Jackson Browne David Lindley - The Crow on the cradle

[seemslikeadream]

Run time: 05:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mqc8qHmDd8   Posted on YouTube: April 25, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 11, 2009 By DU Member: seemslikeadream Views on DU: 815

 

[Ken Burch]

1. Thanks for posting this. One of the most haunting antiwar songs ever written

The man who wrote this version of it, Sydney Carter, was a British Quaker who also wrote the lyrics to "Lord of the Dance"(for anybody who ever sang THAT one in church).

[seemslikeadream]

2. Too many angels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSWbQpg0u2g

There's an angel on a ribbon
Hanging from the armoire door
There's a Cupid with his feet crossed
On the bird cage by the door
There's a baby angel drummer
His eyes are open wide
And two more tiny cherubs
On the mantle side by side
Too many angels
Have seen me crying
Too many angels
Have heard you lying

There are photographs of children
All in their silver frames
On the window sills and tabletops
Lit by candle flames
And upon their angel faces
Life's expectations climb
Where the moment has preserved them
From the ravages of time
Too many angels
Have seen me crying
Too many angels
Have heard you lying

Bring the morning on
Voices sing of day
I want to step out in the morning sun
Through the flood of tears
I want this darkness gone
Your sweet face appears
These apparitions coming one by one
But there's no end in sight
Only the dead of night
And too many angels

Too many angels
Have seen me crying
Too many angels
Have heard you lying
Too many angels

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I sit before my only candle, but it's so little light to find my way

Now this journey appears before my candle
As a song that's growing fainter the harder that I play
But I fear before I end I'll fade away
But I guess I'll get there, though I wouldn't say for sure

Now this story's been laid beneath my candle
And it's shorter every hour as it reaches for the day
Yes, I feel just like a candle in the way
I hope I'll get there, but I never pray

Thanks, great song and video

[truedelphi]

4. K & R for listening later. n/t