BUY ME AN ACRE OF LAND
by BABAL
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Re-release as a single of a track from the 2016 album Singular Adventures In Post-Modern Capitalist Society.
This song was inspired by English West Country folk tales and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Tales of strong young men building a stone house in a day under their own steam in order to win the hand in marriage of their chosen love;
Emerson talks of nature and the earth in a spiritual rapturous way – the themes of love, a place to live and also honouring the Earth blended together in this lyrical outing for BABAL.
A confirmation of both personal and universal love.
This song was inspired by English West Country folk tales and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Tales of strong young men building a stone house in a day under their own steam in order to win the hand in marriage of their chosen love;
Emerson talks of nature and the earth in a spiritual rapturous way – the themes of love, a place to live and also honouring the Earth blended together in this lyrical outing for BABAL.
A confirmation of both personal and universal love.
lyrics
Buy me an acre of land
Thou must buy for me an acre of land, beyond the salt sea and the yellow sand
Thou must plough it over with a horses horn, and sew it over with a peppercorn
Thou must take it up in a bottomless sack, and bear it to the mill on a butterfly's back.
And when these works are finished and done, I'll take and marry thee under the sun.....
Buy me an acre of land, buy me an acre of land.......
(But we have cupboards full of hate and mistrust)
There is plenty for everyone!
This green ball, floats us through the heavens, the field is the floor; the garden is our bed.
Wind - sows the seed
Sun - evaporates the sea
Rain - feeds the plant
Plant - feeds the beast.
Ocean of air above,
Ocean of water beneath,
Endless circulations of divine charity,
Buy me an acre of land.
Karen Langley
Thou must buy for me an acre of land, beyond the salt sea and the yellow sand
Thou must plough it over with a horses horn, and sew it over with a peppercorn
Thou must take it up in a bottomless sack, and bear it to the mill on a butterfly's back.
And when these works are finished and done, I'll take and marry thee under the sun.....
Buy me an acre of land, buy me an acre of land.......
(But we have cupboards full of hate and mistrust)
There is plenty for everyone!
This green ball, floats us through the heavens, the field is the floor; the garden is our bed.
Wind - sows the seed
Sun - evaporates the sea
Rain - feeds the plant
Plant - feeds the beast.
Ocean of air above,
Ocean of water beneath,
Endless circulations of divine charity,
Buy me an acre of land.
Karen Langley
credits
released September 2, 2021
Karen Langley - vocals
Rob Williams - Guitars/Synthesis
Jon Sharp - Drums
Paul Smith - Bass
Karen Langley - vocals
Rob Williams - Guitars/Synthesis
Jon Sharp - Drums
Paul Smith - Bass
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BABAL England, UK
One speaks and a thousand misunderstand
where millions are silent and a thunderous applause erupts
where chatter
overwhelms humility and gossip destroys worlds
the tongues wag, the ears flap and the mind creates a wall
everything has been said but no one has understood
talking with conviction and concluding that knowledge is easy and effects a multitude of expanding smokescreens around truth
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