Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe

Subject: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: InOBU
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 03:34 PM

Another from the new CD - Good-bye Amy Gray

Faerrie Childe ( Lorcan Otway all rights reserved )


One evening I wandered, the day being mild
My soul was enticed by a bright faerie child
She led me away with her laughter and song
I thought I'd escaped from all my sorrows

I felt I was safe and I thought all was well
as I followed she skipped to a green woodland dell
She new all my thoughts and she knew all my cares
and her songs brushed away every sorrow

It seemed but a moment, that we lingered there
then a cold wind swept past us, and tossled her hair
Her smile quickly faded, her eyes lost all love
her songs turned to mirrors of my sorrow

I awoke in the forest, alone and in pain
all joy from that evening swept away by cold rain
The weight of my long years I now suddenly knew
and I long for an end to all my sorrows,
and I long for an end to all tomorrows.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 06:30 AM

One sad song, mate! However, the good news is that you are back. I hope the CD sells a million.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:00 AM

Will the CD go full cycle, InObu, with our old Urban Quaker Roma shamelessly self promoting himself while Spaw grumbles in the background? Most of us return from the land of the faeries sadder but oh so much wiser and therefore happier for the experience.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:12 AM

Were you in love with this Amy Gray? Sounds like the old pitter-pat gone wrong, wrong, wrong, in which case, I know some good country songs...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: InOBU
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 11:06 AM

No... Guest, there is NO Amy Gray... Amy Gray is as much a myth as Santa Claus, and with lots less value as myth... it is a fictional song completely. Some who thought it was about someone, well they just don't know - you can't know from a distance who someone is, you always find out you are wrong when you turn things around, look at them up close and maybe come to understand a little and at least know how little you know.

I suppose the flaw in the song, and it is a big one, is that if there is an Amy Gray out there, anyone who thinks they understand how another lives their life is a much an eejit anyone can be.

lor

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 12:30 PM

Another Dark Lady

Think not, because I wonder where you fled,
That I would lift a pin to see you there;
You may, for me, be prowling anywhere,
So long as you show not your little head:
No dark and evil story of the dead
Would leave you less pernicious or less fair--
Not even Lilith, with her famous hair;
And Lilith was the devil, I have read.

I cannot hate you, for I loved you then.
The woods were golden then. There was a road
Through beeches; and I said their smooth feet showed
Like yours. Truth must have heard me from afar,
For I shall never have to learn again
That yours are cloven as no beech's are

-Edwin Arlington Robinson

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 12:31 PM

So many dark ladies in poetry!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: From (InOBU's) new CD - Faerrie Childe
From: InOBU
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 01:13 PM

And so many good poems by Robinson, so you know his poem Richard Cory? Paul Simon paraphrased it, or updated it, and made it into a song by the same name...

Ah, but let us sing in praise of the light and good for awhile.

:)
lor