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The Echoes Remain (compilation)

by Matt Steady

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    I have only had TWENTY of these made. They have been professionally produced, with great artwork. They look and sound AMAZING!

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    This is a free CD of 11 of my favourite songs from the past 8 albums. I'm so confident you'll like it and come back for more that I'm offering this for free (if you don't mind paying p&p). If you'd like a cheaper option - the download is 100% free with no p&p required. It is professionally produced with super artwork.

    [Edit 16/09/2020 - Bandcamp won't let me add it for free, so it's 50p but I've taken that off the shipping! Sigh...]

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    Matt

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Presence, Closer, New Buryin' Ground, The Echoes Remain (compilation), Nawglan, the Sacred Nine, Chasing Down Wolves, Here be Dragons, Echoes of Albion (on back order!), and 5 more. , and , .

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1.
The Roamer 03:56
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Highway stretched before me Horizon full of haze Heading south, three hundred miles Dry wind fills my days My feet’ll keep on walking Till someplace feels like home I will roam I will roam I will roam A wooden cross behind me Marks a fellow travellin’ man Couldn’t spare the time to dig too deep In the baking sand The desperate pull, the gravity I’ll mourn him when I can I will roam I will roam I will roam My soul is filled with longing Mixed with deepest dread T'wards heaven or hell I drift on My boots are filled with lead Redemption or damnation I know not where I head I will roam I will roam I will roam
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Hello Old Friend 03:29
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Hello old friend Feels like coming home Hello old friend Like stepping in out of the rain Hello old friend You were there for me when I needed you Soothed my heart and took away my pain Gave me a reason to live and a purpose once again You were there for me, my friend Hello old friend You gave me wings to fly Hello old friend Then you took away the sky Hello old friend You were there for me when I needed you Soothed my heart and took away my pain Gave me a reason to live and a purpose once again You were there for me, my friend Hello old friend Feels like coming home Hello old friend Like stepping in out of the rain Hello old friend
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Theory of Ruins 05:26
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Have you ever heard the theory of ruins? A design for more than life, extending past the fall Gratefully crumbling into legend What’s left behind never-ending I have seen the burden laid on the human race Everything is beautiful when considered in its prime Eternity’s placed into our human hearts No-one can fathom the path to the end of time When I’m taken by the flames What will I leave behind? How many souls will I have touched? That’s what stands the test of time The theory of ruins The theory of ruins The days of kings have long since ended The heart that fed besides a broken mocking hand Look upon my works you mighty and despair Two legs of stone standing in the sand When I’m taken by the flames What will I leave behind? How many souls will I have touched? That’s what stands the test of time The theory of ruins The theory of ruins
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The Green Man 03:58
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Way back in time before memories We lived in the fields of our birth We nurtured the soil and the forests and trees In return we lived off the earth What is seen is not all there is There are two realms intertwined A spiritual world just out of sight But rarely far from mind Closer still when the solstice came Along ley lines and cairns of power The mysteries of the spirit world Came abroad for barely an hour Brief shadows seen and the legends grew A little perspective of our place in this scene The balance of nature and spirit life Respect for the space in-between When the twilight comes and the worlds collide That boundary between death and dark and life and light The green man glimpsed in his ancient home Out of the corner of the eye just out of sight The green man And now the chainsaws scream out their songs of hate Commuters their willing slaves The cranes they'll run up a pirate's flag The bulldozers dig their unmarked graves Shrines to money's indifference It's gone further than anyone planned Profit runs without boundaries Spewing out concrete covering this land When the twilight comes and the worlds collide There's nowhere left to roam The green man cries from a far-off wood Remembering his long-lost home The green man A wise man once prophesied to me That we'll rip up the roads and tear the buildings down The forests will grow green and the streams will run clear There'll be healing and harmony all around When the twilight comes and the worlds collide There might be just enough space to roam The green man can be glimpsed in a far-off wood Walking back through his long-lost home The green man
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Buen Camino 03:45
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Buen Camino! Walking down a dirt road just 20 miles in And before we rest there’s 3 towns more The sun is going down and my legs are going stiff And I’m wondering what we’ve let ourselves in for The threads of our lives are weaving round those we meet All pilgrims on this ancient trail A common destination no matter where we start As we write another chapter in this tale I’m gonna throw my boots away when I reach Santiago I’m gonna sit right down and never get up Wake, walk, eat and sleep – my mind has found stillness But I’m going to throw my boots away It’s easy to find peace on the top of a mountain Or on a path through sunflower fields Got to grab a little bit and keep it in my heart As I head back to the urban battlefields I’m gonna throw my boots away when I reach Santiago I’m gonna sit right down and never get up Wake, walk, eat and sleep – my mind has found stillness But I’m going to throw my boots away Buen Camino!
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Long Road Home 03:57
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What if I told you You could find your way back? That sometimes a person can change? There’s a light in the window We’re holding out hope Don’t matter how long it burns But remember this The farther you go The harder it is to turn It’s a longer path back than the way that you came Taking the long road home I know that you’re out there So many miles away I believe you can hear my voice My love is a beacon guiding your path Just follow the long road home
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Funny Old World 04:54
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It’s a funny old world With the games you used to play You seemed to give up more than you ever gave in You’d dress up, and make up, then you’d shoot to kill Aiming low for maximum pain It’s a funny old world It’s a funny old world Stumbling home in driving rain You conquered a heart, but gave up your own all the same Lipstick smeared and hair untied, like a flower underfoot Sun’s coming up but the world’s going down It’s a funny old world
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Grist for the Mill 03:24
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You take our crops, and they burn our fields You take the tithe and they loot the coin You took our sons and you marched them to war They took our daughters and sold them as slaves You’re all living for power, for wealth and a name We’re just trying to live We’re just grist for the mill Grist for the mill ‘Tween the hammer and the cross The river keeps running The wheel keeps on turning The mill-stones keep grinding us down We’re just grist for the mill Don’t care much for kings, for priests or for lords Don’t care who takes when there’s none left to give You want our loyalty but what does that mean When there’s been no harvest and no planting of seed Hunger’s our enemy, a fight to the death Without mercy or recourse or plea We’re just grist for the mill Grist for the mill ‘Tween the hammer and the cross The river keeps running The wheel keeps on turning The mill-stones keep grinding us down We’re just grist for the mill
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The White Cliffs of Dover 06:09
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62 ships, 10000 souls Sailing right out of the sun The empire's might sees the furious tribes Lined up for the battle to come No safe landing here The fleet sails east to a landing at Walmer The troops forced to swim from deep water With the Britons attacking at range from the shallows They're heading right into the slaughter No safe landing here A talisman of hope to England's friend A beacon of welcome at long journey's end This green and pleasant land is guarded over By the ancient watchmen of the white cliffs of dover After 2000 years, a greater threat Rises from out of the east The country defends in blackouts and fear From the air not only the seas No safe landing here Batteries of guns and listening posts Bristle along the cliff Circling above a hurricane wheels The few become part of the myth No safe landing here A talisman of hope to England's friend A beacon of welcome at long journey's end This green and pleasant land is guarded over By the ancient watchmen of the white cliffs of dover No safe landing here
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Hazel of the Rocks 03:02
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Wayfaring Stranger 04:18
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I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through this world below There’s no sickness, no toil, nor danger In that fair land to which I go I know dark clouds will gather 'round me I know my way is hard and steep But beauteous fields arise before me Where God's redeemed, their vigils keep I'm going there to see my Father And all my loved ones who've gone on before I'm just going over Jordan I'm just going over home I'm going there to see my Mother She said she'd meet me when I come So, I'm just going over Jordan I'm just going over home I'm just going over Jordan I'm just going over home

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released September 16, 2020

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I'm an independent musician from Leicester, England. Epic Guitar Instrumentals at your service.

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