A dreamy and wistful acoustic love ballad.
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Story behind the song
This is my oldest song, written about twenty-seven years ago on my rare Takamine twelve-string guitar… quite a challenge, as this song is fingerpicked from end to end! Well, it was my only guitar at the time.
Here, I play it on a six-string.
It was inspired by George R. R. Martin’s fabulous short story “The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr”. That story is, in George’s own words, “romantic as hell”, and left me in a dreamy mood for quite some time.
I intend to film it someday.
The story concerns a man who has been imprisoned upon a distant world for offending evil gods. He’s been there for unknown thousands of years. A girl arrives, traveling via gates between worlds, searching for a lost lover…
And, ever after, he sings of her…
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
Blue Castle
by Alan Kim Cochran
In a damp, old, arctic blue castle
Somehow, somewhere
Dwells a sad, old lonely minstrel
Who waits for her there
Strawberry hair, between the worlds
Search in despair, oh-oh-oh, ah-ah-ah-ah
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, la-da-da
Come, come to me my love
I fear, by twilight, unseen
A gate might grant my love
A love that's never been
And I embrace a wounded child
From many worlds, weir
Her gentle tears, like autumn's leaves
And long to hold her near
Strawberry hair, between the worlds
Search in despair, oh-oh-oh, ah-ah-ah-ah
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, la-da-da
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