Story Behind The Song

A view across the barren beauty of a place called Ullapool gave me the thought of sad sorrow uplifted by the grace of a single bird..

Song Description

The strange event accompanying the burial of a teenage girl taken suddenly from life. Set in a scottish heathland setting the family wake is marked by the apparent intercession of a lone bird ....paying homage to the departed

Lyrics

GOODBYE ROSALIND
(ZMusic & Vocals: Mike Reeves
Lyrics: roger antony carter

V1
Walking through the heather at the edge of the sea
A gentle breeze blowing across the land
The crimson sky is angry, but now she is free
As we lay her down and I kiss her soft white hand


V2
Her beauty shines before us, her hair, golden corn
Peace showing in her face of porcelain
There's a tear in my eye, she didn't want to die
Now she says goodbye to kith and kin


Chorus
All around there is a shimmer
A sound in the wind
It repeats and repeats,

Goodbye Rosalind


V3
Taken at a such a tender age, before her life began
Cut down by the fickle whim of fate
sobbing behind hands, no more her dreams and plans
We know she has passed through heaven's gates
V4
A lone bird overhead screams one harsh cawl
Circling twice above the gathered throng
It lands just beside her then looks into her face
And issues forth a melody of song


Bridge
Goodbye Rosalind
The notes sound out shrill
Goodbye Rosalind
Goodbye, goodbye young girl
Your life was not in vain
Your heart will be fulfilled


V5
Not a person failed to realise, everyone was thrilled
And words of wonder whispered passed their lips
That bird showed no fear of man, but with head bowed
Laid down across her slender fingertips

Outro

And once again

All around there is a shimmer
A sound in the wind
It repeats, again and again

Goodbye Rosalind


Goodbye Rosalind



© roger antony carter 2008 (43)
Feb