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Lullaby
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An acoustic song about change, being somewhere new, and living in a city...
acoustic music south west
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Acoustic music which is nice and mellow, but has some surprises... You'll find intense lyrics and plenty of dark edges here too.
makes mellow acoustic music in Totnes, South West UK. You'll find a lot of dark edges here, and lyrics that will haunt you. But the tunes are catchy in a funny kind of way and will stick inside your head.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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#19,179 today Peak #153
#4,209 in subgenre Peak #24
Author
Tom Kerswill
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Tom Kerswill
Uploaded
December 07, 2003
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MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Written in the summer of 2000. How it came about is a long story, but the tuning it was written in came into being after a long recording session with Joe Williams (recording his "Green Song"). Lullaby is one of the songs I most enjoy playing, and it might well be one that people remember.
Lyrics
The cityscape surrounds you, it is home, it shelters but surrounds you, infrastructure renders you a helpless cell but then the sky is orange, burning other people's lives, the elements are bitter cold. You are used to this. Confusion plays its part, the fire that lights the sky, and keeps you warm, puts smoke into your eyes, is fuelled by all there lies, there's no escape, you're working late again. I know this ain't no lullaby Heaven hates no lullaby It's too late to learn to cry We all meet hardship. Heaven knows what a way for hope to die Facing down a one way street, Like facing up to other people's memories of yesterday, will always stay the same. They loose the crushing pain, forget the shame, of loosing all control, you have no name today. Creations die but they had only lived inside your brain now loose their worth. The winter rain will wash away your spirit now. The city lives today.
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