When The City Is Home

from Concrete Valleys & Manmade Canyons EP by Far Flown Falcon

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lyrics

This is the landscape of the Anthropocene
These mongrel days, turned mad and mean
Now there are cities rising up from the sand
Making fresh claims to this no-man’s land
How do we naturalise these man-made towers?
How do we claim this kingdom, how do we make it ours?

We find new patterns, in the day and the dusk
New water sources, for us to trust
You might more fiercely, fly more swiftly, this is the way when the city is home
We sleep in haste, feast without taste, this is the way when the city is home

On exhaust pipe eddies, the swallows tip-toe
Making queues on the wires, in their neat little rows
To the virgin south, the thermals turn
And then they rise through the haze, until they’re hard to discern

We find new patterns, in the day and the dusk
New water sources, for us to trust
You might more fiercely, fly more swiftly, this is the way when the city is home
We sleep in haste, feast without taste, this is the way when the city is home
And through these manmade canyons I hear
The falcon’s ringing call
It’s a reassuring sound that says
Man has not won at all

Not sentenced to prison, no tethers, nor bells
The wild finds its way within and sees fit to dwell
Nor the world has known ages, billions of years
Remade and remade, evolved, engineered

We find new patterns, in the day and the dusk
New water sources, for us to trust
You might more fiercely, fly more swiftly, this is the way when the city is home
We sleep in haste, feast without taste, this is the way when the city is home
And through these manmade canyons I hear
The falcon’s ringing call
It’s a reassuring sound that says
Man has not won at all

credits

from Concrete Valleys & Manmade Canyons EP, released April 8, 2019
James Conder – vocals & guitalele
Phill Ward – five string fretless bass, extra percussion

Mostafa Abo Zaid – oud
Mario Gamal – tabla
Kirollos S. Jacoub – ney
Omar Mounir – spanish guitar

the Reverend Owen Dobson – pump organ
Emma Beecham & Beth Askham – backing vocals

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about

Far Flown Falcon Cairo, Egypt

Far Flown Falcon is the musical identity of James Conder, a songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist.

For videos and reflections on the craft of songwriting, visit farflownfalcon.wordpress.com