Final final recordings and edits are complete, and here on this site. So the Mellow Guitar Project now closes… leaving only the shells to glitter away on this dark web shore… for wandering souls to stumble across , and maybe even hold up to their ears and take a listen… xx

Ade

Summer 2010

(bottom e tuned down to d.
capo3.)

I found my place to be
Close to the sea
I’ve carried it always with me
And now I return
And now I return
To the estuary.

I can reach the whole wide world thru my fingers
I’ve reached a whole wide world thru my fingers
But I belong
oh oh
How I belong
To the estuary.

Tides will turn.
Time will burn.
oh oh
But all roads lead
Back out to sea
Out thru the estuary.

We are the land.
We are the sea.
And you are my estuary.

(breaks)

Be reconciled
To a simple life
And you will return
And now to return
To the estuary.

(our eyes must stare down deep into darknesses.
now they only seek the light).

- Burning Nature
- Estuary (+ possible no vocal version)
- Embertime (capo 3 version + possible no vocal version)

Best wishes,
Ade

May-June 2010.

Distilled recordings, album now available to preview on Amazon.com

So, now re-edited and added to the site (under ‘Dark Crystal’ tracks, as they all have a few of the familiar samples):

- Old World , no vocals, x2 instrumental versions
- Ringbearers, old song outline

Should we believe in what we see?
The wind burns through me
Living in a life I disbelieve

Grey rooves, grey skies
Where I lift my eyes
Just to be incensed by all that seems to you
To make such sense

Where here I want your time from you
And cannot understand
How you must see me?
Where I see through you
To your lack of need of me;
Your distance

My love is not enough
To save me
Hating what you offer up to me
I must get away from you
You’ll never want what I may have in me…
I don’t know what I have in me…

I have been alone
And now this beauty
In your voice; around your form, within this world
Destroys me.

Before a brutal sun
Become undone
Become as one

Back down into the tragedy
Strange tragedy…

Our wills against a whole world
With something to be lived
With something to be won…

There is no choice [b strange]
For we all shall do (A)
what we shall all do [back to b weird]
(b minor) we will do (back to A)

There is no choice
But we all must do
What we can all do
we will do
we will do

There is no choice
Just be where you can be
And you will see…
You’ll do… (fine)

This song: about songs…about songs helping others…to make songs. About living on in songs…about the past fading…..about changing….into a song that lives on… It’s about nothing fading…but all changing into similarity…and new growth…

Our days… have passed away
And we… will pass away

The snow… has covered the world…
The wind… will blow away the snow…

So let’s sit beside … the fire bright…
Until we doze…

I have known… I have grown…
Through these songs to be sown…
For us to enthrone you…

I have been drawn … by your ways…
And withdrawn… where I can love … for the rest of our days…

How much… have we all been changed… before we are changed…
How much … will we be changed… before we are changed… [john donne]

We would be Kings … for awhile…
Before in song we are sown… within you
Where you lift, where you fall, and are flown.

I have known… these songs to be known
For us to enthrone
All the songs to be sown…

(autumn 04)

Save me from a fate that takes away our hate
Our fire…this lonely strange desire……

This song is here for me, to play
And you to say, in song so long……
For we’ll be far, so far away
When at last we reach…the end of days….
The end of all the ways to play.

Oh, won’t you save us from a fate that takes away our hate
Our fire… this lovely, strange desire…..