Echoes of Home (2024)
This particular song is based on the poem I wrote after awakening from a dream one morning about Ukraine while crying in my sleep. That particular week, I had seen the loss of one of my students and a couple of my colleagues killed by russian missiles targeting residential neighborhoods in Kyiv.
Echoes of Home.mp4Lyrics by S. Hatting
Music by A.I.
Verse 1
Woke with tears upon my face
Ukraine, in dreams I saw your grace
Reality sets in, you're far
This yearning heart, a distant star
Chorus
In dreams, I return to you
To the land I once knew
Yellow and blue, hanging on the wall
A flag of hope, answering the call
Of a home that's lost but always in my heart
My Ukraine, we're never truly apart
Verse 2
War weighs heavy on our days
Friends, I miss you in countless ways
The dream to meet won't fade away
Though paths to you have gone astray
Bridge
Across the miles, my thoughts take flight
To sunflower fields bathed in light
The Dnipro's flow, Carpathian heights
These memories shine through darkest nights
Verse 3
Exiled by war, I found a place
But it's your embrace I can't replace
Though I try to silence memory's voice
My aching soul leaves me no choice
Outro
Surrounded by sand, I long for green
Your forests and meadows, now just a dream
Though I try to silence memory's voice
My heart whispers "Ukraine" into the night
In this barren land, so far from home
Memories of you leave me alone
Ukraine, my love, though we're apart
Your spirit lives in my aching heart
