Tom Hickox - Roy and Eve (Official Lyric Video)

Описание: Roy and Eve, from the album The Orchestra of Stories, out now. https://tomhickox.lnk.to/theorchestra...

Roy and Eve tells the true story of the remarkable “affair of correspondence” between my grandmother Eve Sheldon-Williams and Roy Turner-Durrant. They were both painters.

Over a period of decades they exchanged thousands of letters, and he sent her many hundreds of paintings, some of which were abstractly explicit. He was obsessed with her but they never met.

Featuring the beautiful strings of the ‪@ChinekeFoundation‬ and the dazzling horns of ‪@onyxbrass‬, notably the trumpet playing of Niall Keatley and Philip Cobb.

Lyrics:

Paintbrush in my hand,
canvas on its stand,
my guide to the promised land is my Eve,
my Marianne.

I send my scribbled cards,
send my best regards.
There’s only two parts
in this play of our lonely hearts.

Every time you write to me
I see your beauty in my fantasies.

She’s my Kiss,
my Mona Lisa,
my Madame X,
my own Olympia,
my sweet Enigma.

I’m locked away dreaming of a Goddess not a human being,
my Athena.

I feast on every line,
the words of the divine.
I look for any sign
that I can live outside my mind.

Every time you write to me
I see your beauty with such clarity.

She’s my Kiss,
my Mona Lisa,
my Madame X,
my own Olympia,
my sweet Enigma.

I’m locked away dreaming of a Goddess not a human being,
my Athena.