Rivers on Fire

Beach Ready started to send actor and singer Mara McCann @maramccann soundscapes across the Atlantic to narrate to at the start of the Covid lockdown, in no way did they expect to be writing music and words that would be a direct response to George Floyd's murder and the Black Lives Matter movement. What we have is music that sounds like the end of one world going into another and a narrator that is describing the way and leading us through emotions that exist. The cover image has been provided by frontline NY photographer Russ Rowland @russrowland.

do you pray

when the sirens call

do you go 

where the mountains are tall 

do you see the rivers subside 

do you fight 

when the land is on fire 

it’s calm before the lightning 

its real before the damn breaks 

if heaven owns this the land 

we’d know it was a mistake 

you know the dust never settles this far 

did you see the fires they burned them all 

do you go where the rivers end 

do you fight with all your zen? 

there’s beasts that are hiding my friend 

they’ll take you out without remorse 

I try God 

I try 

Do you go where the rivers end 

do you fight with all your zen 

They’ll go on marching till the sky cries hell 

I try lord 

I try 

they go where the rivers on fire 

Release Date: 15 june 2020

Sound: Beach Ready

Words: Mara McCann

Image: Russ Rowland