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Featured on 2018 EP 'finding dashti'.

Originally called 'Explore' - written during the fundraising for the Cambrian Wildwood land Bwlch Corrog in mid Wales: see www.cambrianwildwood.org

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I have decided to explore,
So don’t you tell me where I need to go!
I have decided to explore,
So don’t you tell me know I need to be!
You won’t catch me –
I’m protected by my freedom,
You won’t catch me, even if I fall.
You won’t catch me –
I’m protected by my freedom,
You can’t catch me, even if I fall…

Let the pearls of my truth
Stir into co-creation,
Life is just a big mix-up as the Gods
They raise their cocktail-cups,
We’re losing the battle with living perfection
As mischief shoots his bow and arrows through us all…

I have decided to explore,
So don’t you tell me where I need to go.
I have decided to explore,
So don’t you tell me know I need to be.
You won’t catch me –
I’m protected by my freedom,
You won’t catch me, even if I fall.
You won’t catch me –
I’m protected by my freedom,
You can’t catch me, even if I fall…

Let my anger swirl down the
Plughole to the Underworld, and
Emerge shining, with its sweet strength
And its good word
Powering my heart and fresh on my lips,
‘cause it’s with these arrows that we cannot miss…

I have decided to explore,
So don’t you tell me where I need to go.
I have decided to explore,
So don’t you tell me know I need to be.
You won’t catch me –
I’m protected by my freedom,
You won’t catch me, even if I fall.
You won’t catch me –
I’m protected by my freedom,
You won’t catch me, even if I fall…

Oh but how could I think of
moving on that fast?
Wasn’t ready to leave
your magic land behind –
how could I think of moving on that fast?
I still want it in my life…

I have decided to explore
And I won’t let treasure pass me by,
But we won’t live for wanting more
If it’s fool’s gold that
Gets into our eyes…

How could I think of moving on so fast?
Wasn’t ready to leave your magic land behind…
The calls of the future echo in the past
And guide us towards the light.
Guide us towards the light…

credits

from Under the Apple Tree, released November 10, 2021
Recorded live by the wond'rous Stephanie Finegan: www.stephaniefinegan.com

Mixiful sound mastery by Danny Emerson: www.dannyemerson.com

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Ailsa Mair (known by some as The Fairytale Cellist) is a Singing Cellist, Viola da Gamba rebel, Songwriter, Composer and Improviser living in, mid-Wales.

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