Bread And Wine

from The Watchful Eye Of The Stars by Adrian Crowley

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"When asked to write a few words about the song, the author said it may or may not be about a person with a chequered past lying low in a small coastal town before deciding where to go next. It's kind of a film script in four verses.” - Adrian Crowley

Adrian Crowley releases “Bread and Wine” with a hand-drawn storybook music video by Crowley featuring a cast of anthropomorphic characters. A folk sea ballad with elegant strings, gentle guitar and harmony vocals from Katell Keineg, Bread and Wine is an ode to outcasts (“The stray dogs here follow me around / they seem to know their kind”). “Bread and Wine” is the second single from Crowley’s forthcoming John Parish produced LP The Watchful Eye of The Stars, out April 30th, 2021.

On the video, Crowley says: “The stars of the video for Bread and Wine were made with a scalpel, pen and a drawing book. It was a curious thing to see the scenarios unfold there on my kitchen table, late one windy night. It's quite spooky, in a way, how just a few dots and lines on a page can conjure someone up. All those characters spying at the window; like ghosts from someone's past. They all seem to have an eerie and playful presence.”

lyrics

Bread And Wine

I found a halfway room in a seaside town
I’ll stay here for a while
Through my window I can hear the ship bells ring And I wake to the smell of the brine
The stray dogs here follow me around They seem to know their kind
And I play the piano in a harbour bar The pay me in bread and wine
Bread and wine Bread and wine
It’s taken me so long to write to you
Well I just couldn’t find a pen
And then there was the quest for writing paper And it just went on from there
I have it in my mind to tell you more
When the time is right
But meanwhile I’ll be playing waltzes
For bread and wine
For bread and wine
So how’s life in the City Of Lost Poets? Did they ever catch that thief
Who stole The Relics Of Saint Valentine, Who says romance is beat?
I can picture him running across the rooftops Laughing all the way
Who knows, maybe I’ll bump into him here And I’ll share my bread and wine
My bread and wine
I found a halfway room in a seaside town
I’ll stay here for a while
Through my window I can hear the ship bells ring And I wake to the smell of the brine
I play the piano in a harbour bar For bread and wine
I play the piano in a harbour bar For bread and wine
I’ll be playing the piano in a harbour bar For bread and wine
And they pay me in bread and wine, bread and wine

credits

from The Watchful Eye Of The Stars, track released March 9, 2021
Adrian Crowley: vocals, nylon string guitar, clarinet

Katell Keineg: backing vocals

John Parish: drums, percussion, marxophone. nylon string guitar, electric guitar

Jim Barr: Double bass

Cora-Venus Lunny: violin

Kate Ellis: cello

Lisa Dowdall: viola

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