Another early bit of recording, from the same room in Elephant and Castle (if memory serves). Probably circa. January 2012.
I quite like my tasty acoustic finger-picking on this one, but realise with hindsight that I recorded it with vastly too much treble in the mix, making much of the fretwork sound like two dolphins fighting each other
lyrics
Many moons out here, seventh from the sun-
You can be sure my dear, I picked the coldest one!
And it's easy, too easy to sneer, watching the planets run-
They lost the plot, and time forgot, each sad career
Dark and lonely as a nun's;
I save your messages
And I send you none
Out here on Oberon!
Won't you tell my love, won't you speak it straight,
Say I'm not too proud to communicate-
I've been watching the morning star,
It doesn't seem so very far!
Now the world is wild, it's all a mess,
All my nights are long, days are shorter than your dress,
I'll be full of spite, and I won't know why,
Then I'm only love
But too tired to try.
Well, the music's stopped,
But the dance goes on
Out here on Oberon.
M8: Kids living the dream-
Playing at kings and queens;
I'm hearing you clear as a bell
Ringing through heaven and hell.
All the candles I hold in the dark
Have burned down to the quick;
Sorry shadows turn their heads and bark
I write strange words, I chase the moon, I'm sick-
Must be a lunatic!
Well, I'd follow your mood til the will grew thin,
And I've felt the bloom of all the flowers of sin
Pride and lust, and the spirit rusts,
And I wonder how
Will we let each other in?
Oh, and your eyes are like the sun!
Been a while since they've shone
Out here on Oberon.
M8
And you ask,
'How long?';
It's always on
Out here on Oberon
credits
from Electric Ladywood,
released September 25, 2020
Dominic Hyde: songwriter, vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, engineering, mixing
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