Old Pines

I've blogged about how music transports me. The song below is no exception (and of course now I'm wondering if I've done this before). This came on my spotify earlier and instantly I was back to another place. I had heard this song before but it was playing as CG and I left Knysna nearly two years ago. After we had spent a week in PE. PE is special to me. Ja, it doesn't have the family, the vibe, the history of Cape Town but it has where I was happy. It has a part of me. My heart? It holds something special. And I was able to share that with CG. Two years ago I said my farewell to Nhandi, I showed CG where I began, my memories. So yes the song below is poignant. It doesn't make me sad. It recalls to my mind, the early morning sun hitting the lagoon, the fresh smell of life starting a new day. starting another road trip. Making fresh memories for my son to take into his life. I don't know, it's a song. But it conjures up good times. 

I am a little emotional today but not in a "hark at the past". I'm a little sad that tomorrow everyone gathers at Liz and I don't. But also I'm a little jealous. I'm not emotionally sad, I'm just remembering why we had to gather in that way. I do miss my Nhandi in a way I never envisaged. I don't think that will diminish. 

I'm rather happy though. And that's why I post this song....to show the happy and share the memory. 

Aaah I'm guessing this blog makes no sense....I blame the phone, when you scroll you can't see what you've typed, so it just becomes a ramble of my brain. The very innards of my head. 

"Old Pine"

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags, 

I've come to know that memories

Were the best things you ever had

The summer shone beat down on bony backs

So far from home where the ocean stood 

Down dust and pine cone tracks

We slept like dogs down by the fire side

Awoke to the fog all around us 

The boom of summer time

[Chorus]

We stood

Steady as the stars in the woods

So happy-hearted

And the warmth rang true inside these bones

As the old pine fell we sang

Just to bless the morning.

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags, 

I've come to know the friends around you

Are all you'll always have

Smoke in my lungs, or the echoed stone 

Careless and young, free as the birds that fly

With weightless souls now.

[Chorus x2]

We stood

Steady as the stars in the woods

So happy-hearted

And the warmth rang true inside these bones

We stood

Steady as the stars in the woods

So happy-hearted

And the warmth rang true inside these bones

As the old pine fell we sang

Just to bless the morning.

We grow, grow, steady as the morning

We grow, grow, older still

We grow, grow, happy as a new dawn

We grow, grow, older still

We grow, grow, steady as the flowers

We grow, grow, older still

We grow, grow, happy as a new dawn

We grow, grow, older still