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    In Her Own Time is a collection of folk songs that sing of home, love, loss and finding the path back to yourself. While Noirin had one original song on her first album, Ecotones in 2012 - this album has five stories of family, of lockdown and of the Good People she met along the way.

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Selkie by Nóirin Lynch

After 12 weeks of lockdown, suddenly I could go home to family and friends. It was almost shocking to pack a case now that we could.
The day before I started towards home, I jumped into my car to drive to the nearby sea. 2 hours later I was still sitting in an unmoving queue of cars all heading the same way, with all of us frustrated again. I looked right and realised the sea was just there beside me, I was driving along by it, focused on some mythical carpark ahead!
I turned back, went home and wrote this song.

A selkie is a mythical Irish/Scottish sea creature who can drop her skin on land becoming a human woman. Standing naked on the shore, she can step back into the flowing waves or turn into the dry earth to walk laid out paths and live in pre planned roles.

lyrics

Dyin to be home now to touch another's hand
But the thought of packing cases, a dread fills up my mind
What happens when you hold your breath for months of being brave
The pain denied, the tears un-cried, they surface like a wave

And its silly to be talking now of how we all were brave
When all we did was stay indoors for forever and a day
Yet somehow as I face the door and head for family
I'm more lonely and heartbroken now I smell the salty sea

And this Selkie's standing naked on the shore
Watching as it all returns to what it was before
Standing in a newborn skin of calm and peace and discipline
Wondering what it costs us now, to stop and start again

The end of being brave is now a scary place to stand
The end of lonely moments, the taking of a hand
Anyone can carry the ocean with a heart
But to watch it float away unchanged
It tears us all apart.

And what is to remember, and what is to forget
What remains unspoken from when we were at our best
And how are we to honour the grief, the memories?
Must we walk the path laid out or can we swim these salty seas?

Oh this Selkie's standing naked on the shore...

credits

from In Her Own Time, released November 6, 2020
Guitar: Jon O'Connell
Mandolin: Adam Shapiro
Vocal: Nóirin Lynch

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Nóirin Lynch Clarecastle, Ireland

Nóirin is a singer/songwriter based in Clare in Ireland. She is known for her unique voice,
ability to inhabit a traditional song or to create a heartwarming story in a simple song. This is her folk album.

Previous albums
- Ecotones 2012
- Crag Road 2014 ... more

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