Name: Bellflower (Life, Love, and Other Maladies)
Duration: P00H05M16S
Description: Mastered by Bruce Neher at Disc & Dat

Bellflower (Life, Love, and Other Maladies)

from Hymns To The Night by Balla Dear

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You gave all you had away to the day like a bellflower
Your solstice grew long, and your song it was lost ne'er be found
In the gloaming of your wretched old soul, forlorn from the cradle
The empyrean within you sinks lower to the welkin below

I want to be a LION HEART
I want to be a BRAVE ON THE KNOLL
I want to be a PART OF THE PART,
WHICH AT FIRST EVER WAS, THE WHOLE
I want to be a hero, but I'm barely a man
Nothing but a doer of my work, a jewel within the cog
Pulled up from the sand

You fill your table with the fruits of your labor and see that it is good
You know that your song, are the olive shoots springing up beside
So don't wander inside your bewildered old mind, looking for some idyllic scene
Your children are your gemstones, carved out of flesh and bone
Forged in a Seraphim dream...

Now you know the delight of being lowly
I am what I am nothing more, use me up

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from Hymns To The Night, track released January 10, 2014

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Balla Dear Texas

Songs born out of trial and triumph, Balla Dear explores the dichotomy of the human condition, the physical and the spiritual. From deep in the heart of central Arkansas, Balla Dear muses in the medium of Southern Folk, Country Gospel, and Folk Ballad. The themes are evident; peace and solace amidst one's own undoing. Sacrificial love is by far the greatest gift among men. ... more

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