Lyr Add: Eyelids into Snow (Sonny Condell)

Subject: Lyr Add: EYELIDS INTO SNOW (Sonny Condell)
From: Brendy
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 07:35 PM

EYELIDS INTO SNOW

Sonny Condell

These days are getting' dimmer.
Reachin' down to get the headlight.
Tonight, tonight, get a little closer
to you.
It's very cold outside, tonight.
It's very warm in here with you.
Tonight, tonight, get a little closer,
to you.

Chorus
And then we're on our way,
we take a day.
We make a little time.
We're high up here above the road
and big windows are eyelids open into snow.

It don't take long to get a ride.
They see you shivering by the roadside:
"Get in , get in, it's really freezin'"

I can't hear a word what he's sayin'.
The Scottish driver's got no teeth.
He talks and talks about his children.
He talks and talks right up to Stockton.

CHORUS
And then we're on our way,
we take a day.
We make a little time.
We're high up here above the road
and big windows are eyelids open into snow.

And then we're on our way,
we take a day.
We make a little time.
We're high up here above the road
and big windows are eyelids open into snow.

And you're sleeping in the corner of the cab…..
When you waken up, we're driving into snow….
And the driver's thoughts are driving him,
they're driving him,
they're driving us…..
On and on.

It's a long jump down to the pavement.
I turn around and help you down.
We're miles and miles to the north, now.

It don't take long to get a ride.
They see you shivering by the roadside.
You can hear them say:
"Get in, get in, it's really freezin'
You can hear them say:
"Get in, get in, it's really freezin'
You can hear them say:
"Get in, get in, it's really freezin'
You can hear them say:
"Get in, get in, it's really freezin'

CHORUS
And then we're on our way,
we take a day.
We make a little time.
We're high up here above the road
and big windows are eyelids open into snow.

And then we're on our way,
we take a day.
We make a little time.
We're high up here above the road
and big windows are eyelids open into snow.

B.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids Into Snow - Sonny Condell
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 07:44 PM

God, that's good! Who's Sonny Condell? And what sort of a tuen does it have?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids Into Snow - Sonny Condell
From: Brendy
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 07:46 PM

Sonny used to play with Scullion.

I'll hunt out a web page for you Kevin.

B.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids Into Snow - Sonny Condell
From: Brendy
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 07:54 PM

Still looking for something substantive for Scullion, but this is The Official Sonny Condell Web Site

B.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids Into Snow - Sonny Condell
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 08:01 PM

Thanks. I've got a couple of Tir na Nog records somewhere I think - I'll have to have another listen to them.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids Into Snow - Sonny Condell
From: Brendy
Date: 19 Jul 01 - 08:16 PM

This..... is what Philip King is up to these days.

B.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids Into Snow - Sonny Condell
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 28 May 07 - 07:44 AM

Has anyone the lyrics to "Avoid my eyes" it was on the same album as Eyelids

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids Into Snow - Sonny Condell
From: Declan
Date: 28 May 07 - 07:49 PM

Nick,

If no-one has come back with the lyricks or a pointer to them in the meantime, I'll transcribe the lyrics on here in the next few days.

Scullion did a residency for a couple of years in "The Meeting Place" in Dublin on a Monday night, when I was a regular punter there. It's a shame their great music never quite made it to a wider audience. From memory "Eyelids into Snow" was the name of a compilation CD of their work which was brought out a few years back.

Subject: Lyr Add: Avoid My Eyes - Sonny Condell
From: Declan
Date: 30 May 07 - 02:45 PM

Nick,

Here you go

Avoid My Eyes (Sonny Condell)

Avoid My Eyes, we both hear your friend speak on.
I see he knows, I see he knows we're old friends

Take the touch of my hand as a warning, fair warning.
Gazelle, as the lion creeps Pricks his ears, and then he's on the run

Lying in bed, dreaming that I am homeless,
A refugee Out in the burning desert.

Fair warning, fair warning

From the Album "Scullion: Balance and Control (WEA 1980)
Produced by John Martyn

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Eyelids into Snow (Sonny Condell)
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 07:38 AM

Thanks Declan