Steven Delopoulos — Another Day
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Length: 4:21
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The night was all that I'd once known
When I was small and all alone
Where dreams and visions never played
Towns put on their cheap parade
With cheap trombones and plastic horns
And choirs faking opera songs
I nursed my coffee 'til the dawn
And waited for another day
The lady on the second floor
She squints her eyes at bills galore
Opens up a cabinet door
Sippin' on bourbon through the day
She looks upon her mirror glass
Thinks how years have seen her past
She does her cross and dyes her grays
Fears upon another day
Another day, another day
Where dreams, they're not so far away
Seeds, they grow to lend a branch
Harmonies and second chance
Oh...
Organized communities
Well, we call ourselves societies
But social is the last we seize when dignity has flown away
But I'm the worst than most of you
I write these words to fill some shoes
Pay some tolls, cheat some dues
Watch my words from far away
Another day, another day
Where dreams, they're not so far away
Seeds, they grow to lend a branch
Harmonies and second chance
Another day, another day
Where dreams, they're not so far away
Seeds, they grow to lend a branch
Harmonies and second chance
Here's two colors, mixed and swirled
With wood and blood together twirled
Goodbye my friends, today I'm dead
To resurrect and change the world
When I was small and all alone
Where dreams and visions never played
Towns put on their cheap parade
With cheap trombones and plastic horns
And choirs faking opera songs
I nursed my coffee 'til the dawn
And waited for another day
The lady on the second floor
She squints her eyes at bills galore
Opens up a cabinet door
Sippin' on bourbon through the day
She looks upon her mirror glass
Thinks how years have seen her past
She does her cross and dyes her grays
Fears upon another day
Another day, another day
Where dreams, they're not so far away
Seeds, they grow to lend a branch
Harmonies and second chance
Oh...
Organized communities
Well, we call ourselves societies
But social is the last we seize when dignity has flown away
But I'm the worst than most of you
I write these words to fill some shoes
Pay some tolls, cheat some dues
Watch my words from far away
Another day, another day
Where dreams, they're not so far away
Seeds, they grow to lend a branch
Harmonies and second chance
Another day, another day
Where dreams, they're not so far away
Seeds, they grow to lend a branch
Harmonies and second chance
Here's two colors, mixed and swirled
With wood and blood together twirled
Goodbye my friends, today I'm dead
To resurrect and change the world
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Another song
another song
Never heard this before. Gave it a 1 in hopes I never have to again.
Looks like I'm in the minority from the comments, but I really like this. Follows nicely from Long Ride Home too.
yup... to me, splits the difference between springsteen and marc cohn... but two steps down from either. nice effort, and a good tune, but surely not great.
sounds like a second rate Springsteen on a paint mixing machine - and sports a mullet
:-s mmmmmm..... no
Saw this guy live with Burlap to Cashmere. He is great live. Great voice! Nothing wrong with this song!
Gosh...I really wish someone else was singing...this fellas goat-like vibrato turns what might be a really beautiful song into something I can't rate higher than a 7.
Nice guitar work, but otherwise not impresive.
If he fingerpicked any faster his guitar would explode. This song sounds like it would be a good effort for a high-school student at the 'talent show'. Urggggghhhh...
Wow, this is a Seriously Depressing Song...
Call the suicide hotline, buddy, and leave us alone
beelzebubba wrote:
When I hear the term "singer-songwriter", I usually run, not walk. This is not an exception. 
It's like David Gray, but without all the good stuff that makes David Gray good. Jes kiddin, I've only heard it once, but I'm not optimistic...
I keep thinking this is a Christmas Carol...Ring The Bell Isabelle ...nice.
Where's my HAND RAISED TO HEAVEN emoticon?
When I hear the term "singer-songwriter", I usually run, not walk. This is not an exception.
Sobient wrote:
the name fits the rating; It's rather "azure" don't you think? :o> (That's below average mind you)
I'm guessing you accidentally clicked the wrong song...
the name fits the rating; It's rather "azure" don't you think? :o] (That's below average mind you)
sallerj wrote:
I'm not religious, I don't like being preached to, but some very religious music is simply fantastic. If religion moves Mahalia Jackson, and she moves me, that's awesome. If only I was religious and I could be moved by the message as well as by the music...
It seems that the reason that somebody would not like to be preached to is that they dislike dogma, in which case dismissing all religious songs is kind of strange.
This is the first time I've heard this guy. Great guitar fingers, didn't get into the voice this time around,
There ya go, you're working your way through the confusion. Feels good doesn't it? Consider that God uses things we like (music) to draw us closer to Him...comforting.
Still like the guitar, but I don't understand that I initially gave it a 7. That voice is awful. Dropped to 2.
I'm not religious, I don't like being preached to, but some very religious music is simply fantastic. If religion moves Mahalia Jackson, and she moves me, that's awesome. If only I was religious and I could be moved by the message as well as by the music...
It seems that the reason that somebody would not like to be preached to is that they dislike dogma, in which case dismissing all religious songs is kind of strange.
This is the first time I've heard this guy. Great guitar fingers, didn't get into the voice this time around,
Pyro wrote:
I concur wholeheartedly, and since it's worth repeating:
"I didn't particularly like this song, though there was some good finger pickin'. Like any art, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Labeling it only serves to show one's lack of open mindedness."
When I create music, I feel like I am praying. I'm NOT religious, or into any organized religion, but I feel like using my meager talents are a way of thanking my higher power for giving me those talents.
While I can't STAND being preached to, I have no problem if a singer wants to sing about what moves his soul, literally.
I didn't particularly like this song, though there was some good finger pickin'. Like any art, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Labeling it only serves to show one's lack of open mindedness.
That's my opinion. I could be wrong. (Dennis Miller)
I concur wholeheartedly, and since it's worth repeating:
"I didn't particularly like this song, though there was some good finger pickin'. Like any art, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Labeling it only serves to show one's lack of open mindedness."
oops... got frawn in by the pickin' and didn't hear the lyrics. I don't mind the voice... but am severely allergic to evangelicals
reddirtgirl wrote:
So little time..... so much negative engergy.
When I create music, I feel like I am praying. I'm NOT religious, or into any organized religion, but I feel like using my meager talents are a way of thanking my higher power for giving me those talents.
While I can't STAND being preached to, I have no problem if a singer wants to sing about what moves his soul, literally.
I didn't particularly like this song, though there was some good finger pickin'. Like any art, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Labeling it only serves to show one's lack of open mindedness.
That's my opinion. I could be wrong. (Dennis Miller)
So little time..... so much negative engergy.
Tizmself wrote:
This song reminds me of the scene in "Animal House" where John Belushi grabs the guitar off of a folk singer and smashes it. I would gladly provide that service to this guy. Absolutely horrible.
ColdBear wrote:
Remember me of my adolescent years when I was obliged to go to church, and share this kind of fake joy. "We are all together, and we should not fear anything"
Can't stand it
If I may ask, what made the joy fake? :(
This song reminds me of the scene in "Animal House" where John Belushi grabs the guitar off of a folk singer and smashes it. I would gladly provide that service to this guy. Absolutely horrible.
Delopoulos... good Irish name.... 
Oooh...so close to a 9. If only he hadn't started singing.
ooooh.
Im so glad he "nursed his coffee and waited for another day"
prissy, precious and whiny.
Remember me of my adolescent years when I was obliged to go to church, and share this kind of fake joy. "We are all together, and we should not fear anything"
Can't stand it
Hob wrote:
Ahhh the old it's Christian music* thing again.
I'm not religious by any template I've heard of, I belong to the logical camp that doesn't have much truck with anyone saying "God is like this".
I think the major beef with 'Christian music' is based on an image generated by all the bad examples.
Just like naff mainstream pop goes on about the teenage crush boy band member x has. naff 'Christian music' goes on and on and on about the love of God.
*please note the use of quotes around Christian music in this post.
Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?
He lay awake all night wondering if there realy was a Dog.
Jesus didn't look like a hippie, he had dark skin
To Starti and others,
Hey, this singer sings way better than Cat Stevens (whom one listenener alluded to) and the other male singers I have heard this afternoon, so consider yourselves very lucky that you haven't been listening during the past hour. This guy, at least, keeps a consistent vocal quality throughout!
This is the best song I have heard yet today . . . . I must say!
O:) :D 
Tizmself wrote:
Had to change my rating from a 2 to a 1.
I went straight to 1 -- so annoying!!!
Had to change my rating from a 2 to a 1.
Tux wrote:
Nice guitar. Music is better than the voice.
I'd say more, "Nice guitar, pity about the voice" which is so harsh that after acouple of minutes I turned my speakers down so that I could only just hear it.
Overall not good!
:headshake: :headshake:
Nice guitar. Music is better than the voice.
Ahhh the old it's Christian music* thing again.
I'm not religious by any template I've heard of, I belong to the logical camp that doesn't have much truck with anyone saying "God is like this".
I think the major beef with 'Christian music' is based on an image generated by all the bad examples.
Just like naff mainstream pop goes on about the teenage crush boy band member x has. naff 'Christian music' goes on and on and on about the love of God.
*please note the use of quotes around Christian music in this post.
Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?
He lay awake all night wondering if there realy was a Dog.
I don't know about the Christian thing. But this guy sounds like Cat Stevens and that's bad news for me. I wonder if there are any more singers with Greek names who sound like Cat Stevens?
suzebee wrote:
Perhaps my suspicion of Christian music is unfair, but I feel like maybe that great guitar-playing I'm enjoying is really the smoke and mirrors in some sort of trick to convert me to their evangelical Christianity.
How labels condition perception. Music is music, then message is message, if they are blended in the right way then the result is impecable.
I have criticized tracks here with a great message but with very mediocre music...Like Vienna T...Music is blend and mediocre
You know, Madeline L'Engle has this idea that all good, true art is religious art. I kind of like that idea. If one is making good art about the truth as an act of worship, I think that CERTAINLY qualifies as Christian art.
CCM magazine would probably have a different take on it though.
Lovely guitar and melody, but the warbly vibrato reminds me of Glenn Yarborough!
Frodo of the nine fingers...
suzebee wrote:
Perhaps my suspicion of Christian music is unfair, but I feel like maybe that great guitar-playing I'm enjoying is really the smoke and mirrors in some sort of trick to convert me to their evangelical Christianity.
I went to China and visited the temples there with their giant gold buddhas and the bright colors and tiled roofs. I listened to the off-beat chanting of the faithful and I thought that it was all beautiful. I've seen sheets of ayat from the Koran rendered in painstaking calligraphy in golden ink, and I've visited the stone cathedrals of Europe with their stained glass and tall towers, and these things too were beautiful. Perhaps they speak without words of the intensity of the belief of their creators, but they have no power over you unless you let them. You can appreciate what they are and what it took to put them in place without having to convert. I think it's the same in this case.
I recently bought this album and don't see how it can be called Christian (in the prosyletizing sense anyway). So far no one has given A SINGLE CONCRETE EXAMPLE below why this album deserves such a label. Speak up please... or stop applying labels inappropriately.
blackw0lf wrote:
If music is supposed to be the window into the artist's soul, and the medium through which the artist expresses his thoughts and feelings, if the artist is a Christian how can the individual not express his faith? Should the artist not express one of the most important aspects of their life for fear that it might turn some people off?
Yes, any more than if the artist was expressing Buddhist or any other spiritual views. I respect any artist unafraid to convey what is important to them. Passionately please, though not didactically.
suzebee wrote:
Perhaps my suspicion of Christian music is unfair, but I feel like maybe that great guitar-playing I'm enjoying is really the smoke and mirrors in some sort of trick to convert me to their evangelical Christianity.
If music is supposed to be the window into the artist's soul, and the medium through which the artist expresses his thoughts and feelings, if the artist is a Christian how can the individual not express his faith? Should the artist not express one of the most important aspects of their life for fear that it might turn some people off?
I agree with suzebee.
stubbsz wrote:
What is a Christian Album? Why is this one?
Really.
Perhaps my suspicion of Christian music is unfair, but I feel like maybe that great guitar-playing I'm enjoying is really the smoke and mirrors in some sort of trick to convert me to their evangelical Christianity.
Just say no to Christian albums
gillicious wrote:
There aren't really any bad tracks, but this is a Christian album and I'm not really into that too much.
What is a Christian Album? Why is this one?
Really.
This is an absolutely superb album, particulaly seasons, rocky boat, and runaway train. Anyone heard any of the Burlap and Cashmere stuff? Is it just as good?
Me Died Blue is a pretty nice album.
I bought it because of Seasons, and this is one of the good tracks.
There aren't really any bad tracks, but this is a Christian album and I'm not really into that too much.
I'm a sucker for good fingerpickin'! Also, wonderful voice and good lyrics...
"I dunno, Dick, I give it an 88... It's got a beat, you can dance to it."