210530H AUG 05 - Sand River, I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine

At 5:30am on a Sunday morning, it is deadly quiet in the estate that I live in.

As I looked out of the kitchen window, the only thing indicating that although the estate seems moribund, something of significance is happening, is the pulsating light atop an ambulance that just pulled into the carpark below.

Got me thinking that however mundane a moment may seem to me, it is of significance to someone else.

I hope that whoever is getting into the ambulance will soon be healthy and well again.

I'm listening to Sand River by Beth Gibbons alot recently.... I began noticing Sand River because Vivian Wang from The Observatory did a cover at their live concert once.

Autumn leaves
Beauty's got a hold on me
Autumn leaves
Pretty as can be

Everybody knows this time
Shadows are drifting in silence
Where lost can't be found
Everybody knows this time

You'll get by
Move it on and
let fate decide
And those water-coloured memories
Soft as a summer's breeze
You're as pretty as can be

Knowing now you'll never fake it
Whether my oceans divide
I'll try to understand this
But everybody knows this time

Autumn leaves
Beauty's got a hold on me
Autumn leaves
Pretty as can be

Everyone can see
Everyone except me

I have been listening to I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine by Beth Orton alot recently too. They are both part of my music to take your life to ipod playlist.

Baby do you know what you did today?
Baby do you know what you took away?

You took the blue out of the sky
My whole life changed when you said goodbye
And I keep crying
Crying

Ooo baby, ooo.... baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe
I wouldn't mind the rain

Everyday is just like the day before
All alone, a million miles from shore
All of my dreams
I dream with you
Now they will die and never come true
And I keep crying
Crying

Ooo baby, ooo... baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe
I wouldn't mind the rain

This pain

And I know there would not be
This cloud that's over me
Everywhere I go

Ooo baby, ooo... baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe
I wouldn't mind the rain

This pain

I wouldn't mind the rain
There wouldn't be this pain
I wouldn't mind the rain
Wouldn't mind the rain

So much more of the same....what if there was no music in my life?