vendredi 18 octobre 2013

Fairy Dreams

Probably one of the first lyrics I ever wrote, and for sure the first instrumental track I've finished. I put on YouTube the instrumental track to get a harpist's insight. I've noticed a few things I'm gonna change before I record the melody, but still, that's an overview of Fairy Dreams, with music and lyric. 


Lyrics

I may have been a fairy,
A child switched after my birth;
My mother often called me
The weakest baby on earth.
Legends tell that for so long
Fairies have watched humankind;
So my dreams bring me along
What humans have in their mind.

In the realm of the mundane
I can see a gardener.
Hoping for a little rain
The flowers need some water.
His garden is all his life
Every plant and every sprout
A source of grief for a wife
He doesn't care much about

Fairy dreams, not fairy tales
I see in the distance
Beyond my own experience
All the life I share
Everything is real somewhere

He’s gazing at the harbour,
At the sea covered in fog
Still waiting for his master,
The disappeared sailor’s dog.
He won’t be back tomorrow,”
Widow and orphans cry too.
But faithful dogs feel sorrow
Far, far more than humans do.

[Chorus]

A smiling father watching
His son playing from a bench
A boy behind him scratching
His shirt on a holly branch
His mum taking a needle
For the clothes of her firstborn
Sighing upon this riddle
How they're relentlessly torn

[Instr. chorus]

Girl reading Wuthering Heights
Old man answering the phone
Bus of tourists see the sights
They only see what they're shown
A car falling off a cliff
Turned in scrap metal and smoke
Wide-eyed girl stopping to give
A stray cat a little stroke

[Chorus]
I see schemes, open new trails
All these encounters
All these dreams make me wiser
Enrich my spirit
Changeling and proud of it!

[instr]

Families are gathering
For this long night in winter
For everyone is marking
The time when time starts over
Welcome to this brave new world
A boy loudly makes it clear
He'll kiss this pretty young girl

To celebrate the New Year.

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