Name: Acquainted With The Night/Silent Drums
Duration: P00H07M29S
Description: A brace of songs in true John Martyn style; the first a Blue Rose Code reimagining of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted With The Night' and the second the mighty 'Silent Drums' from the album -The Ballads Of Peckham Rye.

Acquainted With The Night/Silent Drums

from Live At MWAH Heriot Toun Studios by Blue Rose Code

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A brace of songs in true John Martyn style; the first a Blue Rose Code reimagining of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted With The Night' and the second the mighty 'Silent Drums' from the album -The Ballads Of Peckham Rye.

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Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
A luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

Silent Drums

With the last kiss of summer on the lips of the year
The dogs lie still, the clock chimes 12 and I fear
That I'll lose my self, oh, my hands are tied and bound,
But I know now is happening.

Have I lived my life with no lessons learned at all
and did I miss the starting gun I don't know,
In the antisceptic when the light shines in,
I know now is happening.

From the corner of the western isles to the peak of the antipodes,
We are marching to the silent drums,
Listen can you hear them?

The dew laced cobwebs decorate the fresh day in the frail dawn
And the long dark nights and the chimneys rise with the news of the season.
All our endless numbered days in a melody, lover do you believe?

From the sun rising in the east to the dawn across the Hebrides, we are marching to the silent drums, listen!
From the corner of the western isles to the peak of the antipodes,
We are marching to the silent drums,
Listen can you hear them?

Oh my love, save my soul 'cause now is happening.

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from Live At MWAH Heriot Toun Studios, released April 2, 2014
Acquainted With The Night - Words by Robert Frost, music by Ross Wilson. Silent Drums - Ross Wilson

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Blue Rose Code Liverpool, UK

Blue Rose Code is a band led by Edinburgh-born songwriter Ross Wilson. At the edge of contemporary alt-folk, Wilson's music evokes a meeting of Van Morrison and a young John Martyn, both shipwrecked with a bunch of Motown records.

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