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Kite Song

from Pilgrimage by OWEM

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Peg your kite in the ground
Listen to that mournful sound
Twirling round and round
Strings tangle and untangle again

Leave your kite in the earth
Climb the mountain for what it’s worth
Oh the wind she whips it, flips it, tips it, slips it away

That strange vertigo feeling
A bird flying below you
And it leaves you reeling
The wings swoop close to you
Grey and blue

Left your kite in the soil
Coming back from a long day’s toil
And though the rain she lashed us, thrashed us
The kite out-lasted us all

It strains, tugs it’s tethers
Oh wind, take me with you
How I long for feathers
My wings would be grey and blue
If you pull me loose

Fly, I would fly
I would fly, I would fly
I would fly, I would fly high
But you reel, reel me in
Brush the dew off my skin
Pack me up
Put me in the boot

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from Pilgrimage, released February 9, 2021

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OWEM Stroud, UK

OWEM is a project of Maya who writes songs about places and spaces and faces. The Pilgrimage EP is a collection of songs written about the Outer Hebrides as recounted to her by her dad.

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