Sam Lee - The Moon Shines Bright feat. Elizabeth Fraser (Live at RAK Studios) with Bernard Butler

The Moon Shines Bright feat. Elizabeth Fraser, produced by Bernard Butler, taken from the new album, 'Old Wow', out now: https://slee.lnk.to/OldWow Follow Sam Lee: Instagram: https://instagram.com/samleesong Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samleefolk Twitter: https://twitter.com/samleesong Official Site: https://www.samleesong.co.uk Credits: Director: Conor Gorman Producer: Diāna Āboliņa Director of Photography: George Allen Editor: Alicja Rymarowicz Colour Grader: Anna Barsukova Sound Engineer: Nicholas O’Brien for Upcycled Sounds Piano: James Keay Violin: Joseph O’Keefe Bass: Misha Mullov-Abbado Percussion: Josh Green Lyrics: The moon shines bright And the stars give a light In a little while it will be day The voice of love it calls upon us all And bids us awake and pray Rise, arise wake thee arise Life she is calling thee For it might be the mothering of your sweet soul If you open your eyes and see That the life of a man it comes with little plan It flourishes like a flower As tender in the heart into which you’re born So cherish your every hour For the summertime has come And the trees are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather Will you go, lassie go, And we’ll all go together To pull wild mountain Thyme All around the blooming heather For our time is not long Time’s an old folk song No longer can we stay Those that remember say Blessed are you all Who make it through this brawl Long life and another good year Blessed are you all Who answer to the call Long life and another good year Long life and another good year The moon shines bright And the stars will be our height Life she is calling thee Rise, arise wake thee arise And ever more watchful be This adaptation of the ancient traditional folk song The Moon Shines Bright came as a ‘gift’ from Sam's good friend, the 93-year-old English Gypsy, Freda Black, who offered him a song to take on pilgrimage. It is also influenced by a Zuni prayer for greeting the sunrise and encouraging us to experience wonder in the here and now. This meaningful and pertinent track weaves together ‘messages of devotion from different lands to communicate the impermanence of life and the importance of recognising the sacred’. Elizabeth Fraser’s (Cocteau Twins) vocals inject a haunting reminder into The Moon Shines Bright of the beauty and fragility of life, using a fragment of lyrics from a traditional Scottish folk song ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’. Sam says ‘To me, the song is about the importance of being connected. In a time when religion and faith are in question in our western lives, its simplicity of form brings us back to the bare bones of essential life experience and is a call for us to pay attention to the bigger things in this world; “for our time is not long, time’s an old folksong”. The Moon Shines Bright track is ‘a gentle yet potent wake up call to recognise the beauty of life in its purest form’. #OldWow #TheMoonShinesBright #SamLeeMusic