We Drove (Sparklemusik Version)

from Sparklemusik by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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20/12/08
I took an age to overcome some problems with the studio set up as I went to work on the new Creek stuff...

I added a few guitar lines to one backing track and it quickly turned into a new CBQ song – “We Drove” – so I put that to one side and went to work on track two – adding guitar lines to this funky piece – only to find it turning into yet another new CBQ track “The Fire in the Clearing”...

I need to get my synths out of the loft to work on Creek properly...

lyrics

We drove
Out along the coast road
We saw deer on the headland
The white
Red roofed villas
Patches of forest
And the ocean oh so blue
The tide
Was out
And the sand
So golden on the edge of the beach

We drove
Through the town
Passing down the coast
Across the rolling country
And up
Into the mountains
We went over
And the road stretched out ahead

I glanced
At my watch
It was time
To go back
And I knocked on the glass
And I asked the driver
“Please turn around”

Back at the hotel
Where we stayed
Close to St John
We stopped the car
And I got out
And the man
Carried the bags
To the door as I stood at reception

I’ll see you around
Don’t worry about the money
I’ll see you around
And I waved to the car
I'll see you around
Don’t worry about the money
I’ll see you around
And I waved to the car
As you drove off

credits

from Sparklemusik, released May 7, 2021
David Reilly - Vocals, Choir, String Quartet, Field Recordings, Arrangement
Edward Spark - Piano, Synthesizers, SFX
Stuart Cobley - Ambient Drone

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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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