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True Ways Of Knowing - Lucky Elephant Remix

from One Day At A Time - Single EP by Blue Rose Code

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The 'One Tree Hill' remix by Sam Johnson from Lucky Elephant of a Blue Rose Code re-imagining of the poem 'True Ways Of Knowing' by late Edinburgh poet, Norman MacCaig.

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True Ways Of Knowing

Not an ounce excessive, not an inch too little,
Our easy reciprocations. You let me know
The way a boat would feel, if it could feel,
The intimate support of water.

The news you bring me has been news forever,
So that I understand what a stone would say
If only a stone could speak. Is it sad a grassblade
Can't know how it is lovely?

Is it sad that you can't know, except by hearsay
(My gossiping failing words) that you are the way
A water is that can clench its palm and crumple
A boat's confiding timbers?

But that's excessive, and too little. Knowing
The way a circle would describe its roundness,
We touch two selves and feel, complete and gentle,
The intimate support of being.

The way that flight would feel a bird flying
(If it could feel) is the way a space that's in
A stone that's in water would know itself
If it had our way of knowing.

credits

from One Day At A Time - Single EP, released May 17, 2014
Words by Norman MacCaig, music by Ross Wilson, remix by Sam Johnson.

Rachel Newton - harp, MG Boulter - pedal steel, Moog - Alex Pilkington.

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Blue Rose Code Liverpool, UK

Blue Rose Code is Edinburgh-born songwriter Ross Wilson. At the edge of contemporary alt-folk, Wilson's music evokes a meeting of Van Morrison and a young John Martyn, both shipwrecked with a bunch of Motown records.

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