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Matchsticks on the Water
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People in love are like matchsticks on the water.
rock acoustic switzerland dkp dave keat project dave keat beat neurohr
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The Dave Keat Project is David Keat (guitar and vocals) and Beat Neurohr (flute). The music takes its cues from Folk, Rock, Blues and Jazz and it is this unique
The Dave Keat Project is Dave Keat (guitar and vocals) and Beat Neurohr (flute). The DKP's music is hand made: a melding of wood and steel and two musical imaginations. DKP's sound takes its cues from folk, jazz, blues and rock, whereby these elements are seen to meld into something new. It is a unique sound where the marriage of guitar and flute creates music that is truly out of the ordinary. A quality not readily defined. It is this "something special", coupled with superb musicianship that makes DKP exceptional. The DKP repertoire consists of original material written by Dave as well as the classic tunes of artists like Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Martyn, Cat Stevens, Steven Stills and James Taylor (see repertoire). DKP's music has a universal appeal and their concerts are events that reach out to the audience encouraging participation and above all communication.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
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#13,602 today Peak #152
#2,326 in subgenre Peak #31
Author
Dave Keat
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Dave Keat
Uploaded
July 02, 2006
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MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 1:42
Story behind the song
When I was a kid we did an experiment in school to demonstrate the surface tension of water. Two matchsticks on the water drifting around and if you changed the surface tension with some substance (could it have been sugar?) they would drift apart or come together. Later in life I remembered this in some bizarre moment and it reminded me of two people in love.
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Matchsticks on the Water In the early morning, sleep still in my eyes, all those things you told me, all those gentle lies, echo in my memory they press against my heart, like matchsticks on the water we will drift apart. Like a twisting highway, life takes unseen turns, disbelief has filled me, it seems I never learn, my heart was like the desert sand, your love a cooling stream, but like a thief you stole my hopes and pocketed my dreams. I don’t want to be alone through all the lonely nights, waiting for the day, to begin and find me far away from yesterday and you. And though I tried to stop, you could not be moved, I know your mind was made up long before, long before, long before today. Feeling like a stranger on a foreign shore, the perfume on your pillow, a chill blows through the door, as open as you left my life, as cloudy as the sky, my dreams go chasing after you, I sit and wonder why. As there is a rainbow, after every storm, I know that this darkness, will give way to the dawn, and standing out beneath the stars as they shine down on me, casting light like lanterns might, for ships gone out to sea. Music and Lyrics by David Keat
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