Name: This Shore
Duration: P00H03M44S
Description: This track is a special one to me, as it’s a lasting record of a time when my little one was providing creative inspiration and kicking along with a song I recorded at home with her Papi.

This Shore

by Beth Hartshorne

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This track is a special one to me, as it’s a lasting record of a time when my little one was providing creative inspiration and kicking along with a song I recorded at home with her Papi.

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The skyward calls for answers
Merge into horizon waves
Drifting off into the vastness
Crashing down on every age

And what a year this one has brought us
As the lighthouse endured standing
All the beauty and the trauma
Drawn in old sea tangles

And oh, this sand, this sand
The fortresses we built with naive hands
And oh, this shore
The faces of the years returning worn

I wish I didn’t have to go back
To a world discriminating
I could stay lost in each sunset
In the harbour of this safety

’Cause now I’m carrying our daughter
With the wisdom of the water
I would take this world on for her
And stand guard over this treasure

And oh, this sand, this sand
The fortresses we built with naive hands
And oh, this shore
The faces of the years returning worn

Maybe in the hidden depths
We’ll find what lies beneath each wreck
We made under the false defence
That swept us into separateness

And oh, this sand, this sand
And oh, this shore

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released June 23, 2023

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Beth Hartshorne UK

Beth's songwriting and music are her intrinsic anchors and source of wellbeing. Beth blends introspective verse and bittersweet melodies to capture stories of longing, love and connection with the natural world. She enjoys exploring with instruments in her compositions, weaving together violin, guitar, piano and vocals, alongside members of the Mexican band Koala Lumpur, in her debut album. ... more

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