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The Fire in the Clearing

from Soundingfall by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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The Fire in the Clearing (20/12/08 & 11/01/09)
He stood up, he was alright
He looked up at the track
And the tail lights in the night
And the loco, tight round the curve
There was water on both sides of the track
Felt his knee, trousers torn to flesh and bone
He tried to strap, he tried the telephone
Down to the water, watch them come round again
He was covered in cuts and bruises
Felt the lump over his eye
Couldn’t believe what had hit him
Oh so dark, out in the night
Along the track he saw the fire
Down the embankment down on the wire
The track came out through the cut
The fire was burning, the clearing opened out
He fell away into the woods
The fire was bright
At the edge of the trees
There was a man, he was down on his knees
With his head in his hands looking at the fire
Head in his hands looking at the fire
The man looked at him, he looked at the man
And in the light of the fire
His face was misshapen
His nose was sunken
His eyes were slits
He had queer shaped lips
Oh Oh Oh Oh
The man’s face, the baby’s face
The man’s face, the baby’s face
He looked so dead in the firelight
Away from the fire
Across to the tracks
Climbed the embankment
Blood on his back
Found he had some food
Deep down in his sack
Put it in his pocket
Then he walked away
He could see the fire in the clearing

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from Soundingfall, released May 4, 2009

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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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