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My favorite baroque chamber pop: Big Star - "Blue Moon"; Gene Clark - "With Tomorrow"; Nick Drake - "Day Is Done"; Jackson C. Frank - "Dialogue"; Love - "Andmoreagain"; the Zombies - "A Rose For Emily"; Bert Jansch - "Needle of Death"; Velvet Underground - "Sunday Morning"; Ralph McTell - "Streets of London"; Tim Hardin - "It'll Never Happen Again"; Nilsson - "Without Her"; Roy Harper - "Another Day"; the Lovin' Spoonful - "Didn't Want To Have To Do It"; Chris Bell - "You and Your Sister"; Paul Giovanni & Magnet - "Corn Rigs"; Bread - "Look At Me"; John Cale - "Andalucia"; the Byrds - "Everybody's Been Burned"; Townes Van Zandt - "Second Lovers Song"; Vashti Bunyan - "Swallow Song"; Fairport Convention - "Fotheringay" (well anything with which Sandy Denny was involved); Pretty Things - "Loneliest Person"

I've also always respected the great fingerstyle players and not-too-common, slightly jazzy chord progressions...

The idea of weaving nostalgia into a lyric is fairly inherent to the folk idiom, at least in the modern (20th Century) sense ("Who Know Where the Time Goes"). Collecting traditional folk ballads starting with Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughn Williams etc. was a manner of preserving a distant halcyon - which never truly existed in the first place - and that theme no doubt was carried on through the original material of the British folk scene from the mid '60s and beyond.

IF YOUR SMILE SMILE WAS MEANT FOR ME

If your smile was meant for me
Beyond a veiled memory
I’d have followed in the sharpest shoes

If the whispers had slipped wide
No struggle for a place to hide
I’d have stood up straight and been like you

I saved all of the yearbook photographs
I saved all of the yearbook photographs
Were they true or empty pages
Full of hollow dressings cast
As I go through all the distant faces
To the last

If your smile was meant for me
The distance and the drag between
Might have opened to a waking bloom

If I found a space inside
To dwell complete forever tied
I would never wish to be that new

I dream back all the seasons
And the sense
I dream back all the seasons
And the sense
Were they wandering and real
‘til they tangled to a blend
as I pass through all the nagging traces
to the end

Landerim - If Your Smile Was Meant For Me

SHALLOW DRAW

Landerim - The Black Swarm

SHALLOW DRAW

Tonight
What is there left to keep
When we’re two loose strangers
In one lonely heap
Is there
Something I got wrong inside
Meeting your soft center
With no pride
How come
Things are changing all the time
And the guilty treasures
Are so hard to find
On track and in line

Today my life
It just flashed
Before my eyes
I was glazed
But still the same
Goodbye forget that I told you

Tonight
Could I be broken too
With a pocket soul
And some tears running through
Could I 
Ever make you want to stay
You don’t have to talk
Or look my way
Far off
In the distance of a dream
Can I hear you breathing
Or a steady stream
Of every routine

Tonight
When everything is still
Can’t I share some fit
With the shame of the spill
My heart 
Nearly fell out of my face
Struggled through that breath
But where’s the grace
Somehow
Was it all a masquerade
Drifting past the bleaches and the barricades
You whisper and fade

lademell