Ahhh the first heart-break of college… I love this song. It’s a blast to play. I love the harmonics and the rich visuals that almost FORTY years after writing it still cause an emotional reaction and visceral experience… Falling in love and it not working out is just about the MOST universal human experience there is… I know it’s all perfect right now, but I just don’t love how desperate and needy I used to be LOL.
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Shiver of Twilight (It’s Hard)
Song #29 | 5/30/79 | CD: Feather On The Wind
Shiver of twilight across
Our sunburned faces
Climbing the mountainous clouds
Of Sunset together
Holding nothing but hands
And walking in wet sand
While surges of saltwater rhythmically
Seek to erase us, erase us, erase us
Again the trumpet of what I feel
Towards you
Scatters the stillness and leaves me
Shaking and wonder what to do
Over and over I try to contain my emotions
I start out quite strong
But I soon lose all sense of positive direction
Refrain:
And it’s hard on a Saturday
It’s hard on a Sunday afternoon
When I’m alone again in my room
It’s hard in the winter time
It’s hard in the summer time
It’s hard anytime not to feel the things
I feel toward you.
I introduce my face to my hands
When I realize just who weak and insecure I am
I feel as if I’m a cold cup of coffee
Or a candle that’s burned all the way down
When I’m caught in the path of double edged freedom
I feel as if I am a part of the ground
I am the orphan of romance
Half dressed in self pity
Destructively craving expression or words
That might tell me that you love me
And at last when I noticed that you could not
Look in my eyes
I felt so hollow and huge inside
That I couldn’t even find the tears to cry
To cry, to cry…
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