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BITTERSWEET REMEMBRANCE radio edit
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Day drinking and pondering lost youth
singersongwriter bossanova mellow melancholy lostlove poignant sundial day drinking seashore sandcastles
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Sold a song to Disney at 12, masterminded a family band in my teens, wrote theater/cabaret in NYC in my youth, quit songwriting for a spell, now I’m back!
I love writing songs that capture strong feelings I’ve had about a time, person or place, and that wrap you in those feelings with a sumptuous arrangement and much to surprise the ear. I’m drawn to seductive rhythms and sophisticated chords, and themes of longing, carnality and joy. I want my listeners to be astonished!
Song Info
Genre
Pop • Dance-Pop
Charts
Peak #1
Peak in subgenre #1
Author
Music and lyrics by Sam Austin
Uploaded
November 24, 2024
Track Files
MP3
MP3 7.5 MB • 320 kbps • 3:17
Lossless
WAV 54.1 MB
Meta Data
BPM
111
Beat
4/4
Key
C maj
Vocals
Male
Character
Energy
relaxed, cool
high-energy
Danceable
coffee-place
dancefloor
Positivity
dark, sad, angry
happy
Appeal
unique
radio-friendly
Story behind the song
I wrote the original version of this song as a ballad when I was 14 and inspired by all the vague yet evocative imagism I was hearing in pop songs of the time. Revisiting it all these years later, we thought it would work better as the story of a lost love from a simpler time.
Lyrics
Quiet vessels on the sea Searching for the land We drew our castles in the air Then built them on the sand Our legacy was shattered Strong tides then washed away Lost in BITTERSWEET REMEMBRANCE Today...drifting away Footsteps in the lantern glow The shadow of a doubt We danced beneath the flickering stars Then watched them all go out The seagulls cried their warning Strong tides then washed away Lost in BITTERSWEET REMEMBRANCE Today...drifting away Today, gazing out on pampered gardens I dream of those castles in the air Echo of your laugh, fading Stillness of the dawn, waiting Sunlight broke through jagged towers The morning's warm embrace A sundial marked our final hours Across its weathered face I raise a glass in anguish The words I cannot say Lost in BITTERSWEET REMEMBRANCE Today...drifting away
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