Second up I’ve entered “Map To The Morning” in Male Singer/Songwriter. This is a piece I am tremendously proud of and a song that has received a lot of internet airplay via several podcasts. Its a song about the yearning for innocence lost, magical places and things that exist only in our imagination but that we wish were real and the desire to be able to slip away from the harsh realities of modern life to an enchanted place and time with your true soulmate. May sound a bit wishy-washy but I think it works and the lyrics are among my favourites that I have written. It is the second track on my album. It has become a favourite of my fans on the live circuit and I now tend to keep this piece to finish off my set or use as an encore. Dreamy, other-worldly, happy – a spiritual love song is how I best describe this composition.
Lyrics to "Map To The Morning"
Won't you come with me Through sapphire skies and diamond eyes To “Tranquility” Where the mermaids play At the side of the bay What do you think you'll find If you trade in an eye to be king In the land of the blind? I want to see Atlantis serene In aquamarine
Open your eyes And I'll make out A map to the morning Open your mind And I'll build A bridge to the sky Open your eyes And I'll make out A map to the morning In a land where the unicorn run And the phoenix still flies to the sun Somewhere to dance Beneath a snowdrift of stars
Tell me where would you rather be Just stuck in the smoke Or seduced by the sound of the sea I want to feel That whats here is the dream And whats there isn't real So which is the priceless find The large nugget of gold Or a small piece of mind? I want to to try To recall how to laugh And forget how to cry
Open your eyes And I'll make out A map to the morning Open your mind And I'll build A bridge to the sky Open your eyes And I'll make out A map to the morning I'm sure we could slip away soon So I'll meet you out under the moon We can slip off our shoes Sign our souls in the sand
Open your eyes And I'll make out A map to the morning Open your mind And I'll build A bridge to the sky Open your eyes And I'll make out A map to the morning In that land where the unicorn run - The phoenix still flies to the sun Somewhere to dance Beneath a snowdrift of stars
Open your eyes And I'll make out That map to the morning Open your mind And I'll build A bridge to the sky Open your eyes And I'll make out A map to the morning I'm so sure we could slip away soon So I'll meet you out under the moon We can slip off our shoes Sign our souls in the sand
Comments for Map To The Morning
by James Alan Gourley
Best to you.
Paul
Second up I’ve entered “Map To The Morning” in Male Singer/Songwriter. This is a piece I am tremendously proud of and a song that has received a lot of internet airplay via several podcasts. Its a song about the yearning for innocence lost, magical places and things that exist only in our imagination but that we wish were real and the desire to be able to slip away from the harsh realities of modern life to an enchanted place and time with your true soulmate. May sound a bit wishy-washy but I think it works and the lyrics are among my favourites that I have written. It is the second track on my album. It has become a favourite of my fans on the live circuit and I now tend to keep this piece to finish off my set or use as an encore. Dreamy, other-worldly, happy – a spiritual love song is how I best describe this composition.
Lyrics to "Map To The Morning"
Won't you come with me
Through sapphire skies and diamond eyes
To “Tranquility”
Where the mermaids play
At the side of the bay
What do you think you'll find
If you trade in an eye to be king
In the land of the blind?
I want to see
Atlantis serene
In aquamarine
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
A map to the morning
Open your mind
And I'll build
A bridge to the sky
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
A map to the morning
In a land where the unicorn run
And the phoenix still flies to the sun
Somewhere to dance
Beneath a snowdrift of stars
Tell me where would you rather be
Just stuck in the smoke
Or seduced by the sound of the sea
I want to feel
That whats here is the dream
And whats there isn't real
So which is the priceless find
The large nugget of gold
Or a small piece of mind?
I want to to try
To recall how to laugh
And forget how to cry
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
A map to the morning
Open your mind
And I'll build
A bridge to the sky
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
A map to the morning
I'm sure we could slip away soon
So I'll meet you out under the moon
We can slip off our shoes
Sign our souls in the sand
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
A map to the morning
Open your mind
And I'll build
A bridge to the sky
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
A map to the morning
In that land where the unicorn run
- The phoenix still flies to the sun
Somewhere to dance
Beneath a snowdrift of stars
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
That map to the morning
Open your mind
And I'll build
A bridge to the sky
Open your eyes
And I'll make out
A map to the morning
I'm so sure we could slip away soon
So I'll meet you out under the moon
We can slip off our shoes
Sign our souls in the sand
(c) James Alan Gourley 2008
Alan