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Second City, Setting Sun

from Summer Moon by There Will Be Fireworks

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lyrics

So I came to see you one cool clear night.
“It’s been a while.”
(It’s been half a life.)
“So how’ve you been?”
“Keeping busy too.”
And “How’s so and so?”
And “Did you hear the news?”

Still the sirens sing,
still the west wind howls,
still there’s magic in this old grey town.
But you can’t undo what time has done —
the second city’s setting sun.

For the loves you’ve lost,
for the friends you found:
a parting glass raised to the sound
of a long-lost scene,
and the nights that gleamed
back when you were you
and I was me.

They lit us up in electric lights
and the basements glowed in the August night.
A rooftop walk,
a lost weekend,
the painted moon,
the sky was red.

Now the summers come
and the summers go.
We’re not growing up;
we’re just getting old.
And some of us kept the dream a dream.
Some were strong and some were free.
And some of us walk a real rough road,
and there but for the grace I go.
You knock on wood
and you hope and pray
that you’ll be spared another day

the pale white face —
the sorrow that you know
will be your fate.

Love won’t come with a blinding light,
a thunder crack,
a lightning strike.
No, love it comes unannounced,
silently and slow.
You wake one day
and you know it’s there
in the way she moves;
in the way her hair
falls across her face,
and the way you notice that.

I could tell you things I never told a soul.
I’ve been dreaming of those nights in Glasgow.
Open up your arms and let me fall;
I can barely stand at all.

The pale white face —
the sorrow that you know
will be your fate.

credits

from Summer Moon, released November 3, 2023
Song by There Will Be Fireworks

Lyrics by Nicholas McManus

Strings by the Cairn String Quartet (Annemarie McGahon, Kirsty Main, Gillian Grant and Rebekah Lesan)

Recorded, engineered and mixed by Andy Miller at Gargleblast Studios, Hamilton, Scotland

Mastered by Cicely Balston at AIR Studios, London, England

© There Will Be Fireworks 2023
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Making music at a glacial pace since 2007. Still alive.

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