Story Behind The Song

The album The Fold is an elaborate but poignantly direct song cycle that weaves together elements of autobiography, reflection on the creative process, and surreal fantasy. The album has a cinematic mood with arrangements that range from acoustic reverie to sweeping orchestral passages, haunting guitar lines, elaborate vocal harmonies, analog and digital synths, spoken word performances, and unusual instrumental choices, such as the Finnish kantele.

Song Description

Dawn is daybreak, a source of creative energy and renewal; she is also Aurora, from the title track of the album, The Fold, who according to Homer wears a saffron-coloured gown and in Tennison's poem sheds tears for the ailing Tithonus which transform int

Lyrics

Dawnsong

The silence of the sheets, the dewey drops you lately leak
Through balanced books they seep, Lap up against these ailing feet
And rise unforeseen, like a question you don't want to answer
All memories freeze, and your senses take leave

Is that how you sleep, Your head pressed against your knees?
Dawn's first light it creeps, in saffron waves and gathered pleats
Your face feels the breeze, Of a place beyond probable outcomes
As you draw for me, on an unfolded sleeve

Dawn, walk on these dark shores with me, Show me how it's got to be
Twirl to this dirge endlessly

The silence of the sheets, these moments of unseen relief
Of whispers wild and sweet, Strange geometry of hooks and beats
That leads unforeseen, to a question you've already answered
But still fail to see, as you reach for your keys

Dawn, patiently wait here with me, Dancing where nobody leads
Twirl to this dirge endlessly

Help me to understand, what you hold in your unclenched hand

John Richardson 6.3.2015 ©

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