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Big Western Sky

Painted church ceilings don’t hold much meaning
For me they can’t show the divine
Life’s true cathedral is the heaven above you
There’s nothing but truth in the sky

Birds flying south tell you winter is coming
Thunderclouds promise some rain
The moon and the stars up on high keep us humble
And a rising sun brings a new day

Big western sky, a big western sky
Blue in the morning, star-filled by night
I would be happy the rest of my life looking up at a big western sky

On clear cloudless evenings galaxies twinkling
A billion suns burning through time
The more I look out there the more I want to care
For this little old planet of mine
I can’t see god up there waiting to save us
I just see big empty space
The earth is a lifeboat that glows in the darkness
It’s a fragile and precious place

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from Three Truths and The Chord, released May 31, 2019

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Malcolm MacWatt London, UK

“MacWatt will doubtless be considered among the best of the new breed of folksingers and songwriters, who speak of the past as a way to perhaps understand it and move forward” Stephen Rapid, Lonesome Highway

“He shines as a singer and he shines as an interpreter of the eternal folk songbook,” Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show, North Dakota
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