Frosty Nights (When I Was Your Age)
from Amateur Astronomy by Moss & Jones
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lyrics
When I was your age, summer was so long...
When I was your age, I loved the summer. I ran and I climbed and I played, but winter came, and nights folded in, enveloping the sky in midnight blue from four o'clock on chilly afternoons, but how I loved, oh how I loved...
Frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East, how I loved frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East.
I'd go and look outside on a frosty night.
I'd run and fetch binoculars, look under Orion's belt, nebula M42 nestled there. I'd draw a line along the belt, use the line to point to stars (further off some swam in pairs; different hues). I knew from charts where I would find planets on a given night, or with naked eye I'd find Pleiades, oh how I loved...
Frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East (etc.)
But as I aged, stars disappeared, replaced by many fears; the general kit of adult life (gas meters, rent arrears) but thanks to you, now that you're your age, you ask me to show you stars... and go outside for...
Frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East (etc.)
Oh frosty nights, at your age; at your age!
When I was your age, I loved the summer. I ran and I climbed and I played, but winter came, and nights folded in, enveloping the sky in midnight blue from four o'clock on chilly afternoons, but how I loved, oh how I loved...
Frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East, how I loved frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East.
I'd go and look outside on a frosty night.
I'd run and fetch binoculars, look under Orion's belt, nebula M42 nestled there. I'd draw a line along the belt, use the line to point to stars (further off some swam in pairs; different hues). I knew from charts where I would find planets on a given night, or with naked eye I'd find Pleiades, oh how I loved...
Frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East (etc.)
But as I aged, stars disappeared, replaced by many fears; the general kit of adult life (gas meters, rent arrears) but thanks to you, now that you're your age, you ask me to show you stars... and go outside for...
Frosty nights, with Orion rising in the East (etc.)
Oh frosty nights, at your age; at your age!
credits
from Amateur Astronomy,
released June 28, 2015
Song & arrangement: Ruth Moss
Song & arrangement: Ruth Moss
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Moss & Jones Merseyside, UK
The folk-inspired duo Moss & Jones consists of Ruth Moss & Marc Jones, a multi-instrumental musical couple (just married!)
from Merseyside!
Folky goodness" - RatholeRadio.org
"That old English folky feel but with a sense of...something in the woodshed" - LIverpoolBands.co.uk
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