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In these days of flattening the curve, we’re producing the Apple Seed these days from a couple of home studios – like you, we’ve been self-isolating, and, like you, looking for ways to reach out to our fellow humans. During this time, Sam took to posting to social media a little song every day – something filled with a little hope and a little encouragement to hang on. We thought we’d bring you some of those pieces here, as Apple Seed Extras. These aren’t studio recordings, and you’ll be able to tell – they’re made with a little Canon SLR camera, aimed at Sam while he sits on the piano bench in his office. But we do hope that you enjoy them.
 
Here's what Sam says about this tune:
 
“Sometimes, especially in days like these, it seems like there’s a lot we would do for the ones we love, but can’t. And sometimes it seems like our love is the only thing we can send out into the world from where we’re locked up tight ourselves. But we do, we send our love out there in all the ways we can think up, and we can think up a lot of ways.
 
This is a song written a few years ago, long before the crises we’re currently all facing together. It’s a song that I most often dedicate to our kids, who right now are moving us with their care for each other. So often we watch our kids grow up and go off to face whatever adventures the world might bring, and sometimes we wish we could send more along with them than just our love. But love can be a lot. For our kids and for yours, here’s a song.”
 
MY LOVE GONNA FOLLOW YOU DOWN
 
You can fly, fly away
Off to feed some yearning
Off to some bright day
Through some cold morning
And though you don’t look back
Though you don’t turn ‘round
Like a whisper from above
Oh my love gonna follow you down
 
Though the world don’t care
And though it try to break you
And though you don’t know where
The long and winding road will take you
And all your sacred dreams
They all come unwound
When the pushin’ comes to shove
Oh my love gonna follow you down
 
And it’s a wide, wide view
Far across this meadow
Ocean deep in blue
Canyon dim in shadow
 
And if you lift your eyes
When you hear some sound
Like a soft grey dove
Oh my love gonna follow you down
 
Though the earth may move
Oh my love gonna follow you down