Words, music and mythology by Dora Darling. Although I wrote this song many years ago I still feel its metaphors deeply in my life.
lyrics
In the fading light of day, neath a golden sunset,
She saddled her grey mare to head for the west,
And O her wooden heart cried long in her chest
She’s held up her broad sword and taken up her final quest.
In the forest of the sun the trees all have eyes
And the beasts that lie in wait shall catch all who run
Her armour must come off for it rings out in the gloom
The beasts that hunt her there would swallow her too soon
Through the rushing river deep, she had quickly to pass
But her sword it weighed her down to the watery grave
She let it drift away her precious broad sword
Her wooden heart was glad,
With each moment her spirit grew.
The banks they were so steep that she could not crawl out
Her shield caught the waves so untie it she must
So resting on the bank with her bonny grey mare
Her wooden heart did beat
Her breath her lungs were filled anew.
The marshes were so dark and still was the air
Spirits twist and turn to kiss her cheeks fair
And in the bog she sank, so too her grew mare
Her breast-plate she took off on solid ground she laid bare.
And facing now the task of holding the truth,
In her naked ness she stood upon the dragons tooth
Her wooden heart did beat so fast in her chest
As within the jaws she stood of every dragons lovers heart
So through the darkest night this maid was laid bare,
And when the sun arose her heart it was flesh
Sword and shield and mare appeared by her side
And into the glowing day this brave maiden did ride.
Yes into the glowing day this brave maiden did ride.
Fools chase gold, and brave hearts hold
Love is like the moon and love will heal your wooden heart.
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