In these days of flattening the curve, we’re producing the Apple Seed these days from a couple of home studios – like you, we’ve been self-isolating, and, like you, looking for ways to reach out to our fellow humans. During this time, Sam took to posting to social media a little song every day – something filled with a little hope and a little encouragement to hang on. We thought we’d bring you some of those pieces here, as Apple Seed Extras. These aren’t studio recordings, and you’ll be able to tell – they’re made with a little Canon SLR camera, aimed at Sam while he sits on the piano bench in his office. But we do hope that you enjoy them.

 

Here's what Sam says about this tune:

 

“Sometimes, especially in days like these, it seems like there’s a lot we would do for the ones we love, but can’t. And sometimes it seems like our love is the only thing we can send out into the world from where we’re locked up tight ourselves. But we do, we send our love out there in all the ways we can think up, and we can think up a lot of ways.

 

This is a song written a few years ago, long before the crises we’re currently all facing together. It’s a song that I most often dedicate to our kids, who right now are moving us with their care for each other. So often we watch our kids grow up and go off to face whatever adventures the world might bring, and sometimes we wish we could send more along with them than just our love. But love can be a lot. For our kids and for yours, here’s a song.”

 

MY LOVE GONNA FOLLOW YOU DOWN

 

You can fly, fly away

Off to feed some yearning

Off to some bright day

Through some cold morning

And though you don’t look back

Though you don’t turn ‘round

Like a whisper from above

Oh my love gonna follow you down

 

Though the world don’t care

And though it try to break you

And though you don’t know where

The long and winding road will take you

And all your sacred dreams

They all come unwound

When the pushin’ comes to shove

Oh my love gonna follow you down

 

And it’s a wide, wide view

Far across this meadow

Ocean deep in blue

Canyon dim in shadow

 

And if you lift your eyes

When you hear some sound

Like a soft grey dove

Oh my love gonna follow you down

 

Though the earth may move

Oh my love gonna follow you down