A Moment In The Sun, by silver biplanes

A Moment In The Sun

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1.	Parallel World 03:23	lyrics	buy track
She’s not worried, she won’t get hurried There’s plenty of time left, plenty of wine left One drink more might help her see The wood for the trees She’s not worried, about tomorrow She’s on a mission, to drown her sorrow And all her troubles drift away Like leaves on the breeze In a parallel world Where the rain never falls And hard times never call At the door Meanwhile back here on planet earth There’s too many voices, and too few choices The consequences of all this Are easy to see We’re all hard pressed to find some soul now The old school bullies are in control now High time for a cosmic shift To carry us all To a parallel world Where the game is the same But the rules have all changed From the start In a parallel world We could lie on the ground Watch the sky spinning round Upside down
2.	Breaking The Grey 04:08	lyrics	buy track
Fall the hours, fall the minutes, Fall the days away. Catch your breath in frozen time A moment’s soft delay. Idly wandering quiet streets Where no-one knows your name. The wheel keeps turning round somehow But every day’s the same. Can you feel it? A sudden sway Can you feel it? Breaking the grey Cops and robbers, black and white, Nothing’s what it seems. Deep inside the wishing well Hopes outnumber dreams. Some are counting rainbows, Some are counting sheep, Or drifting with the devil Fifty fathoms deep. Can you feel it? Heading this way Can you feel it? Right out of the grey Can you feel it? Breaking the grey
3.	Searching For Your Name 03:43	lyrics	buy track
I remember Searching for your name, joe Where did all those years go? Time just slips away And on the pavement There’s boxes full of treasure To look through at your leisure An ordinary day Later on, we’d climb to the top of the hill Racing back, ahead of the sundown Far below the lamps all came on, one by one Lighting up the skies of my hometown The shops and houses The backstreets of the city You might not call it pretty You might still want to stay With perfect timing The shadows on the water Were just like someone’s daughter Had upped and sailed away Funny how the things that just stick in my mind Take me back to workaday places Maybe when you’re older and wiser you know Why the past leaves permanent traces Another summer Of fickle english weather Nothing lasts forever At least that’s what they say I remember Searching for your name, joe Where did all those years go? Time just slips away
4.	Songs That Don't Exist 03:15 video	lyrics	buy track
Sometimes you just can’t tell the end from the beginning Words and pictures, from time unwound And when you turn the light out your head’s still spinning Doubts and daydreams go round and round Believe me it’s the same for everyone All we have is a moment in the sun No-one cares about chances that you missed Or melodies of songs that don’t exist Truth is the highs and lows will still keep coming Makes no difference what state you’re in And no-one’s forcing you to keep on running In a race there’s no need to win Honey it’s the same for everyone All we have is a moment in the sun No-one cares about chances that you missed Or melodies of songs that don’t exist
5.	The Stars Align 02:33	lyrics	buy track
At the turning of the year As the evening draws near Driving south in the lights Of the motorway Just for once you might dance Round the patterns of chance Maybe once in a while The stars align that way The stars align (hey hey hey) The stars align (hey hey hey) The stars align (hey hey hey) Come what may And the signs that are gone Fall in line, one by one, To bring you here, face to face In this time and place And it’s quite pain to see It was just meant to be Maybe once in a while The stars align that way
6.	UAS 29396 04:03	lyrics	buy track
Ba ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba UAS 29396
7.	No Better And No Worse 04:32	lyrics	buy track
Well you’ve never had much trouble being candid You could liven up the room single-handed When you focus on the things that make you mad It’s not the best idea you’ve ever had No, it’s not the best idea you’ve ever had And nothing’s really changed It’s no better and no worse Than it was before Well you’ve never been poor but you wish you had more money And you’re really quite clever but you’d rather you were funny You’re pretty good looking in a quirky kind of way But you’d change that for perfection, so you say You’d change that for perfection any day But you know down deep inside You wouldn’t trade your life With anybody else When all is said and done You’re no better and no worse Than anybody else
8.	All Fools' Day 02:59	lyrics	buy track
It doesn’t take a genius To know when something’s wrong Anyone can spot the signs If they’ve been there all along Plain and easy But even so Sometimes it’s even easier To let it go Everyday is All fools’ day No-one really cares that much About the far side of town And everybody’s innocent ‘til the walls are tumbling down Turn the pages And you’ll see Nobody’s perfect Not even you and me Everyday is All fools’ day Open up the windows Let the cold blow through Everybody makes mistakes And it’s true… I was born on All fools’ day
9.	Fairground Rocket Ride 03:13	lyrics	buy track
When you’re tired and tangled up, walls are closing in Weary of the shadows from without and from within That’s the time to realise you’re not just passing through Step away outside the grey in memories old and new Like a nineteen sixty-nine Fairground rocket ride Whirling lights of red and green, blue and silver white Spinning in a magic circle, holding back the night Phasing through distorted sound in never-ending flight Music playing, sugar sugar, all is pure delight Like a nineteen sixty-nine Fairground rocket ride When you’re tired and tangled up, walls are closing in Weary of the shadows from without and from within Celebrate the friendship of the caring and the kind Look to the horizon and let yourself unwind Like a nineteen sixty-nine Fairground rocket ride
10.	Deliver The Dawn 02:02	lyrics	buy track
Deliver the dawn bright Bring home the daylight Come into the sun light Think again Looking back at history It’s a perfect mystery How we got to where we are How we muddled through this far Talk about complexity It’s a dropdead certainty Someone thinks they know the score And they’ve heard it all before Bb ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba It’s not a case of wrong or right It’s not a case of dark and light Everything you think you know Was set in stone years ago Is it anger? Is it pain? Is it sadness? Is it shame? It’s ok to change your mind It’s alright to think again Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba Godspeed the day when we all think again Godspeed the day when we all think again
11.	Think Again 03:22		buy track
12.	There's A Party 03:54	lyrics	buy track
There’s a party in Beijing, there’s a party in Milan There are parties in Rome, and Amsterdam There’s an all-night party in Kahtmandu There’s a party in Vladivostok too There’s a party in Osaka, there’s a party in Par-ee There are parties all around the Caspian Sea There’s a party at the harbour in St Tropez There are parties in Karachi, and Monterey There’s a party on the beach at Montego Bay There’s a party on the streets of Mandalay There’s a party in Nashville Tennessee There’s a party in Rio that’s completely free There’s a party just starting in Marakesh There’s a party going crazy in Budapesht There are parties in Vienna and Malibu There’s a massive great shindig happening near you There’s a party, there’s a party right now There’s a party, there’s a party right now

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"A Moment In The Sun” is the debut long player by silver biplanes, a melodic indie band based in Bedfordshire, England. The band features wife-and-husband team Vanessa Vass and Tim Vass alongside drummer Rob Scott and the album is the pinnacle of a musical career which has previously seen Vanessa and Tim release songs on no fewer than 30 different labels between them!

The band are lifelong fans of the highways and bi-ways of music and the album draws upon a wide range of influences. It’s a heady mix of choruses, hooks and catchy tunes in which you’ll hear traces of psychedelia, post-punk, krautrock and more.

Tim was bassist and lyricist in cult indie band Razorcuts, co-writing all of their songs. Razorcuts releases regularly featured in the higher reaches of the independent charts throughout the late 80s, and included two top five albums recorded for the famous Creation label. Both albums were reissued in sellout deluxe vinyl editions in 2020. Razorcuts continue to appear on numerous compilations and their influence is often cited in books and internet articles. Tim has also played in Red Chair Fadeaway, Dandelion Wine and the Forever People.

Vanessa was the singer in 90’s indie band The Melons who are probably best remembered for their two legendary live sessions on Mark Radcliffe’s Radio 1 show. The Melons released 6 singles and were regularly featured in the British music press.

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