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Lifeline (from the Snowfields to the Salish Sea)

from Hard​-​Earned Harvest (album) by Wes Mantooth

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Written for my mom's recent birthday in acknowledgement of her decades of work to preserve Ennis Creek.

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We might say we chose this stream,
But maybe we were chosen
Either way, we have a choice
To leave it better than when we came
Leave it better than when we came

Don’t look away… don’t let go lightly… don’t look away...
When life throws a lifeline

The more we learn, the more we lose
An appetite for industry
If bounty’s bound, sold by foot and pound
We will follow the fish and forests down
Unless we turn around

Don’t look away… don’t let go lightly… don’t look away...
When life throws a lifeline
Follow it upstream

Some still cling to a dream,
A stream as it was meant to be—
Water’s clean, meandering
In tidal grass, fish wait to journey
To come back from the journey

Don’t look away… don’t let go lightly… don’t look away...
When life throws a lifeline
Follow it upstream
’Til you’re looking from the snowfields
Out to the Salish Sea

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from Hard​-​Earned Harvest (album), track released March 2, 2020
Wes Mantooth: words, music, guitar, vocals

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