From the recording The Friday Songs
Released two hours later than planned due to technical hitches in Cape Town, South Africa, from where we're lucky enough to be uploading, here is song number 6 in our Friday Song series. Inspired by The Portraits' twitter friend ChalumeauMusic who sent through a photograph of the Northern Lights taken by Bjørn Jørgensen at www.arcticphoto.no and asked us to interpret it in our music! Hope you feel we've done it some justice, CM! And massive thanks to Bjørn for kindly agreeing to let us use his images!
Lyrics
Green Neon Dream, whispers and storms
This is the stage where nature performs
Never pretend illusions man-made
Effects, fire flowers, could top this parade
The heavens awash, a splash of lime
The eagle ghost begins its climb
Now she rears up in self-defence
The sulphur war can now commence
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Ooh
Electric sky
Ooh
Electric sky
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Here dolphins dive in unseen waves
A green neon trail, shimmering jade
Its heart in the waves, always unseen
Like my own fabled gold, Emerald green
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Ooh
Electric sky
Ooh
Electric sky
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The dancer performs a final spin
The curtain falls, she’ll not dance again
The skeletal trees lining her path
Mirror well her grief for her art
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Ooh
Electric sky
Ooh
Electric sky