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In keeping with the intended vinyl listening experience for a digital format, 'C Side Volume 4 - Drowning Silver - Side 1' acts digitally as a vinyl or tape recording would behave on your favourite old school player.
Side 1 track listing:
1. Farewell Mama
The title of the song is self explanatory. It is a goodbye lament written for Jimmy's mother. It is about saying farewell too many times in one life. The song came into being when she finally passed away and remains an unworthy tribute to a beautiful person who never knew her impact on an absent son. 'Farewell Mama' was composed and recorded in 2010.
2. Forty Cents
Created in 2007, 'Forty Cents' made the rounds with A Name Will Come and Flowers For Lily but was ultimately scrapped. Written for victims of abuse, the homeless and those without love, the song stands as an indictment on those who could, but refuse to lift a finger, spare some change for someone, or take some small action that might change a person's life for the better.
3. Snow Song
An extremely personal and simple heartsong that bloomed like a rose from the frost-bitten soil of 2006. Despite being characteristically laced with metaphor, 'Snow Song' is at its core a tactless poem of adoration, expressing the writer's idealistic and single-minded view of perfect love. The object and time of the writer's eye is a part of heaven, and against all odds, even death, the lover will remain by her side. Poorly received by every band it was offered to, 'Snow Song' is a portrait of eternal love.
lyrics
1. FAREWELL MAMA
So I faced up to the truth
You were never there
And I could tell you true
I didn't really care
Now it's all over
Well it hurts like hell
Here I broke up all my promises
And I said farewell
Wah wah wah wah wah wah mama
Wah wah wah wah wah wah well well
Wah wah wah wah wah wah mama
Wah wah wah wah wah wah farewell
I don't lay no blame
You did the best you can
You're still the only one
But now the lord has taken you to him
Wah wah wah wah wah wah mama
Wah wah wah wah wah wah well well
Wah wah wah wah wah wah mama
Wah wah wah wah wah wah farewell
I won't come to say goodbye
I won't come to say goodbye
Wah wah wah wah wah wah mama
Wah wah wah wah wah wah well well
Wah wah wah wah wah wah mama
Wah wah wah wah wah wah farewell
2. FORTY CENTS
Drowning in the silver water
Where the lion never sleeps
And the world must know
Why do you sit
Take every hit
Like a canvas
For the violence of his childhood
It would be
So damn easy baby
Just to run
And never look back
Like it's nothing
You're drowning in the silver water
Where the lion never sleeps
And the world must know
He tried so hard
To beat the odds
But now he sleeps in a treehouse
Built by children years ago
Too much grog
Not enough love and tenderness
And no-one cares if he's dying now
He is nothing
He's drowning in the silver water
Where the lion never sleeps
And the world must know
Forty cents
Is all it takes to help them
But no-one gives a damn or a dime
Cause they might lose too much time
In this world
We're all cursed
Until we find our sinking hearts
We are nothing
He's drowning in the silver water
Where the lion never sleeps
And the world must know
3. SNOW SONG
If I saw you standing on a precipice
About to fall into the arms of darkness
Then I would come and take your hand together stand
And wait with you to walk away or step into the cold
I know
You will be the door to heaven
When you go
Lying in the snow forever
I'll stay with you
Until we fall into the halls of ever after
I'll become your evergreen and alabaster
All above the winter stars are raining on
The light of love is shining on your face and in your heart
I know
You will be the door to heaven
When you go
Lying in the snow forever
I'll stay with you
credits
from
C Side Volume 4 - Drowning Silver,
released July 1, 2016
Lyrics, Sampling, Music and Performances by Jimmy Sky
Recorded, Arranged and Mixed by Jimmy Sky
Mastered by LANDR
Photography and Cover Art by Jimmy Sky
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