Produceret af David Gilmour og Charlie AndrewUdgivet 2024
Produceret af David Gilmour og Charlie Andrew
Udgivet 2024
Seneste skud på stammen af Gilmours musikalske virke. Hans femte soloalbum foruden de liveudgivelser, der er kommet undervejs.
Igen kan man få en masse billeder og information på Gilmours hjemmesidegilmour.com, men den side kender du vel allerede
På nogle måder kan man kalde det her for et familie projekt. Vi er vant til at Polly
Samson har skrevet teksterne, for det har hun gjort helt tilbage fra
The Division Bell.
Det nye her er, at også Charlie Gilmour har været med til at skrive tekst på nummeret
Scattered.
Især David Gilmours datter Romany har en meget
fremtrædende rolle. Det begyndte før der overhovedet var tale om pladen Luck and
Strange med nummeret Yes I have Ghosts, som selvølgelig også er
kommet med på pladen.
Men også hvis man læser i innercoveret, er Romany Gilmour med
på mange numre på pladen på vokal og en del med sin harpe.
Også at læse i innercoveret,
er navnet Gabriel Gilmour, som også synger med på mange af numrene.
Jeg hørte Gilmour fortælle på et Jim Fallon show, at det egentlig udsprang fra den underholdning
familien Gilmour lavede under Coronaen - "The von Trapped". Det var sådan en familieting, hvor de alle bidrog til
underholdningen.
Richard Wright er faktisk også med her. På titelnummeret Luck and Strange er det ham, der spiller Electrisk klaver og Harmond. Det er optaget 2007 og taget fra det nummer der nu hedder Luck and Strange (original Barn Jam). Som bekendt døde Wright i 2008
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Instrumental
"Luck and Strange" [X:XX](Gilmour; Gilmour Samson)
In the light before the dawn
Shadows snake in my peripheral
Mesmerise me, bring
it on
Heart beats with fear here in the theatre of my soul
You see, I hope
it will go on and on
And when the curtain call is done
Morning always comes
It was a fine time to be born
De-mob happy street and free milk for us all
It was the right place to be sure
Those dreaming spires and, yeah, oh so pastoral
But let's hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful golden age
That's a dark thought in the dark
Seek what you won't find, that is a wasted
life
Or so the Ancients dropped by to tell me
They drank me dry but my oh my so
far
Quite the time to be a boy
Six-string masters of an expanding universe
It was a high time to be sure
Soaring and free from the bounds of the Earth
But let's hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful golden age
That's a dark thought in the dark
Time for this mortal man to love the child that
holds my hand
And the woman who smiles when I embrace here
These eyes stay dry but
my oh my guitar
"The Piper's Call" [x:xx](Gilmour, Samson)
Take these binds everlasting
Can't undo that voodoo that you do
And the knots
that we fasten
Will not work themselves loose
Whatever it takes
Steer
clear of the snakes
The road to hell is paved with gold, they'll tell you
All the things that you don't need, they'll sell you
Your conscience uncontrolled
And beauty to behold
The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe
diem attitude
The flames are high, the piper's call, contagious
A fixer who
will numb your pain, and strangeness
The wheels are hot, the hangover outrageous
This dealer he will trade your soul for favours
But you'll reap what you sow
As I found long ago
The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe diem
attitude
"A Single Spark" [X:XX] (Gilmour, Samson)
These days of wild uncertain times I ask the empty skies
Who will keep things rolling,
who to sing Hosannas to
The temple calls but I can't see what use my prayers will
be
And will this world keep rolling with only good intentions
Still, it fills
the eye this line of stone
Incense, icons, coming on strong
Here comes splendour,
hallowed air and is it wonder or
Despair bends my knee
The day's dying flame
Motes in its beam glitter and blaze
Say isn't it true that it's all through in a single
spark
Between two eternities
I'll watch the moon, kick off my shoes, reach for
my old guitar
Fed on milk and honeydew, what things can we undo
Desire bends my
knee
The dying embers flame
Hungry to believe, but just the same
Is't it true
that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities
Bittersweet the
night's embrace, I'm thankful and afraid
So pray to keep things rolling, I've only good
intentions
"Vita Brevis" [X:XX] (Gilmour)
Instrumental
"Between Two Points" [X:XX](Gilmour, Gilmour samson)
Broke an early promise
Put trust in an unknown
Fell headlong into the arms
of the first that stirred me
Unsteadied a steady heart
And took me to a
place I've never been
A place I've never been since
Stopped hoping at an early
age
Stopped guessing at an early age
Start accepting things from day one
And
then things can't go too wrong
Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through
the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
They're right,
you're wrong
And you can see it in the way they look at you
Feel it in the
way they treat you
Always the last to know
Always the first to leave
And
when the sky begins to fall
The blame - all along in you - is yours
Wakes you with
a fever at five
Your guardian angel gives up the ghost
And you can see it in
the way they look at you
Feel it in the way they treat you
Always the last to
know
Always the first to leave
Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through
the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
They're right,
you're wrong
"Dark and Velvet Nights" [X:XX] (Gilmour)
I didn't think that this could be
all that unto death do we
'til you managed
the lock and magicked the key
after a night of hard drinking and ecstasy
It's softer than words that are spoken
Blackened on paper that's shredded and torn
Or carved into stones lying shattered and broken
Branches beckoned along the
wrong path
Winding up in the past
And this dark and velvet night
That
surrounds us
This dark and velvet night
I will wrap around us
It's softer
than words that are spoken
Or painted as slogans and flung to the lions
Written
on slips as the punters wait smoking
A leap of faith, the odds sky-high
Say
goodbye to your place or mine
Don't like to make promises that I can't keep
Don't want to hurt this old heart or wreck my sleep
Thinking how will we part
Will I hold your hand or you be left holding mine?
Between this breath and then
There's this airlock of time
This airlock of time
And this dark and velvet
night
That surrounds us
This dark and velvet night
I will wrap around us
It's softer than words that are spoken
In the towers of great cities that toppled and
drowned
Engraved on gold rings or some other love token
No walls, no bells, to
sanctify this dark and velvet night
"Sings" [4:03] (Gilmour, Samson)
Darling, turn back the clock
Give me time, make it stop
Let's hold back the news
Stay inside this cocoon
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we'e
in
Sail away in my dreams
Away on untroubled seas
From this worn-out world
That's torn apart at the seams
No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the
mess we're in
Found a lifetime ago
Down the Portobello Road
Lover's snapshots
of delight
Those rosy days of black and white
Darling, don't make the tea
Stay
and snooze here with me
I'm not ready for news
Or to leave this cocoon
No
doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in
Seems a lifetime ago
Power cuts that shut us down at night
And the faces in my mind
Glowing amber in the
candlelight
And behind the kitchen shelves
Something's lost there and out of sight
Young love's photographs
Growing old in black and white
"Scattered" [X:XX] (Gilmour, Samson)
Take my arm and walk with me
Once more down this dusty old path
The sunset cuts the
hill in half
Our shadows stretch back to touch the night
The light's fading, you
say
But these darkening days
Flow like honey
These days slowing down
A whole
life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Shining on me
And we're
still doing this dance
One step at a time
As the days slip by
As smooth as glass
The moments pass
And all these precious things you gave
That I've been holding in
my hands
These grains of sand
A man stands in a river
Pushes against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
It disobeys me
These days slowing down
A whole
life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness
Still shining on me
And
we're still doing this dance
The moon and the stars
As the days slip by
As smooth
as glass
The moments pass
And all these precious things you gave
Falling
through my hands
These worlds, this scattered sand
I stand in a river
Push against
the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys
And it disobeys me
It never ends
