Acoustic
The Red Book is quite an 'ickle project. The Red Book is an acoustic album written and performed by Alex Elliott from Band Substance, Stuart Browne from Glass Pilot & Jamie Williamson. We are also on Myspace at www.myspace.com/theredbook123
Story behind the song
I'm Bored so I thought I'd write The tale of The Folly because I realised it has many gaps of info.
Cathy, the women with the dark black veil..., was caught cheating with Mr. Pegg "the Top-hated man" by her husband Heathcliff Balladi (The names we're so obviously knicked from Wuthering Heights!). Both Mr.Pegg and Heathcliff are members of a Mafia-stlye crime family. In his rage Heathcliff murdered Mr. Pegg, and beat up Cathy Following this she left home with their child Lorenzo. Heathcliff gets tried by Rafael, the head of the crime family, who had just returned from hiding, and gets sentenced to death. Realising how much she loved Heathcliff, Cathy returns to their home to find the locks have been changed. She bangs on the windows pleading with Heathcliff to let her in. At the same time Heathcliff faces certain death in front of a Crime-family fireing squad......
Lyrics
A women with a dark black veil accross her ghostly face,
Arrived to take the boy, out the place he had grown.
Under the Eng;ish sun.
Ohh what a foolish one.
You could say it was the folly of her own youth,
She performed an action most uncouth.
The top hated man bowed lowering his top hat.
But he couldn't live like that.
The folly of a gentleman,
The folly of some gentleman,
The folly of a gentleman.
The folly of an Englishman.
Mr. Balladi,
What she said was true.
She never loved a love like she loves you.
To let her leave would surely be folly.
Mr. Balladi.
Tell it to the king who'll appear at the trial,
He ain't been around for a long while.
Rafael he heard it all,
You design for Mr.Pegg to have a nasty fall.
The folly of a gentleman,
The folly of an Englishman,
The folly of some gentlemen,
The folly of a gentleman.
"Heathcliff, it's me you're Cathy. I'm home, let me in your window."
"Heathcliff, it's me you're Cathy. I'm home, let me in your window."
Mr. Balladi,
What she said was true.
She never loved a love like she loves you.
To let her leave would surely be folly.
Mr. Balladi.
