Name: One Grey Veil
Duration: P00H03M36S
Description: Fredrick wrote this from memories of being on a chautauqua with Jeff Brackett and Mel Kay to northern Ontario. They walked the Bruce, swam in the French River, camped on Manitoulin and escaped the day to day life that we get caught up in.

One Grey Veil

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Fredrick wrote this from memories of being on a chautauqua with Jeff Brackett and Mel Kay to northern Ontario. They walked the Bruce, swam in the French River, camped on Manitoulin and escaped the day to day life that we get caught up in.

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One Grey Veil

Stars – clouds – shapes – shifting - changing
Sun lost – cycle – birth – darkness – returning
Violence within peaceful means
All is well

The wind gently forces a new day
Evening spills her colours to the ground
The sun flattens at her axis point
Oh the water calls me down

Spoke end rushes
Vivid and green
Crowned in weather cap - dangle in breeze
This island – tree line enforced
Ancient mariner’s traverse by wing and storm

One grey veil rises for all to see
One grey veil is this how it must be

I swam the French - deep black current strong
From the glass bead - He never surfaced at all

We rise to the Bruce
Cypress in our midst
Curtain falling – stars of night
Beach of stone - grotto aqua blue

Long way home – Wasaga
The veil returns
I take in the sprawling lights
And feel no comfort in the eyes of home

One grey veil - rises for all to see
One grey veil - is this how it must be
One grey veil – is this all I’ll ever be

©Fredrick Brooks
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released March 22, 2020
Brookfield North
Fredrick Brooks - acoustic and bass guitars
Joy Brooks - vocal

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Brookfield North Whitby, Ontario

Brookfield North is Fredrick Brooks (vocals/songwriter/guitarist), Jeff Brackett (guitars/mandolin/harmonies), Joy Brooks (vocals/percussion/flute) and Chris Pezzarello (drums). Their vast original catalogue of songs includes folk, blues and jazz with a hint of Celtic and roots.
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