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Deep & Awake

from Anthems For Change by Kimwei

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Deep & Awake (ancestry)

A prayer to reclaim something that our ancestors had: the inability to switch off to our true nature
Date written: July 26th 2023

(This song is acapella. In the video above I sing it in G major starting on D, the 5th note in the scale)

VERSE 1
Great grandmother, pass me down the way
you can’t stop your tears from falling,
you can’t wish away that ache,
for I am stranded at the surface of the lake.
Help me dive deep and awake x2

VERSE 2
Great grandfather, pass me down the way
you can’t stop yourself from hearing
the whisper of the wind and all its pain
and all its wisdom and its grace.
Help me live by what it says x2

VERSE 3
Wise one of old times, pass me down the way
you can’t turn away from love
when it is knocking at your gate
for I am locked out of my heart and it is late.
Help me love deep and awake x2

VERSE 4
Oh my children, teach me of the way
you can’t stop yourself from hearing
the calling of your heart and all its pain
and all its wisdom and its grace.
Help me live by what it says x2

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from Anthems For Change, released December 7, 2023

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Kimwei Exeter, UK

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Where is the soundtrack for the climate revolution? I believe it is down to us all to make it. This year I've teamed up with folk musicians Chris Dance, Lisa Rowe & Anita Clarinet to make the songs of tomorrow’s history: music that births change - a lush landscape of vocal harmonies, guitar, strings & woodwind to surround and transform you. ... more

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