Post by MartinT on May 28, 2021 22:12:44 GMT
It has all the hallmarks of a great Van Morrison song. Sumptuous production - check. Female backing singers - check. Huge natural dynamic range of his voice - check. Great production and recording - check. I just love the quiet entrance, building up to beautiful choruses with sympathetic accompaniment. I could have chosen from 20 of his great songs but this one from 1984 does it for me and I play it the most often.
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I walked in my greatcoat
Down through the days of the leaves
No before after, yes after before
We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder
In the eternal presence, in the presence of the flame
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame
On and on and on and on we kept singing our song
Over newtonards and comber, gransha and the
Ballystockart road
With boffyflow and spike
I said I could describe the leaves for samuel and felicity
Rich, red browney, half burnt orange and green
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame
It's easy to describe the leaves in the autumn
And it's oh so easy in the spring
But down through january and february it's a very different thing
On and on and on, through the winter of our discontent
When the wind blows up the collar and the ears are frostbitten too
I said I could describe the leaves for samuel and what it means to you and me
You may call my love sophia, but I call my love philosophy
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame
Wee alfie at the
Castle picture house on the castlereagh road
Whistling on the corner next door where
He kept johnny mack brown's horse
O solo mio by mcgimsey
And the man who played the saw
Outside the city hall
Pastie suppers down at davey's chipper
Gravy rings, barmbracks
Wagon wheels, snowballs
Down through the days of the leaves
No before after, yes after before
We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder
In the eternal presence, in the presence of the flame
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame
On and on and on and on we kept singing our song
Over newtonards and comber, gransha and the
Ballystockart road
With boffyflow and spike
I said I could describe the leaves for samuel and felicity
Rich, red browney, half burnt orange and green
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame
It's easy to describe the leaves in the autumn
And it's oh so easy in the spring
But down through january and february it's a very different thing
On and on and on, through the winter of our discontent
When the wind blows up the collar and the ears are frostbitten too
I said I could describe the leaves for samuel and what it means to you and me
You may call my love sophia, but I call my love philosophy
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame
Wee alfie at the
Castle picture house on the castlereagh road
Whistling on the corner next door where
He kept johnny mack brown's horse
O solo mio by mcgimsey
And the man who played the saw
Outside the city hall
Pastie suppers down at davey's chipper
Gravy rings, barmbracks
Wagon wheels, snowballs
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