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about
Dear listener,
This song is written for my child, who is eight years old. We have been separated by some hard circumstances and I am sending this song out to the world to raise the funds I need to be reunited with my kid.
This is the first song of a series that I will be recording over the following year. As part of my show of gratitude, when you purchase this song and become a fan I will send you a digital copy of my first full-length album when it is completed.
Thank you all, friends and strangers alike, for your kindness and support.
D
April 2018
***If you download this song, please send donations to (updated due to my name change) Venmo @daire-kelly or PayPal Friends and Family leeleeorlando@gmail.com so that all of the proceeds go to our family at this time. Thank you.
lyrics
Burn bright, my tiger child
Sweet pup rooted out from me
I'll bring you back to my safe soil
Love runs deep, deeper than the oil
An endless pool from which you came
and where you come to be revived
chorus:
All night long with the mother tongue
all night long I'm gonna get it done
All night long till the morning comes
All night long with the mother tongue
all night long till the morning comes
all night long I'm gonna get it done
Incense and rose, my risen flame
I see your face in every rain-
drop that falls and is wiped away
Drive east, drive west my love
Track the miles, the stars above
who make the rules this game I've had to play
(chorus)
I watch the stalks of the yucca bloom
the day will come, when I will watch you spin
when the gloom's cast off from yesterday
Oooo ooo ooo (bridge)
(chorus)
Drive west, drive east my love
Count the nights, the stars above
who speak the truth we will live one day
(bridge/instrumental)
(chorus/change:)
All night long with the mother tongue
all night long I'm gonna get it done
all night long with the mother tongue
all night long with the mother tongue
all night long I'm gonna get it done
All night long it will be done
it will be done
it will be done
credits
released April 30, 2018
music written and performed by Dara Roberts
lyrics written in collaboration with Liam Orlando Kelly
recorded on an iphone 5 in my home in Marfa, TX April 30, 2018
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