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about
You’re walking through a valley. The grass is covered in dew and the tips are coloured with the warm morning light. The air is the freshest thing you’ve breathed in a while. Your brain is empty of the world’s woes and you’re not paying attention to what fence you’re hopping or what path you’re taking. You’re purely roaming.
The Stars Are Ours is a direct response to roaming restrictions in the UK. In early 2023, a law was imposed to stop people from wild camping on Dartmoor’s expansive landscape. Something that many people rely on for their mental health and well-being; whilst also being an inexpensive activity in a climate where many can’t afford holidays. People gathered, campaigned, and protested tirelessly. This act of coming together resulted in the ban being overturned and the reinstatement of wild camping, going to show that standing up together does work.
There is still a long way to go. A staggering 92% of the UK doesn’t have the right to roam; including camping, swimming, and walking. This song seeks to push that message to anyone who will listen, showing just how important these small freedoms are and that the stars should be accessible to all.
lyrics
Come one and all and gather small
At the meeting of the dew
This day is young but this land is old
And soon will walk with you
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
We venture through the valley
At the breaking of the day
Where the clouds meet the moorland
And stones meet man-made clay
Carry on, oh carry on
A hundred voices strong
And sing with us these parting words
As we move along
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
This ground knows no boundaries
No judgment here to spare
But it knows and it remembers
Those who shun duty of care
beguiling in it’s beauty and
alive down to it’s core
Each step we take leads to a place
Where the light will shine once more
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
These ancient lands before us
Have years upon our lives
Who made us deciders
In dividers and land’s rights
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
The stars are ours, the stars are ours, the stars are ours tonight
credits
released September 15, 2023
Produced by TJ Allen at J and J Studios in Bristol.
Ellie is forging a successful path on the UK folk scene. With songs sensitive and tender, but not without a fiery and darker
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