Wb / Bw
Alanna Boudreau * Track #3 On Goodbye Stranger
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This is another of Alanna Boudreau’s songs which is basically just a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem put to music, in this case God’s Grandeur. It is a very faithful reading of the poem with almost nothing added or subtracted, besides the “Warm breast…over everything” and “Said, ah, my wings” lines whic...
Wb / Bw Lyrics
Warm breast, bright wings
Holy Ghost brooding over everything (x6)
The world is charged with the grandeur of God
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod
Warm breast, bright wings
Holy Ghost brooding over everything
Warm breast, bright wings
Holy Ghost brooding over everything
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and ah! bright wings
Said, ah, my wings
Said, ah, my wings
Said, ah, my wings
Said, ah, ah, ah, ooh
Said, ah, my wings
Warm breast, bright wings
Holy Ghost brooding over everything (x5)
Wb / Bw Q&A
Who wrote Wb / Bw's ?
Wb / Bw was written by Alanna Boudreau.
When did Alanna Boudreau release Wb / Bw?
Alanna Boudreau released Wb / Bw on Sat Jul 21 2018.