Lyrics to new song, "Dawning Lullaby"

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Hahaha, that's late-night drunken beertalk, for yez. I think we may have said, er, thanks for the add, or something. :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I hope to be there on the 14th, but I'll see. I just coughed up an unspeakable amount of money to see PJ (treble figures). But I digress ...
  • Ian M
    Ian M Posts: 123
    Not sure what you mean by 'drunken beertalk' - I was as sober as a judge (albeit not a judge of nationality)!

    Perhaps I'll see you there then. If I think I recognise you, I'll shout out your name disconcertingly at various points in the evening from a different point in the room each time ;)

    Bad luck about the 3 figures. Were you waiting like me for the Wembley tickets to go on sale for the general public, your 10c membership having expired a couple of months before when you decided that after 3 years you just weren't getting enough perks, like (for example) exclusive access to a die-hard fans-only concert?
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ian M wrote:
    Not sure what you mean by 'drunken beertalk' - I was as sober as a judge (albeit not a judge of nationality)!

    Perhaps I'll see you there then. If I think I recognise you, I'll shout out your name disconcertingly at various points in the evening from a different point in the room each time ;)

    Bad luck about the 3 figures. Were you waiting like me for the Wembley tickets to go on sale for the general public, your 10c membership having expired a couple of months before when you decided that after 3 years you just weren't getting enough perks, like (for example) exclusive access to a die-hard fans-only concert?

    Point 1) I was the beery one!

    Point 2) I'll shave.

    Point 3) Well, I sent a letter to 10c, back in early 1992, asking about the availability of Temple of The Dog (before it was re-released on the back of Ten's success). Debbie at 10c sent me a letter back, on Curtis Management headed paper, giving me a tape for free! The beautiful thing about the envelope was that it had the Alive stickman and red logo, saying Pearl Jam on it.

    I then found I was made a 10c member for nothing. I got the newsletters and singles.


    I haven't been a 10c member since, 'cos I'm a tosser. But I was at the band's first UK show at Southend and still love 'em!

    Anyway, I'd better write a song on this thread, before I compromise topic integrity. :)
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ian, did you go and see the Badger man? (JS)

    I didn't.

    Send me a gig report.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I

    Storms will sunder castles broad, kings will falter in their pride,
    all will beg along the road that greed has cut through mountains wide.
    The only crown there is to wear, come the days of cold and rain,
    is what you shape of love and care, a fragile lovegold daisy chain.

    Fathers toy with stolen ground their sons and daughters will devour.
    Wind will beat their brows, around their lonely deathward hour.
    How they’ll blame the sun and stars, for the follies of their lives,
    though the earth is cut with scars, from their walls of sticks and knives.

    Hush now, darling, don’t you cry,
    dream new light beyond your eye.


    II

    There‘s a field, no columbine will grow for man’s ingratitude.
    There’s a field, no fennel fine meets man’s devices, cheap and crude.
    There’s a field beyond the night, only carefree lovers find,
    making one in aimless flight, finding God in gainless mind.

    Here’s a wood the starling knows, where the goldcrest flocks a-plenty.
    Here’s a sky the barn owl sews a life of cycles, ten-a-twenty.
    Here’s a sound beyond the night, only gentle lovers know,
    Making song in dawning light, by the gilded river flow.

    Hush now, darling, don’t you cry,
    dream new light beyond your eye.


    III

    Drifting willows trail the stream, yellow dawn rays start to blaze.
    Sleeping meadow vales in dream, near their golden dazing phase.
    Maying lovers love again, rolling open gowns of green,
    lying where old souls have lain, at loving’s lifting of the screen.

    Lips that kiss and eyes that glaze, move the rhythms of the wind.
    Blood that glows in gentle face, mirrors sun like river kind.
    Hands that reach to touch this light, are lighted dust of scattered sun.
    Souls will twine before the night of ancient summer stars is done.

    Hush now, darling, don’t you cry,
    Dream new light beyond your eye.

    ___


    I've recorded the music, only wrote the lyrics today and have yet to record the vocals to the backing. I'll say, when I've done a take and it's up, on the usual spot.
    Lyrics you write can only be good. You love language and it's obvious whenever you write creating stories and the photograhs. Way to go, Fins!
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  • Ian M
    Ian M Posts: 123
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Ian, did you go and see the Badger man? (JS)

    'Fraid not, I had other things to attend to like picking up a beautiful Godin guitar that someone is +giving+ me.

    I was going to go up to the crouch end gig tonight, but it turns out it's not just him, but a 'folk idol' event with loads of other schmos who get "10 minutes to play a classic folk song (or two), in a false beard" (http://www.knom.co.uk/shows.php#205). So I'm not so sure any more. Perhaps I'll wait for the Stoke Newington gig on July 13th. Perhaps you'll have enough pennies saved up by then?

    Badger man?? There's a vague resemblance there I suppose...
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  • deadnote
    deadnote Posts: 1,678
    reminds me of when i read the lyrics to mirror ball
    everflowing waters of endless melody
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • Ian M
    Ian M Posts: 123
    Richard:

    Going to see the Badger Man 8pm tonight at The Lion pub in Stoke Newington. Fancy it if you're in the area? Ye shall know me by my colours: blue (jeans and eyes behind glass) and beige-brown (most of everything else). Tix £6. No fake beards. Will let you know how it goes if this notice is too late (3 hours?).

    more info here: http://www.knom.co.uk/shows.php#205

    and pub details (incl. map) here: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/44/4422/Lion/Stoke_Newington
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'd love to, but I'm as sick as a dog, with ear-ache too! I wanted to go this lot, too.

    You're in for a great night!
  • Ian M
    Ian M Posts: 123
    Dude, that shit is messed up!!

    He did the Christine Aguilera song ('genie in a bottle'? - 'you gotta rub me up ther right way' in v. melancholic style), the 18th century sea-wife's lament, 'Winter', 'Matchbox Man', a new song which was really dirty - something about a girl that fit him like a glove, some others that I can't remember and then finished with Queens of the Stone Age: 'No One Knows'. Oh and a murder ballad...was it actually called 'axe mountain' or has my mind been tainted by Cunt Aunt Cunt Ant? A girl killing the killer of her family somewhere out across the moor. Great stuff.

    He played some nice fingerpicking 6ths and 3rds along with the girl who was supporting (also a fingerpicker in 'Don't think twice it's all right' style) which was pretty even though I couldn't hear a word she was singing. Something about a 'mister customs man' and a few 'flower's in there...

    Nice jokey form throughout the evening. The room wasn't too well soundproofed so we got strains of whatever bilge they were playing in the main downstairs area, especially when people walked in through the door.

    He's too good for his own good if you ask me. He needs to invent a weak spot somewhere just to make the rest of us lame strugglers feel better about ourselves. There were points where wide-eyed appreciation started to tip over into homicidal urges for me - not a healthy performer/audience relationship to indulge :)

    He only had copies of the new live album, so I guess I'll have to buy the studio one off the internet after all.

    Get well soon!
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Cheers, mate!

    Yep, he's very serious.

    Have you seen the great John Martyn?


    I still have to say, that even at his very worst, John Martyn live is still better than PJ at their very best, and obviously I love PJ. Have you seen the Big Fella live?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    nicely done dude
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ian M wrote:
    I couldn't hear a word she was singing. Something about a 'mister customs man'


    Was it a cover of this song?:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRXD5kUzBG4
  • Ian M
    Ian M Posts: 123
    It might have been, though I don't remember hearing anything about Los Angeles. It'd be pretty hard to slur that into something unrecognisable, right?
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    even at his very worst, John Martyn live is still better than PJ at their very best, and obviously I love PJ. Have you seen the Big Fella live?

    That's quite some assertion! I only bought 'Solid Air' about 6 months ago, so no, I've not had the pleasure of judging for myself. That video you posted a while back of 'May You Never' was pretty awe-inspiring though. Great vocal style. I thought he was blind for a long time too (the two observations may not be related - I reserve my rights). I missed the obvious opportunity of seeing both him and JS on the same bill. Foolish, huh?
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ian M wrote:
    I thought he was blind for a long time too (the two observations may not be related - I reserve my rights). I missed the obvious opportunity of seeing both him and JS on the same bill. Foolish, huh?

    Blind drunk, definitely. Blind, no. ;)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYCG5wZ9op8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLNFOQSSao
  • Ian M
    Ian M Posts: 123
    Jeez, he got rather 'portly' over the years didn't he?

    I like delay pedal stuff as a general rule: such a revelation when you first plug into one and happen upon the right rhythm that sets it chugging along on its own accord. Was he doing some tapping with his left index finger on the fret board (using the middle to pick out a harmonic) or was it my imagination?

    These smart-asses, I don't know...
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Yes, I think you've described it accurately. He's dampening/picking harmonics/adding fills according to feel, and rhythm, as the echo builds, I think.

    He's using an old tape-delay, Binson Echoplex.

    http://www.sabellastudios.com/images_equipment/echoplex_02_lg.jpg


    I used to have a Watkins Copicat. Temperamental bugger, it was. It looked just like this, with tape running in a band around the heads. When I had it, though, I was only about fifteen, and I mainly used it for making Interstellar Overdrive-type noises and space farts, because I couldn't play for shit:

    http://strat.web.infoseek.co.jp/kizai/copicat.jpg

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