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The Actor Takes the Stage

from Starlightnight by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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THE ACTOR TAKES THE STAGE (16/3/12)
Ten years later I’m all on my own,
thinking about nothing, sitting by the phone
But he never ever calls and he never ever writes,
I find my mind is drifting to what happened that night
I looked out of my window and what did I see,
a little old man staring back at me
The Stars and Stripes upon his arm,
looking pretty much like he’s about to buy the farm
I looked a little closer and nothing was clear,
perhaps he was an actor and someone sent him here
Perhaps this was a message perhaps it was a dream,
in life we have to learn not everything is as it seems
He was a burnt out astronaut returned from the stars,
checking his reflection in the windows of the cars
Sitting in my kitchen in his astronaut suit
and then I realised he’s on a mission to recruit
He wants to take me away and show me his life
and nicely introduce me to his very nice wife
His big TV and his very nice car
and buy me lots of drinks at a very nice bar
I explain I can’t go, I’ve got so much to do,
he says “work work work that’s all you ever do
Why don’t you take a little break, come along with me,
there’s so much to learn, there’s so much to see”
So I put my little hand in his astronaut glove
and stepped outside my house into his great big world of love
And he took me away and he showed me his life
and he nicely introduced me to his very nice wife
I watched his big TV and drove his very nice car
and every night we drank at a very nice bar
And he always had a story, he told them very well,
if you listen very closely you can hear them all as well
And so the actor takes the stage

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from Starlightnight, released August 1, 2012

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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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