Fire in the Fields
When I heard you singing Place To Be,
I imagined fields on fire; August was slowly rising,
priestesses and their daughters
wore white robes
as smoke and heaven came.
There were combine harvesters,
dried-out tracks from wheels,
a dormouse scattered,
leaving smoke to disappear.
It all returned to normal soon.
There you were singing
Place To Be.
There
was nothing ever in those fields
Nick Drake released his 3rd and final album, "Pink Moon," in 1972, the only studio albums to be released in North America during his lifetime. The album was recorded at Sound Techniques studio in London in late October 1971 with just Drake and sound engineer John Wood present. Since the studio was booked during the day, the pair would arrive around 11:00 PM, and they recorded the album in just 2 nights. Then Drake withdrew from live performances and recording and moved back to his parents' home. In 1974, at the age of 26, he died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a prescribed antidepressant.
ReplyDeletePlace to Be
When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older, see it face to face
And now I'm older, gotta get up, clean the place
And I was green, greener than the hill
Where flowers grow and the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be
And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day was done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you