Music in Dreamland

Mono Monday: Music in Dreamland

"Standing by the old car
Sunset in your grey eyes
Listening to the bluebirds
Praying for a sunrise
Maybe we'll make music in dreamland tonight


Someone in the garden
Walking through the moonlight
Sailing in the silence
Hoping for an insight
I know we'll make music in dreamland tonight
Maybe we'll go waltzing in dreamland tonight


I have some pictures
(You have some pictures)
I paint them in my sleep
They make me laugh
(They make me laugh)
Sometimes they make me weep
You are in my pictures too
Portraits of the moon in silver and blue


Ringing in the changes
Chiming like a church bell
Laughing in the mirror
Phantoms of the hotel
Oh well we'll make music in dreamland tonight


Driving like a madman
Trying to make a fast time
Theatre full of strangers
Waiting for a new rhyme
No crime to make music in dreamland tonight
It's time to make music in dreamland tonight
You're mine and my music's in dreamland tonight"

Be Bop Deluxe ~ Music in Dreamland

This piece of mid 70's prog rock was recorded in D flat - not a naturally comfortable key for a guitarist, as the Grimethorpe Colliery Band are featured.  Composer, lyricist, vocalist, keyboard player and pre-emminent guitarist, Bill Nelson's Yorkshire roots were showing through on this track.  

Here in the UK the drawing in of the nights is very apparent after the week we just spent in Southern France.  Its going to seem very dark when the clocks change at the weekend.

Many thanks to JDO for coming up with this month's Mono Monday challenges.