Name: Someplace To Be Flying
Duration: P00H02M44S
Description: One of my preferred devices of escape has always been a good book. The title of this song comes from the Charles deLint novel of the same name. The lyrics were inspired by a familiar old rhyme - reimagined. The song itself? Well, it's about escape...obviously!

Someplace To Be Flying

from I, Autumnus by Autumn Dawn Leader

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One of my preferred devices of escape has always been a good book. The title of this song comes from the Charles deLint novel of the same name. The lyrics were inspired by a familiar old rhyme - reimagined. The song itself? Well, it's about escape...obviously!

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One for sorrow, so they say
But, two won't guarantee you any joy
Three might bring a girl so fair
Four is four a handsome boy
Five is for bright silver shine
Six is for the gleam of gold
Seven are the secret things my heart has never ever told

Magpie, magpie
Black and white and blue
Magpie, Magpie
I wish that I could fly away with you

Eight is for a wish
And oh, how I wish
Nine would mean the touch of your lips
Ten is for that bird once glimpsed
A herald that is never to be missed,
He's a herald that is never to be missed

Magpie, magpie
Black and white and blue
Magpie, Magpie
I wish that I could fly away with you

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from I, Autumnus, released June 25, 2021
Music and lyrics by Autumn Dawn Leader
Vocal and instrumentation by Autumn Dawn Leader

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Autumn Dawn Leader Loughborough, UK

Critics call Autumn Dawn Leader - aka The Songmistress - a musical maverick. Autumn is a classically trained contrakto vocalist & multi-instrumentalist songwriter with a unique dark, emotive & bewitching flavour. Difficult to impossible to put her in a genre box, she's best known for delicious chord changes, sublime vocal sorcery, poweful lyrical hammer blows & intensely passionate performances. ... more

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