"Mackeral Sky" genre: Goth Rock
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	Another love lost song, the sadness and the ambivalence.
	CD: Fields in Fall   Label: Guardian Refuge Credits: D. Chamberlin
	Story Behind the Song Yes, love lost. While under this influence even the sky can seem menacing. When I was a boy my Mom described a Mackeral Sky where the clouds look like fish bones...and this sky was falling down all around me. I was down to bone and torn between leaving quietly or staying like a good martyr. I recorded the 12 string and vocals to an out of the box Kawai drum box sample on a Teac four-track. Later I started from scratch on a Fostex hard disk recorder, 12 string, electric, a Kurzweil K-2000, same drum sample and a Polish AM radio station. Vocals at Sparrow in 5 takes. Lyrics I am wide awake Under Mackeral Skies I am dreaming up my alibies I am sorting out I am scrolling through Every reason I might Part with you This is very hard This is not a game I am still beside you just the same And I'm sorting out Each and every part Every withered hope Inside my heart Inside me When I was a child Beneath these skies Mother called them Mackeral I asked why "They're like rows of bone, Like a fish picked clean, Skeleton giving way to darker things" I am wide awake Under Mackeral Skies I am dreaming up my alibies I am sorting out I am scrolling through There's a good chance I won't tell you

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