Stars in Hawaii

from The Road to Damassine by Alphasun

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Original ballad with 12-string guitar and oboe backing (in fact, the oboe is played on the Starr Labs Ztar through a Roland JV2080).
This song received a commendation in the UK Songwriting Contest 2015: www.musicaid.net/ukscresultscgi.cgi?template=2015certificate.html&dbname=2015db_uksc.txt&key2=PP1838&action=searchdbdisplay

lyrics

Stars in Hawaii
Words and music © Paul Nash 2005

They're still crystal clear,
Those times when we kissed all
Fear away
So you'll understand
Why I still think of what we planned
On a distant day?

I know we'll never
See the stars in Hawaii
Or surf on forever
On a dream-wave, you know why…
Rainbows led me on
And your sparkling laughter
Till the rain was gone
Then the desert came after.

It got left behind
That loving blue-sky day,
Like those things they find
When they dig a new highway

But my memory flies on
Searching, never landing
Beyond the horizon
To where you are standing

B

Sometimes in a dream
The clouds blow away
And the stars seem to guide me
To that shore
But I wake and the beach is just a floor
And you're not beside me…

There is no road back,
Just a moment of flying,
Like the shining track
Of a shooting star dying

How will it turn out,
The end of our story –
Break up and burn out
Or shine on in glory?

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from The Road to Damassine, released January 1, 2008

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