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Wild Sweet

from Cradle by Starling Arrow

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"The foundation of Wild Sweet was born out of a loop pedal improv on a New Year's sunrise set at a small festival many years ago. But the song was fully written during our recording process together in Asheville. Each of us was tasked with bringing two original songs to record. While I had a few options of lullabies to bring, and even started recording 1 of them, I felt something else wanting to come through. Tina encouraged me to keep searching and in the wee midnight hours, I rediscovered this melody from the archives of my recordings. One of our songwriting prompts during our group mastermind had been ‘polishing an old gem’, so I dove into polishing this song seed. The lyrics came swiftly, inspired by the energy of being in the cocoon of staying at home during lockdown, as well as the cocoon of our songwriting immersion, and the magic of recording this album together. It was the final song to be written during this cycle of our collective song-catching journey and captures the essence of what we were gathering. Wild Sweet sings to the emergence of widened wings after a deep season of rest, just as humanity is re-emerging into a new season of becoming." ~ Ayla Nereo

lyrics

go my wild sweet
here for you as you for me
go my wild sweet
here for you as me

held
beheld

seeds and ashes
be meeting

marvel
silken
unravel

mighty
become
subtle

go my wild sweet
here for you as you for me
go my wild sweet
here for you as me

we will cocoon with the season
we will sing without reason
and emerge with widened wings

since the stir
the wakening dark

the way be a maze
to the farthest we will wonder

go my wild sweet
here for you as you for me
go my wild sweet
here for you as me

marvel
unravel
mighty
subtle
held / beheld
wild sweet
wakening dark
become

i’ll be a bud, be a blooming, be fruit at its peak
i will ebb and release to the silence

i’ll be a rising flight in the morn and moon
wide is the sky we will dream

we will cocoon with the season
we will sing without reason
and emerge with widened wings

we will cocoon with the season
we will without reason
and emerge with widened wings

we will cocoon with the season
we will sing without reason
and emerge with widened wings

we will cocoon with the season
we will sing without reason
and emerge with widened wing

credits

from Cradle, released February 16, 2023
Written and Composed by Ayla Nereo
Produced by Tina Malia
Performed by Starling Arrow
(Ayla Nereo, Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia,
Tina Malia and Marya Stark)

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Starling Arrow is an all-star cast of spirit-folk songstresses featuring Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia, Tina Malia, Ayla Nereo, and Marya Stark. These artists are brought together by a deep mutual love of beauty, the power of music as a sanctuary, and the deep joy of encountering the muse. Their debut album, Cradle, will be released in 2023. ... more

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