A dark melody for a dark tale
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I'm a one-man acoustic show featuring furious guitar playing, passionate vocals and lyrics to make you think (well, sometimes). "Frenetic one-man acoustic gorgeosity" they call it.
Story behind the song
Ive always loved Neil Gaimans stories and poems, theyve influenced many a song before.
This is the first time Ive used one of his compositions unchanged; the guitar came first and the vocal melody demanded this poem!
Lyrics
If I were young as once I was, and dreams
and death more distant then,
I wouldnt split my soul in two, and keep
half in the world of men,
So half of me would stay at home, and
strive for Ferie in vain,
While all the while my soul would stroll up
narrow path, down crooked lane,
And there would meet a fairy lass and
smile and bow with kisses three,
Shed pluck wild eagles from the air and
nail me to a lightning tree
And if my heart would run from her or
flee from her, be gone from her,
Shed wrap it in a nest of stars and then
shed take it on with her
Until one day shed tire of it, all bored
with it and done with it
Shed leave it by a burning brook, and off
brown boys would run with it.
Theyd take it and have fun with it and
stretch it long and cruel and thin,
Theyd slice it into four and then theyd
string with it a violin.
And every day and every night theyd
play upon my heart a song
So plaintive and so wild and strange that
all who heard it danced along
And sang and whirled and sank and trod and
skipped and slipped and reeled and rolled
Until, with eyes as bright as coals, theyd
crumble into wheels of gold....
But I am young no longer now; for sixty
years my hearts been gone
To play its dreadful music there, beyond
the valley of the sun.
I watch with envious eyes and mind, the
single-souled, who dare not feel
The wind that blows beyond the moon,
who do not hear the Fairy Reel.
If you dont hear the Fairy Reel, they will
not pause to steal your breath.
When I was young I was a fool. So wrap
me up in dreams and death.
Neil Gaiman
