Golden Light
from If at first... by Dave Bradley
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Prog rock allegory and allusion - acoustic acrostic and eclectic electric.
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Golden Light - A trilogy in four parts
Dawn
Dry night-time chills that fracture stone
Give way to distant East as shadows form
Wracked and stretched, escape the dawn
But they're defective, by the minute torn
Beyond the burning dry, the thorn
Now, searing sunlight rakes the floor
Fast, scorched to dust, in time, forlorn
And rising from their slumbers borne
Escape the rock, the fever sworn
And at its peak no air, no home
All anger, fear as life must flow
Those distant memories cannot atone
Then as the rake turns skies unknown
From deepest blue to tortured moon
Beyond the realm of tidal doom
There is nothing. There is nothing
Hope
But, golden in the night, The Light that lights their world
Tender by the Mother's love, His heart 'round all life is curled
Thus, fearful that they'll lose their way,
The Three seed starlight as a pearl...
Dusk
The dark enshrouds the desert blown
By skies that turn to wait the dawn
And chills return to fracture stone
As skies that turn to wait the dawn
The chills return to fracture stone
Eternity
And so the golden Light will rise
Beneath their star they tremble at the sight before their eyes
Perfume and metal, death disguise
Believers right the wrongs, deceivers must despise
And so the golden Light will rise
In all Eternity a date with fate we'll finalise
And so the journey of our lives
A never-ending story of the wrongs that will be right
Dawn
Dry night-time chills that fracture stone
Give way to distant East as shadows form
Wracked and stretched, escape the dawn
But they're defective, by the minute torn
Beyond the burning dry, the thorn
Now, searing sunlight rakes the floor
Fast, scorched to dust, in time, forlorn
And rising from their slumbers borne
Escape the rock, the fever sworn
And at its peak no air, no home
All anger, fear as life must flow
Those distant memories cannot atone
Then as the rake turns skies unknown
From deepest blue to tortured moon
Beyond the realm of tidal doom
There is nothing. There is nothing
Hope
But, golden in the night, The Light that lights their world
Tender by the Mother's love, His heart 'round all life is curled
Thus, fearful that they'll lose their way,
The Three seed starlight as a pearl...
Dusk
The dark enshrouds the desert blown
By skies that turn to wait the dawn
And chills return to fracture stone
As skies that turn to wait the dawn
The chills return to fracture stone
Eternity
And so the golden Light will rise
Beneath their star they tremble at the sight before their eyes
Perfume and metal, death disguise
Believers right the wrongs, deceivers must despise
And so the golden Light will rise
In all Eternity a date with fate we'll finalise
And so the journey of our lives
A never-ending story of the wrongs that will be right
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from If at first...,
released February 1, 2014
Acoustic, electric and bass guitars and vocals dB
Recorded and mixed by dB
Cover adapted from photo by dB
Acoustic, electric and bass guitars and vocals dB
Recorded and mixed by dB
Cover adapted from photo by dB
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Feb 2014
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