Generations, by Rik Loveridge

Generations

by Rik Loveridge

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1.	Awaken 03:46	info	buy track
2.	Didn’t mean it 03:14	info	buy track
3.	Exposure II 04:52	info	buy track
4.	Forever Young 03:18	info	buy track
5.	Generations 03:21	lyrics	buy track
Generations by Rik Loveridge (inspired by poem by Hamish MacNeil) As they were forgotten the stones remembered And wood recorded too, in rings, as history Sings in the earth. Water carries our ripples The soil waits to welcome Reach out to touch and teach us, Our ancestors, generation upon generation. They wait to be heard again, To grow the family tree below To enrich the dust with my dust All must make way for the next generation It must be so one day
6.	Earth Reborn 03:58	info	buy track
7.	Lazy day 03:18	info	buy track
8.	Post Truth State 05:04	info	buy track
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With approaching death I find comfort that my passing leaves space and resource for the next generation.

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GENERATIONS by Rik Loveridge

(inspired by poem by Hamish MacNeil (AKA Macaque), see below)

As they were forgotten the stones remembered

And wood recorded too, in rings, as history
Sings in the earth.

Water carries our ripples

The soil waits to welcome
Reach out to touch and teach us,
Our ancestors, generation upon generation.

They wait to be heard again,
To grow the family tree below
To enrich the dust with my dust

All must make way for the next generation

It must be so one day

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GENERATIONS by Hamish MacNeil

As men forget and are forgotten
The stones remember
And wood remembers, keeps
Records in rings, and history
Sings through other things buried
In the earth.

We rub our lives against them
In ignorance, unpick the fabric
Of the past one kicked stone, one
Dug ditch at a time. The broken
Threads of lives fray like nerves, unravel,
Reach out to touch and teach us,
Our ancestors, generation upon generation.

The mighty works of the Celts and Brittons,
The Romans, Saxons, Normans, all their
Oxymandian constructions still speak from
Open graves, murmur beneath the weight
Of new vitality, wait to be heard again, while

My sons' bones and their grandsons' bones
Will join my bones and my grandfather's father's. The dust will be richer, but
The memories will be gone.

credits

released January 1, 2024

Thanks to:

Thanks to my family and friends, especially my soulmate, Jude.

 Thanks to audio engineers Paul Cobbold (ex-Rockfield) and Dave Pick (FFG).   

Thanks to musicians especially Nick Fletcher (John Hackett Band), Sam Loveridge-Miller and my 1 yr old granddaughter Willow Loveridge.   

Thanks to Duncan Parsons for top production support.

Thanks to Mike Thorpe for album graphics and original cover art.

Thanks Hamish MacNeil for his poetic collaboration to the album.

Thank you to all who help People with Parkinson's.

All music and lyrics by Rik Loveridge except where stated.

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Rik Loveridge England, UK

Former member of The Kentish Spires.

Currently producing mainly progressive rock music under the name 'Single Helix'.

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