Cloudland Blue Quartet - Half A Lifetime Away (Original Version) (2004)

from Rubinmusik 1977-2017 by David Reilly

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On a day half a lifetime away
I recall like it was just yesterday
I walked down to the town
All my friends were hanging around
Not a single shop was open
And the weather forecast predicted oven-like conditions

But we’d secured our supplies the day before
From the drummer’s mother’s shop, the grocery store
As we made our way to the top of the hill
I remember thinking to myself

This is a day I won’t easily forget
This is the way I want to remember them
Now the friends I once knew all but one are gone
Just a memory from half a lifetime away

As we sat around the smouldering fire
In the woods at the top of the hill
Drinking beer and shouting at the top of our voices
We were so young and so full of hope

We made our way back down to the town
Messed around on the banks of the river
Running with the trains on the railway tracks
Then over the bridge to the May Day Fair

That was a day I won’t easily forget
This is the way I want to remember them
The friends I once knew now all but one are gone
A memory from half a lifetime away

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from Rubinmusik 1977-2017, released December 30, 2017
Half A Lifetime Away (Original Version) 03:50
(Reilly)
David Reilly – Lead Vocals, Organ, Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesiser, Backing Vocals, Drum Programming
Recorded May 2004
Previously available on the Cloudland Blue Quartet album “Souvenir VIII : Fifty Five Songs Vol 1” (2004)

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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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