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Silos on the Hill

by The Orbweavers

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We wrote and recorded this song in that strange and small bridge of time between the end of one year, and the start of another.
The train of 2018 has gone.
Past the silos, where all that old sadness seeped into the ground.
Can still feel it every time the train rolls by.
Water flows out into the bay, as it always has.
We cross over the bridges, over rivers and creeks, on Church Street, on Punt Road, on Arden Street, on Dynon Road, and there are those silos again, in Brunswick, Collingwood, Richmond, Kensington, standing on the horizon.

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Silos on the hill, by the railway line
Where I used to cry,
River of my tears
Wash into the bay,
Now my eyes are dry
(But I still …)

Silos on the hill, while you’re standing still
My whole life rolls by
What is it you hold? Granular and gold
(All our dreams and lies).

And I still remember that old sadness
When I pass by this way
It seeped into the ground
And now my feelings remain.

Silos on the hill, I turn to the south,
To the river mouth
Where the water flows
Over shell and bone,
My whole life rolls by.

And I still remember that old sadness
When I pass by this way
It seeped into the ground
And now those feelings remain...

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released December 31, 2018

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The Orbweavers Melbourne, Australia

The Orbweavers are Marita Dyson & Stuart Flanagan, multidisciplinary artists working in song, performance and visual art. Their work responds to history, memory and place. They are interested in local waterways, industrial history and environmental change.

They have written and recorded 3 albums, co-produced by their greyhound companions, Fern (RIP 2018) & Susie, released through Mistletone.
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