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Sacred Alchemy (with Kelsey Pray)

from Odds and Ends For the End of the World by The Rough & Tumble

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Our good friend, Kelsey Pray, has started an online songwriting journey called "Simply Songcraft." Every week she writes a song, as well as gives tips, prompts and exercises for other songwriters to write along with her. So, while we were up in Grand Rapids, we did some cowriting with Kelsey. And out came the song, "Sacred Alchemy."

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Sacred Alchemy
by Kelsey Pray, Mallory Graham, and Scott Tyler


Like River I’m on the quickest path down.
Like River I’m carving my name in the ground.
Like River I’m moving the dirt from the mound.
No stone thrown, no fallen oak gonna dam me up now

On bed shore I’m biding my time on the ground.
On bed shore I’m hiding whispers from those who are trawling around.
On bed shore I’m rippling the sight of the sound.
No derelict no fishing line gonna hold me up now.
Hold me up now. Hold me up now,
Hold me up now. Hold me up now.


Like water can’t fall down this tap on my own.
Like water, I wash down the sink and the soap.
Like water, drains just another way round.
I got a home in the clouds someday I’m gonna come back down.
Come back down. I’m gonna come back down.
Come back down. I’m gonna come back down. Oooooo

No precipice no sycamore. No jetsam, no holy war.
I got a home in the clouds some day I’m gonna come back down.

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from Odds and Ends For the End of the World, released December 20, 2016
Written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler and Kelsey Pray
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2017
Copyright Kelsey Pray 2017

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The Rough & Tumble are a dumpster-folk/thriftstore Americana band consisting of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler. Only This Far, their latest full length record is out May 12, 2023. "The bottom line is these are just quality songs, well written, well played, well sung and arranged, and a pleasure from start to end."- AmericanaUK ... more

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