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    "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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