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The Glassmakers' Hand

from These Quiet Places by Colum Sands

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The Glassmaker's Hand
Words and Music : Colum Sands © Elm Grove Music

Some say it was chance in a far distant land,
They had stopped for the night lit fires in the sand
And the flames that were dancing and warming their hands
Had melted a secret by morning.

Eyes filled with wonder they knew not the name
But they learned how it grew in the heat of the flame,
They breathed into fire - from fire it came
As the light from the heavens comes dancing.

(Chorus)

And down all these years that trickle like sand,
There was fire in the heart of the glassmaker’s hand
Filling windows of lovers all over the land,
As the light from the heavens comes dancing.

It shelters the portrait, it ages with grace,
It mirrors the secrets in every face,
In cottage, cathedral, in each sacred place,
Bright eyes through the stone ever glancing,

It pictures the frost and it sparkles like dew,
It keeps the wind out and it lets the sun through
And it brings the stars closer for me and for you
When the light from the heavens comes dancing.

So we’ll hold up the bottle or hold up the jar,
Hold up the goblet or hold up the bar,
But whatever we’re drinking, wherever we are,
It’s the glassmaker’s praises we’re chanting

By the sand in the glass or glass in the sand,
If we measure our time by the turning of hands,
May we treasure each moment of life’s coloured strands,
Where the light from the heavens comes dancing.

credits

from These Quiet Places, released February 16, 2023
Colum Sands : vocals, guitar, mandolin, double bass
with Ger Farrelly : piano, Sinead Stone : backing vocals,
Nuala Curran : cello

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Colum Sands Newry, UK

Colum Sands is a universal storyteller who draws on a long Irish tradition of poetic musicality to weave songs for the world.
Drawing on countless performances, Sands uses humour and shrewd observation to celebrate what unites rather than what separates. His latest album “Song Bridge” includes many of the songs written for his extensive environmental campaigning over the past two years. ... more

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