Name: In A Different World (Brief Encounter)
Duration: 3 min 43 s
Channel: Bob Leslie
Description: "In A Different World (Brief Encounter)" is a song by Bob Leslie. A song about the unattainable woman. While it's all my own work, on play-back I can hear touches of Dave Crosby and Gillian Welch (not bad company to be in, mind you!).

In A Different World (Brief Encounter)

Bob Leslie

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A song about the unattainable woman. While it's all my own work, on play-back I can hear touches of Dave Crosby and Gillian Welch (not bad company to be in, mind you!).

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Bob Leslie

Multi-talented Scottish singer-songwriter performs his own take on Americana. Original tunes with beautiful guitar work: laugh with Her Father Called Me Franken

Bob Leslie is the unknown soldier of the Scottish songwriting scene. Out of full-time professional action for fifteen years (due to family commitments), he never stopped writing and has recently returned with a 12-song CD of self-penned Americana with a touch of Tom Waits about it. In A Different World (release August 2010) employs top musical talent from the Central Scotland scene: Bernadette Collier & Alice Leslie - backing vox; Fraser Speirs - harmonica; Jim Keilt - lead guitar, Alex Mack - banjo, mandolin, and lead guitar; Craig Nelson - alto sax; and Carl Esprit Bridgeman - bass guitar. Apple, Chrysalis Records, and the Kinks' managers showed interest in Bob's early work and his later songs have elicited high commendation from the the prestigious Billboard Song Contest. Top players Bob has worked with include: Andy Hamilton (sax player for multi-million-selling Canadian songwriter Corey Hart) Chris Glen and Ted McKenna (bass and drums, respectively, with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) Colin Bass (bass player of seminal prog-rockers Camel) Dave Vasco (guitarist for Warner Brothers artists Clancy) Fraser Speirs (harmonica maestro with Paolo Nutini and Scots blues legend Tam White) Jim Keilt (virtuoso lead guitarist with John Otway and the London production of Tommy - the Musical) Kathy O'Donoghue (vocalist with, amongst others, Roger Chapman and Hank Wangford) Zeke Manyika (drummer for Scots chart-toppers Orange Juice)

Song Info

Genre

Country • Alternative Country

Charts

Peak #221

Peak in subgenre #36

Author

Bob Leslie

Rights

2010

Uploaded

July 04, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:43

Story behind the song

The song is a kind of portmanteau of various experiences of falling for someone who was already involved with someone else. The theme was partly suggested by the film "Brief Encounter" and the play "Cyrano de Bergerac".

Lyrics

In a different world
In a different time
Maybe I once was yours
And you were mine
But long before we met
I say this with regret
We boarded trains that went
Down different lines
To a different world
To a different world
And a different time

A little tenderness
A little time
Might heal your wounds, baby,
As they’ll heal mine
Someone to turn to when
The night descends
And your resistance ends
And leaves you crying
For a different world
For a different world
And a different time

And I know there's no tomorrow
For neither you nor I are free
Chains of love and obligation
Tie us to our destiny
But in a different world
And a different time
You were once mine

But long before we met
I say this with  regret
We boarded trains that went
Down different lines
To a different world
To a different world
And a different time

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