Love on the Beach, by Cold Ghost

Love on the Beach

by Cold Ghost

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1.	Love on the Beach 03:43	lyrics	buy track
Love on the Beach Calm and delicate The stars awake Looking out to the East Through the darkness Black clouds Forebode their sleep Father and daughter Down on the beach The darkness creeps It's quiet burial The child softly weeps Soon Pleiades And Lord Star Jupiter Will meet their fate Weep not my child Weep not my darling If you hold my hand You'll understand The stars will forever Be victorious The moon will always be Don’t cry for Jupiter For he but sleeps And soon will be woke There’s something more More immortal Of which the stars cannot reach If you hold my hand Look out to the East Father and Daughter Love on the beach Hold on to my hand Keep looking East Father and daughter Love on the beach
2.	Oh Bernadette 03:38	lyrics	buy track
Oh Bernadette The last summer has come and gone And still we till the soil And tame the wild Let’s plant another tree Shade the western sun Temper the heat Oh Bernadette We have so much more To live for yet Small acts of love Moments of grace Grow into flowers It’s just you and me The flowers and the trees And the songs in the air Oh Bernadette We have so much more to live for Oh Bernadette We've got so much more To live for yet Ooo Bernadette We've got to leave all that we love behind Take the path that leads out the back One more walk down to the creek We'll wash our hands And we’ll wash our feet Our garden has a cruel repose It will still be tranquil When nobody’s home Oh Bernadette We have so much more to live for Oh Bernadette We've got so much more to live for Oh Bernadette We've got so much more To live for yet
3.	Far Out to Sea 04:02	lyrics	buy track
Far out to Sea Love, love is strange thing Filled up with memories And dreams Our love, our love gets stronger Waiting to die Waiting to be free Be free, put all your fears to sleep There's no time To look away Far out to sea There’s a different future For you and me

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‘Love on the Beach’ is a triptych of songs inspired by the scenario set out in Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel, ‘On the Beach’.

Written at the height of the Cold War, the superpowers in the northern hemisphere have engaged in a nuclear war that has resulted in total destruction. The radioactive cloud is slowly drifting south and Australians are the last on the planet waiting for the inevitable end.

Shute was thought to be inspired by American poet Walt Whitman’s “On the Beach at Night”, a poem about a father and daughter watching the stars “die” behind the clouds.

The songs are all about love. Love in the shadow of an apocalypse. Eternal Love. Love that is destined to die.

All songs are written, recorded and produced by Fletch (aka Cold Ghost) at home in Covid-induced isolation and feature members of Fletch’s own household, affectionately known as ‘The Babb Family Singers’. The songs were written, recorded and produced over one week.

This EP is part of a broader project to unfold in the decade of the 2020’s, using 20/20 hindsight to explore our past in the hope of better understanding our present and future possibilities.

Cold Ghost’s debut album ‘Bachelor Tapes’ was nominated for release of the year in 2019 at the Gold Coast Music Awards. He also curates the live storytelling night ‘Stories in the Key of GC’.

Love on the Beach has been supported by HOTA,
Home of the Arts through HOTA’s Artist Fund: Rage against the V(irus).

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released June 1, 2020

Written, recorded and produced by Cold Ghost at Traffic or the Waves.
Featuring Banquo, Jonquil and Bernadette (aka, the Babb Family Singers)
With support from HOTA, Home of the Arts through their Rage Against the V(irus) artist fund.
Tonal Gap Records.

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Cold Ghost Miami, Australia

Cold Ghost is the moniker for Gold Coast song-writer and musician Fletcher Babb.

2020's Love on the Beach is a triptych of love songs inspired by the scenario of Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel 'On the Beach'.

The 2018 album Bachelor Tapes a mix of alt-folk, rock and psychedelia and was up for best release at the Gold Coast Music Awards.

Cold Ghost also curates Stories in the Key of GC. ... more

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