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Thread #110742   Message #2596040
Posted By: Jim Dixon
24-Mar-09 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Heart Hill (Kristina Olsen)
Subject: Lyr Add: HEART HILL (Kristina Olsen)
HEART HILL is on the album "Duet" by Kristina Olsen & Peter Grayling.

It is advertised on a page at CD Baby but it seems to be temporarily out of stock. That site has sound samples of other songs, but not HEART HILL.

YouTube has a video of Bella Hardy singing HEART HILL. The sound quality is rather poor.

I copied the following lyrics from Allison Lyons' blog:


HEART HILL
Kristina Olsen

Speeding down the motorway in the north of England,
I catch a glimpse of a lover's mark:
A forest of trees in the shape of a heart.
I heard an R A F went down
In his plane a flame on the hillside
Not far from his fiancée.
In her grief she planted seedlings on that naked hill.
You can see it still.

There's a heart up on the hill.
There's a heart up on the hill.
If I left now, would you
Mourn me still.

When I drive, my thoughts are clear,
And I think of you.
We avoid conversation so perfectly.
The pilot in the plane, what if that were me?
It's easier to love one gone,
To love an absent partner;
No shattered words, no cleaning up after;
But the heat that's in your body, it's worth fighting for.
It's enough to stop a war.

A silhouette heart made of trees—
That love was meant to be.
Deep green against the yellow grass—
This love was meant to last.

There's no such thing as perfect love,
But I've seen perfect sorrow,
And I've seen the strength of a woman's hand.
Half a century ago, she made her mark on this land.
Now what about us? Do you think
Our love will fade in time?
Or can we change that age-old paradigm?
Unlike this English couple, we are both alive.
We have the chance to try.