Non album single released on May 5th, 2021
Maranda Jean - lyrics, vocals
Mary Joanna Mucco - vocal sample (outro)
Mike Lance - guitar, harmonica, mix, master
Nic Schulze - cover art photography
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Two years ago, a kindergarten teacher and mother of four in a small Inuit community in Nunavik, lost her life to domestic violence. She was my colleague and an inspiration as a teacher and musician. This song is written for her and for all those who knew her bright light.
- Maranda Jean Cook-Schulze
*Proceeds made from the purchase of this track will be forwarded to her family. Nakurmiik. Merci. Thank you.
https://lakeroads.bandcamp.com/track/bright-one
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There beyond the treeline
Where water meets sky
Eyes bright as embers
Dimples deep as rivers
Flowing from Ungava
All through the tundra
See her fingers strumming
Hear her voice singing
Songs warm as bannock
Laughter sweet as tea
In the land of the midnight sun
She was a bright one.
Always gathering the
Children, shinin’.
Our love for her
Rushes like water
Going on forever
No dam can stop it
Wildly blowing
Fiercely glowing
That night we lost her
to a wooden rifle
Some threshold for sorrow
Forever broken
In the land of the midnight sun
She was a bright
one.
Always gathering the
Children...
Let us not forget her
And every other
Who ever has been taken
By a quiet violence
A violence growin’ slowly
A violence that is
swimming
Deep beneath the watery
Surfaces of smiles
Might we hear it treading
Or might we glimpse it
shimmering
Let us hunt together
Or cast it to the wind
You in the water
You in the river
You in the music
We sing with you forever
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