Solid Gold

from Trees by Lawrence Illsley

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    Comes in a 6 panel gatefold case with original artwork by Lawrence Illsley. This album is personal and intimate, recorded in Lawrence's childhood home a year after his mother passed away. The booklet features an original long poem 'A hospital birch, Trewellard' written especially for the release of the album which tells of Lawrence's experience recording the album. The poem is inspired by the poems in his award winning collection A Brief History of Trees, where each piece tells the history of a particular tree alongside his journey through grief.

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lyrics

You are the idea
that rides over my head
and I want all the world to know
that you are solid gold

Rosa-lee you came to me
the cliff-path rough above the sea
a charred and blackened scarf
around you head

The fire burned within the grate
fine herring bones upon the plate
I thought saw a flicker
but you're dead

You are the idea
that rides over my head
and I want all the world to know
that you are solid gold

All those times that we would sit
on consecrated ground and kiss
hours massed like banners
now too few

Those thirteen months a century
that pile of leaves a fallen tree
I thought I felt a flicker
from you

You are the idea
that rides over my head
and I want all the world to know
that you are solid gold

A tremor passed beneath us yet
that glass upon the sideboard set
the water when it ripples
is blue

Carry me across the sand
life has laughable demands
but only love that's simple,
only love that's simple
is true

Yes, you are the idea
that rides over my head
and I want all the world to know
that you are solid gold

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from Trees, released February 26, 2021
Written and performed by Lawrence Illsley

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Lawrence Illsley Abertillery, UK

Lawrence Illsley is an award winning poet and songwriter. Trees is his debut album and is released to coincide with his award winning poetry collection A Brief History of Trees.

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