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Desert Dove

by Holly Arrowsmith

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Desert Doves wake me
In the Catalina Dawn
You’d be up already
Listening to their mourning song

The birds all knew you
They’d come running through the sand
You’d be out there sitting
With a Cardinal in your hand

I bought an olive tree
To plant your ashes underneath
A tree that lives for fifteen hundred years
And I know it won’t bring you back
But it has arms like yours

Praise
To early waking grievers
To those who face the dawn
Cry out in your weakness
And the rain may come

On the other side of the ocean
There is a child
Who is a Woman now
And when I hear your Desert Dove
I am reminded not to stay away
From my own soul too long

Praise
To early waking grievers
To those who face the dawn
Cry out in your weakness
And the rain may come

Praise to doubters and to dreamers
May your questions be a song
Cry out in your weakness
And the rain may come


So I listen for that sound
Carried by the Dove
To show me my own sorrow
And how to rise above

Today it was something I read
By a dead Poet

credits

released January 12, 2023
Engineered and Produced by Thomas Healy at The Lab in Auckland, New Zealand.
Cass Basil on Bass.
Alex Freer on percussion.
Thomas Healy on Guitar.
Holly Arrowsmith vocals and guitar.
Written by Holly Arrowsmith.

Mastered by Paul Gold, Salt Mastering NYC

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Holly Arrowsmith Auckland, New Zealand

‘Spare, subtle, approachable and utterly beautiful, anchored by a voice that pulls you close and cancels the noise outside.’
/Stephen Thompson- NPR MUSIC

Born in the heart of the American desert, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and raised in the mountains of Southern New Zealand, Holly Arrowsmith is a strong forerunner in New Zealand’s current folk revivalist movement.
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