The Memory of Warmth

from Urim by Hill and Vale

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lyrics

Everything is slowing down
The days are growing shorter
The time has come
To gather for the winter

Every trunk and branch
That's been severed by my hatchet
Is just bark and wood
But precious when I need it

The dormant trees
Contrast with the endless white
And burn and image in my sight
That remains when I close my eyes

And they look like a crowd
That's looking for the answers
To the storms of life
And how to live through the winter

But like the memory of warmth
It slowly fades from my vision
No time to dwell now
I need to gather up provisions

How do you word
The feeling inside
When you know what's to come
And yet it's strangely still outside

Now the snow is picking up
And the winds are growing stronger
A fire burns for now
But for how much longer

And if I run out of wood
Tell me who will find me
And if the winter relents
Will this house keep standing

All tattered and torn
An image of the march of time
A place once indwelled
But vacant and left behind

And how do you endure
A siege from the outside
When it seeps in through the cracks
And it's growing cold inside

A house crushed into dirt
Will spring forth from the Earth
A house not made with hands
Will ascend when time ends

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from Urim, released May 14, 2021

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Hill and Vale Ames, Iowa

As hills and valleys show dynamics in nature, so are the sincere existentialist themes of Hill + Vale delivered thru music best summed up by Tolkien: “one was…wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly came. The other…essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice, but…taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern.” ... more