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Closer To My Soul (An Ancient Song)

from Still A Child by Margaret O'Hanlon

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This song came to me in a dream, sung in a different language, I do not know from where.

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Closer To My Soul (An Ancient Song)
(2010)

If I weren’t so bold
I’d wait for you to come to me.
Oh I need your heart to hold,
I long to feel your breath on me.
I lie awake at night, but the moon won’t answer me
Oh this longing in my heart
It never wanders far from me.

I see you in the street
Your happiness awakens me
The dancing of your smile
It calms my heart, it comforts me.
I see it in your face, I’m the furtherest from your mind
So I turn to go
My heart just cries alone.

I know to you – I am only passing time
But I don’t think I’ll ever know
Someone closer to my soul.

Oh God this pain I feel
Brings me crashing to my knees
This empty fruit I taste
Just reminds me of the waste

I know I must be mad, to hold this anguish in my heart
Oh these things that I’ve never spoke
Are the thoughts you’ll never know.

One night I’ll steal away
Across the seas I’d rather stay.
Where distant faces pass me by,
And distant voices never cry.
I lie awake at night,

But this moon won’t answer me
Oh I don’t think I’ll ever know,
Someone closer to my soul
No I don’t think I’ll ever know
Someone closer to my soul.

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from Still A Child, released January 6, 2018
Vocal - Margaret O’Hanlon
Piano & Accordion - Mark Wilson
Drums - Marcel Rodeka
Bass - Luke Belcher

Lyrics and Music - Margaret O’Hanlon
Engineered & Mastered by Paul Inger, The Recording Room

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Margaret O'Hanlon Queenstown, New Zealand

Margaret O'Hanlon has been singing since she was 5. She left NYC, where she was born and raised for bigger skies in 1988 and settled in Queenstown, NZ where she has since remained. She has never stopped, writing, directing and entertaining, and does not intend to. ... more

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