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Valley

by Benoit

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1.
There's a fire by the hillside It's looking dark and mean We're all watching from the outside And there ain't nothing in between We've become so good at talking And telling others what is right The dirty water that we're drawing Will turn within the night But I have told you I'm not coming 'round When the waters up to my knees Every season will come and pass and leave me standing here But I won't find you near I will lie by the highway I'm racing back and forth That is when I knew I can't stay And took a trip up North When they found me by the homestead It was getting late But I told them they had misread The writing on the gates But I have told you I'm not coming 'round When the waters up to my knees Every season will come and pass and leave me standing here But I won't find you near There's a river running downstream It's passing through the town What began as such a small dream And then it filtered down Who'd have thought that when it opened The town would turn to spring? I can hear the birds are calling And angels start to sing But I have told you I'm not coming 'round When the waters up to my knees Every season will come and pass and leave me standing here But I won't find you near
2.
I stood upon a hill The rain had drenched my clothes My boots are soaking in The wake of all my woes But your love has warmed my heart Like the sun I won't be home when you knock on my door I've packed my things and a longing for more And so I said a last farewell to the walls That kept my soul from being torn into fours I took one last good look and headed down the line I'm leaving all the past behind I need not speak where these old feet have tread Like those wandering birds I am covered in red A dirty chest of feathers tells of where they're been And like those I have gone to where the grass is green Another promise of a land held in time I'm leaving all the past behind Do you recall seeing sparks in the rain Or in the tears where our wonder remains? I turn the key to keep an eye and keep my heart Behind the wooden doors I guard it with my life But all it takes is just a word to swing them wide I'm leaving all the past behind I'm leaving all the past behind
3.
If I had my wits about me I would take off on a highway Take my sorrow down Lord, I'll take my sorrow down And every time I see in passing Evidence of people grasping For something to hold Lord, just for something to hold Better make sure you don't walk alone. So I think of you darling It is quiet Sweeter than the subtle touch on morning dew Never felt like we parted The spring had only started All of my love is still for you When I think back to the time I Drifted from that shallow shoreline The water here is cold Lord, the water is so cold And 7000 times I told her Never will I get to mourn her Gentle loving waves Lord, her gentle loving waves I don't want to just give her away. When I think of you darling It is quiet Sweeter than the subtle touch on morning dew Never felt like we parted The spring had only started All of my love is still for you Like the moon eclipse my heartache I've been burning since the daybreak I wish it all could stay Lord, I wish it all could stay I've been fighting on a front line Never had there been a right time To just let it go To just let it all go home Even if my scars will never show. So I think of you darling It is quiet Sweeter than the subtle touch on morning dew Never felt like we parted The spring had only started All of my love is still for you Never felt like we parted The spring had only started All of my love is still for you
4.
There's a smoke around Australia reaching up above the hills And it's seeping through the doorways of the gentrified old mills My vision is as cloudy as a drunken old mans sight But I can see the birds all taking to the mallee bush by flight Think I might grab my things I'm heading down the mountain And I'm following the streams Just to hear the birds all calling And to smell that sweet soil There's the groaning of the traffic jam all flowing through my ears To just to rid my mind of what it means will take me several years My eyes are feeling restless for a clear and starry night But I can't see through all the fog and all the fake polluted light Think I might grab my things I'm heading down the mountain And I'm following the streams Just to hear the birds all calling And to smell that sweet soil Our feet are burning footsteps in the wooden oak stairwells I sure know where I've come from where it goes I sure can't tell Will you take my hand and lead me to the floor of my delight But will we find the place all ransacked by some thieves the other night Think I might grab my things I'm heading down the mountain And I'm following the streams Just to hear the birds all calling And to smell that sweet soil If there's one thing that I'm saying then it sure is hard to tell If the thing that I'm a searching for is in a whisper or a yell Is the one to blame as hidden as the echoes in my mind Or as clear as all the mistakes that I've had to leave behind Think I might grab my things I'm heading down the mountain And I'm following the streams Just to hear the birds all calling And to smell that sweet soil
5.
The autumn leaves are falling Further than the awning Sweetly to the ground Barely make a sound So my eyes are crumbling The rain is slightly numbing Rest upon my face Find a peaceful place The day you left me standing I didn't know would ever come And though I'm getting older I'm a man And only one. I heard the falcon calling Her wings the wind was holding The distance held me there Beneath her careful stare You painted me a picture The colours were a mixture Of greens and blues and gold For my grey heart to hold The day you left me standing I didn't know would ever come And though I'm getting older I'm a man And only one. Our house feels much to big now I still don't understand how Clothe me with your touch It's always been enough We'll float on through these days dear We'll let our sorrow sit here To rise into the spring With every holy thing The day you left me standing I didn't know would ever come And though I'm getting older I'm a man And only one.
6.
It happened in the days and years before That had left a muddy footprint on the floor In those years I never doubted Never thought that much about it But I knew we'd never be the same no more If I told you what a mess that I've become How the days and nights have shattered into one Would it send your heart a running? Like a freight train hear it humming Through the valley 'twards the ever setting sun Oh my Lord Oh my Lord Why's my heart grown so cold? Hold my hope Hold my hope Till the tide takes me home. Well I'd lie to you and I'd enclose my heart But it's not that I believe we've grown apart Where a diamond and a dust storm I've been blown around and I don't know Where I landed or from where I did depart I'm a feather floating through an open door A broken bottle sinking to the ocean floor I've been twisting for the sunlight While my feet give in to frostbite And I don't know what I feel like anymore Oh my Lord Oh my Lord Why's my heart grown so cold? Hold my hope Hold my hope Till the tide takes me home. I'm looking for a wise man To hear the winter in his breath Hear stories in the silence A sound I never can forget Oh my Lord Oh my Lord Why's my heart grown so cold? Hold my hope Hold my hope Till the tide takes me home.
7.
How can I hear when everyone's talking? How can I see when the fog is haunting me? I've never been much of a fighter Not until the day my chest grew tighter still Someday I'll find my way Lead me to the riverside where I can rest my tears And say goodbye. Trees tumble down without a reason Time and time again in every season here I am still at large and I am still running I have seen the rain and I've seen the stunning haze Someday I'll find my way Lead me to the riverside where I can rest my tears And say goodbye. I'm finding the books no one has opened Each and every page was something beholding me I told the train just where I'm going It could take the world without even knowing it Someday I'll find my way Lead me to the riverside where I can rest my tears And say goodbye.

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released August 17, 2021

All words and music written by Tom Mahoney.
Produced by David Miller and Tom Mahoney.
Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered by David Miller, Melbourne.
Main vocals and acoustic guitar on all tracks by Tom Mahoney.
Backing acoustic guitar in When the water's up to my knees by Ben Langdon.
Backing electric guitar in All of my love is still for you by Ben Langdon.
Harp in Someday I'll find my way and Think I might grab my things and go by Phil (Ol' Shep) Sheppard.
Backing vocals in When the water's up to my knees, I'm leaving all the past behind and It happened in the days and years before by Ashleigh Conn.
Violin and Cello in The autumn leaves are falling by Dylan Knur.

Photography by Jess Mahoney.
Art concept, direction and design by Tom Mahoney.

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Benoit Melbourne, Australia

Benoit is a Folk singer-songwriter hailing from the Eastern hills of Melbourne. The music of Benoit is melodic and reflective, with soulful lyrics. Benoit provokes his audience to consider another perspective and think deeply about the everyday things of life. In relating to the human condition and the issues of the day, Benoit seeks to present another narrative, one full of beauty, love and life. ... more

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