Comes in a standard colourless plastic CD case with single picture disc. Contains full-colour 12-page booklet containing lyrics (including asides), credits, tracklist and artwork by Andrew Rowland.
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Refugees have fled conflict throughout history; sometimes welcomed, sometime not. Whether these refugees flee war (like those tragic souls lost frequently in the English Channel, Aegean, Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas, or those escaping Nazi Germany in 1938/39), or other adversity (such as the Irish refugees seeking a new life in the USA during the Great Famine of 1845-52, they often contribute enormously to their adopted homelands. Some modern attitudes are shameful and inhuman.
lyrics
A broken land left far behind
A war that faceless men designed
Sacrificed everything
Except our lives and the clothes we’re in
Strangers crowded on the sea
I pull my children close to me
Icy wind and freezing water
Nature offers us no quarter
It doesn’t matter where we land
‘Cos the people there will understand
We flee from hunger
Flee from war
Desperate for some foreign shore
To raise my children, make a life
Not living balanced on a knife
Finding a dream of home
With engine dead, the growing waves
Determine how the boat behaves
Water spills across the side
Relentless with the surging tide
The moon that lit our growing fear
Chooses now to disappear
Behind the clouds that quietly formed
And herald in the coming storm
It doesn’t matter where we land
‘Cos the people there will understand
We flee from hunger
Flee from war
Desperate for some foreign shore
To raise my children, make a life
Not living balanced on a knife
Finding a dream of home
Just finding a dream of home
Tiny fingers, cold and pale
Lose purchase on the flimsy rail
Helpless, blind, my son and daughter
Slide into the foaming water
Frightened voices, desperate, sing
To whichever cruel god they cling,
But deity and man spectate
Complicit in our awful fate
I live through the darkest ages
Back and forth through history’s pages
Tried to walk a mile in their shoes
In search of truths
One mile, one truth
Shines the loudest
That nation’s epochs stand the proudest
Built by those they would not have known
Had they stayed home
Come placid blue and morning air, no sign that we were ever there...
Living in the darkest of ages
Despair as we lay down the pages Keep them out! is our final solution
Denying natural evolution
Comments pages; judge and jury
Experts of the Daily Fury
Can’t see that home’s not where you’re from
But to where you’ve upped and gone
Online sages, armchair racists
Take care to bravely hide their faces
Eminently qualified
To countenance a genocide
“Give those struggling foreign sons
A taste of righteous naval guns
Protect what I deserve by birth
My ancestors got here first!”
It seems to matter where we go, ‘cause on the foreign shore they don’t want to know,
The things we’ve lost and the way we’ve suffered, they don’t care,
They think we can’t make a life without stealing theirs,
If we don’t beat the ocean, then c’est la vie,
We’re not their problem when we’re out at sea,
This was our dream of home.
This was our dream of home.
credits
from DARK BLUE,
released July 1, 2023
Music - John Greenwood
Words - John Greenwood and Andrew Fanning
Female lead and backing vocals and opening ‘cello - Emma Greenwood
Male lead and backing vocals, 6 and 12-steel string acoustic guitars, nylon string classical guitars, electric guitars (and guitar ‘orchestra’ in ‘The Storm’), bass guitar, programmed orchestration and choir keyboards - John Greenwood
Keyboards, buoy bell, thunder, programmed tympani - Sean Timms
Grand Piano - Sam Greenwood
Flutes - Nicola Black
Violins - Sarah Greenwood
French Horns - Nicola Chadbourne
‘Cellos - Thomas Marlin
Following a life training as a Plastic Surgeon and practicing as a Burn Surgeon and Director of the Adult Burn Centre of the
Royal Adelaide Hospital. retirement has finally allowed me to pursue some musical dreams. As lead guitarist of Unitopia, I have formed part of the formidable writing quartet responsible for the upcoming Seven Chambers album....more
For those that remember the Look and Read series in the early eighties (which had such programmes as 'Dark Towers'), in my opinion this music evokes those feelings of mystery and wonder. Very, very impressed. Trebör
Prog can be accused of being backward looking in terms of instrumentation and production. No way with this lot. Loops, drum loops alongside the melody. Prog done modern IMO.
Chris Emmerson
Wonderful, beautiful, densely layered music. I'm glad I gave this album several headphone listens before commenting. It did not immediately strike a chord with me, but the more I listened the more I began to understand and appreciate how fantastically rich and deep the sound is. For fans of atmospheric and melodic prog, this is an excellent addition. Bass and drum work are exquisite! paliojen_black
