The Beacon by Ian Roland

‘The Beacon’ is Ian Roland’s third single release of 2024. A homage to the Adonis Blue Butterfly and the landscape of the South Downs National Park, near Hassocks, UK, this song celebrates the essential beauty of nature, the web of which sustains all life, including our own. We need to preserve it. It was way back in 1970 when Joni Mitchell sang, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot”, and since then we have had 50+ years of scientific evidence highlighting the destruction the fossil-fuel industry causes. It takes a huge amount of money to try to divert our attention away from this issue, but it is inescapable and will affect us all, no matter how many billions of dollars may have been invested in media disinformation, political influence, division and unrest, to try to muddy the waters.

Tracklist

1.	The Beacon	4:03

Lyrics

The Beacon

Head full of noise, just start walking
Up the hill to, the Beacon.
Chalk grassland slopes, rolling to the sea
Skylark calls, a thousand feet high above.

High on the Beacon
We dissolve, re-appear
Landscape takes us
Home to Adonis Blue

Meadow pipit, Corn bunting sing
Rain-soaked chalk slopes, drying out in the wind.
Wild orchids grow, mimic a bee
All slows down for, Round-headed Rampion.

High on the Beacon
We dissolve, re-appear
Landscape takes us home,
Home to Adonis Blue

Thoughts pass in silence, silence is heard
Difference between us becoming more blurred
Clear the connection, spark and ignite
Beacon in day, beacon in night.

Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue

High on the Beacon
We dissolve, re-appear
Landscape takes us home,
Home to Adonis Blue

Credits

released October 31, 2024
Credits
Ian Roland – vocals, guitar
Dave Coomber – bass
James Chapman – drums
Mishkin Fitzgerald – piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Simon Yapp – violin, viola

Song by Ian Roland
Recorded at Brighton Road Recording Studios by Jake Skinner
Mastered at Subvert Central Mastering by Bob Macciochi
© 2024 Ian Roland

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