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Intro
00:41
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What will I do
Where will I end up
Why do I see gold-tinted tomorrows clouding my view
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Golden
02:32
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I came a runnin’
Out of the woods and into the clearing
I pause to catch a breath
And to let these eyes adjust to the light
I’ve been calling
I’ve been waiting
For this moment
To be where it’s golden
Where it’s golden
It’s this dream that I had when I was a boy
I dreamed I’d find my way to this meadow
Where the air is sweet and carefree
Where I would have everything that I could ever need
Perfect
I’ve been calling
I’ve been waiting
For this moment
To be where it’s golden
Where it’s golden
Where it’s golden
Where it’s golden
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3. |
Meadow
02:52
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Simple are the summer winds
Blowing over the meadow’s skin
Where we could partake in sinful behaviour
If you join me for that
Join me for that
Dreaming of lips pressed just above my collar bone
And words whispered in their warm and wanting tone
Here now in this meadow all alone
But I won’t focus on that
Focus on that
Basking in this moment so mellow
And soaking in this golden yellow
Join me in my meadow
Where we’ll lie hidden by the grass
With the sun shining high and earth beneath our backs
Here where lovers bind in passionate behaviour
If you’ll join me for that
I’m hoping for that
Hoping for that
Hoping for that
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4. |
Sticky Shadows
02:54
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Everything I say will be meaningful or meaningless
Depending on the day
Depending on whether I can let go
Of my sticky shadows
Running free and wild
As if I was and always will be a flower child
Running free running wild
To let go
Of these sticky shadows
Trying to get high
Higher than life
Higher than wrong
Higher than right
Higher than low
Higher than high
Higher than all those
All those sticky shadows
Oh my Will I live within this meadow til I die
Or will I learn to go where the wind blows
Leave these sticky shadows
Oh my If it were I were a bird I’d fly out high
Out above and out beyond the boundary line
Of this sticky meadow of mine
Trying to get high
Higher than life
Higher than wrong
Higher than right
Higher than low
Higher than high
Higher than all those
All those sticky shadows
Trying to get high
Higher than life
Higher than wrong
Higher than right
Higher than low
Higher than high
Higher than all those
All those sticky shadows
Everything I say will be meaningful or meaningless
Depending on the day
Depending on whether I can let go
Of my sticky shadows
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5. |
Sweet Joan
04:58
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Upon this eve
Darkened by her grief
At a bedside she does weep
For laying ill is her lover
A human creature now weak
Whose lips have grown cold with no strength left to speak
And the spells she has tried have failed to succeed
And her powers are nearing their peak
And as risky as is she’s one move left to play
A dance with the gods so that her love may be saved
Oh, she’ll do what she must to save her sweet Joan
So, out of the cottage
Swiftly she goes
The bright night is heavy and cold
Her green frock that’s tattered
Now flaps as she patters
Along on her way toward the meadow
Oh off she goes
Quick like the wind blows
Through the trees
Escaping the light
Of a full-moonlit night and a star-peppered sky
Deep in the meadow
Lie a circle of stones
Surrounding a pit all ablaze
And there at the centre
Our sorceress tames
A wild inconceivable flame
She chants as she works
With focus and fight
Her gaze keenly aimed at the sky
With precision she moves
Dancing ‘round while she beams
And pleads to the gods so that they join in her scheme
Oh my gods, she screams, lend me your aid to save my sweet Joan
Oh I do know, what risks I am taking to save my sweet love
To answer the witch the gods send a gift
A handful of stars lower down and join in
Oh what a sight this coven of lights
All rotating ‘round this fire burning white
We sing for you my sweet Joan
We dance for you my sweet Joan
My Joan, we insist this fatal illness now fly
But by conjuring this magic I may die
Oh, I always said that you’d be the death of me
But neither you nor I will be leaving tonight
Joan
My love, my soul
Don’t go
For I’d rather die than live a life alone, without you
Oh, I always said that you’d be the death of me
But neither you nor I will be leaving tonight
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Let Go
03:24
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Let go of this lush dream
So mild and inviting
I know we'll do the right thing
When we give it up
This spell we keep conjuring
And sadistically harbouring
It's charm is now floundering
Time to give it up
All the leaves are turning
Oncoming autumn is calling
For this fickle heart
To give the summer up
Take in these surroundings
Peaceful yet confounding
With no real sense of belonging
Time to give it up
Be brave and be bold love
When you go beyond the meadow
For there's more than just sticky shadows
Out there in the wood
All the leaves are turning
Oncoming autumn is calling
For this fickle heart
To give the summer up
Old winter will be looming
There where the blue will be blooming
And this fickle heart
Will try to find another start
All the leaves are turning
Oncoming autumn is calling
For this fickle heart
To give the summer up
Old winter will be looming
There where the blue will be blooming
And this fickle heart
Will try to find another start
Oh this fickle heart
Will try to find another start
Oh this fickle heart
Will try to find another start
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8. |
Far Away
04:44
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I’m a little uncertain
And a little afraid
This thing I had going
It’s slipping away
The good times so golden
Bewitched me to stay
A little bit longer
Than I should’ve done
But hey, anyway
I really will miss this place
It’s mild and mellow taste
It took me quite an age
I will admit to say
But I’m finally going
Out, Beyond where I’ve kept confined
Out beyond this cage of mine
And out to where I’m going
So far away
And oh my, It really did take me so much time
To lift this veil up from over my eyes
To show me where I’m going
So far away
Away
I’m sick of just hoping
To shake the heavy weight
Of sitting here ignoring
This truth now awake
If I don’t leave I won’t leave
And I’ll have left it too late
So go now
I cast myself away
Go
I really will miss this place
It’s mild and mellow taste
It took me quite an age
I will admit to say
But I’m finally going
Out, Beyond where I’ve kept confined
Out beyond this cage of mine
And out to where I’m going
So far away
And I will hold
These memories of golden times
The shadow lows and idle highs
And I shall take them where I’m going
So far away
Away
We are longing
For the truth
We are still searching
But that’s old news
We are dissolving
But we will move on
Because we are evolving
But that’s old news
That’s old news
Oh sweet meadow you got me
Like a puppeteer you pull at my heart strings
Oh sweet meadow you got me
Who do you think you are
Who do we think we are
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9. |
The Threshold
00:56
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10. |
Beyond The Meadow
06:02
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Standing on the edge with nothing left
To do but hold my breath before the final steps
Out beyond the meadow away from certainty
There’s a life that I seek
One that’s seeking me
I feel it calling
Yet standing on the edge still I wait
I watch the grass bathe in the summer sun rays
Soaked in golden
Oh, I should go
Lest I be coaxed by my meadow
And back in to this gold I’ve been holding onto
Lips pressed on my collar bone
Words whispered in their warm and wanting tone
These and other reveries in my meadow
Spells that I cast to keep me alone
Entrapped in golden
Oh, it’s time to go
Say farewell to my meadow
Break free from this endless daydream
Where everything is so conveniently
Just out of reach
Oh, here I go
Stepping out of my meadow
Breathe in
Shed my golden skin
And let this new adventure begin
Breathe in
Shed my golden skin
Shed my golden skin
My golden skin
And let this new adventure begin
This new blue adventure
Let this new blue adventure
Begin...
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Bay Bryan Manchester, UK
Bay Bryan is a singer/songwriter and performance artist based in Manchester (UK), originally from the Rocky Mountains of
Colorado (USA), whose music has been compared to Laura Marling, Sam Lee and Nick Drake.
Bay's current alt-folk concept album 'The Meadow,' released April 7th, 2023.
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