Unto Ashes The Last Toast

Lyrics by Anna Akhmatova (18891966) translated from the Russian by Michael Laird. Music by Michael Laird, written and recorded while in quarantine (MarchApril 2020). ML: acoustic guitar, dulcimer, harmonium, analog synths, voice, treatments. Chorus: Ericah Hagle, Kit Messick, Krissy Olson. I m drinking to my ravaged home again To my life s illfated path To loneliness that binds and stays with us And to you I raise my glass I drink to the lies that betrayed us To the dead and the coldness in their eyes To this world so full of cruelty And to God s not saving us And God s not saving I fall, fall onto the ground We fall, fall onto the