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Mark Sasso is one of the founding members of ELLIOTT BROOD talking about his One Song "Their Will" released on the album "Days into Years" 2011.

We have crossed paths many times over the last few years as Stephen Pitkin also helps me with drums and mastering on many of my projects. Please visit Elliott Broods website for details on their new release "KEEPER" released September 2020.

https://www.elliottbrood.com

 

Elliott Brood is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, bass pedals, keys, and ukulele, and Stephen Pitkin on percussion, sampler, and backing vocals. The band's style has been categorized as "death country", "frontier rock", or "revival music"

 

Their Will (lyrics)

 

On waves, we had come

They planted us on to these shores 

Now we had never known

Such sights or the places 

That we now called home

 

We were given to this day

There was silence

And then came their calls

Urged us up and over for King and Country

For God's sake, don't hesitate boys

Make the distance before they see"

Then into their fire, we drove our bodies

Then came the sounds

Cries of pain emerged from within the clouds

Our feet, they fell apart

Our will soon followed, as did our hearts

With head in hands 

We traced our paths

On the remnants of their worn out maps

And prayed for an end

By the time 

We had turned around

The tides had come

Reclaimed the broken ground

We forgot that we were men

And where we came from

And where we laid our heads

And the wounds we had

We all knew they'd never mend

And the ones we lost 

And the ones we couldn't save