Frozen World from Small Voyages by Chloe Matharu
Written after sailing around Alaska close to ice this song features field recordings of glaciers calving. This song is story about a Frozen World and is inspired a wee bit by lockdown, but also on my shore leave after that trip around Alaska when I was snowed in in the Scottish Highlands.
Tracklist
| 7. | Frozen World | 4:47 |
Lyrics
Once upon a time an ice descended
It fell upon the fields the land was covered
After a howling wind the world was smothered
This beautiful world of mine now all around me icicles Chime
These glaciers are creaking
You'll hear if you're listening
This ice won't weigh me down
This ice won't way me down
Nothing was untouched, the green on the trees
Where normally the leaves would sway upon the trees
Winter'd made a wish that everything would freeze
This beautiful world of mine
Now all around me icicles Chime
Snow began to turn to ice as it kept on falling
It weighed down the world and it kept descending
And from the Northern hills ice was flowing
This beautiful world of mine
Now all around me icicles Chime
The people dreamed a dream the ice melt
They stoked their fires up in the homes where they dwelt
They went on living the fate they'd been dealt
This beautiful world of mine
Now all around me icicles Chime
Once upon a time an ice descended
But over time you hear if you're listening
Water begin to drip from ice that's melted
The ice is weakening, I can hear it creaking!
Credits
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"Her music is truly haunting" BBC Radio Scotland
Chloe is a multi Award winning singer songwriter and harpist on the West Coast of Scotland. Her songs are inspired by her time at sea as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy and the natural world, as experienced from sea. Through music she lends a voice to the modern day seafarer.