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Flags of Some Nations
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A calming song about the shipping forecast.
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An acoustic artist, vocal and piano music, soaring melody lines and linking chords. Music is meant to be beautiful- I hope I'm getting there!
Hi, David Sims, 17, from Bedfordshire in England. I have been writing music since I was 13. I was in a band once but work on my own stuff solely these days. Play trombone, piano, guitar and cornet and sing on my own tracks.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Piano
Charts
Peak #554
Peak in subgenre #64
Author
Sims
Rights
Music (c) David Sims 2009
Uploaded
January 26, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 4:32
Story behind the song
The song was written on Friday 6 June 2008. In the early summer of 2008 I listened to the shipping forecast a few times and immediately had an attraction to it. I took this attraction and told it in a story of a lonely woman who 'longs to be elsewhere'.
Lyrics
In a flat on Grays Inn Road Is a woman who knows we know She sits alone as the day draws on the line Laying in bed as she's sailing by Shipping Forecast at half past five Her heart is set out on German Bight, on the brine And above her door are the flags of some nations she couldn't hold before, she wouldn't hold before And hanging from the window are the relics of the sea she couldn't hold before, she wouldn't hold before While the wilds of Fastnet hold She's still staring out to the cold Silence falls as the night grows old all around Still her heart longs to be elsewhere Sleeping tight at Finisterre Just a place without any cares or sound And above her door are the flags of some nations she couldn't hold before, she wouldn't hold before And hanging from the window are the relics of the sea she couldn't hold before, she wouldn't hold before
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