We recorded this track several years ago with Chabliz, for the Nightporter album, arranged and produced by Wim Oudijk in his Discofair studio in The Hague, Holland. "Life runs out like sand", written by Bill Nelson, has beautiful lyrics. We recorded this song when my husbands grandfather was ill. When I came home after the studio work, my husband told me that he passed away(at age 85).
The track pricing is 1,- euros , we have to pay a (big) part of that to the great composer-songwriter Bill Nelson (autors rights).
lyrics
Life runs out like sand :
In this ever changing world,
In these times,
These days of challenge,
As my systems begin to fail,
I hear voices,
Beyond the veil ...
Love decays
Under our dying star,
Strange how time delays
The knowing who we are ...
As the years slip through my hand,
My life
Runs out
Like Sand ...
I will play a poison lullaby,
In fields of gravity,
Under a falling sky ...
As the day
Slow-fades away,
Warning shadows
Crawl across my walls of grey ...
Sweetness drips
From the exquisite corpse,
Sleeping sickness
Grips at every ghost who walks.
As the years slip through my hand,
My Life
Runs Out
Like Sand.
credits
Recorded by Chabliz. Produced and arranged by Wim Oudijk in his Discofair Studio, The Hague, Holland. Written by Bill Nelson.
Vocals: Petra de Winter . Piano, keyboards : Ewout Willems . ( bowed ) acoustic double bass : Marcel Peters . String arrangement : Wim Oudijk. Drums : Arthur van Keppel . Choirs + backing vocals : Petra de Winter & Wim Oudijk.
Petra de Winter is a singer who writes several songs in different genres. She sings and writes artrock, popnoir, darkwave,
darkjazz and EDM (gothicdance). Petra has a four octave vocal range. She is the singer of Chabliz (www.chabliz.com) ,Olsen Winter and works on several music projects. More info at www.petradewinter.com. ...more
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