Name: The Weekday Sun
Duration: 3 min 58 s
Channel: Melissa Forbes
Description: Winner of Best Female Solo Artist at the 2006 International Online Music Awards, Melissa Forbes' soulful voice and classic style have drawn comparisons with the likes of Vanessa Williams, Sade, Eva Cassidy & Lisa Stansfield.

Winner of Best Female Solo Artist at the 2006 International Online Music Awards, Melissa Forbes' soulful voice and classic style have drawn comparisons with the likes of Vanessa Williams, Sade, Eva Cassidy & Lisa Stansfield.

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Melissa Forbes

Ever woken up on a Monday morning with that sinking feeling about the work week ahead? Former commercial lawyer Melissa Forbes felt it so strongly she decided to become a singer. In March 2005 she released her debut album "No More Mondays" on her own label, Kitten Kong Records. An outstanding vocalist capable of singing anything from Aretha Franklin to Ella Fitzgerald, Melissa seamlessly integrates her conservatorium jazz training with R&B grooves. Featuring a dynamic band including jazz legend John Hoffman on trumpet (Buddy Rich, Woody Herman), "No More Mondays" contains originals, standards and jazzified takes on popular tunes from Michael Jackson, D'Angelo and even Metallica. It is available in Australia through major music retailers (eg HMV)and internationally through the online store, CD Baby. 1. Shhh (Intro) 2. Black Coffee/Brown Sugar (jazz standard/cover - D'Angelo) 3. Broken Wings 4. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (cover - Michael Jackson) 5. Thinking You Over 6. The Weekday Sun 7. Rising Up? 8. Shadows of Love 9. You're My Alter Ego/Nothing Else Matters (jazz standard/cover - Metallica) 10. Still 11. Blackheart Blues 12. As I Sing

Song Info

Genre

World • World General

Charts

#8,102 today Peak #10

#3,001 in subgenre Peak #1

Author

Melissa Forbes

Rights

Melissa Forbes & Kitten Kong Records

Uploaded

November 02, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:58

Lyrics

A weak sun glances down
On a grey and huddled bunch
Of pigeons pecking pebbles
And the suited picking lunch

Yellow cabs wait patiently
As their drivers smoke and chew
On roll-your-owns and damp kebabs
Washed down with sugared brew

Suddenly their rest concludes – 
The booze and business set
Must off to midday cabarets
Of deals and duck and debt

And a weak sun glances down
But we don't notice it

Across their crimson cuts of beef
The talk is all “win-win”
Business plans and béarnaise sauce
Drip from flopping chins

Meantime the keen and ordered
In brand-name packs go jog
While chrome and credit hash joints
Greet the steak and merlot mob

Down by the marbled waterside
Where stevedores once moved
Waxed waifs and chicks from the typing pool
text and argue over Who

And a weak sun glances down
But we don't notice it

Some creep into the chapels
In this ordinary town
To water green their failing souls
Places long gone brown
And lonely in this sacred still
They pray that time might find
A way to satisfy itself
Without the clock’s constant wind

For soon the hands will turn around
To 2:00PM once more, as
The borrowed void of lunch hour
Returns through office doors

And a weak sun glances down
And a weak sun glances down
And a weak sun glances down
Don't fail to notice it

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Scotty McLennison

Dec 16, 2008

Sweet song! Leaves me wanting more!