Name: The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: Lyrics written in NYC in a cafe on the lower East Side. Inspired by the famous Edward Hopper painting 'Nighthawks'. Music written with the late Kent Brainerd in his wonderful Jamestown Studios in Whitechapel - in around 1996? It took a while to come to fruition, but it was worth it.

The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe

from DanMingo by Steve Swindells

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Lyrics written in NYC in a cafe on the lower East Side. Inspired by the famous Edward Hopper painting 'Nighthawks'. Music written with the late Kent Brainerd in his wonderful Jamestown Studios in Whitechapel - in around 1996? It took a while to come to fruition, but it was worth it.

lyrics

The mysterious stranger or the gullable fool? In the school of broken heartbeats, from Brazil to Puerto Rico and Paris in the spring; the things that bring us happiness, the singers in the winds of change - jazz-dancing slowly in the lamplight: any place where there's lowlife.

Barcelona...Soho... on your own in Mexico: black coffee... always the ballad of the sad cafe.

Always the ballad...of the sad cafe.
Always the ballad...of the sad cafe... cafe.

Where the dark beauty holds the key to bitter-sweet reflections and the fantasies of scenes that might have been, if times had changed. The stranger remains in a pool of light, swimming into mysterious caves to save his love from drowning.

Black, always black, always the ballad, black coffee, black, always the ballad, black, always black, always the ballad of the sad cafe.

Always the ballad...of the sad cafe.
Always the ballad...of the sad cafe.
Always the ballad...of the sad cafe.
Always the ballad...of the sad cafe.

Words and music © Brainerd/Swindells

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from DanMingo, released January 16, 2021
Jon Moss: drums. WInston Blissett: Bass. Jerry Richards: guitar. Steve Swindells: Keyboards and vocals.

Words and music © Brainerd/Swindells.

Produced by Jon Waterhouse and Steve Swindells @ Christchurch Studios, Clifton, Bristol in 2003.

iPhone Finger Paintin © Steve Swindells

Check out the funkin' live version at the Cafe De Paris in 2007 (over 20K views!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWT8X7Yo_EY

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