Ned was 12 when he died. I listened to this song on repeat for 3 months after I watched his life expire. I owe my life to this song, I was a mess and this was the way I got past the initial grief
I'm peering through the wiper blades, the headlights blurred in driving rain On the inky dusk of midnight blue, the black ships blow across the sky The south-coast towns awash with ghosts and sailors tales and icy spray And men gone off to foreign wars to stand beneath the tattered flags Cast a wish and wish for far away The statue stands in weathered stone gazing into the winter storms Waiting for the unreturned And I go this way alone and I'm happy to be here The back roads run with gushing streams, fallen branches, blown leaves I stood there in the graveyard lost beneath the dripping trees The past it is a barren place of men condemned by their own hand And all those faded possibilities The shipwrecks lie in silence as the fish swim through sunken rooms At the bottom of the sea, at the bottom of the sea And I go this way alone and I'm happy to be here Out beyond the neon mist and on into the deluge Oblivion and darkness rushing in For everything I've ever touched turned out to be so fragile Crushed like shells beneath the shingle and the shifting sands All of the strength that I have is bound in with the raging storms Blowing out to sea And I go this way alone and I'm happy to be here
(June 10th, 2019... 3:13am) "Happy to be Here" would've seamlessly fit with the rest of the beautiful songs on Mr. Sullivan's magnificent solo album, "Navigating by the Stars". Wonder if parts of the song, either musically or lyrically, do go as far back as his first full-length solo effort, if not 2010. It would be wonderful to find out. It definitely has a certain air about it, just like that entire solo record does. Either way it works and I'm happy it is here. For me, it is such an intensely, profoundly, sweet and heady... moving... illuminating... gorgeous... melancholy track. I love and treasure it more than words can ever attempt to express. Fantastic bedtime listening material. Cheers. : ) Ooo xOx
Ned was 12 when he died. I listened to this song on repeat for 3 months after I watched his life expire. I owe my life to this song, I was a mess and this was the way I got past the initial grief
RIP Ned X
another great song from a fantastic band, thank you
I'm peering through the wiper blades, the headlights blurred in driving rain
On the inky dusk of midnight blue, the black ships blow across the sky
The south-coast towns awash with ghosts and sailors tales and icy spray
And men gone off to foreign wars to stand beneath the tattered flags
Cast a wish and wish for far away
The statue stands in weathered stone gazing into the winter storms
Waiting for the unreturned
And I go this way alone and I'm happy to be here
The back roads run with gushing streams, fallen branches, blown leaves
I stood there in the graveyard lost beneath the dripping trees
The past it is a barren place of men condemned by their own hand
And all those faded possibilities
The shipwrecks lie in silence as the fish swim through sunken rooms
At the bottom of the sea, at the bottom of the sea
And I go this way alone and I'm happy to be here
Out beyond the neon mist and on into the deluge
Oblivion and darkness rushing in
For everything I've ever touched turned out to be so fragile
Crushed like shells beneath the shingle and the shifting sands
All of the strength that I have is bound in with the raging storms
Blowing out to sea
And I go this way alone and I'm happy to be here
Thanks for posting.Been looking for this on you tube since album came out.Awesome song
(June 10th, 2019... 3:13am) "Happy to be Here" would've seamlessly fit with the rest of the beautiful songs on Mr. Sullivan's magnificent solo album, "Navigating by the Stars". Wonder if parts of the song, either musically or lyrically, do go as far back as his first full-length solo effort, if not 2010. It would be wonderful to find out. It definitely has a certain air about it, just like that entire solo record does. Either way it works and I'm happy it is here. For me, it is such an intensely, profoundly, sweet and heady... moving... illuminating... gorgeous... melancholy track. I love and treasure it more than words can ever attempt to express. Fantastic bedtime listening material. Cheers. : ) Ooo xOx