A strange and sad impression of a long-ago time.
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Story behind the song
Commentary: Cast By The Sea
The long, tragic history of humanity, estranged from it’s Creator, has been a sordid travesty of continuing injustice and oppression.
This peculiar little song is an abstraction of such a people: It could be refugees fleeing Roman tyranny, Australian Aborigines fleeing the sportsman’s gun, early Irishmen under the oppressor’s heal – their harps rent and burned… or American Indians forcibly re-settled in lands strange and forbidding to them. Such ones find themselves unwanted - pressed to the shores of their beloved homelands, burrowing into the earth, longing for some place hide.
Is there no pity for the orphaned?
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
Cast by the Sea
© 2009 Alan Kim Cochran
Chorus:
Burrow and burrow, two hills and three
Bid by tomorrow, cast by the sea
Burrow and burrow, three hills and four
And to complete it, do it once more
Always to linger, too long to wait
Teasing our future, tempting our fate
Seek for the lost ones, so long in fear
Eager for succor, eternally near
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High in the mountain, forever alone
Etched into metal, traced into stone
Leave us to wonder… How can this be?
Ever to wander, always to flee...
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