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Wildflowers

from The Wood Wide Web by Ian Roland

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During the first lockdown, due to the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020, my children and I decided to plant an area of wildflowers in our garden. Science was linking the pandemic with the years of exploitation and destruction of the natural world* and to try to combat our sense of the overwhelming helplessness of this situation we planted wildflowers and over the coming months watched the bees and butterflies visit.

* “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health” www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00258-8/fulltext#seccestitle230

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WILDFLOWERS Ian Roland

VERSE 1
SO CLOSE TO TOUCHING YOU
LOST IN THE AIR, THE PUSH AND PULL
DISTANCE BROUGHT US TOGETHER.
SO CLOSE TO HOLDING YOU
SKY’S SUCH A DEEP, DEEP BLUE
OUR LIVES CHANGED FOREVER.
TRUTH IS

CHORUS
WILDFLOWERS TO REMEMBER THE DAY
WILDFLOWERS TO SIMPLY PRAY
WILDFLOWERS STOPPED US FALLING APART

VERSE 2
APART WE ARE LIVING THROUGH
CAN WE SURVIVE THIS INVISIBLE?
AS THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY SHINES DOWN.
IN THE SOIL WE PLANTED OUR FAITH
WILDFLOWERS COULD GROW IN THIS SPACE
AS THE SEEDS FELL FROM OUR HANDS TO THE GROUND.

CHORUS
WILDFLOWERS TO REMEMBER THE DAY
WILDFLOWERS TO SIMPLY PRAY
WILDFLOWERS STOPPED US FALLING APART

MID 8

WE THREW THE CORNFLOWER, TANSY AND QUAKING-GRASS
FREELY AROUND.
AMONGST THE SWEET VERNAL GRASS
WE MIXED PURPLE LOOSE STRIFE AND THYME.
WHITE CLOVER, SELF HEAL, YARROW
LINING THE PATH.
THEY SPRUNG FROM THE GROUND,
BRINGING MEMORIES OF US.

CHORUS
WILDFLOWERS TO REMEMBER THE DAY
WILDFLOWERS TO SIMPLY PRAY
WILDFLOWERS STOPPED US FALLING APART

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from The Wood Wide Web, released February 24, 2023

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Ian Roland Brighton, UK

Songwriter, Ian Roland, writes and performs unique Roots-Pop-Folk music, full of heart-strung orchestration and up-close, life-drenched lyrics. Ian has supported acts such as Martin Simpson, The Black Feathers, Stick In The Wheel, TV Smith, Robb Johnson, Boo Hewerdine, Robert Vincent, Chris Helme, Joshua Ray Walker, 10cc’s Graham Gouldman.

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