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Cloudland Blue Quartet - Another Happy Day (2003)

from Rubinmusik 1977​-​2017 by David Reilly

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The sun shines on the hillside, and the breeze blows through the trees
I’m upstairs in the bedroom, you’re outside on your knees
We moved here fifteen years ago, we left the past behind
We brought our little cat with us, she’d never been outside

Now we’ve known our neighbours’ children, since they were five or six
And the new boy thinks we’re old folks, but we wrote all his tricks
The garden gate is open, as we pull up in the car
The bolt we put up yesterday, hasn’t got us far
There’s a dead bird in the garden, that may have been a cat

But not ours, cos she’s gone
Everyday a little more paranoid, what’s that on the lawn
Everyday a little older, a little slower, a little colder
Everyday more suspicious, looking over your shoulder

And time is going faster, faster everyday
Another year is over, another happy day

Soon come celebration, soon come happy day
The hours, the days, the weeks, the months, the years, spreading out behind us
Soon come it’s all over, soon come dust to dust
And if I dwell on that stuff, my motivation’s crushed

And time is going faster, faster everyday
Another year is over, another happy day

We keep you in a little box, set down by the bed
The picture hanging on the wall, helps to dull the pain
We fill our days with nonsense, and forget what happens next
TV, fun and happy days, and friends all sending texts
Soon come it’s all over, soon come dust to dust

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from Rubinmusik 1977​-​2017, released December 30, 2017
Another Happy Day 10:47
(Reilly)
David Reilly – Vocals, Electric Guitar, Guitarscapes, Organ, Synthesiser, Fretless Bass, Drum Machine Programming
Recorded May 2003
Currently available on the Cloudland Blue Quartet album “Anotherhappyday” (2003)

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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