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Ben Calvert & The Swfits - Bright Eyes

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"With my version of Bright Eyes, my aim was to take the song out of the context of the film Watership Down to convey the true intention of the song- To present death as a mysterious, certain, and foreboding universal force. While exploring this, the song is also a poetic meditation on the force of life and what happens to the soul after death. Easter presents a fitting time for the release." Ben Calvert

Melbourne artist Sophie Demitriou, (Dark Vice), created the video.
Like a moving Rorschach test, it is an abstract and hypnotic image that is open to personal interpretation.

The single was self-recorded and self-produced by Ben in his home studio and was mastered by Pete Maher.
(Paul Weller, Damien Rice, Beady Eye)

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Is it a kind of dream
Floating out on the tide
Following the river of death downstream?
Or is it a dream?

There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does is mean
Is it a dream?

Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes

Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching in to the night
Wandering over the hills unseen?
Or is it a dream?

There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start?
Into the dark

Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes

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from Bright Eyes, track released March 30, 2015
Songwriter: Mike Batt
Publishers: Blackwood Music

(License obtained for distribution via RightFlow Inc)

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Ben Calvert & The Swifts Birmingham, UK

Influenced by British folk, early 90s Indie and US Psychedelia, Ben’s post-folk sound has melody, stories, and lyrics at its heart.

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