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Once more down this dusty old path
The sunset cuts the hill in half
Our shadows stretch back to touch the night
The light's fading, you say
But these darkening days
Flow like honey
These days slowing down
A whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Shining on me
And we're still doing this dance
One step at a time
As the days slip by
As smooth as glass
The moments pass
And all these precious things you gave
That I've been holding in my hands
These grains of sand
A man stands in a river
Pushes against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
It disobeys me
These days slowing down
A whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Still shining on me
And we're still doing this dance
The moon and the stars
As the days slip by
As smooth as glass
The moments pass
And all these precious things you gave
Falling through my hands
These worlds, this scattered sand
I stand in a river
Push against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
And it disobeys me
It never ends
I received my CD of this album the other day and have listened to it a few times. On the one hand, it's nicely made, with some good playing (not least his daughter Romany) and there are echoes (sorry!) of Pink Floyd here and there. But it's not a Pink Floyd record - it's a David Gilmour record. My personal take on it is that Polly Sampson isn't a particularly inspiring lyricist - at least her words don't move me in the way that David's have on previous records.
On this song, I find the piano break a bit clunky (I'm a pianist and I know whereof I speak) but on the whole it's a good cut.
And then there's his guitar ....
I was thinking the piano was intended to sound "Scattered". Maybe a homage to Bowie's Aladdin Sane with the avant-garde jazz, solo piano from Mike Garson?
Beautiful guitarsolo! So happy with this new work from the master....
Yeah!! I need to catch it again though and listen to it all (I was asleep when it played some half an hour ago and I woke up when it almost ended, thinking "this must be a new David Gilmour song!"). From the little that I managed to hear I felt it sounded like "The Division Bell", finally a solo Gilmour piece that I like.
I received my CD of this album the other day and have listened to it a few times. On the one hand, it's nicely made, with some good playing (not least his daughter Romany) and there are echoes (sorry!) of Pink Floyd here and there. But it's not a Pink Floyd record - it's a David Gilmour record. My personal take on it is that Polly Sampson isn't a particularly inspiring lyricist - at least her words don't move me in the way that David's have on previous records.
On this song, I find the piano break a bit clunky (I'm a pianist and I know whereof I speak) but on the whole it's a good cut.
And then there's his guitar ....
Maybe there's just a lot of David Gilmour in Pink Floyd records?
The only bad thing about this song is that it is only 7 minutes long
On this song, I find the piano break a bit clunky (I'm a pianist and I know whereof I speak) but on the whole it's a good cut.
And then there's his guitar ....
Nick Mason's drumming would have made it even better.
I love piano (I play piano too), somehow the piano flourishes feel unnecessary. More guitar!
And boy, was he mighty good to look at..
but the composition of this song comes off really cheesy