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Love On The Wing

from A Beautiful Sound by Cosy Sheridan

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    This is my pandemic songbook. These songs are the gift I received from the year of isolation and shut-down; with a couple of exceptions they were all written between March 2020 and April 2021. Most of these songs were recorded in our home; they sound like me and Charlie singing at our kitchen table.

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Begun in 1994, I found this unfinished song in my journal in the summer of 2020 and finished it. I am glad it sat on the shelf for 15 years because when I was younger I would have tried to "solve it". These days I am not trying to solve all the problems in my songs.

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I have a friend who paints love on his canvas
then paints it over sky blue
He says it is there to watch over and care
and help his painting get through

If you are in his painting
it is a wondrous thing
right overhead
love on the wing

It’s been hard to cope since we made the telescope
and we couldn’t find God in outer space
it made sense to believe
if God was there we would see
and the world became
a big empty place

Way up high in the blue of his sky
Michelangelo painted that hand
to watch over and care
look up there
love we can understand

Now we have a war between religion and science
and we paint a death star
and a rebel alliance
cause it threw all the questions open wide
what if there’s nothing out there on our side

Way up high in the blue of the sky
some wondrous thing
to watch over and care
so we look up there
for a hand or a heart or a wing

Yesterday I found a feather on the bike path
that runs through town
I can’t say it’s heaven sent
but right there on the pavement
a bit of love fell from the sky to the ground

Here I am in this painting
it is a wondrous thing
right over head
love on the wing

© Cosy Sheridan 2020

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from A Beautiful Sound, released August 16, 2021
Cosy Sheridan - guitar, vocals
Charlie Koch - bass
Kent Allyn - piano

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Cosy Sheridan Harrisville, New Hampshire

Cosy Sheridan has been called “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters.” Her CD "My Fence & My Neighbor" was in the Top 10 of 2018 on folk radio. "Pretty Bird" was listed among Sing Out Magazine’s Great CDs of 2014. “You can't make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you're doing, and do it well,” - The Chicago Examiner. ... more

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