This Golden Hour
from Rhapsody & Filigree by Brian Woodbury
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written & arranged by Brian Woodbury
lyrics
V E R S E 1
Gold, they came in search of gold
Forty-Niners
Over sea and fruited plane
Gold, more than any bank could hold
And where it panned out
Mined every nugget, sluice and vein
Till none remain
P R E – C H O R U S 1
Who, as the aura left those skies,
In the gloaming, felt a magic light arise?
C H O R U S
Stay beautiful
And never be done
This golden hour
This lambent sun
Die beautiful
Forever re-run
This golden hour
This setting sun
V E R S E 2
Cold, they fled the Jersey cold
For Niles Canyon
To cast the world in better light
Unfolding as the sprockets scrolled
“Rolling! Action!”
Praising the rays of nearly night,
A perfect site
P R E – C H O R U S 2
What, in the blazing sun’s demise,
Could be captured of the world a camera spies?
C H O R U S
Stay beautiful
And never be done
This golden hour
This lambent sun
Die beautiful
Forever re-run
This golden hour
This setting sun
B R I D G E 1
Sunk below a rose horizon
Fade to shadeless dusk
Luring with its near nocturnal musk
Vesper time
Slips sublime
Daylight’s husk
M I D D L E V E R S E 1
So, you left Boston, Mass
And betrayed your first class
On the way
With no B.A.
And a pawnshop guitar
That you strung upside down to play
By Frisco Bay
M I D D L E P R E – C H O R U S 1
A sailor paroled from the war
From Japan, to this Golden Gate shore
For a smoke at the end of the trail
The folk, those whose songs tell the tale
M I D D L E V E R S E 2
And you learn every note of the tune
On that old guitar
Coffee bar
You can’t beat poet’s rates
For the black and gold plates on your car
And belonging where you are
M I D D L E P R E – C H O R U S 2
Here you and Mom were both drawn
First to meet, then to marry and spawn
this climb to the top of Mount Tam
How I’m now the I that I am
In gold
I N S T R U M E N T A L 1
M I D D L E R E F R A I N
In a burst, when that first tinge appeared
Midas’ touch was reverse engineered
Did that graze make a deep inner blush
In the bays and the sage and the brush?
You assumed that penumbral refrain
Where the bloom had infused the terrain
With a hue. Did this glow linger on
Inside you, where that dusk came to dawn?
I N S T R U M E N T A L 2
V E R S E 3
Old, they came in days of old
With the ice floes
To a wilderness unnamed
Bold adventurers untold
(Muwekma Ohlone!)
Gone and each creek has now been tamed
And the sky inflamed
C H O R U S 3
Stay beautiful
And never be done
This golden hour
This lambent sun
Die beautiful
Forever outrun
This golden hour
This waning sun
B R I D G E 2
Evening glows its golden-most
Before it goes to black
Every epoch folds another back
Every bend
Finds the end
Of the track
C H O R U S 4
Leave beautiful
Whatever you’ve won
This golden hour has spun
Before you lose the light
Embrace the grace of night
Be done
With one last golden sun
Gold, they came in search of gold
Forty-Niners
Over sea and fruited plane
Gold, more than any bank could hold
And where it panned out
Mined every nugget, sluice and vein
Till none remain
P R E – C H O R U S 1
Who, as the aura left those skies,
In the gloaming, felt a magic light arise?
C H O R U S
Stay beautiful
And never be done
This golden hour
This lambent sun
Die beautiful
Forever re-run
This golden hour
This setting sun
V E R S E 2
Cold, they fled the Jersey cold
For Niles Canyon
To cast the world in better light
Unfolding as the sprockets scrolled
“Rolling! Action!”
Praising the rays of nearly night,
A perfect site
P R E – C H O R U S 2
What, in the blazing sun’s demise,
Could be captured of the world a camera spies?
C H O R U S
Stay beautiful
And never be done
This golden hour
This lambent sun
Die beautiful
Forever re-run
This golden hour
This setting sun
B R I D G E 1
Sunk below a rose horizon
Fade to shadeless dusk
Luring with its near nocturnal musk
Vesper time
Slips sublime
Daylight’s husk
M I D D L E V E R S E 1
So, you left Boston, Mass
And betrayed your first class
On the way
With no B.A.
And a pawnshop guitar
That you strung upside down to play
By Frisco Bay
M I D D L E P R E – C H O R U S 1
A sailor paroled from the war
From Japan, to this Golden Gate shore
For a smoke at the end of the trail
The folk, those whose songs tell the tale
M I D D L E V E R S E 2
And you learn every note of the tune
On that old guitar
Coffee bar
You can’t beat poet’s rates
For the black and gold plates on your car
And belonging where you are
M I D D L E P R E – C H O R U S 2
Here you and Mom were both drawn
First to meet, then to marry and spawn
this climb to the top of Mount Tam
How I’m now the I that I am
In gold
I N S T R U M E N T A L 1
M I D D L E R E F R A I N
In a burst, when that first tinge appeared
Midas’ touch was reverse engineered
Did that graze make a deep inner blush
In the bays and the sage and the brush?
You assumed that penumbral refrain
Where the bloom had infused the terrain
With a hue. Did this glow linger on
Inside you, where that dusk came to dawn?
I N S T R U M E N T A L 2
V E R S E 3
Old, they came in days of old
With the ice floes
To a wilderness unnamed
Bold adventurers untold
(Muwekma Ohlone!)
Gone and each creek has now been tamed
And the sky inflamed
C H O R U S 3
Stay beautiful
And never be done
This golden hour
This lambent sun
Die beautiful
Forever outrun
This golden hour
This waning sun
B R I D G E 2
Evening glows its golden-most
Before it goes to black
Every epoch folds another back
Every bend
Finds the end
Of the track
C H O R U S 4
Leave beautiful
Whatever you’ve won
This golden hour has spun
Before you lose the light
Embrace the grace of night
Be done
With one last golden sun
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from Rhapsody & Filigree,
released July 25, 2022
vocals, guitar, keys, bass, FX Brian Woodbury; flute Mark Hollingsworth; violins Sara Parkins; percussion Pete Korpela; bgd vocals Tulasi Rain and Paul F. Perry
vocals, guitar, keys, bass, FX Brian Woodbury; flute Mark Hollingsworth; violins Sara Parkins; percussion Pete Korpela; bgd vocals Tulasi Rain and Paul F. Perry
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Brian Woodbury Los Angeles, California
Brian Woodbury is a Los Angeles composer, lyricist and bandleader who writes musicals, post-modern jazz compositions, quirky pop, country songs and music for children's TV.
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