A sad tale of vision, I wrote it as a 24 year old and experienced it at 32
One year out, it is about losing everything through the painful experience of divorce
lyrics
Even the night
Even the night has turned its back
As forth he walks, winds push him back
Good looking man of melancholy stature
Whom sobs the corner of this inn
With a soaken coat from passing car
Raises his glass for merry old England
He cries this ones for misfortune and sorrow
And this one's for wife and children
Even the night has turned its back on me
Even the night has turned its back
Its New years eve, hailstones come down
The crying man him thirty one
Long gone are days of sun and warm companion
Oh lonely man your coat is torn
Your back is arched and eyes look far
Cry into your beer, think of nothing but the river
This one's for misfortune and sorrow
And this one's for wife and children
Even the night has turned its back on me
Even the night has turned its back
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An essential listening experience; quintessentially English, sounds of the countryside, overlapping with ambient piano and woodwind instrumentation. shenzhenbrit
Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020
supported by 4 fans who also own “Gladsome Humour & Blue”
John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP.