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Y Dref Wen (The Shining Town)

from DSCM the Black City Sessions EP by Dead Space Chamber Music

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From a collaboration with Tribes of Medusa (NYC). Based around a set of Welsh traditional song lyrics.

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Y Dref Wen yn y dyffryn
Heno heb arf nac offeryn
Ar wyneb y gwellt gwêl y gwaed
A drodd y pridd yn llaid

Cytgan
Ond awn I ail adfer bro
Awn I ail godi to
Ail oleuwn y tŷ
Pwy a saif gyda ni?
Ond pwy a saif?
Pwy a saif
Pwy a saif gyda ni?

Y Dref Wen chwâl ei meini
Heno’n brydd yn ei hoerni
Ddaith ‘na neb I holi pam
Mae marw yw’r fflam

Y Dref Wen wrth y coed
Hiraeth am gadw oed
Ciliodd pawb o’r hyfryd fro
‘Stafell Cynddylan sydd dan glo

the shining town in the valley / is tonight without weapon or instrument / on the surface of the grass see the blood / that turned the earth into mud

Chorus
But we shall go to restore the neighbourhood / we shall go to rebuild the roof / we shall put lights back in the house / who will stand with us?

The broken stones of the shining town / are sad tonight in the cold / nobody came to ask why it is / that the flame is dead

The shining town by the trees / longs to keep contact / but everyone has gone from this pleasant neighbourhood / Cynddylans Room is under lock and key

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from DSCM the Black City Sessions EP, released September 3, 2021

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