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Time is Defeated

from Fallingsky by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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lyrics

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Time is defeated
By Hope and Love and Beauty
Time is down

Attacked by the happy group
His wings are plucked
Time is bitten

Beauty, crowned with pearls
She will spear him
And take his hair

And Hope, crowned with flowers
Laughs at Time
And takes a hook
To the hourglass

Opposing movements
Diagonals prevail
Brilliant colours

The light is clear
Agitation present
In every gesture

Time is defeated
By Hope and Love and Beauty

credits

from Fallingsky, released August 6, 2021
David Reilly – Vocals, Guitar
Tim Webb* – Bass Guitar
Edward Spark - Orchestra
Lank Frampard - Drums

Written by David Reilly & Tim Webb

*The song is based around the opening riff from the piece "Inner Voices" by Tim Webb, from his EP "Probability Theory", released March 2021 - available on Bandcamp.

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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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