"I Go Walking" by Heather Normandale

Heather Normandale performs "I Go Walking" with Maisha Lani singing backing vocals. This live performance is from October 2017.

"This song was inspired when I was living up near the Yuba River, spending time away from the city after a 6 month bike tour with the Pleasant Revolution. My intention was to sink in to the task of recording my last album, Trembling Water. This song was originally going to go on that CD but I had to simplify and so I've saved it for this upcoming next album. While up near the Yuba, I wanted to absorb the messages and lessons that nature had for me, I wanted to understand how to feel more connected with the idea that humans come from nature even though we create a world that builds over it, destroys it, and endangers it ...and then spend thousands on therapy and wonder why we suffer. This song was meant to be a call and response to pull in the emotions of listeners so they might feel that preciousness that I was feeling when the songs were written. I have really tried to imprint my songs with this appreciation for the depths that the natural world has for us." -- Heather Normandale

I Go Walking By Heather Normandale

I go walking spreading my toes
Brown earth is rising and through my blood it flows

I want the earth to hold me
Strong as I reach the day
In my time my roots may help all your sand not slip away

Walk this earth with feet so clean
Bounding through her love supreme
To tendrils of these roots we cling
Cradling me in your shelter now its to you I sing

Take our hands
We will lead you
Through the doom
And the dividing light
Water is our medicine
Through the spectrum into white

Here we hold intention
Together with this sound
With our voices
With our voices
We will love and heal this ground

Walk this earth with feet so clean
Bounding through her love supreme
To tendrils of these roots we cling
Cradling me in your shelter now its to you I sing