We’re an evolving project of discovery.

Our ideas, our music, our web pages, all in motion.

We’re history lovers, mostly storytellers.

In this series of Song Stories, Ellen will start to take you behind the scenes of the each song on the Old Bones Odyssey album.

The podcast that is coming soon will dive deeper into the  project and each song.

We start with Chapter 1 – Old Bones Odyssey

In this post Ellen is talking about Old Bones Odyssey – The Song.

OLD BONES ODYSSEY - THE SONG

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Old Bones Odyssey - The Song

I created the title Old Bones Odyssey because my bones are old and I wanted to deal with my own age right out of the box and establish that this story is coming from old bones, my old bones. 

Old bones taking me back 
Old worlds taking me back 
Resting on the souls of long ago 

I think bones are such a great metaphor. And more than that, they actually are the way that we learn about the past in the most straightforward manner. 

So whether it’s that we’re finding the bones of people from the past in graveyards or we’re learning about who is actually in Potter’s field on Hart Island or what Neanderthals were doing or early prototypes of homo sapiens, all of theses bones are a very direct path to finding wisdom. That’s how I see it. 

Bones also have the skull and crossbones insignias, the pirate flag, the poison sign. Where all the secrets lurk. The things that no one wants to see. The bones that no one can identify. Which is definitely a recurring theme in my own life, in history in general and definitely in American history in particular. 

You know, whose bones do we care about and whose bones do we abandon? That’s definitely very much on my mind. So I think that’s a big part of it.

And there’s also humor in it to me. Just the whole idea of Old Bones Odyssey, it sounds like a jiggling skeleton doing a dance or like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Something about it makes me smile. 

 

OLD BONES ODYSSEY - The Song Lyrics

Old bones taking me back 
Old worlds taking me back 
Resting on the souls of long ago 

Old dreams taking me back
Old loves taking me back
Carrying us on wings of days long past 

Trees with leaves 
for dreams 
A dance that never ends
That only you can know 

From the roots to the sky 
Sylvan slippers, rings of time 
In the gloaming of this world
Back where memories lie 

I keep longing for

Old bones taking me back
Old worlds taking me back 
Resting on the souls of long ago 

New roads leading me home
New hearts leading me home
Setting sail for ancient lands unknown

Trees with leaves 
for dreams 
A dance that never ends
That only you can know 

From the roots to the sky
Sylvan slippers, rings of time 
In the gloaming of this world 
Back where memories lie 

I’m just dreaming of

Old bones taking me back
Old worlds taking me back 
Resting on the souls of long ago 

New roads leading me home
New hearts leading me home
Setting sail for ancient lands unknown

Ellen C Kaye will be performing Old Bones Odyssey – The Song at her upcoming live performances in 2023.

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Ellen C Kaye

Ellen C Kaye

Singer/songwriter, producer, podcast maker, mom, born and bred in NYC. Night Club singer at heart.

Read more about Ellen at www.ellenckaye.com

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