| The Great Stage in the Sky |
This songs was a long time in the making. The initial ideas came to life in 1978 but were not fully developed until the end of 2008. It's a song which means a lot to me, as it encompasses the searching soul looking for fulfillment. It's an idea that many songwriters of the sixties and seventies visited in the their yearning for 'peace of mind'. |
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| Kingdom Come |
I always wanted to start a song the way Jimi Hendrix does in All Along the Watchtower, with the solo beginning on the second note of the scale, so I wrote this. A similar riff in the same key introduces what turned out to be a very different sounding song.
It covers one of my major themes - the folly of human life that is leading us all to destruction. But it leaves the hearer with a question - what then is (the) Kingdom (to) Come if annihilation seems to be our inevitable destination? |
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| Kwenda Kulala |
I did indeed do some of my growing up in East Africa as the first line of the song says. It's really rather autobiographical which is unusual for me.
Kwenda Kulala is Swahili for 'go to sleep' or 'go to bed', something you don't do if you feel unsafe. |
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| Song for Meisie |
People have an abiding passion for dogs and we English form strong bonds with our pooches and even let them live in our houses.
This may sound like the lament for lost human love, but it's a cry of pain for the loss of companionship at the death of our Boxer dog, Meisie. It is also an expression of the anger we feel, and God too must share at the death of any living thing. |
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| Headlines |
Why does the modern world have such an obsession with sound bites and news snippets? No subject can be conveyed accurately in few words and certainly not a headline, but the impact of them sells and our consumerist minds fall for them every time. We say we want truthful news and current affairs reporting but buy the trashy headline every time.
We should learn to read between the lines. |
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| Chasing the Wind |
Futility is part and parcel of the human condition. The title is taken from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible and the song puts the thoughts of King Solomon into our own age - but in a much more simplistic manner of course! |
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| Catch a Dream |
You have to have a vision however vague and then you need to keep trying to make it happen. Even if you only get so far down the track of reaching your dream, it'll still be worth it. |
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| Lady Love |
Now in glorious stereo!
Nigel Sattin playing Bass |
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| Nothing to Say |
A first for me using Samplitude to record rather than my usual Sonar |
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| People Get Ready |
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