The story came first, written in prose. Then one day as I walked down Lothian Road singing Trains And Boats And Planes, this new song emerged.
lyrics
It’s a sunny day
But the sky is grey
There’s nothing really in the weather
I’m still missing you
But that’s nothing new
And I think that might be about to change
I keep on catching glimpses
The way the sunlight falls on things
I keep on catching something new
When I think of how you see
New eyes, new eyes
Made for the sunrise
New eyes, new eyes
Made for the sunrise
Now I’m filling books
With my scribbled looks
At all the things I took for granted
That’s a cup of tea
That’s my old TV
That’s a pair of shoes in the corner
Why can’t I keep on looking
Till the sun no longer shines
I keep on catching something new
When I think of how you see
She left a canvas at my place - she left a lot of things. Some sort of unfinished landscape. Beautiful and pitiless in her new clothes, she left.
One afternoon, nursing the wounds on my chest where she’d torn herself away I picked up the canvas, ran my fingers across it, the surface rough and firm.
I could feel something underneath, so I picked up a tiny silver knife and cut it open.
Very strange - a pair of eyes, blue-grey like hers, glistening and clearly still alive.
I pressed them into my sockets, dry and empty from nights of tears.
It felt strange at first, but slowly over days came a new world of form and ground, of light and shade, of shape and line; colour active, like a conversation unheard by the old eyes.
The way a book lay on a desk
The way a tree leaned in the wind
Like something true
That had been true forever
true forever
true forever
true forever
true forever
Why can’t I keep on looking
Till the sun no longer shines
I keep on catching something new
When I think of how you see
New eyes, new eyes
Made for the sunrise
New eyes, new eyes
Made for the sunrise
credits
from The Wolf Who Snared The Moon,
released January 4, 2004
Lynsey Hutchinson: bass, backing vocal
Mary Robbs: harmony vocal
The G: percussion
Norman: guitars, saz, bass synth, mellotron sample
Norman Lamont has been delighting audiences on the Edinburgh songwriter scene since 1990. His trademarks are the diversity of his musical styles, emotionally honest lyrics and a droll sense of humour.
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