I’ve been lonesome,
A cowboy riding low,
Wandering & wandering,
No heart to call a home.
Sometimes you ride,
Forgetting to mind the light.
I’ve tried to keep warm,
The embers dying slow,
Wondering & wondering,
Is the saddle up, really worth the fall down?
Sometimes you ride,
Just for riding,
Sometimes we ride,
Just to find ‘em.
But all these plains stretch wide,
The yearning don’t subside,
The yearning pays no mind.
I’ve been told some,
“The violent bear it away”,
Sundering & sundering,
“This trail is just my bones”, you say.
Sometimes you ride,
Just fixin’ to survive.
Now there is just nights,
The wind’s shadow up on high,
You hang on every breathe,
Your embrace in every step,
This longing, & longing,
Keeps the map in the hand,
& leaves your prints in my sand.
Sometimes we ride,
Eye’s on someone else’s light.
Sometimes I ride,
Not realizing, I’m but dust behind them.
But all these plains stretch wide,
The yearning don’t subside,
The yearning pays no mind.
Just to hold your one,
Heart to abide.
I appreciate a song named John Candy that is actually about the actor and name-checks Summer Rental. All the other songs are good too. Great EP from a great band! TFid
The new EP from Scottish songwriter Alec Bowman_Clarke goes deep, setting vulnerable lyrics to gentle melodies & stripped-back arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2021
Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020