A beautiful, poetic finger-picking debut folk single with a mystical, distantly stormy twist by the Dublin-based Irish singer-songwriter from County Meath, out now on St Itch Records. To explore and enjoy more by Ellie O’Neill, including some live performance, see also the other embedded links below.
Once this blinding light goes out
the story will be told
of the people living and loving
above Bohemia
Birds of passion circling
prey designed to die
and rooms of shapes no one’s children
could ever occupy
God will see the shimmering
of whispers and of tears
and from the street
great eyes look in
the window, a frail divide
Carving dancers. high and mighty
look how the old is new
shifting forms, the greenest deity
Cailleach and Clothrú
One long summer
salt from the others’ eye on the tongue
like medicine
never stopped the humming
a spell to stay young forever
Thick with wonder
smothering under the weight of the cóisir
got dressed in dark dark colours
kissed goodbye to the home, beloved
Once this blinding light goes out
the story will be told
of the people who once lived and loved
above Bohemia
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