Cello Song Via Drake

3 years ago
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I apologise, this has nothing of Drake on it, except his words I poorly sing. I became aware of the song, melancholy, from a Blacklist episode in season 1.
My primary motivation with these covers is to find songs with an ear whig quality. I don't seek to copy them, but give myself a reminder, and access to them. Before I was 21, every song I'd ever loved I'd bought half a dozen times as things got taken from me. I still don't have those songs for good, but I find I can remind myself of what I treasured. Melancholy numbers like this have a season, like Mitchell's Blue. I prefer gospel. I prefer progressive rock. I prefer classical. I do not like grunge or rap.
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Five Leaves Left is the debut studio album by English folk musician Nick Drake. Recorded between 1968 and 1969, it was released in 1969 by record label Island.
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Strange face, with your eyes
So pale and sincere
Underneath you know well
You have nothing to fear
For the dreams that came to you when so young
Told of a life
Where spring is sprung

You would seem so frail
In the cold of the night
When the armies of emotion
Go out to fight
But while the earth sinks to its grave
You sail to the sky
On the crest of a wave

So forget this cruel world
Where I belong
I'll just sit and wait
And sing my song
And if one day you should see me in the crowd
Lend a hand and lift me
To your place in the cloud
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"'Cello Song"
Danny Thompson – double bass
Rocky Dzidzornu – congas, shaker
Clare Lowther – cello
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Leaves_Left
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