Dave Sills: Music
Ashes and Embers
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Dave Sills: vocals, acoustic guitarChris Walke: Dobro
Dave Ramont: banjo
In the hazy stillness smell the nightshade bloom
A lonely streetlight for a makeshift moon
I can feel the morning trying to cut through
Out on the river steam starts to rise
From the depths and a darkness as cold as your eyes
The wind wants to scream but can only muster a sigh
I stood in your shadows too long
Thinking that I had been doing wrong
So I carried the torch, but you didn’t see
Now it’s ashes and embers at my feet
Down on the corner lovers’ names in concrete
Get some relief from the trampling of feet
A crack cross the heart is like a message to me
The curse of the evening will soon be gone
The sun is now breaking through the ruins of dawn
The river so restless – she just keeps movin’ on
I stood in your shadows too long
Thinking that I had been doing wrong
So I carried the torch, but you didn’t see
Now it’s ashes and embers at my feet
The leaves don’t start falling ‘til winter draws near
But behind your eyes I see it’s already here
I stood in your shadows too long
Thinking that I had been doing wrong
So I carried the torch, but you didn’t see
Now it’s ashes and embers at my feet
At my feet... at my feet... at my feet
written by Dave Sills
published by Dave Sills (ASCAP)
(c) (p) 2001, all rights reserved
From the album Sometimes Nothing (WSR 002)