Now I understand the altar call
I’ve been that close to dying
Now I read the rabbi’s moving lips
On the sickbed where he’s lying
And the refugee adrift at sea
When it seems no god’s replying
Repeat the call, I swear that I’ll
Come forward bent and crying
From The Devil’s Share, released April 24, 2021. Lyrics and music by Steven Heighton. © 2020 Steven Heighton/Hightone Music (SOCAN).
From The Devil’s Share, released April 24, 2021. Lyrics and music by Steven Heighton. © 2020 Steven Heighton/Hightone Music (SOCAN).
Music and Poetry for Hillside Festival 2021
Skeleton Park neighbourhood award-winning poet, Steven Heighton reads his poem “Gravesong,” with neighbour, and bassist for Orchestra Kingston, Rodney Sothmann. Though they’d never performed together, this collaboration was put together in one physically-distanced afternoon.
