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Hope In A Darkened Heart

by Virginia Astley

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A Father 03:50
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So Like Dorian I've seen through your mask Your mask of deceit I've seen behind your eyes So blue but so cold I've seen into your soul And I know it's been sold I've heard all your lies Your boring tall tales I've tasted your tongue Like a worm from the grave Had you inside me Then like a rock beside me A Dorian Grey Like a mask at a ball Like a lying government You're no good at all * Poor Paul, your friends say As you twist and use them Poor Paul they say As you still abuse them And every one loves you And thinks you're so sweet With your sorrowful face And turned out feet (* Repeat ) (** Repeat 2 times )
4.
Im Sorry 05:44
Im Sorry I can't confess all these things But I'm sorry for all I've said For all of the wrong I've done There surely must be another way
5.
Tree Top Club The tree's bent And the trunk now twisted The tiny saplings That we once planted Do you remember the tree top club When you won the bounty competition And there was a cold stone seat And a blue cold sky My bike was green And yours was brown Then I brought you sweets and comics From the motorway shop
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Charm 05:01
* Just when you thought It was all worked out When all the lessons were learnt Mistakes were all paid for Just when you thought That the time was right For your great love ** Someone arrived who stole All of your breath away And charm difused his charm Upon your body Magic had put lightness Into your heart once again
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Days go by and seem so high Until one day you realised You don't know who you are anymore * I've got you here beside me But love's a lonely place to be Friends no longer call around We don't want the smile Seems to me although you're here Im more alone than ever before We are fools to believe That life is for this
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Instrumental
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10.
A Day, A Night * Silently the rain is falling on the window The thunder cracks in a crescendo The winter winter evening light is gently falling

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Recorded in 1986

"Thank you to everyone who played sang and was involved in the making of this record and to all my family and friends
VA x "

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released November 26, 2020

Produced and arranged by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Engineered by Tony Phillips
Except...
7. Produced by Jon Astley & Phil Chapman
8. Produced by Virginia Astley
9. Produced by Richard J Burgess and engineered by Phil Brown
10. Produced by Virginia Astley

Mixed by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Except 7, 8 & 9 - Tony Phillips & Virginia Astley

Programming by Masaki Sekijima
All keyboards by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Vocals on Some Small Hope by David Sylvian
David Sylvian appears by kind permission of Virgin Records
Original arrangements of A Father & Charm by Ted Astley
All tracks written by Virginia Astley
Except 1. written by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Virginia Astley
Photography Richard Israel

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Virginia Astley England, UK

Virginia Astley is a musician who emerged in the 80s. Most well-known for her album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure. Her poetry book The English River is published by Bloodaxe and available here.

ヴァージニア・アストレイは個性的な才能を持つ作詞作曲家/ミュージシャンとして1980年代から活動を続けています。
1986年にリリースの“Hope In A Darkened Heart”は坂本龍一によるプロデュース、デイビッド・シルビアンとの共演のアルバムであるように
数々の著名な各界のミュージシャンとのコラボによるキャリアを重ねた後、現在もクリエイターとして彼女独自の世界を創り続けています。
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