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Silver Wings

from Out Of The Blue by Chris Conway

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A hybrid of old and new. The verse lyrics go back 20 years, the chorus and the music is new. The bridge was partially from a different 20 year old song. The people in the verses weren't actual people, but types of people that I knew that had escaped or become trapped in their worlds and my desire to show them something else.

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Silver Wings
Dory-Anne rang me today,
Says she can't think what to do,
Long ago mistakes were made,
And she's got to see it through,
She and her partner
They've developed X-ray eyes.
They can see right through their bodies,
They can see right through their minds

Michael thinks the world
Is not exactly how it seems
He lives his life in darkness
Surrounded by computer screens
With his facts and his figures
And his high philosophies,
And his unshakable devotion
To his world conspiracies

How many nightingales,
Have forgotten how to sing?
I want to take you away from here
And we'll fly away on silver wings.

Charlotte lives inside
A tower of books
She escaped to academia,
Passing all exams she took,
Now she teaches and she reads
And she dreams and reads,
And she teaches and she reads,
And turns her dreams to PhDs.

Jenny's got depression,
She takes multi-coloured pills,
She attends a monthly session
That will cure her of her ills.
Her world is a circle
That gets smaller every day
While she dreams of magic carpets,
that will carry her away.

So many nightingales,
Have forgotten how to sing,
I want to take you away from here
And we'll fly away on silver wings.

So many people – reaching out
So many people – are so hard to see
But they're seeking connections
Seeking contacts.
I wish they could fly away with me

David thinks he has a daemon
Deep inside his soul
That interferes with reason
And he struggles for control
Every time he takes some action
And starts to feel alright,
There's an opposite reaction
From across the other side

So many nightingales,
Have forgotten how to sing,
I want to take you away from here,
Somewhere where the air is clear
High into the atmosphere,
And we'll fly away on silver wings.

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from Out Of The Blue, released February 1, 2015
Chris Conway - vocals, acoustic & electric 9 string guitar, keyboards, drum programming

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Think David Crosby on a journey taking in Ireland, a jazz club, and Outer Space.

"Songs of Love & Peace & Outer Space" is his slogan and that sums it up well.

He has toured with ex-Monkees Peter Tork, played with members of Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention as well as Vikki Clayton, Martin Carthy, Sally Barker, Pete Morton, Cathy Lesurf, & Tommy Emmanuel and Talvin Singh. ... more

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