MAMA GINA
Singer/songwriter and wanderlust Mama Gina feels most at home when she can feel the earth beneath her feet and taste the freedom of the open sky.
With down-to-earth, bluesy vocals, a bit of humor, and straight-ahead, rhythmic, acoustic guitar, she tells the true stories that fall into her head and heart.
She sings of life, death and rebirth. She sings of holding on and letting go.
She speaks to the Gods and Goddesses and they speak back. She sings their stories as they become her own.
She sings of her spiritual connection to the natural world, and of our responsibility to nurture both the mundane and the magical.
When she is not performing, you just might find her camping in the woods seeking inspiration from the earth beneath her feet and that vast, open sky.
Mama Gina
Due North
music, lyrics, guitar & vocals by Gina LaMonte
vocals by Kat White Star; percussion & bass by Claire Franklin
recorded & mixed at Blue Triangle Studios, Sarasota, FL by Claire Franklin
Lyrics
You traced my shape upon your stars
You traced my shape upon your stars
Wrote my name in your sky
Pointed me due North
So you could find your way on the darkest night
You honored me - Begged me shelter
Stretched me like canvas – Wore me like cloak
To your warrior’s art, I played my part
And I fell in the dance to his spear in one stroke
Your children – my cubs
We lived with each other and that was enough
Took what we needed - But we never took more
Until your lights burned brighter
Than the stars in your sky
And now due North’s forgotten
And now there is slaughter … and now there is war
A war I have no heart to wage
It seems you have no heart at all
And so, due North, your compass fades
And I am just some trophy for your wall
Honor lost, collecting dust
A relic tossed aside – have you no soul?
The wounded – the abandoned cubs
And no one counts the stars that fall
Your children – my cubs
We lived with each other and that was enough
Took what we needed - But we never took more
Until your lights burned brighter
Than the stars in your sky
And now due North’s forgotten
And now there is slaughter … and now I’m no more
Just some stars in your sky … pointing due North
I’m just some stars in your sky – pointing due North
I’m just some stars in your sky – pointing due North
I’m just some stars in your sky