Song of the Week: Expansive and intriguing Seeds by Ayla Nereo

"Ayla’s journey of meeting her fears and singing through them has grown her into the powerful performer she is today, touching an ever-widening global audience with the inspiring magic of her songs." Credit: aylanereo.com

By Alliance Communications Coordinator Amy Durr

Ayla Nereo’s “relationship with the earth is imprinted in her music, comprised of thickly layered tracks where expansive and intriguing instrumentals serve as an intricate backdrop for her delicate and soft-spoken vocals. Nereo says her music aims to inspire others to form or reform a rich relationship with nature too, as she wants to help instill ‘a sense of wonder and reverence that can connect us back to our planet, and help us take care of this home that gives us life,’” Nereo tells Billboard.

Calling us to listen deeper, Nereo’s songs are elegant masterpieces of lucid storytelling, with lyrics ringing as anthems for planetary healing, human potential, beauty, and compassion, according to her site. The drumbeat and lyrics of Seeds certainly resound as an anthem for cherishing and protecting fertile soil, a timely reminder on National Farmers Day:

One dayNone shall be imprisonedFor tending the landFor feeding our childrenOne dayWe will cherish the soilValued more than goldIts value more than goldOne day our hands will raiseFor the way we walk and how we own itAnd I am singing for this vision

 

The full mesmerizing lyrics to Seeds:

Seeds

By Ayla Nereo

My brother lives in a jungle concreteLike a belly gone to rumblingOnly wants a taste of the skyWind and fire, setting the seedsFor the son of his son come with himOne day to comeMy sister, her hands are raisedFor the stakes are high and she knows itAnd I am singing for her visionSinging for her vision

This is not mere speechAll we seek is here where we stand andShape as clay, turning tides dug deep andWider still to hold what comesAnd wider still to say

We’ll never be moved from hereOur lives will live in the seeds we’ve sownCalling what’s coming clearOur will is held in the gardens we’ve grownAs light from the sun we can giveAs rivers meeting can become oneWalk toward the call of thisAnd plant it deep for the ones to come

One dayNone shall be imprisonedFor tending the landFor feeding our childrenOne dayWe will cherish the soilValued more than goldIts value more than goldOne day our hands will raiseFor the way we walk and how we own itAnd I am singing for this vision

Singing for this vision
This is not mere speechAll we seek is here where we stand andShape as clay, turning tides dug deep andWider still to hold what comesAnd wider still to say

We’ll never be moved from hereOur lives will live in the gardens we’ve grownCalling what’s coming clearOur will is held in the seeds we’ve sownAs light from the sun we can giveAs rivers meeting can become oneWalk toward the call of thisAnd plant it deep for the ones to come

My brother live in a jungle concreteLike a belly gone to rumblingOnly wants a taste of the skyWind and fire, setting the seedsFor the son of his sonTo come with him one dayTaste the roots he was born fromPass him the story how allHands came together asOne

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