From the recording 11. Ethereal Night
The idea for this song came to me while camping. As to the strange-sounding lead instrument -- that is the sound of an Irish Bouzouki. I don't actually have an Irish bouzouki. Instead I played keyboard with its sound synthesized. Also, I was at the time listening to some Sarah McLachlan and Chris Isaak music. They both have phenomenal voices and the ability to kind of "break" their voice (in a pleasing, lilting fashion) when switching into falsetto, so I attempted (but not as successfully) to do something similar with my voice in Ethereal Night.
Lyrics
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ETHEREAL NIGHT
Michael Dyer
© 2007
Ethereal night, your sidereal lights glow over our camping site,
And you snuggled with me, in my sleeping bag.
Ethereal night, I awoke and struggled, with vague feelings of fright.
Did you hear a sound, what might have been a cry at great height?
What has happened? What is wrong? Is my love alright?
Ethereal night, your mist is cool; your frost a white fur.
Ethereal night, I’ve been such a fool. Guide my way to her.
Did shouts sound out to break the flight, of a soaring gull,
A soaring gull in the dark twilight?
Ethereal night, your jagged cliffs climb to such a height.
And I see bare forms in black and white, ethereal night.
I feel weak and faint. My sight is blurred. My chest is tight.
Am I too late? What is their fate? Are they alright?
Ethereal night, your dark breath blows black leaves around,
And your dark, dark grass now holds a lust-stained ground.
Ethereal night, are those silhouettes of woman and man?
Ethereal night, could it now be that fate is at hand?
My friend’s shaking and my love, she’s down,
Laying down on the lust-stained ground.
Winds now howl, from the bowels of hell.
What might have been only the devil can tell.
Ethereal night, please cast a spell; make all material in sight,
Just disappear, so she was never here.
Just disappear so she was never, ever here.
Ethereal night, your dark breath blows black leaves around,
And your dark, dark grass now holds, a lust-stained ground.
And I want to leap, into your deep abyss,
Never to be found.