Cloudland Blue Quartet - Stranded (2001)

from Rubinmusik 1977-2017 by David Reilly

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lyrics

Excuse my happy heart, my smiling way
Excuse my laughing out loud, I hope you stay
I didn’t mean to make you nervous
It’s just my way of getting through another lonely day without you

Sometimes you take me to the moon and Mars
Sometimes I talk to you of galaxies and stars
I didn’t mean to leave you stranded
On the shore beside the dunes with nothing in your head but thoughts of me

I found my voice somewhere in your eyes
I found myself awakening in paradise
I didn’t mean to freak you out
I didn’t think you’d want to hang around with someone going silently insane

This might be a stupid song, it might be true
Might be a lot of things, might be about you
I didn’t mean to take things seriously
I only want to get things done in my time before the setting of the sun

It doesn’t have to mean a thing, It doesn’t have to be the way
You don’t have to listen, it’s all just words upon a page

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from Rubinmusik 1977-2017, released December 30, 2017
Stranded 03:42
(Robinson)
David Reilly - Lead Vocals
Stewart Robinson - Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Drum Programme
John O'Hare - Acoustic Guitar
Recorded March 2001
Currently available on the Cloudland Blue Quartet album “Ampersand” (2002)

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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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