Name: Silent Lullaby
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Channel: Michael Carpenter
Description: "Silent Lullaby" is a song by Michael S. Carpenter. A sad song, with piano and strings.

Silent Lullaby

Michael S. Carpenter

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A sad song, with piano and strings.

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Michael S. Carpenter

One man recording the cobwebs of his mind; Shall we listen in?

One man singer-songwriter musician. Included here are songs written as far back as the late seventies, up to and including the present day. Four of the songs were recorded in the late 90's and make up an EP called Skies. Other albums include A Man Alone from 2002, and The World At Large from 2005. Since then, songs have been released singly as they've been completed. A new album is now available - Tales Of Love And Defiance (talesofloveanddefiance.com)

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Indie Pop

Charts

Peak #115

Peak in subgenre #24

Author

Michael Carpenter

Rights

Michael Carpenter

Uploaded

October 31, 2018

Track Files

MP3

MP3 6.6 MB • 182 kbps • 5:07

Story behind the song

This song is dedicated to the memory of Laura Sadler (1980-2003), an actress who fell 40ft. from her boyfriend's balcony in London. Laura held on for three days, until the doctors told her mother that there was no hope. Permission was given to withdraw life support, and Laura passed away a day later. When I heard the news that she was gone (it was a big story in the UK), I pictured her mother, waiting beside the bed for the eventual outcome, and this song literally forced its way out of my head. 

Based on a nursery rhyme, 'Silent Lullaby' features piano, and a string quartet. The string parts took several weeks to write and arrange.

Recorded on the 788.

New (Oct. 2018) - Fourteen years after its initial release, 'Silent Lullaby' has been updated. Due to advances in recording technology unavailable to me originally, I've been able to go back and replace the string sounds with more realistic versions (using the original score). I've also autotuned the vocal and fixed some little timing issues here and there with the backing tracks. The whole song has also been completely remixed, resulting in a much better version that I hope finally does the material a little more justice.

Lyrics

How long has it been
since I held your hand in mine
I'd be watching over you
And everything was fine
Do you remember
all the nights I'd tuck you into bed?
Sing a little song to you
or a fairy tale instead

And now it doesn't matter
if you remember them or not
I'll do it for the both of us
memories are all I've got

Now it's time
to lay you down to sleep
I pray your thoughts are happy ones
your soul will safely keep
Now it's time
to say goodnight to you
I'll leave a kiss upon your cheek
that says I love you too

Here we are again
with your hand held in mine
I'm still watching over you
like everything was fine
I do remember
watching you drift into your dreams
Hugging on a teddy bear
lit up by pale moonbeams

And what I wouldn't give
for moonbeams once again
Now I sit and hold the bear
cause I'm his lonely friend

Now it's time
to lay you down to sleep
I pray your thoughts are happy ones
your soul will safely keep
Now it's time
to say goodnight to you
I'll leave a kiss upon your cheek
that says I love you too

Someday when you wake up
I hope to be there too
Till then, I'll be waiting
that's all that I can do

Now it's time
to lay you down to sleep
I pray your thoughts are happy ones
your soul will safely keep
Now it's time
to say goodnight to you
I'll leave a kiss upon your cheek
that says I love you too

I'll leave a kiss upon your cheek
that says I love you too

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