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Cloudland Blue Quartet - Krebs Went to War (Live Set Remix) (2010​)​*​*

from Rubinmusik 1977​-​2017 by David Reilly

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Krebs went to war from the college door, he lay flat, he shivered and he prayed
“Dear Jesus please please get me out, keep me from death and I’ll do anything you say
I believe in you, I believe in you” and in the morning the sun came up
And the day was hot and the day was quiet, and he lived

Krebs went to war from the college door, he never told anyone he loved Christ
Now here’s a picture of his graduation, here’s another of humiliation
From ugly girls along the Rhine, back to small town Oklahoma
Years beyond the war being over, back he came but it was much too late

He didn’t want to talk about it; people didn’t want to hear about it
He lied to please, came to him with ease, the more he lied, the more he’d freeze
Took on the roles of others, till the memories were set in stone
Chains and guns in the forest, deep down he knew everything was wrong

Krebs went to war from the college door, he never told anyone he loved Christ
Late summer days spent sleeping late, bored in the bookstore, bored with the town
Nothing had changed as he looked around, he walked up Main Street, he walked back down
He liked to watch, didn’t like to talk, his family loved him; he drove dad’s car

Krebs went to war from the college door, he never told anyone he loved Christ
There was nothing he could change; his experience was out of range
He was no hero inside his head; inside his head he was already dead
He read his books, he read the papers, still liked his sisters, broke his mother’s heart

I don’t believe in you, I don’t believe in you, and in the morning the sun came up
And the day was hot and the day was quiet, and he lived
He abandoned Jesus, he abandoned God, still prayed with his mother, she kept him safe
Krebs went to war from the college door - he lost everything

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from Rubinmusik 1977​-​2017, released December 30, 2017
Krebs Went to War (Live Set Remix) 03:20
(Reilly/Sutherland)
David Reilly – Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitars
Craig Sutherland - Synthesisers, Bass Samples, Drum Programming
Recorded October 2010
Previously available on the Cloudland Blue Quartet album “Souvenir XVII Splinterheart Live” (2010)

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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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