The Greene Wall
from Songs from the Mere by Wolcensmen
about
If you’ve ever had fleeting visions of a thing or place—that keep returning, year after year—then you understand my mindset when writing the lyrics to ‘The Greene Wall’. Something real yet fantastical, which can be described with words yet never ones that do it justice. The last lines are something akin to a ‘bindrune galdor’, invoking the image of a ‘weoh’ (a sacred spiritual place).
Musically ‘The Greene Wall’ is the first full acoustic song I ever wrote, around 2007. I’d composed short acoustic passages long before this but never a full structure in this style. When the idea for ‘Songs from the Mere’ arose, I decided that it would be a good opportunity to document the earliest tangible origins of Wolcensmen, so I reworked the structure from an old recording to fit the otherworldly atmosphere of the theme.
Musically ‘The Greene Wall’ is the first full acoustic song I ever wrote, around 2007. I’d composed short acoustic passages long before this but never a full structure in this style. When the idea for ‘Songs from the Mere’ arose, I decided that it would be a good opportunity to document the earliest tangible origins of Wolcensmen, so I reworked the structure from an old recording to fit the otherworldly atmosphere of the theme.
lyrics
Wendinge, wakeles,
Pathe to the beyonde,
Hid‘n erelong.
(Pathe hid‘n erelong)
Walkynge, weightles,
Briht within a hoode,
Moss-bounde under foot.
(Briht under foot)
Kenynge, kithles,
Washynge ouer me,
Glowynge evergreene.
(Wash ouer greene)
Restynge, rooted,
Mighty greene wa ll,
Rysinge evermore.
(Might evermore)
Hæl-ar-ræd-dæg,
Weoh gleminge greene.
Pathe to the beyonde,
Hid‘n erelong.
(Pathe hid‘n erelong)
Walkynge, weightles,
Briht within a hoode,
Moss-bounde under foot.
(Briht under foot)
Kenynge, kithles,
Washynge ouer me,
Glowynge evergreene.
(Wash ouer greene)
Restynge, rooted,
Mighty greene wa ll,
Rysinge evermore.
(Might evermore)
Hæl-ar-ræd-dæg,
Weoh gleminge greene.
credits
from Songs from the Mere,
released January 11, 2019
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