Postcards of China

POSTCARDS OF CHINA

Come to my side, let love be our guide

The hills of  Guilin, the Eternal spring.

You bring to mind postcards of china

Misty blue peaks, follow me there.

A sampan on the banks of the Lijang

Cross country from Peking to Shenyang 

You bring to mind postcards of China

Misty blue peaks, you take me there.

So hungry to explore

The mysteries behind your door 

So hungry to explore

The mysteries outside my door

And the girl who reminds me

Of postcards of China

Lake Dianchi, The mountains of sunrise

Beauties of heaven I see in your eyes.

You make me think of postcards of china

Misty blue peaks, I'll follow you there.

And I love you through and through I love you,

you know I do

I love you, you know I do

Cause you remind me of Postcards of China

Witten Middlesbrough - 1985

(Music by Steve Gillgallon and Steve Ingledew Lyrics Trev Teasdel)

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I went out for the night with a friend and left my two band members, Steve Gillgallon and Steve Ingledew from Trev and the Collective Unconscious in the house in charge of a Fostex X15 Portastudio, two Yamaha keyboards and an analog Yamaha synth. When I came back - they'd been jamming and this music was the result. I loved it as an instrumental but they wanted some words. It seemed to have an orienta

l inflection. I was reading a beautifully illustrated book on China and fell in love with the names, myths and landscape. I was probably someone too! We never got around to putting the words on the track (we hadn't mastered multi-tracking then and used all four tracks. Still it works well as an instrumental.