Name: Beggars for Love
Duration: P00H03M19S
Description: Beggars For Love features James Lomas’ guitar magic and Warwick Thomas’ harmonies ensure you will want to put this on repeat. A song written following the death of both of Fiona’s parents within a 6 month period in 2022, and the effect of the pre no fault divorce laws that shattered the childhoods of so many Australians in the seventies.

Beggars for Love

from Junction by Fiona Lee Maynard

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Beggars For Love features James Lomas’ guitar magic and Warwick Thomas’ harmonies ensure you will want to put this on repeat. A song written following the death of both of Fiona’s parents within a 6 month period in 2022, and the effect of the pre no fault divorce laws that shattered the childhoods of so many Australians in the seventies.

lyrics

Never let
the truth get
in the way
of a good story

Plant those lines,
repeat them,
in time they’ll take root
You’ll find your glory

Cause some seeds - flourish in darkness
Some seeds - flourish in weeds
Some seeds scatter into the wind
When we’re not listening

Say what you want,
I know that you will
anyway
I’ve seen it happen

Cry to defend
lies past the end
of the road
Leave us begging

We’re beggars for Truth and for balance
Begging for presence and love
Beggars - begging forever
Past the push, pull, block and shove

Beggars for your loving kindness
For your widespread generousity
Beggars for the father who left our home
For his – next family

Beggars outside the door needing
And bleeding from tears we can’t cry
Beggars for someone to hear our song
And wipe the old wounds dry
Never let the truth get in the way.

credits

from Junction, released January 22, 2024
(c) Fiona Lee Maynard Lyrics and composition
Recorded and engineered by Warwick Thomas at Sound Concepts
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering
Produced by Fiona Lee Maynard & Warwick Thomas

Fiona Lee Maynard – Lead Vocals, Rhythm acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, Percussion
Warwick Thomas – Backing Vocals, percussion, piano
James Lomas – Guitar
Cal McAlpine – Cajon

Photography - Tameika Brumby

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Fiona Lee Maynard Melbourne, Australia

Fiona Lee Maynard shows her folk roots in a musical memoir recorded while waiting to donate a kidney to her husband. Identified by critics as a songwriter with a lot to say and an endless vocabulary of emotions with which to say it, her new album Junction serves up 11 songs spawned from needing to raise her own spirits and shared in the hope they will do the same for listeners. ... more

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