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Mark Sasso is one of the founding members of ELLIOTT BROOD talking about his One Song "Their Will" released on the album "Days into Years" 2011.
We have crossed paths many times over the last few years as Stephen Pitkin also helps me with drums and mastering on many of my projects. Please visit Elliott Broods website for details on their new release "KEEPER" released September 2020.
https://www.elliottbrood.com
Elliott Brood is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, bass pedals, keys, and ukulele, and Stephen Pitkin on percussion, sampler, and backing vocals. The band's style has been categorized as "death country", "frontier rock", or "revival music"
Their Will (lyrics)
On waves, we had come
They planted us on to these shores
Now we had never known
Such sights or the places
That we now called home
We were given to this day
There was silence
And then came their calls
Urged us up and over for King and Country
For God's sake, don't hesitate boys
Make the distance before they see"
Then into their fire, we drove our bodies
Then came the sounds
Cries of pain emerged from within the clouds
Our feet, they fell apart
Our will soon followed, as did our hearts
With head in hands
We traced our paths
On the remnants of their worn out maps
And prayed for an end
By the time
We had turned around
The tides had come
Reclaimed the broken ground
We forgot that we were men
And where we came from
And where we laid our heads
And the wounds we had
We all knew they'd never mend
And the ones we lost
And the ones we couldn't save