Mary-Bernadette Baker - Starfish

I wrote this song in 2004. I went for a walk along Ramsgate beach after two months in bed with depression. The sky was stormy and it was rainy. I found a whole school of starfish that had been washed up onto the beach that afternoon. The song is from a ten verse ballad that I wrote on the beach that afternoon whilst throwing back into the water any living starfish I could find. Later in 2005 when I made a video for the song, a woman I met on the day told me that a buddhist monk had told this as a spiritual story on the Terry Wogan morning show broadcast in that week. She asked if I had heard it but I hadn't. It was interesting that the monk had seen the same paralell and it confirmed to me that the principal of persistance in the face of adversity was a fundamental part of our human nature. A video was made in 2005 and was finally edited in 2006. From 19-track 2008/09 V-Day dedicated album, Demo, available for £5 from Big Tree Records info.bigtree.co.uk@googlemail.com 50%of profits go to Woman- and Child-victims of war via V-Day (see www.vday.org).

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