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Gold and Blue
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A celtic, ethereal kind of song written about a few real artists who inspire me. - Monet, Joni Mitchell and Wordsworth. :) - Also inspired by the vocal layerings of Enya's music. I hope you like it! :)
pop folk ethereal celtic traditional irish england relaxing enya ireland holly kirby
A combination of Joni Mitchell and Enya with a quirky twist. :)
Isle of Wight Folk, Celtic and Pop singer Holly Kirby has been a gifted singer and musician and a creative musical composer from an early age. Her main instruments currently are the piano, guitar, ukulele and tin-whistle, although she has played others and hopes to learn more. Shy off-camera, she?s a natural and confident performer as soon as the lights are turned on. She used that talent to great effect in a popular British TV show, appearing as Enya in front of an audience of millions, and earning congratulations from the great lady herself. Holly's YouTube channel, alpet07, is frequently one of the top music sites in the U.K. Her videos have been viewed well over seven hundred thousand times in total, her channel main page more than 90,000 times, and she has over 3,000 subscribers who are notified of each new video she produces. Holly enjoys all sorts of music and is very open to new ideas and new sounds. In the last year much of her work has been an eclectic mix of Celtic, folk and pop music, to which she applies her own distinctive, clearly sung and often emotional sound. Holly is also a keen poet and artist, and many of her poems and songs have an almost interchangeable lyrical quality. Holly especially enjoys performing music live, and as well as appearing on TV she has played and sung before crowds ranging in size from crowds of people while busking through to many hundreds in concert.
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World World General
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#5,436 today Peak #82
#2,247 in subgenre Peak #33
Author
Holly Kirby/Holly Kirby
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Holly Kirby
Uploaded
September 02, 2009
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MP3 4.8 MB 128 kbps 5:18
Story behind the song
I really do believe that as music is such a personal thing, it is entirely up to the individual to interpret the song however they wish to. However - as a few people have asked, I'll explain my intentions when writing the song. I don't want to give everything away, as part of the enjoyment when listening to a piece of music is filling in the gaps in your own way. The main subject of the song is inspiration, expression - and also beauty. As I see it there's only one slight hint of sadness, but I'll come to that in a mo. The first verse speaks for itself really. It's a kind of creative description of Monet's work. 'Your darkest colours glow' states how even the darker colours, which some may regard as being sorrowful or depressing are still beautiful and it is only human thought or association which labels them as being gloomier than the brighter colours. It's not that I think we should start using darker colours to represent happiness or anything - it's just a statement. The second is written in admiration of Joni Mitchell and how she's so talented in representing human emotion in her songs. All of us are able to feel happiness and sadness, excitement and anger - all contradicting emotions. So I thought I'd add some of those contradictions in the verse. 'Light the darkest corner, watch the night-time turn' represents how music like Joni's makes me feel. :) The chorus is a summing-up of the sublime effect that music, art, nature etc. can have on us. They're just things after all, but things that make us really feel. The third verse is about William Wordsworth (obviously) and the way he would walk through the woods etc. to gain inspiration - 'through the light' is a reflection of his pantheistic beliefs. 'With your friends you watch the nightingale at night' refers to a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge called 'The Nightingale' in which he (Coleridge) sits with Wordsworth and his sister and hears the nightingale's song. Coleridge comments in the poem about how the nightingale is often referred to as 'a most melancholy bird' - and states how unfair this is. Both Wordsworth and Coleridge's beliefs were that 'nature should not be used as a screen onto which human emotions are projected.' The fourth states how I believe that we should not take anything for granted. This is the only part where I believe the hint of sadness is present - a sadness that we often forget to notice the simplest, most beautiful things in life. So that's it really. I hope this kind of helps, though I've probably made things a little (lot) more confusing! Lol. :)
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LYRICS: Mr. Monet paint a picture of your soul On the woven yarn your darkest colours glow Show your friends the timeless beauty in your eye Spots of gold and green sing springtime lullabies Oh Ms. Mitchell paint a season with your words Light the darkest corner, watch the night-time turn Crimson colours and your rainbow on the wall Still you tell us now you don't know love at all Gold and blue to bring the morning Silver skies to make the night Colours journey through our soul Words of beauty ever told Give me reason to embrace the light Mr. Wordsworth on your journey through the light With your friends you watch the nightingale at night Oh but nature's not the melancholy one And as soon as that we know his work is done There's no story from the day that can't be told But you fear the telling sets it all in stone Moving on, you say that ignorance is bliss Just remember all the moments that you've missed Gold and blue to bring the morning Silver skies to make the night Colours journey through our soul Words of beauty ever told Give me reason to embrace the light Gold and blue to bring the morning Silver skies to make the night Colours journey through our soul Words of beauty ever told Give me reason to embrace the light Colours journey through our soul Words of beauty ever told Give me reason to embrace the light (c) Copyright Holly Kirby 2009
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