We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Wash Over Me

from Wave Upon Wave EP by Eve Goodman

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A four-panel card wallet with gorgeous colour lyric booklet containing film photographs taken on Ynys Môn by Lena Jeanne and illustrations by Manon Dafydd.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Wave Upon Wave EP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days

      £8 GBP or more 

     

about

I wrote this song when I was in the very early days of grieving for my Dad, who died by suicide in the Autumn of 2017. I couldn't do anything, apart from slow, quiet walks around our home. One day I sat by the Menai Strait and began to sing a little mantra that I came up with, and I felt my creative self wake up as I thought, 'I wonder if I could make this into a round?'

I have always wanted to write a round, as I love singing them in groups. I love to feel the waves of the sound grow and swell. So I sat on the rocky shore and began the task of writing each melody line so that it would harmonise and sit well with every other line in the song. It was a beautiful way to take my mind of things, and I believe it was the first thing I focused on properly after my world changed. I was starting to wake up again from the deep hibernation of early grief.

The words were inspired by a book someone gave me at the time called The Wild Edge of Sorrow, by Francis Weller. This book helped me find some kind of sense in amidst the well of sadness I was feeling, and I grew to know that without grief we cannot have joy. The two are woven together. This period of my life was one of acute pain and loss, and also of intense beauty and gratitude for this life.

lyrics

If all my tears were in the sea
I'd let her waves wash over me
I'd like to spend these holy days
With my grief so close to praise

credits

from Wave Upon Wave EP, released August 27, 2021
Eve Goodman: Vocals

Henry Horrell: Violin

Luke Evans: Drum kit, double bass, percussion, acoustic rhythm guitar, lap steel guitar, autoharp, piano, harmonium

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Eve Goodman image

Eve Goodman Wales, UK

"Eve Goodman is a young woman who transmutes the personal into the universal. If you sit, listen and wait, this beautifully crafted new folk light, will unveil earth, soul and a deep connection to what it is to be human in these troubled, inspiring times." ... more

contact / help

Contact Eve Goodman

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Eve Goodman, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now