Rob Byron: Home
Contemporary folk music,that uses a wide palette of imagery from nature, magic and other realms.The title song,‘I’f I’m here in the morning,Can I come on in’ sees nature as a part of ourselves,with'its mountain body looking so divine',but is also a song of revernce for nature in which we ask its permission to be there with it..In 'Ship of fools', nature's imagery is again alive and asks whether Mother nature has turned to rage,for abusing it, as in the sudden oubreak of Hurricanes and other natural disasters.In the song 'Make love man's aim,make it his one and only faith' man is seen as 'the poor lost soul on the horizon, with his tangled cables,and his distorted antenna'.Love is the only answer. Various love songs capture the magic of lovemaking in 'Welcome to the mystery' in which a silk dress is the vital element that is'the blessing for the day and a rainbow on our way; 'Watch that blue moon' is aboput a woman whose vitality for life returns after an absence ,'My precious jewel is alive again,her heart is beating to the sound of rain'. 'The Never Ending River' explores the idea of life being like a 'never ending river,not knowing which way it might turn',lightening life's burden . 'Fly away on an angel's wing' looks at a relationship in which the man(although it could equally be a woman)destroys the life force of the other one,'See the dream catcher, he's watching all your moves, till you've nowhere left to hide'.The chorus resolves the dilemna the woman being encouraged to'fly away on an angel's wing, the one that you might find'.
All songs,like art,which are a reflection of life itself, will always be felt on a different level by all different people,and it would be good to know how each of you feels about them