Beloved Planet · Alison Kitchen
341 views · Published 3 March 2012 · 6:22 · Indexed 3 October 2026
Channel: Chuck Brown · 2012 · Music
My favorite song by my friend Alison Kitchen (http://alisonkitchen.com/). From her album Mercy Dancing. LYRICS: Now I left home at seventeen and have scarce been back again Yet still I'm longing for a home I know I had not then I've lived a score of places since yet none has held me long Just streets and numbers in a book, my yearning bids me on O beloved planet, why do you make me homesick? The golden fields, the scarlet trees, the air like liquid shining The song of summer winding down bleeds beauty as she's dying And deep within a haunting chord bestirs an answering knell And I am restless to be going, but where, I cannot tell. O beloved planet, why do you make me homesick? The seasons pass, a graceful dance, the rhythm of each year And I am less and less at home though my home becomes more dear Each creature has its hiding place Each bird her feathered nest But like my liege who's gone before, I find no place of rest O beloved planet, why do you make me homesick When you're the only home I've ever known? Or are you just a shadow, glimpsed through a darkened window Of the only place I ever will belong? © Alison Kitchen
