The Beginning of the End

from Disquietsongs by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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We were driving on the road
We were coming down the hill
We drove towards the houses
On the outskirts of the town

Across the plain we saw the mountains
And the mountains they were blue
And the snow high on the mountains
The snow it shone like glass

And the summer it was ending
But the new snow hadn't come
And we wanted cool and shade
We were sunburned and we ached

And we turned into a side road
And we stopped outside a house
And the air was sweet and sickly
As we walked round to the back

There was a man out in the back yard
Of the next house on the street
And he asked us what we wanted
So we shot him in the head

And we knew this was the ending
Or the beginning of the end
And the key went in the lock
But the door it would not open

So we got back in the car...

3/11/20

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from Disquietsongs, released November 6, 2020
David Reilly : Vocals, Guitar
Edward Spark : Drums

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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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