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Changing Shells

from Shine by Alex Spencer

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The hermit crab doesn't have its own shell, instead, every time it grows, it has to find a new shell to live in. I read a wonderful book called "Gift from the Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh where she uses shells as a metaphore for the differnt phases in our lives. It occurred to me that in many ways I've mixed up my shells ...

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Changing Shells
I have mixed up my shells,
I am still striving, where I should be letting go
I am still questioning, where I should have settled on an answer long ago.

I am still restless where I should be sleeping soundly
I am still listening to voices, I should have silenced long ago.

So call me the Grand Dame if you want to
Oh I like the way that sounds.
But I am more like a hermit crab
Changing shells in the shifting sand.

I am still searching, where I should see I made my bed to lie in
I am still digging where I should have reached rock bottom long ago.

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from Shine, released December 4, 2019
Double bass: Ben Lehmann
Drums: Martial Frenzel
Saxophone: Paul Engelmann
Piano: Tim Granbacka

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Alex Spencer Berlin, Germany

Set afloat on a soft and shimmering stream, Alex Spencer's music is the kind of boat ride in which simple human rowing begins to resonate with deeper, inner currents. UK born Alex Spencer set down roots in Berlin in the year 2000. Today, she can be seen walking her black Labrador dog through Görlitzer Park, playing the singer-songwriter circuit and, on occasion, also raising her three children. ... more

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