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Ceremony

by Shannon McNally

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This song “Ceremony” has been a prayer for a long time. The universe has its very own sense of time. It is finicky, it is sensitive, it is specific. For those with ‘old souls’ little surprises us and when the goods are delivered we remember actually we’ve had it all along. The joy of living comes with a price, it is called pain. Some feel it more acutely than others but none are exempt. ‘Ceremony’ is more or less about the glacial time frame of justice and poetry. Some things you can not do when you are young. Ultimately we just hold on and come to understand that life is a lonely mission which we share with others. Dedicated to Leonard Peltier.

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Rolling a long way from the sea
The sky is the color of Grenadine
The horizon cools the nerves like codeine
There’s nothing saying you can trust a heart
It’s a patchwork that’s been ripped and sewn
Memories are just thoughts walking in their sleep
Keep holding on holding out

Things that are left for all of time
High lean country and old story lines
They sit dark against the glow of stars
Like some ancient language own on the rez
Remembered by the old, imagined by the rest
Ceremony returns you to your blood’s country
so keep holding on holding out

Somewhere there’s a lonely mission
Waiting on your entrance
Somewhere there’s a desperate vision
Holding on to the dream of you, dream of you, dream of you

Thoughts are like rivers they flow down stream
words are like currents they move in between
Songs have a power when they are true and lean
May the great wide open take you into its arms
Swaddle and hold you and keep you from harm
The best bits are missing but they will be known

Keep holding on, holding out
Because it’s a lonely mission
A lonely mission

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released March 8, 2024
Written by Shannon McNally
Produced by Mike McCarthy
Copyright 2024
Queen Maeve Records and Shancie Songs
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Shannon McNally Nashville, Tennessee

Americana, Singer Songwriter. Listen to the 2023 Singles "Magnolia", "Wasted Time", & "Hello". Album "The Waylon Sessions" out now.

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