David Sylvian made some songs that belong to the most beautiful music I ever encountered in "popular music". And these songs stand alone as a class of its own, being impossible to classify them into some preconceived category of music. This song is one of them. Most of these songs can be found on the splendid double CD "Everything and nothing". Thank you, David Sylvian!
One of my utmost favourite artists. I am in complete awe of how Sylvian's oblique lyricism feels so personal and meaningful. "My body turns to ashes in her hands / The disappearing world of footprints in the sand."
*Sylvian's poetic tour of Paradise Found...* I always wondered if this was a sequel to *Orpheus* who in Greek myth braved the Underworld for his true love. His doubt dooming him from seeing his Eurydice again... The music is vast and the lyrics are intimate!
The best track of his- or in the top 3! I loved him since I was about 10 -11yrs old- his music gives me light and darkness at the same time-depressing yet joyful-like no one else can do.x
heartwarming, heartbreaking....how is that possible within the same song? I have no idea but he does it again and again and I willing go back time after time....thank you David.
when i first heard this track i did start to well up, and had a lump in my throat, i nearly burst into a cloud of dust. one day we will all just be dust, the dust we breathe in is just dead people and other stuff
Didn’t know much about this mans music apart from a few Japan songs and Forbidden Colours. Just scrolling on RU-vid and clicked on Orpheus and now this. I’m really glad I took the time to listen to this beautiful music.
It's as beautiful as the chance meeting of a dessert spoon impregnated with chocolate and a plastic bottle without a protective cap, on the edge of a devastated heath covered with ryegrass following a succession of bad weather caused by a depression coming from northern Europa !
Aw you're kidding... I did not know that 😞. RIP Mr Wheeler. Thankyou for sharing your exceptional talent, emotion, and discipline with us all these years. You were perfection. I know we all have to "leave" at some point, but am absolutely gutted... Please tell Mick we all said "Hi!" Rest well boys 🎶
Yes, Wheeler's playing is probably my favourite part of the song. I actually think the lyrics are a little weak and there are too many verses which go nowhere. Great groove and feel though.
I Surrender - David Sylvian I opened up the pathway of the heart The flowers died embittered from the start That night i crossed the bridge of sighs and i surrendered I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy And tonight the stars are all aligned and i surrender My mother cries beneath a southern sky and i surrender Recording angels and the poets of the night Bring back the trophies of the battles that we fight Searchlights fill the open skies and i surrender Outrageous cries of love have called me back Derailed the trains of thought, demolished wayward tracks You tell me i've no need to wonder why i just surrender I stand too close to see the sleight of hand How she found this child inside the frightened man Tonight i'm learning how to fly and i surrender I've travelled all this way for your embrace Enraptured by the recognition on your face Hold me now while my old life dies tonight and i surrender My mother cries beneath the open skies and i surrender An ancient evening just before the fall The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all Birds fly and fill the summer skies and i surrender She throws the burning books into the sea "Come find the meaning of the word inside of me" It's alright the stars are all aligned and i surrender My mother cries beneath the moonlit skies and i surrender My body turns to ashes in her hands The disappearing world of footprints in the sand Tell me now that this love will never die and i'll surrender My mother cries beneath the open skies and i surrender
I think only now, with the limited amount of talent we have around now, many did not appreciate the talent we had from years gone by that stared us in the face but never never noticed it then, but we can now, myself included ( from a 55 year old male who loved rock and punk in the 70s and 80s and now 40 years on can enjoy more now than ever, New Wave, New Romantics)
'Brilliant Trees', 'Gone to Earth', 'Secrets of the Beehive', 'Rain Tree Crow', and even 'The First Day' (and associated tracks such as Earthbound/Starblind) had a timeless kind of artistry, relevance, and subtle 'edge' that seems to have deserted him since
