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The Body to the Soul

by Loah

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This song is a poem by Eva Gore-Booth that I set to music as part of a wider forthcoming project of poetry set as songs.

Eva Gore-Booth was an incredible woman in her time - a poet, playwright, suffragette, social worker, labour rights activist. She fought for women’s rights to vote, our rights in the workplace, not to mention being an LGBTQ heroine and was an all-around genuine legend in every sense of the word.

I first came to know of her through the Yeats poem, In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz, but it was only in the course of this project that I looked deeper into her own work as a writer.

I chose The Body to the Soul as it has a very dualistic quality I found beautiful. It’s ethereal, but it’s also a direct conversation between the body and the soul. The body is sometimes playfully, sometimes angrily admonishing the soul for everything that the soul is putting it through: how much work, how much sorrow, how much intensity and contrast. And after all that, the body returns to cruel and indifferent dust while the soul flies on to enjoy eternal life. It’s given me wonderful, if sometimes sombre, perspective in this time.

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You have dragged me on through the wild wood ways,
You have given me toil and scanty rest, 
I have seen the light of ten thousand days 
Grow dim and sink and fade in the West.

You shall follow once more a wandering fire  
You shall gaze again on the starlit sea,
You shall gather roses out of the mire: 
Alas, but you shall not remember me.

Behold, I reach forth from beyond the years,  
I will cry to you from beneath the sod, 
I will drag you back from the starry spheres,  
Yea, down from the very bosom of God.

You shall follow once more a wandering fire  
You shall gaze again on the starlit sea, 
You shall gather roses out of the mire: 
Alas, but you shall not remember me.

You cannot hide from the sun and the wind, 
Or the whispered song of the April rain, 
The proud earth that moulds all things to her mind,  
Shall gather you out of the deeps again.

You shall follow once more a wandering fire  
You shall gaze again on the starlit sea, 
You shall gather roses out of the mire: 
Alas, but you shall not remember me.

credits

released April 29, 2021
Music by Loah
Words by Eva Gore-Booth
Piano performed by Johnny Taylor
Production by Cian Finlay
Mastering by Camden Studios
Artwork Photography, Hair and Makeup by The Naked Studios
Artwork Creative Director, Set Designer and Stylist by Ngazaire

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Loah Dublin, Ireland

Loah is Sallay-Matu Garnett, a singer songwriter of Irish /Sierra Leonian descent. She performs her unique blend of Afro- folksoul across solo projects and with collaborators. In 2020, she returned to her old vocation as a pharmacist to frontline, yet continued to contribute culturally, presenting several music shows and releasing When I Rise Up, an EP of poetry from the 1920s set to music. ... more

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