The Wind Swept Down

Story Behind The Song

The sweeping wind is my quiet, haunting nemesis from all angles en route through Colorado and Kansas, but it created an unearthly calm and focus all around me.

Song Description

This song is an atmosphere setter. People wonder at the haunting scenes it creates, and you can almost feel the black and white photography of the landscape and see the silent winds. It sounds like Emmylou Harris or Johnny Cash or Alison Krauss.

Song Length 3:45 Genre Country - Traditional, Folk - Rural
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Nonviolent, Cool Subject Cold, Ice, Snow
Similar Artists Faith Hill, Alison Krauss Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

From Denver to Bovina, I swept up all the birds.
From there onto Arriba, the favor was returned, and the
Wind swept down
all around me
the Wind blew down
all around.

White and black the landscape it was like a photograph.
The road was iced and mounded with winter at my back,
and the wind swept down
all around me,
the wind blew down
all around.

Saw a tractor trailer, it was jack-knifed in the ditch.
Saw another overturned and prayed for those unhitched, and the wind swept down
all around me.
The wind blew down all around.

Found my speed at thirty til they closed that bad boy route.
Got behind some semi's toting goods to paths down South.

Like a herd of cattle one by one we made the bridges.
Moseying slowly, found my faith that day in holy inches.

And the wind swept down
all around me.
The wind blew down
all around.

Lyrics Laura Larkins Music Laura Larkins
Producer Laura Larkins/Mike Flack Publisher Worlds Apart Music
Performance Laura Larkins Label none
This track is on 1 Member Playlists
Playlist Creator Playlist Name Date Added
MELVIN BARHAM My Top Songs 5/31/2012

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