Doug Davis - A Break in the Night Clouds

from Round 13, Week 1 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This round, I'm picking back up where I left off last winter in my attempt to write for a potential Peter Gabriel/Steven Wilson/Elbow art rock-esque project.

Political realities? Russian hackers? Deaths of the celebrity and local kind? Dunno, but there's a toxic mix of mistrust, loss, heartbreak, and apocalyptic fear in the air these days. This song is a very broad attempt to tap into that. Not a huge winner, necessarily, but it feels good to get back in this aesthetic mode again.

Began with a G-tuned Tele, by the way, fwiw.

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I thought I had this under wraps
nothing but calm seas under clear skies
I thought you'd always be right by my side
I watched the towers going down
one by one, gone to dust
I had no weapon, no voice to defend

send back this river
turn back the floods
there's no breath in my lungs
how could we know it?
who could have guessed?
there was so much to lose

I thought I saw
a break in the night clouds

and in the days and years ahead
will we remember what we were?
I still see your peaceful brown eyes
maybe we'll hold on to something
maybe they'll give us that
after all they've taken away

send back this river
turn back the floods
there's no breath in my lungs
how could we know it?
who could have guessed?
there was so much to lose

I thought I saw
a break in the night clouds

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from Round 13, Week 1, released January 2, 2017

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