Some relationships are dark and doomed to fail. A cautionary tale in the moonshadow of a dark fairground. Cheerful and dark pop.
lyrics
Moonshower umbrella spinning round,
under the misfit starlit backlit clouds we've run aground.
Tunnel of Love's invitation fed the fire,
but the dark river's intervention spins the gyre.
Back when love was blind, it was Auld Lang Syne and she was mine, Black Water.
Sipping PC9, hazy wintertime, breath drawn divine, black water.
Every night we feel it, every time it flows away, oh every time we feed it, the undertow drags us away.
Reflected constellations a spinning crown,
like some rewound ghost town fairground ride grinding down.
Let's fall back down, turn around, up or down, black water,
follow it down underground, swim or drown, black water.
Round and round the spiral goes, where it ends up no-one knows. Round and round the spiral grows, blindly ride where no-one goes.
Every night we feel it, every time we're on our way.
Every night we feel it, the undertow drags us away.
credits
from O Sweet Cacophony,
released September 25, 2016
Music and vocals by Zed Brookes. Backing vocals by Jean McAllister.
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