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Breaking the Ground

from What I Heard, What I Saw by Kristen Mark Westwood

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Breaking the Ground

I’m here in the garden
But I’m not out of the woods
And the earth here is hardened
By the wounds that she took

So go easy on me
When you’re breaking the ground
When you’re planting the seeds
May the roots grow deep down

Can you grow in the dirt here
The fruit of your labour?
Out of the cluttered earth
Will you root out the anger?

So that I can believe
That when you’re breaking the ground
You’re just planting the seeds
Where the roots grow deep down

Are you here in the garden
Pulling stones from the dirt?
When you dig where it’s darkest
Can you feel how it hurts?

So go easy on me
When you’re breaking the ground
When you’re planting the seeds
May the roots grow deep down

I saw your hands all covered in dirt
And there was blood caked under your fingernails
But still you dig, though you suffer the worst
As you tear at the earth
As you expose all the dirt

Don’t you give up on me
When you’re breaking the ground
When you’re planting the seeds
May the roots grow deep down

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from What I Heard, What I Saw, released June 20, 2019
Written by Kristen Mark Westwood
Produced by Murray Pulver and Kristen Mark Westwood
Recorded at Signpost Music and Unity Gain Productions, MB
Engineered by Don Benedictson and Murray Pulver
Additional editing by Roman Clarke
Mixed by Don Benedictson at Unity Gain Productions
Mastered by Peter Letros at Wreckhouse Mastering

Performed by:
Kristen Mark Westwood - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
Murray Pulver - BGV’s, electric guitars
Don Benedictson - bass
Daniel Roy - drums, percussion

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Kristen Mark Westwood Guelph, Ontario

Kristen Mark Westwood is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator and producer based in Guelph, ON.

Photography by Jen Squires, 2019.

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