Today we see footage of HBR playing “Mountain Song” live in Seattle, shot with 6 GoPro cameras. To the right you can listen to the studio track.
Erik wrote this one specifically for the three singers of HBR. Here’s what he had to say about the song’s origins:
“Written in Innsbruck, Austria, a town of many bell-towers, while firmly in awe of both the enormity of the local peaks and the power of relationship. Neither is for the timid, and neither offers any but the most profound rewards.”
MOUNTAIN SONG Erik Yates
The bells in the towers
the paces on the floor
Are counting down the hours
ʻTil I see you once more
So listen to them closely
Hear what they have to say
Theyʼll tell you every step I take
Brings me back your way
ʻCause Iʼve been up above the treeline, Iʼve been covered up in snow
Iʼve had plenty of time for thinkinʼ about the way this thing should go
Iʼve been howlinʼ like an avalanche, Iʼve been pullin out my hair
Iʼve been up to the mountaintop, just to breathe the higher air
And it worked its way into my bones, when I let it fill my lungs
Now itʼs blowinʼ me back home, to the place that I come from
The morning stars were shininʼ as I left our tiny bed
But thunderclouds were gathering around my weary head
But thoughts of you came to me with every step I climbed
And among the talus and the scree I found my peace of mind
Now Iʼm flyinʼ down these mountain slopes like so many men before
Iʼm cryinʼ to the wind to push me faster towards your door
I’ve got this mountain song, I’m singing it to you
Cause sometimes doing wrong it the best that I can do
But when I do I know this song is gonna be right here
And there’s a place that I can go to sing it loud and clear
It’s up above the treeline, it’s covered up in snow
It’s the place the only thing a man can sing is what he knows
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