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Flash In Your Eyes - 2018

from Bedroom Demos - Vol. 20 by Terry Scott Taylor

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Flash In Your Eyes
(A Song for Gene Eugene)
from the DA album "Mr. Buechner's Dream"
Words and music by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Shape Of Air Music, BMI

Once, we lit a candle in the
Cold dark street
And hoped the world would one day,
Burst into flame
We spilled a cup of water there
In the desert heat
And dreamed the earth was drenched
In the grace of that sweet rain

Chorus:
Now you're the catch in my throat
Was I in your dream of last goodbyes?
Now you're the thorn in my heart
Was I a flash in your eyes?

Once, we pulled some angels from
Our magic hats
Then we danced with them along
The Scenic Routes
Here is the Dream Room where we
Left our tracks
And dared to imagine what it
All was all about

Chorus

Bridge:
And Cohen was singing
"If it be your will"
And we heard him singing
"If it be your will"
Once, we painted pictures most the
World would never see
And hung them up on nails that held
God's feet and hands
We built a playhouse
In a fallen tree,
That you'd be first to leave
Was never in our plans
Chorus
Outro:
Feels like the late great's
Around us here (repeat)

note:
My tribute to Gene Eugene, written shortly after his passing. Since so much of “Flash In Your Eyes” contains parallels to thoughts and emotions I am currently experiencing after the death of Tim Chandler, I felt a rerecording of this song would be appropriate.
I’ve peppered the lyrics in “Flash” with references to such things as Gene’s “Green Room” recording studio (…the Dream Room where we left our tracks”), the Lost Dogs (…then we danced with them along the Scenic Routes), and so forth.
Gene was a big fan of fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen (…and Cohen was singing ‘If It Be Your Will’) and it was through Gene that I went from merely appreciating Cohen, to falling in love with his body of work; thus the tribute within a tribute.
After Gene’s death, I began working on the Starflyer record “Leave Here a Stranger” and it was during these sessions that Jason Martin, front man of the band and another close friend of Gene's, would often refer to Gene as “The Late Great.” The last lines of “Flash” allude to this.
TST

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from Bedroom Demos - Vol. 20, released January 5, 2019
guitar and vocal : T.S. Taylor
mastered by Bruce Neher

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