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Light in the Pattern

by Triona Sings

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Light in the Pattern is a reflection around the question of whether our unhappiness or ill content is caused by internal programming or by external circumstances. I begin by putting it out there that our unhappiness has an internal source; that we are unhappy because of psychological programming or self-criticism, or self-judgement or whatever it might be. But then I think about poverty, famine, violence, war, discrimination – and in the case of Ireland, our troubled history, and institutional legacies. This song begins with one viewpoint, then moves to another. It is for the listener to decide and discern.

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Light in the Pattern
We identify the source
Of our ill content
As external to ourselves
But it never is
Search to improve
Detailed plans
Step after step
Making alms
Look outside the cycle
Who does it?
Light in the pattern
Who sees it?
Too few

Chorus
Just a few moments
In each lifetime
Scales fall away
Things rhyme
Just a few moments
For each one
Too few
Statistics
On suicide
A nation depressed
So much hardship
So much repressed
It’s a miracle the
Irish survive
What cost?

We identified the source
Of our ill content
As external to ourselves
It was
Power transferred
Colony to church
Too much
And back to the
Drawing board
Disarray
So much abuse
Can’t stay
Who takes responsibility?
Too few

Chorus

We identify the source
Of our ill content
As external to ourselves
And it sometimes is

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released April 26, 2021
Song by Tríona Ní Dhuibhir
Produced by Rob Kilpatrick, Tinpot Productions
Performed by Tríona Ní Dhuibhir
Backing vocals Rob Kilpatrick

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Triona Sings Dublin, Ireland

I performed one woman shows at Dublin Fringe Festival, Bewleys Café Theatre and at the Big House Festival. I played The Village, Whelans, The Helix, The Spiegeltent and most recently at First Fortnight’s Cistin 2021. My style is heavily influenced by folk and country music, my first love and my roots. There are also tones from the great cabaret songs and from choral music. ... more

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