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Description:
This song started life as a poem written as a tribute to Bob Dylan on his 60th birthday but it just cried out to become a song.
Lyrics:
Dust On Dust
In the corner of the graveyard
Where blind priests hide their wine
The coldest of the angels
Cries tears of turpentine
And gives a compass reading
Which no one will believe
They’ve got no faith in science
And all it can conceive
And in a corridor in the distance
Where the dirt lies in decay
It gathers and remembers
A dustbowl far away
And a wind that came from God’s mouth
And through a Preacher's eye
To where tables beat out double-deals
And beds creak to deny
And at the edge of every silence
Where the sea takes its last breath
In the moment of its stillness
You can hear the sound of death
But it's just an echo from the past
And Sinbad knew its name
It's curled inside your footprint
And it was whispered once in shame
And for every shard of glass
That cuts us to our bone
A stained and broken window
Leaves Sebastian on his own
With arrowheads and bleeding
Red dust across the floor
To a saint in silence meeting
With a blonde behind the door
And from her mouth to the cradle
And then across her breast
Her lover's making crosses
Their union has been blessed
Upon a bed of ashes
They’re lying in disgrace
Ashamed for eating apples
But exalted by the taste
But like some kind of circus
And like some kind of fool
The beast is being tamed
By a whip and by a stool
And then the world returns to ashes
The same as it always was
When no one dreamed that chaos
Was gonna be the cause
But if the order came for everyone
To draw that fatal breath
At the moment when the sea was still
And holding on to death
He was courting that cold angel
And kissing her white lips
Sebastian was drawing blood
With just his fingertips
And there would be a cloud of anger
To come and fill the void
A vacuum of disbelief
Conceived by Doctor Freud
And the case for uncertainty
Would be proved beyond a doubt
And Schrödinger’s little cat
Would finally be let out...yeah
© Dust On Dust words & music by Tom Fairnie 9thApril 2001
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Solid piece &mdash 08/13/06 - 08:20:59 PM
Did you ever think that maybe about the sixth or seventh verse it needs
a break? Maybe in the 6th a harmonic melody with just the guitar and
drums to break the repetitive nature (much like Dylan) of the piece.
Good stuff!
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Nice feel &mdash 08/15/06 - 10:20:15 PM
Great lyrics!!! very smooth song..not too much ...just enough of
production..Great song ...Hope to hear more from you in the future. [ Reply to This ]
Dust On Dust words &mdash 08/16/06 - 04:22:40 AM
if I want to listen over and over for this song ..is just
cos of the brillint wonderfull words ...uch lyrics you did
Tom ....Excellent .....great job ...wonderfull !!! [ Reply to This ]
Dylan without the twang &mdash 08/16/06 - 05:44:45 PM
I love "uncertainty . . . without a doubt."
It was about time somenone let Schrdinger%u2019s cat out of the bag. [ Reply to This ]
Dylan without the twang &mdash 08/18/06 - 09:16:47 AM
Hi
I'm pleased that you enjoyed Dust On Dust and I really appreciate your comments. Glad you liked those particular lines as they are among my favourites along with the verse
"And from her mouth to the cradle..., which is obviously meant to be a reference to Adam and Eve but also to the link between sex, religion and guilt because it always seems to me that when we make the sign of the cross we point to what I like to call the sexual compass points. Do you have any songs on macjams or elsewhere?
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Awesome... &mdash 08/17/06 - 02:37:23 PM
Keep writing stuff like this Tom and on your 60th B-day people will be
writing poems and songs in your honor! I love everything about this. It is
classic!
Be well!
Tea And Salmon: http://www.macjams.com/song/23644 [ Reply to This ]
Nam &mdash 08/19/06 - 04:59:19 PM
Since I was in Korea, I was very involved in anti war in Nam, to many nighmares, but when the performers, like you,began playing,woodstock, Carole King, Joan Biaz, people realized we didn't belong there,brought down Nixon, and a lot of families and friends that had the Gold Star, for what???
You got it man, more is better.
Seamus. [ Reply to This ]
Another fav... &mdash 09/06/06 - 10:11:04 PM
Being a big Dylan fan, I had to listen to this one. A fine tribute to the
man from Minn. His music influences have crept into more than a
couple of my songs... can't help it. I still remember getting my first
Dylan album back in the sixties, Highway 61. I don't know that there is
anything he has done that I really don't like... any way!!
Tom, your music is just plain good folk... well written and delivered as
a seasoned singer should. [ Reply to This ]
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a break? Maybe in the 6th a harmonic melody with just the guitar and
drums to break the repetitive nature (much like Dylan) of the piece.
Good stuff!
[ Reply to This ]