Almanac (Vinyl Edition Now Available) by Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo

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Almanac Vinyl

Beautifully packaged 12" vinyl pressing of the album, featuring Daniela Terrazzini's artwork at a size you can really appreciate!
Includes limited edition art print of "Little Deaths", also by Daniela Terrazzini.
The vinyl is in a black poly-lined inner sleeve.

Includes immediate download of 12-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

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Almanac CD

In this almanac appear stories of love, renewal, the importance of community and our relationship to the earth. Shadowing these lighter themes are darker truths of untold atrocities committed by settlers on indigenous Australians during colonisation, the mass hysteria regarding a Scottish witch-hunt, flourishing love and good old-fashioned heartbreak.

The album weaves a compelling musical tapestry balancing contemporary influences with classic, folk-rooted song writing and is the third studio album by Anglo-Australian quartet Emily Barker & The Red ... more

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This song was inspired by Primo Levi's poem 'Almanac' which is an apocalyptic glimpse into the future of the earth if we don't care for it. It was written in the 70's and I was struck by the profound relevance it has today (and held then.) So I wrote 'Calendar' which is an update on this theme about respecting our home on earth and doing what we can to look after it instead of taking with no foresight.

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lyrics

Calendar
will we hold onto the light or just play until it fades?
will we draw a curtain across the sky and count down all our days?
will our veins be filled with sand and our hearts be filled with ache?
when the desert takes the land and the ground begins to shake
ground begins to shake, ground begins to shake
Chorus:
No! Let's sing us a song 'til all seas become calm
'til all selves become one another
then let's sing it again to remember where we've been
all we lost and all we’ve learnt from each other

Will the winds above the lake and the flowers in the glen
one night sleep and never wake, one night dream a darkened end
will all power turn to pain when the birds take flight and leave?
will our intellect come save us or fail us when in need
or fail us when in need, fail us when in need
Chorus
To the long-forgotten fields where your childhood memories lay
to all the trees you ever climbed and the rivers where you bathed
to all tomorrows shores that your children will all comb
to the comets and the stars that they’ll be wishing on
they’ll be wishing on, they’ll be wishing on
Chorus