My Light, My Sky

from Genre Fluid by Dave Bradley

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My Light, My Sky is about displaced friendships with lyrics by yours truly and Simon Oliver, whom you may know from Clive-upon-Sea’s Fragments album, which was produced by yours truly. This song is a largely percussion-free acoustic singer-songwriter tune, a bit of a Floydian slip if you ask me with some pedal steel guitar suggested by long-time Sciencebase online friend Steelfolk, aka Dr Keith Walker.

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Chased the raindrop to the stream
Chased the river to the sea
There, my friend he waved at me
But, my friend he could not see

Chased the meaning out of me
Gave permission to my grief
Would the water wash over me
So my faith could set me free?

But, no raindrop, river, sea
Can wash him back here to me
When the world it buries me
Will I wake to find I'm free?

Hid the places she would scream
Let her teardrops make the scene
Could my friend still save my dream?
But, my friend she cannot heal

And, no raindrop, river, sea
Can wash her back here to me
When the world it buries me
Will I wake, will I wake to find I'm free?

Can I still not believe?
Oh, I could still not believe
I still cannot conceive
That our hope was swallowed by the sea

Found my way back to the sea
Walked the shingle in a dream
Ripped my soul, right out of the seams
And my brother carried me

I thought, no raindrop, nor sea
Would sail them back home to me
When the world it buries me
I will wake, I will wake to find I'm free!

Can I still not believe?
Oh, I could still not believe
I still cannot conceive
Our hope was swallowed by the sea

Oh I do like to be beside the sea

Oh, this is a beautiful sky
But, this is not my sky, no, this is not my sky
And, oh, this is a beautiful day
This is not my day, no, this is not my day

And, oh this is a beautiful sight
But, this is not my sight, this is not my sight
And, oh, this is a beautiful light
But, this is not my light, no this is not my light

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from Genre Fluid, track released November 16, 2023
Original lyrical concept by Simon Oliver "Clive-upon-Sea"
Additional words David Bradley, Music dB/
Vocals and instrumentation dB/
Photography and artwork dB/

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Dave Bradley UK

Guitarist, singer-songwriter. Acoustic and electric indie pop and rock originals. Singer, guitarist with C5, bigMouth, TyrannoChorus, CTW, with DJ Ad, and BarbD

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