09. Wildflowers - Ian Roland by ianroland published on 2023-02-06T20:01:33Z Artist: Ian Roland Album: The Wood Wide Web Release Date: Fri 24th February 2023 During the first lockdown, due to the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020, my children and I decided to plant an area of wildflowers in our garden. Science was linking the pandemic with the years of exploitation and destruction of the natural world* and to try to combat our sense of the overwhelming helplessness of this situation we planted wildflowers and over the coming months watched the bees and butterflies visit. * “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00258-8/fulltext#seccestitle230 WILDFLOWERS I VERSE 1 SO CLOSE TO TOUCHING YOU LOST IN THE AIR, THE PUSH AND PULL DISTANCE BROUGHT US TOGETHER. SO CLOSE TO HOLDING YOU SKY’S SUCH A DEEP, DEEP BLUE OUR LIVES CHANGED FOREVER. TRUTH IS CHORUS WILDFLOWERS TO REMEMBER THE DAY WILDFLOWERS TO SIMPLY PRAY WILDFLOWERS STOPPED US FALLING APART VERSE 2 APART WE ARE LIVING THROUGH CAN WE SURVIVE THIS INVISIBLE? AS THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY SHINES DOWN. IN THE SOIL WE PLANTED OUR FAITH WILDFLOWERS COULD GROW IN THIS SPACE AS THE SEEDS FELL FROM OUR HANDS TO THE GROUND. CHORUS MID 8 WE THREW THE CORNFLOWERS, TANSY AND QUAKING-GRASS FREELY AROUND. AMONGST THE SWEET VERNAL GRASS WE MIXED PURPLE LOOSE STRIFE AND THYME. WHITE CLOVER, SELF HEAL AND YARROW LINING THE PATH. THEY SPRUNG FROM THE GROUND, BRINGING MEMORIES OF US. CHORUS Genre Folk & Singer-Songwriter