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Nocturne (album version)
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A track from my album White Pages, written during a visit to Melrose Abbey in the Borders of Scotland
ambient rock
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I am a singer,songwriter from Durham, North East England living in Edinburgh, Scotland and I have been writing songs for about 50 years. Influences include 60's,70's, and 80's singer songwriters, and ambient/ soundtrack music. My music is atmospheric, ambient, yet with a pop sensibility. I have performed in Belfast at the Belfast/Nashville Songwriters Festival on two occasions and also in Scotland, solo at Cabaret Voltaire, Haddington George Hotel with my friend Lindsey Mitchell. I am happy that here on Soundclick people are enjoying my songs, my most recent work is named Locations and I am currently producing new material.
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Genre
Alternative • Alternative General
Charts
Peak #92
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
John Knox
Rights
John Knox 2018
Uploaded
November 15, 2018
Track Files
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MP3 5.8 MB • 128 kbps • 6:19
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Nocturne standing in the shadows very still is the abbey at the bottom of the hill in the coldness of winter time under a moonlit sky these stones were built to stand these stones were meant to last. everybody wakened with the dawn the inspired and forlorn the holy ones who gathered there would lead the morning prayer invading armies came so Godless in their fight they left us broken on a desecrated site strewn in the gardens lie the ruins of a time the evensong still permeates the stone now as I walk around the rooms that are no more taking steps along forgotten corridors where now the sky is where the ceiling was before I take a breathe and walk through time. these stones were built to stand these stones were meant to last Nocturne standing in the shadows very still is the abbey at the bottom of the hill in the coldness of winter time under a moonlit sky these stones were built to stand these stones were meant to last. everybody wakened with the dawn the inspired and forlorn the holy ones who gathered there would lead the morning prayer invading armies came so Godless in their fight they left us broken on a desecrated site strewn in the gardens lie the ruins of a time the evensong still permeates the stone now as I walk around the rooms that are no more taking steps along forgotten corridors where now the sky is where the ceiling was before I take a breathe and walk through time. these stones were built to stand these stones were meant to last
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