7-21-11 - "Shadowlands" ~ Rebecca St. James

Rebecca St. James might have been my first crush.  Pretty face, pretty voice, doesn't take much more than that.  But seriously, this Aussie songstress may be off the market, but I still enjoy her music.  This one has a lilting Celtic feel in 6/8 time, and is all about hope and faith that although we go through dark times, there is light ahead.


The title stems from The Last Battle, seventh in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia .  One of my favorite authors, and possibly my favorite book of the series.  The final chapter in the book, called "Farewell to Shadowlands" describes the end of the world of Narnia, and the journey of the main characters of the series "further up and further in" as the "shadowlands" of Narnia are destroyed and they discover that there is a bigger and better Narnia within and they are to stay there with Aslan.

"There was a real railway accident," said Aslan softly.  "Your father and mother and all of you are - as you used to call it in the Shadowlands - dead.  The term is over: the holidays have begun.  The dream is ended: this is the morning."

"The shadowlands surround me now
but You walk with me through the cloud
into the sun..."


* - (Shadowlands is also the title of a 1993 film about Lewis starring Anthony Hopkins)