Karine Polwart - We're All Leaving. Darwin Song Project 2009 video free download

Shrewsbury Folk Festival's Darwin Song Project

We're All Leaving

written by Karine Polwart & Dave Gunning

performed by Karine Polwart & Jez Lowe

Darwin Song Project Concert

Shrewsbury, March 19th 2009

In March 2009 eight folk singer/songwriters gathered together for a week long songwriting residential in rural Shropshire to create songs that had a relevance and resonance with Charles Darwin.

The eight artists were Chris Wood, Karine Polwart, Stu Hanna, Rachael McShane, Krista Detor, Emily Smith, Mark Erelli and Jez Lowe.

The whole concert was recorded for a CD release, and the 8 musicians reconvened at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival in August, to once again perform the 19 songs that were written during the week.

Details on the project

www.darwinsongproject.com

Details of the festival at

www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk

Sound mixed by Stu Hanna

Video recorded and edited by Microvideo, Shrewsbury

Lyrics

There is thunder on the skyline

And it tears her breath away

Like the twilight steals the day

A father's kind hand could not command her

To return to him once more

Like a soldier from the war

We're all leaving

Even the ones who stay behind

We're all leaving in our own time

We're all leaving in our own time

Each night surrenders to a morning

But beneath the April sky

He can hear an endless cry

On smiling fields there's a battle raging

And for every bloom he knows

Another flower never grows

We're all leaving ...

And he has no Ark to bear him from this Flood

Just a broken vessel wrought in flesh and blood

Though the riptides pull him under

He will not cease to wonder

At the beauty, beauty, beauty, beauty

He brings her mother to the church door

And while she prays for what will come

He walks those woods alone

And there he builds his own cathedrals

And on every whirring wing

He can hear the whole world sing

We're all leaving ...