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Here They Come With the New Machines

from Splinterheart by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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HERE THEY COME WITH THE NEW MACHINES (6/6/10)
I don’t know but I’ve been told that the streets are paved with gold
On the other side of town and they’ll never let you down
When they say what they will do they will always carry it through
They will never let you down
I can’t say if that’s the way for you to reach the highest goal
But if it’s better than before then that’s surely worth the time
You can do what you want to do set your sights and carry it through
You can live by your own mind
I don’t know what you’ve been sold but I don’t believe it’s true
When they say the things they do and they make you feel so bad
On the other side of town they will never let you down
You can do what you want to do
People say today’s the day when it all comes true for you
But I don’t if know that’s quite right I didn’t sleep a wink last night
It was all going through my mind you’re so very, very kind
Now I don’t know what we should do
Here they come with the new machines the ones that make the dreams
The dreams come true for you greatest thing under the sun
And they say it’s all for you but I don’t know what to do
I don’t know if we should go
Perhaps I’m wrong faith needs no proof and the absurdity of youth
Will always win out in the end and with every hour you spend
With the boys and girls of old I don’t know what we’ve been told
But this doesn’t seem like gold
I don’t know but I’ve been told we might die before we’re old
But I’ve never felt so young and I feel like spring has sprung
And an eternity of truth has only just begun
And the songs are being sung

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from Splinterheart, released August 31, 2010
Here They Come With the New Machines (Reilly) (6:11)
David Reilly - Vocals; Acoustic Guitars; Synthesisers
Peri Urban - Rhythm Bed

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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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