Maureen Malcolm​-​Gourley - Her Story

from Sound Stories by UWS MA Music 2020

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This is a story created whilst reading Layne Redmond ‘When the Drummers Were Women’ where Women were the original frame drummers and a personal reflection on finding your own voice and being heard.

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Holding the sacred grain carefully in your hands
Wondering, telling her story, telling everyone

But no one’s listening

Contains your life in one small grain
shrouded in darkness
Finding your way

Opening up to a new way of being
Stories we are told no longer believing

Buried within a difficult place originally held

She was silenced for her story
that tiny grain waiting to grow
no one said, “what would you think now?”

sieved out and fallen on barren ground
stories we’re told can’t be unheard
can’t be unwritten

No going back her story was never told
buried deep in the grain silo
clay figures buried and hidden
sieve and shake the story out

And relive the time when I drummed into life
and I had no idea what I was thirsty for
I had no idea that it was buried so deep
And I had no idea the secrets I had to keep

These secrets are ready to be told
ready to be shared but I need to be bold
Can’t hide behind this fat coat of shame
cos it wasn’t my fault and there’s no one to blame

stories we’re told
become the broken seeds and the tired lives
when their stuck in the mud with no hope of life
but there’s always hope there’s always a time
where you can free yourself and the feelings sublime

It doesn’t really matter how long it takes
if its 20 or 50 years of shakes
but the important thing is when you are down in the dark
it’s the cracks and the scars are what bring you back

I never thought that this was for me
that I could tell my story
because I was so impatient to be free

struggling on trying to find a way to express myself
every day

every day I try every day I give up
every day I constantly feel stuck
I’ve drawn a line
can’t do it anymore

I’m very rarely fine

I don’t mind sharing
I don’t mind telling
anyone that will listen

I don’t mind telling
I don’t mind sharing
I cry all the time

But the tears are words maybe I’m not ready to say and I’ll save them for another day
because now that I’m slowly starting to hear my own voice, I’m loving it and telling it

you do have a choice
you’ve always got a choice even if you don’t believe me
trust me
I’m telling my story finally now

But I’m beginning to wonder

beginning to wonder

wonder

how

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from Sound Stories, released April 17, 2020
Musicians: Alix Adair, Martina Corsini, Aaron Gagne, Olivia Mae Graham, Melisa Kelly, David Law, Maureen Malcolm-Gourley, Marianne Mandy, David Reid, Jason Sweeney
Sound: Callum McIlwaine, Alasdair McCracken, Aaron Gagne

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