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

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 day
None shall be imprisoned
For tending the land
For feeding our children
One day
We will cherish the soil
Valued more than gold
Its value more than gold
One day our hands will raise
For the way we walk and how we own it
And I am singing for this vision

The full mesmerizing lyrics to Seeds:

Seeds

By Ayla Nereo

My brother lives in a jungle concrete
Like a belly gone to rumbling
Only wants a taste of the sky
Wind and fire, setting the seeds
For the son of his son come with him
One day to come
My sister, her hands are raised
For the stakes are high and she knows it
And I am singing for her vision
Singing for her vision

This is not mere speech
All we seek is here where we stand and
Shape as clay, turning tides dug deep and
Wider still to hold what comes
And wider still to say

We’ll never be moved from here
Our lives will live in the seeds we’ve sown
Calling what’s coming clear
Our will is held in the gardens we’ve grown
As light from the sun we can give
As rivers meeting can become one
Walk toward the call of this
And plant it deep for the ones to come

One day
None shall be imprisoned
For tending the land
For feeding our children
One day
We will cherish the soil
Valued more than gold
Its value more than gold
One day our hands will raise
For the way we walk and how we own it
And I am singing for this vision

Singing for this vision
This is not mere speech
All we seek is here where we stand and
Shape as clay, turning tides dug deep and
Wider still to hold what comes
And wider still to say

We’ll never be moved from here
Our lives will live in the gardens we’ve grown
Calling what’s coming clear
Our will is held in the seeds we’ve sown
As light from the sun we can give
As rivers meeting can become one
Walk toward the call of this
And plant it deep for the ones to come

My brother live in a jungle concrete
Like a belly gone to rumbling
Only wants a taste of the sky
Wind and fire, setting the seeds
For the son of his son
To come with him one day
Taste the roots he was born from
Pass him the story how all
Hands came together as
One