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This is the second in a series of songs dedicated to the Selkie Woman. This powerful archetype has been speaking deeply to me for many years. Her story of capture, loss of self, and disconnection from soul is a transcendent story, applicable to so many people who struggle to live out their breadth, to be soul connected, and living in truth while in the throws of the demoralization and disconnection of Industrial Society at the edge of the Great Turning.
Her story has reached to the heart of many people, across many cultures, although it originates as a part of Celtic mythology. She invites us to re-inhabit our seal skin, our soul selves, reclaiming our essential beingness from a capture that has gone on so long, we have forgotten who we are. She is the Medial woman - the woman between worlds.
My desire in this song was to give voice to some imaginal thread of the Selkie's experience, if She were a real woman, alive in the here and now. If she were someone whose spirit was feeling around the edges of something obscured, something seemingly lost and forgotten, brave enough to let her heart and eyes open to what truly lies deep within her. To see what is rising to the surface of the ocean. And to R E M E M B E R. This song, in essence, is about the power of remembering who we are.
lyrics
Who am I? Who am I?
And my skin is dry, I can hardly cry at all any more.
All I can feel is the impulse to kneel at the shore...
Who am I? Who am I?
The last I recall, I was caught in the thrall of the fisherman's net.
And now I feel strange as I feel the whole range of
Love and Regret.
Oh, Who am I? Who am I?
And it's been so long since I sang the song of the sea
There's a presence of an absence within
And I just want to get free.
There's something stirring
The water's churning.
I am craving
I am longing
I am burning.
Memories buried overturning.
I can see it rising to the surface of the water
I can see it on the water.
I can see it on the water.
I can see me... I can see me on the water
I can see me in the water!
Oh oh oh oh
I think I know how to swim
Oh oh oh oh
I think I've already been
in these waters
deep in these waters
in these waters
deep in these waters
Oh oh oh oh
I think I know how to swim
Oh oh oh oh
I think I've already been
in these waters deep in these waters
In these waters deep in these waters
In these waters deep in these waters
In these waters deep
In these waters deep
In these waters deep
In these waters deep
Oh oh oh oh
I think I know how to swim
Just dive back in
Just gotta find that seal skin
that seal skin
I think I know
I think I know
Who I am....
Who I am....
Who I am...
credits
released April 1, 2024
Written, produced, and recorded by amber samaya
Amber is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with an earthy sensibility, a wild soul, and a gift for bringing a breadth of beauty and healing through sound.
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