| "Once Upon a Playground Rainy" | |
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| Song by Poets of the Fall | |
| from the album Clearview | |
| Released | September 30, 2016 |
| Length | 3:36 |
| Label | Insomniac |
| BPM | 104 |
| Key | G♯/A♭ B (Genelec) |
| Producer(s) | Stefan Boman |
Once Upon a Playground Rainy is the fourth track on Poets of the Fall's 2016 seventh studio album Clearview.
On 22nd March 2017, a 4:00 version of the track from Genelec Artist Room Live was included as the third track on the Children of the Sun single.
Lyrics
Hello old lovers of mine, my little boy wishes of fortune's kisses
Now dreams cast aside
In the fading light your crown of thorns becomes a halo of branching horns
And yet so beautiful
I see you gently swaying in a sea of seesaws
Slumming in the shack Tony built last year
I know you'll be holding court with jackdaws
Crying when nobody ever sees your tears
When no-one sees your tears
What used to fly us from here to the stratosphere
What became of our passion
Is there no-one who cares
Hear the soft minor key of the one time me
Still the acrobat with my heart on my sleeve
And it's so beautiful
I see you gently swaying in a sea of seesaws...
Out back where the gates are closed
Like a pitiful skeleton pose
We held our first line of defence
Saw our likeness and it made no sense
Like toy soldiers in the muck and dirt
Salvation in your every word
Lost in the fray of everyday
I see you gently swaying in a sea of seesaws...
You're still fighting, I see, like a modern day Bruce Lee
Standing proud in this parody
Trivia
- The name of the track is a play on the first words of Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven - Once upon a midnight dreary...
- The track bears a striking similarity to the Playground song I Tread the Same Ground, which considering the track title - is probably not a coincidence.