About BELL JAR: Written almost 30 years ago, this is perhaps
the closest I ever got to writing straight pop... Still, you surely know what book the title refers to? My thanks to Mark for making it sound the way it does in my head, and to Andy Tillison for taking it to a rather unexpected level of coolness.
lyrics
Once it was the dark of night,
Alleys with cobblestone
The foggy winter, not one soul,
The emptiness of wasted time
Hours spent alone with a leaking bottle,
Words bleeding from my hands,
The fast fast candle a state of mind,
And pain a shade of black and red
Days screamed between the nights,
And nights were waking pain
My soul was pinned on the edge of dawn,
Stretched along these endless hours
I lived in a dome, fed on childhood milk,
The air to stale to breathe
Complete isolation, yet I found my voice,
Left with nothing but a past of lies
All that we learn is bound to be wrong
Cause winds always turn
There's more than one song
3000 miles south from my home
I built a country of my own
Customs and speech become relative
When you understand that we're alone
Human nature's not beautiful,
But accidental as the rest
Nothing new expect to find,
It's all the stale air of domes
All that we learn is bound to be wrong
Cause winds always turn
There's more than one song
Later I learnt that the dome is made of
Confining memories
Learnt to forget the past
To breathe a stronger air
Maybe this ain't true, babe
Maybe it ain't as nice,
Maybe real-world colour is close to
grey, and the inner eye seeks for more
All that we learn is bound to be wrong
Cause winds always turn,
There's more than one song
All that we learn is bound to be wrong
Cause winds always turn,
There's more than one song
When human voices wake us up,
We drown anyway...
credits
from All Tomorrows,
track released June 30, 2011
Vocals: Mark Lee Fletcher
Keyboards, drums & bass: Andy Tillison
Saxophone: Paulo Chagas
The measly rest: Fred Lessing
Portuguese transgressive rockers Daymoon aim to delight the world with an incoherent concoction of music from the across the past millennium. Or so. New album EROSION out now.
Absolutely hooked on this album from first listen. How rare is that with prog!??? Excellent songwriting and musicianship. Can’t wait to dive into the rest of the collection. Thomas Lock