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Stolen

from Foxfire by Emily Holbert

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Selkies, the mythical seal-people of Scotland and Ireland's seas, mesmerize and inspire me. In this song, I explore the emotions behind the classic "captured bride" story.

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They say that love lies waiting
Like a pebble on the shore
‘Till the day that it is ready to be found
But love can be a hunter
In pursuit of something more
Or love can be a creature caught and bound

He caught her as if waiting
Like the pebbles on the shore
Bathing in the moonlight and the sea
Her hair was softly gleaming
And was all the lady wore
Her seal-skin tossed aside so carelessly

You’ve stolen my heart,
you’ve stolen my skin
Some day I’ll steal them
back from you again

The sighing of the sea waves
And the singing of the seals
Mask the sounds of his footsteps on the strand
The shadows of the moonlight
Hide his progress as he steals
Closer to her treasure lying in the sand

She only had a moment
To behold him where he stood
Her seal-skin clasped so close against his breast
The spell of love descended
And there she understood
That in the sea she nevermore could rest

You’ve stolen my heart,
you’ve stolen my skin
Someday I’ll steal them
back from you again

The face within her mirror
Showed a girl so gay and fair
She often half-forgot her other guise
But the darkness of the ocean
Seems bound within her hair
And a seal gazes outward from her eyes

With love she bore his children
And with love she baked his bread
With love she always gazed towards the sea
Torn between the one life
With the man that she had wed
And the seal-life she’d known when she’d been free

You’ve stolen my heart,
you’ve stolen my skin
Someday I’ll steal them
back from you again

The day she found his secret
Hidden underneath the floor
She wept as she slipped into her skin
The bonds that held her captured
Broke like waves upon shore
The seal replaced the girl that she had been

They say if you love something
Then you ought to let it free
Love that’s held in fetters isn’t true
You cannot serve to masters
And my first one was the sea
I loved her long before I had loved you

You’d stolen my heart,
you’d stolen my skin
But today I stole them
back from you again

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from Foxfire, released June 18, 2016

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Emily Holbert Kitchener, Ontario

Emily Holbert, known as “Emer nic Aidan” in the SCA, is a Celtic-inspired singer/songwriter based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Her “bardic-folk” songs tell tales of love and valour, whether recounting and reinventing Celtic mythologies and faerie tales, or recording ‘historical’ deeds within the SCA's Kingdom of Ealdormere.
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