5. Dark Eyed Lover
// April 6th, 2009 // Writing On The Wall
I find that a song that sounds very good just singing it to an acoustic guitar, can sometimes be hard to translate to a full band setting. That’s especially true with ballads. It’s seems a lot of the natural dynamic balance of a composition often becomes a bit undermined as more people get involved in the performance of it. The different parts of the song are at peril of becoming either under- or overexaggerated.
This ballad, however, is a brilliant exception. It retains all of the dynamic qualitites of my original rendition of it with just an acoustic guitar, and I’m very happy with the way it turned out. A lot of it has to do with the brilliant guitar playing of Micke Hujanen. His sensibility towards the soul of a song is beyond most comparison. His work on this song turns it into a voice-guitar duet – the melody lines of the electric guitar intertwining and counterpointing against the vocals and lyrics in an almost sensual fashion.
Janne Hedlund’s attentive percussion and Robert Wirensjö’s sensitive piano and Hammond organ also help bringing the song to yet higher levels.
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Dark Eyed Lover
(Jana Persson)
To my dark eyed lover
In the mountains of the east
There’s a long and ancient desert trail
Leading merchants and travellers
To the glory of beyond
To the dreams and the riches of the past
From afar to be near you
I would walk a thousand miles
For a journey of passion
Is the promise of my love
To my dark eyed lover
In the mountains of the east
I will go for to offer her my heart
Oh, what if I’ll go wrong sometime
I’ll let your spirit guide me through the night
Oh, what if you’re not there anymore
To search for you I will forever vie
The promise of our love can never die
To me dark eyed lover
In the mountains of the east
I will go for to offer her my heart
