original acoustic music

“Memorial Day / Mother’s Birthday / Who Needs This Heart”

Sharing a song from Laura Siersema Trio Live at 1794 Meetinghouse: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XC6FBFB/ref=ap_ws_tlw_trk6

  • Laura Siersema, piano; Wim Auer, fretless bass; Billy Klock, drums

MEMORIAL DAY (MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY) /
WHO NEEDS THIS HEART

Who needs this heart
who will share in the world upon my shoulders
who needs this heart
it’s wild–

Who sees this heart
in the crumple and changing of September
who sees this heart
and smiles–

Who hears this heart
who hears this heart–
in the storm of a house she once mentioned–

Who holds this heart
in the presence of a darkness she must fathom
who holds this heart
who holds this heart
and is afraid–

original version of “Who Needs This Heart” on when I left loss (1999)

Laura Siersema Trio: “Who Will Pass This On”

I love these guys!  Billy Klock on drums and Wim Auer on fretless bass.  Listening to this for the first time in a number of years.  Our first live performance of this song, deeply revised from its first version on my third album, Talon of the Blackwater!

Climate Emergency: “Who Will Pass This On”

Applause to Greta Thunberg Bristol climate strike: ‘The world is on fire’

Laura Siersema Trio performing “Who Will Pass This On” live in 2012, using the same words:  “You gotta get up — the world’s on fire.” I’m on the piano with Billy Klock on drums, and Wim Auer, fretless bass.

 

WHO WILL PASS THIS ON

You and I are not unscathed
we seek the bones of our own making
whisper in the smell of autumn
who will pass this on–

We are one
from the beginning
deeper than oceans
wider than sky
trembling like the sun–
you gotta get up–

Blazing in their holy places
listen, the voices warning:

You gotta get up
the world’s on fire–
you gotta get up
the world’s on fire–

We are one from the beginning
deeper than oceans
wider than sky–

I had always dreamed–

You and I are not unscathed
we seek the bones of our own making
whisper in the smell of autumn
who will pass this on–

original version (so totally different) Talon of the Blackwater (2009)
c 2012 Laura Siersema