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lyrics

SACRED RIVER

Dry – walked too far today
Yesterday the same
Skin too thick with dust to breathe
Sunburnt clay

Sky – you hang heavy over me
Slow my bootsteps down
Sorrow you’re consuming me
Without a sound

Oh, you sacred river – oh you don’t run dry
Flow me sacred river – flow me high

She said – when all hope is gone
The barren ground still sings
She said that from the driest place
Newness springs

And she sang – in desert silences
She spoke it in the town
She said that there’s a stream in all
And we can’t drown

Oh, you sacred river – oh you don’t run dry
Flow her sacred river – flow her high

So may – this one who swam in you
Swim in you again
Permit the one who ached for you
To ache again

Oh, you sacred river – oh - you don’t run dry
Flow us sacred river – flow us high
Sacred river – high

John Coleman/Celia Kemp © 2019

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from STONES THAT SING, released June 26, 2020
Emily Wolfe violin
Scott Targett keyboards
David Clarke acoustic guitar
Al Future electric bass, harmony vocals
Sam Forsyth drums and percussion
John Coleman lead and harmony vocals

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John Coleman Hobart, Australia

John Coleman is an Australian singer/songwriter in the acoustic folk/rock tradition who has produced eleven albums of original songs The most recent is Falling Into Light - a collection of songs for meditation - his final collaboration with Noel Davis. Many of John’s songs are inspired by and explore the spirituality of the L’Arche and Quaker communities to which he belongs. ... more

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