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Fires in Heaven

from Figure in a Dark Landscape by Grant Watson

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Fires in Heaven

Look at the tracer lines -
Dividing the countryside
Ribbons of shooting stars,
That split the evening skies

Remember our wedding night
The songs from the village choir
They watched us make our vows
They wrote our names in flowers

Now I can see the cities burn
And there's a red line on
The tip of the Earth
And the ashes rise up
like fire flies
And they carry on the breeze
for miles

If I look into the smoke
filled sky
Well there’s a flickering,
repeating light
Like a signal that is
breaking up
From a disintegrating
satellite

And I can see the fires
(above the pylon’s wires)
I can see fires
(above the stadium lights)
I can see fires
(no time to stop and say)
Fires in heaven
(goodbye)
Fires in heaven

Look at the trees outside
Tall bones in the torches’ light
People in hooded robes
Carrying hammers and ropes

The night we built this house
We buried poems in the ground
They blessed our figurines
They washed our hands and feet

Now I can see the cities burn
And there’s a red line on
the tip of the earth
And the ashes rise up
like fire flies
And they carry on the breeze
for miles

If I look into the smoke
filled sky
Well there’s a flickering,
repeating light
Like a signal that is
breaking up
From a disintegrating
satellite

And I can see fires
(above the neon signs)
I can see fires
(above the checkpoint lines)
I can see fires
(no time to stop and say)
Fires in heaven
(goodbye)
Fires in heaven

You wake beside me
in a moonlit field
I kiss your forehead
and you go back to sleep
There’s distant traffic
on a carriageway
And someone’s singing
in a night cafe

But I can see fires
(above the pylon’s wires)
I can see fires
(above the stadium lights)
I can see fires
(above the neon signs)
I can see fires
(above the checkpoint lines)
fires in heaven
fires in heaven
fires in heaven
fires in heaven

credits

from Figure in a Dark Landscape, released March 19, 2020
Performers:

Grant Watson - vocals, acoustic guitar
Rich Milner - keyboards (Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, piano, Pianet, Mellotron)
James Pusey - acoustic guitar, Gryphon
Karl Vanden Bossche - percussion
Stefan Redtenbacher - acoustic bass guitar (2, 3)
Nicholas Trygstad - cello (1, 2, 4)
Simon Turner - cello (1, 2, 4)
Helena May - background vocals (1, 3)

Mixing & recording engineer James Welch
Mastering engineer Rupert Christie

Arranged and produced by Stefan Redtenbacher
All songs written by Grant Watson
Portrait by Peter Monkman
Photographs by Rob Blackman

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Grant Watson London, UK

Grant Watson is an award winning singer songwriter, poet and playwright. His songs are darkly poetic and hauntingly beautiful - intense, heartbreaking stories shot through with mystery and emotion. Figure in a Dark Landscape is his debut collection as a solo artist. ... more

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