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Let Deadwood Stand

from Birdsong by The Quiet-Loud Machine

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Eagles: a national symbol of hope. A reminder that when humans recognize that something is wrong we can make good decisions that result in positive change.

When I was young, it was rare to spot an eagle even though I lived in a rural river valley. Their population numbers had plummeted due to habitat loss and the bioaccumulation of DDT up the food chain. Thanks to a ban on this pesticide in the 1970s, eagles made a slow comeback and I now see them quite often when I'm driving across the midwest. Or canoeing the Connecticut River. It's impossible not to stop and admire their flight.

Eagles, like many birds, typically choose deadwood trees for nesting cavities. Due to modern liability concerns and insurance policies, we are often too quick to get rid of "dead wood" in urban and suburban areas. Sometimes it is simply out of habit. We forget that deadwood, like flower stalks and grass might be another creature's habitat.

I am happy to see that there have been more movements that encourage us to just let some of these wild things be. Low-mow May being one that comes to mind. I am also grateful to all of the people out there that are working to ban chemicals that harm our pollinator populations and, in turn, the birds and other creatures that eat them. I wanna be "part of the whole."

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Let deadwood stand, let bygones be.
Let eagles nest in deadwood trees.
I wanna be a part of the whole.
Sometimes this demands a lil of us all…

We subdivide, we parcel, we pave.
We run off ramps: we’ve made ourselves
slaves to these ways.

I won’t compromise another
fragment of being.
Give me wild.
Give me song and dance.
Give me dead trees and green things.

Let weeds alone. The crop is fair.
They blanket the ground from the gusting air.
I wanna be a part of the whole.
Sometimes this demands a lil self-control.

We compromise. We’ve run off track.
We’ve tied ourselves
to some stack of
washed-up ideas.
How can we even quantify the
value of our freedom?
Give me wild.
Give me song and dance
Give me dead trees and green things…

See the eagle fly.

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from Birdsong, released October 1, 2023
lyrics, vocals, piano - Leah
production -Tea So Cold

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The Quiet-Loud Machine Easthampton, Massachusetts

Bridging the rural-urban divide, the Quiet-Loud Machine blends sounds of the city with sounds of the countryside.

Like her collaborator, the beat-smith, Tea So Cold, Leah Nichole loves working on concept albums and experimenting with a variety of styles and genres. So far these include alt-country, indie-folk-pop, the sounds of nature, and classical piano. ... more

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