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Long Way

from The Eternal Dance by Andy Copeman

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A charged weekend in the forest of south-west Western Australia heralding some big, exciting and unexpected events; inspiring some pain, loss and, after all, some serious personal growth.

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The black dog died on the road down south
Just after St John’s Brook
There was blood on her muzzle and fire in her eyes
But I couldn’t bear to look
So I brushed her aside and went on my way
To the place where the honey flows
Where my loving sister waits for me
In the shade where the marri grows

And it’s oh, what a long way to go

But the water stank in the old tin tank
Where the mother roo was slain
And the putrid reek where the floorboards creak
Showed us where her child had lain
And the tiger snake with the chancred side
Crossed our path near home sweet home
Dripped blood on the rosemary where it died
Stained memory and stained the loam

And the white wolf rose from that smokey night
In the north by the green wood side
There was hell in her puzzling probing eyes
What a beautifully stormy ride
And I writhed in pain and I writhed in delight
In her den by the funerary urn
‘Til the call from the east led her from my sight
Left me here by myself to burn

But before she obeyed and went on her way
To the land of the shining gold
She granted to me one wish for one day
One memory of her to hold
So I called on all my manly might
And I called on my tender soul
And I tamed that wolf for one sweet night
So sweet and yet so cold

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from The Eternal Dance, released November 1, 2010
E-Bow guitars, acoustic guitar, bass, electric guitars, percussion programming, vocals

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Andy Copeman Maleny, Australia

Andy Copeman is a visionary musician, sound healer, sound and video artist, shamanic practitioner and recording engineer and producer. Instruments include voice, guitars, keyboards, programming, cittern, bass, percussion, tin whistle, kora, ba wu, fiddle, didgeridoo, singing bowls etc.
With his beloved Laurel Hefferon he lives in Maleny in South-east Queensland.
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