Where's Piers? - The First Breath of Winter (Official Video)

This song is about the changing of seasons and the journey towards winter. It started out as a poem I wrote back at uni, and has since evolved into its current form. This time of year is about the coming of darkness and this song celebrates that.
Lyrics:
"As I held the embrace of a September sun
While she stroked my fingers, one-by-one
An icy whisper startled my skin
With a song of the darkness about to begin.
The first breath of winter, herald of the dark,
Bard of the cold nights, the solitary lark
Who cries from the tree that October left bare,
When at last its leaves fell in the colours of her hair.
Loud its wings beat in the three-month-rains,
With echoes in the frost dew to fall again.
The lonely lark goes on through Boreas' gale,
To circle the still valleys, shrouded pale.
No mourners to sing or chirp their sorrow,
Breath by breath, the year's passing will come,
Its requiem march in the fall of the snow,
That will melt in the dawn of the reborn sun."
EP released on 25th October, 2024
This video released on 20th December, 2024
Words and Music by Piers Francis
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