Ballad

from Hello by Antoine Sultana

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Have you ever watched a moonbeam
Passed out drunk in Calton Hill Park
Its smooth light licking up your chin
 As a gravestone crow’s cawing in the dark ?

  Next morning hungover, another adventure
Dive into Detifoss in Iceland or from Maya Beach in Thailand 
Shaking spider-monkey hands, hearing ancient Inca chants
Drinking French red country wine, petting English cottage swines
 But with your phone excepted no one to share it with ?

  Well it took the longest time, it took the longest of times
But now I have you   

Have you ever watched a moonbeam 
Caressing the sheets in a summer night
Outlining the legs slowly pacing their dreams
While the curtains swell up in a spectre so bright ?  

And then the next morning starting up the old Volvo
 Off to Palermo’s catacombs following the Amalfi coast 
Or to Chernobyl’s power plant ? Or the onsens of Japan
 In a snowy Hokkaido ? See it unrolling in slow-mo
 Let’s throw our phones in Etna’s lava, offline we go together

Well It took the longest time, it took the longest of times
 But now I have you

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from Hello, released February 2, 2022
Guitar, vocals : Antoine Sultana
Guitar, keyboards, vocals : Octave Bessaignet
Drums : Victor Bernard

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Antoine Sultana Saint Amant Roche Savine, France

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