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A Cold Gray Morning

from The Disturbance Fields by Edison's Children

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about

The first track Eric and Pete ever actually wrote together. When they first came together in 2006-2007 the duo had a lot of tracks that they had been working on, on their own but A Cold Gray Morning was written while Eric was tuning up for recording the song "Stranger In A Foreign Land" ... a song that has a capo all the way up to the 7th fret. (As would be A Cold Gray Morning as Eric was suddenly inspired to write the little vamp that begun the song which Pete wrote the choruses) Stranger In A Foreign Land was an old encore from the Eric Blackwood Band and Blackwood & Foti that would finally make its recording debut with Rick Armstrong on lead guitar ... his first appearance for EC for their 3rd album "Somewhere Between Here and There".

Pete had come to New York to finally get a break from the terrible English winter and would spend 10 days recording tracks in between Pete's Transatlantic Whirlwind tour at Eric's studio... Black Dirt Studios in Sugar Loaf NY which was an old barn that Phish had recorded all of their early albums in. The lyrics to the song were inspired by the fact that Pete had been so looking forward to finally getting away from the "Bloody English weather" and spend a few days in sunny beautiful NY. For the duration of these first EC recording sessions, a frontal system stalled over the barn for every one of those 10 days and temperatures dropped by 20 degrees. Every morning Pete would look out the window at the raw bitterly cold rain pouring down wishing for just one day of sun. It wouldn't happen til the day he was to leave for the airport. The sad constant look on Pete's face every morning ... knowing how much he was looking forward to come to sunny America and record... to wake every morning to this ... would cause Eric to have to hide to keep from just laughing out loud at the irony of just how horrible and relentless the weather was ... and that sad... pouting "Pete face" staring out relentlessly at the Cold Gray Morning.

This song was supposed to appear on "In The Last Waking Moments..." but was postponed as ITLWM took on a very "alien" like concept when Eric introduced "Fracture" to the recording session and the album went completely in that direction... not only stalling this song from being released but the song Silhouette which was also written during these first sessions which would also be held off til the next album. As Silhouette took on a more haunting spooky Halloween like theme... A Cold Gray Morning was then slated "with its weather like theme" to be held off again until "Washed Away" could turned into a full album. Silhouette as it turns out wound up taking up the entire 80 minutes of the next album and because of the intensity of the orchestration of "The Confluence", "A Random Disturbance" and "A Random Occurrence" ... Edison's Children decided to put off releasing this album "The Disturbance Fields" as it was going to be a trilogy and instead put out The Final Breath Before November first so that Silhouette could see the light of day before the trilogy of this album began. Then a debilitating injury to Eric Blackwood doing Special FX would keep this album and this song delayed even longer and an album of "things laying about" called very appropriately "Somewhere Between Here and There" was released until Rick Armstrong could come in and finish what Eric had started and finally the first part of the trilogy "The Disturbance Fields" could be released 13 years after it began.

Lisa Wetton who had been the band's first drummer had also by this time returned to Edison's Children and was able to complete the drums on this song after spending the last few years taking care of her husband ... Asia Lead Singer John Wetton throughout the end of his life.

There was some thought to putting the track on Somewhere Between Here and There" but it was a song that the duo had always felt was perhaps the most heartwarming song that they had ever written together and still absolutely love to this day. In many ways they consider it to be like "Two of Us" by the Beatles. A song that sums up their friendship over the past decade and a half. Because of that... they thought it always deserved to be part of the "Washed Away" epic.

lyrics

the rain has come we’ve lost the sun
reminisce of when we were young
you wake up to find... a cold gray morning

we contemplate the choices we make
not understanding just what’s at stake
i can swear ... i’ve been here before

it’s probably now the time...
to start trying to find...
the answers in your mind...
it’s been there all the time...
you know the past is bittersweet
resolutions are incomplete
and once you cross that line there's no returning
from that moment on the sky is clear
from all your cares and all your fears
and you wake up to find another cold gray morning

it’s probably now the time...
to start trying to find...
the answers in your mind...
it’s been there all the time...

it's gonna be fine
we're in the clear
just follow my line...
we're almost here
just let go and feel it all surround you
the clouds are almost gone
they're starting to part
feel the warmth embrace your heart
you wake up to find a whole new morning

take me back to the sun...
come see what you've become...
don't let the rains overrun...
don't be burned by the sun.

the rain has come we've lost the sun
reminisce of when we were young...
you wake up to find...
a cold gray morning

credits

from The Disturbance Fields, released July 20, 2019
Lead Vox: Eric Blackwood
Chorus Vox: Pete Trewavas
Acoustic Guitar: Eric Blackwood
Acoustic Lead Gtr: Pete Trewavas
Strings: Pete Trewavas
Bass: Pete Trewavas
Drums: Lisa Wetton.

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