Скачать или смотреть House of Broken Dreams (Mark Heard) cover

For my next song I intended to put up something original instead of another cover, but I think I can say that this is the most original and my favorite arrangement I've done. Actually, without intending to steal any of the glory and credit due to Mark Heard's version, this feels like my own work. I tend to be slavish to the original chord structure at least, but I ended up being compelled to adjust it because the original's chords were married to the album's instrumentation and didn't quite translate to solo piano. I tried to retain Heard's distinctive pairing of a heavy lyric with music that feels disarmingly light, which ironically seems to be the best container for such weight, but I doubt I was as successful.

May God grant you rest in the midst of all broken dreams.

"House of Broken Dreams"

Hear the whistle blow
It echoes down my soul
It's something I have always known
Nothing sounds so sad
A cry to the unknown
The fundamental sigh of all who've gone this way before

Lay me down to sleep
Come and comfort me
I'll sleep in peace
In a house of broken dreams

I'm old enough to know
That dreams are quickly spent
Like the pouring rain on warm cement
Or fingerprints in dust
Nectar on the wind
Save them for tomorrow and tomorrow lets you down again

Lay me down to sleep
Come and comfort me
I'll sleep in peace
In a house of broken dreams

Give me the reasons to go on
Soften the sorrow that shatters and bends
And mend broken dreams

Sentimental hearts
Hungry for the past
Penniless at the wishing-well
Memories will last
And cover certain scars
Acquired in the daily grind of being what we are

Lay me down to sleep
Come and comfort me
I'll sleep in peace
In a house of broken dreams

Lay me down to sleep
Come and comfort me
I will sleep in peace
In a house of broken dreams

by Mark Heard (© 1990 Ideola)