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Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Actor Takes the Stage (2012)

from Rubinmusik 1977​-​2017 by David Reilly

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lyrics

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 and 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 and he told them very well
And if you listen very closely you can hear them all as well

And so the actor takes the stage...

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from Rubinmusik 1977​-​2017, released December 30, 2017
The Actor Takes the Stage 04:14
(Reilly)
David Reilly- Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, Synthesisers, Samples, SFX
Recorded March 2012
Currently available on the Cloudland Blue Quartet album “Starlightnight” (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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