It's a place to be - a letter from the soul.
Imagine writing a song about a street from your hometown, describing it so evocatively and beautifully. You can be in the song and everything is real - yet glorious daydream. 'Cyprus Avenue' seems like an impossibly magical place to be. My, my, my - tears of sadness, loss - mixed with memories of joyous happy times deepening the loss. Flute, superb jazzy bass lines - so very much going on, quietly, perfectly complimenting the vocal performance. Little details, "a scrapbook stuck with glue" - distinctive, exotic guitar, yet delicate, then rising to meet Vans extraordinary vocal performance. There's such devotion, emptiness, yet utter beauty expertly expressed. It stays with you, rain falls right on time. A voice rises through the blues, a heart seeping through - "beside you, beside you" - like a mantra. A utterly beautiful song from the Them era titled 'My Lonely Sad Eyes'. No way to follow-up 'Brown Eyed Girl' of course, and no way to follow-up his early band Them, but the signs had been there.
In another world and in another time, coming home high. Astral Weeks / Beside You / Sweet Thing / Cyprus Avenue / The Way Young Lovers Do / Madame George / Ballerina / Slim Slow Slider
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