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Black Cat

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

Instrumental

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Luck and Strange

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour
Lyris: Polly Samson

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

In the light before the dawn
Shadows snake in my peripheral
Mesmerise me, bring it on
Heart beats with fear here in the theatre of my soul

You see, I hope it will go on an' on
And when the curtain call is done
Morning always comes

It was a fine time to be born
De-mob happy street and free milk for us all
It was the right place to be sure
Those dreaming spires and, yeah, oh so pastoral

But let’s hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful goldеn age
That's a dark thought in the dark

Seek what you won’t find, that is a wasted lifе
Or so the Ancients dropped by to tell me
They drank me dry but my, oh my, so far...

Quite the time to be a boy
Six-string masters of an expanding universe
It was a high time to be sure
Soaring and free from the bounds of the Earth

But let's hope it's not just luck and strange
A one-off peaceful golden age
That's a dark thought in the dark

Time for this mortal man to love the child that holds my hand
And the woman who smiles when I embrace her
These eyes stay dry but my, oh my, guitar...

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The Piper's Call

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour
Lyris: Polly Samson

Album releases:	Used in film/video:
The Piper's Call Luck and Strange	The Piper's Call

Take these birds everlasting
Can't undo that voodoo that you do
And the knots that we fasten
Will not work themselves loose

Whatever it takes
Steer clear of the snakes

The road to hell is paved with gold, they'll tell you
All the things that you don't need, they'll sell you
Your conscience uncontrolled
And beauty to behold

The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe diem attitude
The flames are high, the piper's call, contagious
A fixer who will numb your pain, and strangeness
The wheels are hot, the hangover outrageous
The stealer, he will trade your soul for favours

But you'll reap what you sow
As I found long ago

The promise of eternal youth
The spoils of fame, a carpe diem attitude

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A Single Spark

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour
Lyris: Polly Samson

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

These days of wild uncertain times I ask the empty skies
Who will keep things rolling, who to sing Hosannas to?

The temple calls but I can't see what use my prayers will be
And will this world keep rolling with only good intentions?

Still, it fills the eye this line of stone
Incense, icons coming on strong
Here comes splendour, hallowed air and is it wonder or

Despair bends my knee
The day's dying flame
Motes in its beam glitter and blaze
Say, isn't it true that it's all through in a single spark
Between two eternities?

I'll watch the moon, kick off my shoes, reach for my old guitar
Fed on milk and honeydew, wWhat things can we undo?

Desire bends my knee
The dying embers flame
Hungry to believe, but just the same
Isn't it true that it's all through
In a single spark between two eternities?

Bittersweet the night's embrace, II'm thankful and afraid
So pray to keep things rolling, I've only good intentions

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Vita Brevis

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

Instrumental

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Between Two Points

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Mark Tranmer
Lyris: Roger Quiqley

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

Broke an early promise
Put trust in an unknown
Fell headlong into the arms
Of the first that stirred me

Unsteadied a steady heart
And took me to a place I've never been
A place I've never been since

Stopped hoping at an early age
Stopped guessing at an early age
Start accepting things from day one
And then things can't go too wrong

Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
They're right, you're wrong

And you can see it in the way they look at you
Feel it in the way they treat you
Always the last to know
Always the first to leave

And when the sky begins to fall
The blame - all along in you - is yours
Wakes you with a fever at five
Your guardian angel gives up the ghost

And you can see it in the way they look at you
Feel it in the way they treat you
Always the last to know
Always the first to leave

Just let them walk all over you
Laugh through the punches and the pain
Let the life-blood drain away from you
They're right, you're wrong

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Dark and Velvet Nights

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour
Lyris: Polly Samson

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

I didn't think that this could be
All that unto death do we
'Til you managed the lock and magicked the key
After a night of hard drinking and ecstasy

It's softer than words that are spoken
Blackened on paper that's shredded and torn
Or carved into stones lying shattered and broken
Branches beckoned along the wrong path
Winding up in the past

And this dark and velvet night
Tthat surrounds us
This dark and velvet night
I will wrap around us

It's softer than words that are spoken
Or painted as slogans and flung to the lions
Written on slips as the punters wait smoking
A leap of faith, the odds sky-high
Said goodbye to your place or mine

Don't like to make promises that I can't keep
Don't want to hurt this old heart or wreck my sleep
Thinking how will we part?
Will I hold your hand or you be left holding mine?
Between this breath and then
There's this airlock of time
This airlock of time

And this dark and velvet night
That surrounds us
This dark and velvet night
I will wrap around us

It's softer than words that were spoken
In the towers of great cities that toppled and drowned
Engraved on gold rings or some other love token
No walls, no bells to sanctify this dark and velvet night

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Sings

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour
Lyris: Polly Samson

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

Darling, turn back the clock
Give me time, make it stop
Let's hold back the news
Stay inside this cocoon

No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in

Sail away in my dreams
Away on untroubled seas
From this worn-out world
That's torn apart at the seams

No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in

Found a lifetime ago, down the Portobello Road
Lovers' snapshots of delight, those rosy days of black and white

Darling, don't make the tea
Stay and snooze here with me
I'm not ready for news
Or to leave this cocoon

No doubting you
No doubting me
No doubt the mess we're in

Seems a lifetime ago, power cuts that shut us down at night
And the faces in my mind, glowing amber in the candle light

And behind the kitchen shelves, something's lost there and out of sight
Young love's photographs, growing old in black and white

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Scattered

David Gilmour 2024

Music: Gilmour
Lyris: David Gilmour, Charlie Gilmour and Polly Samson

Album releases:
Luck and Strange

Take my arm and walk with me
Once more down this dusty old path
The sunset cuts the hill in half
Our shadows stretch back to touch the night
The light's fading, you say, but these darkening days
Flow like honey

These days slowing down, a whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness, shining on me
And we're still doing this dance one step at a time
As the days slip by, as smooth as glass, the moments pass

And all these precious things you gave
That I've been holding in my hands, these grains of sand
A man stands in a river, pushes against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys and it disobeys me

These days slowing down, a whole life in a glance
The clearest light shines in the darkness, still shining on me
And we're still doing this dance, the moon and the stars
As the days slip by, as smooth as glass, the moments pass

And all these precious things you gave
Falling through my hands, these worlds, this scattered sand
I stand in a river, push against the stream
Time is a tide that disobeys and it disobeys me
It never ends