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Last Year's Coffee Cloud Dreams

from I, Autumnus by Autumn Dawn Leader

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Around about the time I was being born into this world, another contralto range singer-songwriter was writing the line: 'I had some dreams; they were clouds in my coffee'. That line comes, of course, from Carly Simon's song 'You're So Vain'. The next song here was in great part inspired by Ms Simon's brilliant line.

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Did you like the way your name fit in my mouth
The way my eyes beheld your face
Whose meadow do you visit now
Did I only imagine such a place

Nothing but last year's coffee cloud dreams
Stories we shared in the open air
Castles we built lie in ruins it seems
Swallowed all up by the endless despair

Am I discarded, no more thought of
Companionship is now replaced with silence
What once flowered here was kin to love
Now desolation takes root in your absence

Nothing but last year's coffee cloud dreams
Stories we shared in the open air
Castles we built lie in ruins it seems
Swallowed all up by the endless despair
Nothing but last year's coffee cloud dreams
Stories we shared in the open air
Castles we built lie in ruins it seems
Swallowed all up by the endless despair
Nothing but last year's coffee cloud dreams...

That river flows
That river bends
And on life goes
As something ends
That river flows
That river bends
And on life goes (on and on it goes)
As something beautiful ends
All good things end

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from I, Autumnus, released June 25, 2021
Music and lyrics written by Autumn Dawn Leader
Vocals and instrumentation by Autumn Dawn Leader

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Autumn Dawn Leader Loughborough, UK

Critics call Autumn Dawn Leader - aka The Songmistress - a musical maverick. Autumn is a classically trained contrakto vocalist & multi-instrumentalist songwriter with a unique dark, emotive & bewitching flavour. Difficult to impossible to put her in a genre box, she's best known for delicious chord changes, sublime vocal sorcery, poweful lyrical hammer blows & intensely passionate performances. ... more

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