Lyrics for From The Morning as interpreted by Sweet Blue Way

From The Morning Lyrics
A day once dawned, and it was beautiful
A day once dawned from the ground
Then the night she fell
And the air was beautiful
The night she fell all around.

So look see the days
The endless coloured ways
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.

And now we rise
We are everywhere
And now we rise from the ground
See she flies
And she is everywhere
See she flies all around

So look see the sights
The endless summer nights
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.
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"From the Morning" as written by Kenny/afanasieff Gorelick
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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fromthemorning
07-13-2002

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a insomniac he was.....

he talks about the sun rising from the earth at dawn, and the cycle of it setting again. then he compares our own human nature and repetative lifestyles to the sun. It rises, and like the sun we rise and cover the earth. He tells everyone to "see the sights, the endless summer nights" and enjoy the nightly escape from our working life. But in the end we have to return to "the game". the one the sun plays every day.

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loser4all
10-02-2005

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right on, imho

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HamiltonInches
02-28-2006

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The lines:
And now we rise
And we are everywhere
is the epitaph on Nick Drakes' headstone, in Tamworth, England.

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lunaharpua
08-11-2006

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Have fun, 'cause you're not gonna be here long. That pretty much sums up Nick Drake for me. He deals with the big, eternal themes of life, death, and love. Every feeling, whether it's joy or sorrow, is transient. But it's almost like he's resigned to all of it. This song reminds me of staying up all night every night during a summer years ago, falling in love every night...the best time i've ever had. He has a way of capturing that kind of thing. Visited his grave in Tanworth, and that inscription is there on his headstone. He's everywhere now, isn't he?

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no1knows
11-04-2006

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"and now we rise from the ground" hmmmm Beautiful. Liv, but don't forget the ones who have died. They're pretty much everywhere. The girls fly but that's life. Go play the game.

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mclaugbm
05-31-2007

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i love this song... it literally almost makes me cry whenever i hear it... i think its just about being one with the world, it just gives you that peaceful feeling... i also think that if i can, i'd like to listen to this when i die....

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floodline
01-18-2009

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It makes me remember all my friends who died, especially the summer when I mourned them. It was the happiest summer of my life... I was awake every night and went to the mountains with a bunch of people and everything was so in tune, we didn't do anything unpleasant that whole season. And it felt that in doing so we were honoring those who died so young, burned out fast but could still make us smile. We all thought (though none of us said it) that we should make a promise to mourn like this when each of us dies, that we're all remembered as we were. I had my own girl and boy to mourn besides the friend we'd all lost, both of mine junkies, so I kept asking someone to play this song on their guitar because the girl had loved it and shown it to me, and the boy had loved it too, and he might've given up at 14, but those were 14 years lived with a thirst for everything. I knew that if there was a day of reckoning I'd be right there next to him. "Yes, I lied and I cheated and I took drugs and I was impure, but I loved well, so open the gates for me." Whenever I wanted to give up afterwards I thought of him in a white hospital robe trying to hold on to my hand while they were wheeling him away, and I know that he'd never forgive stepping out of this coil until you're good and spent, struggling to breathe from laughing, struggling to see from crying, with your heart so full you can barely stand it.

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Mihubris
08-06-2009

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There is much duality represented. Rising from the ground (day dawning) and endless colored ways seems to be a flower blooming or a good memory.The air at night is beautiful brings to mind photosynthesis (funny I know) as the night air would be clean. Blooms are what we are; like a flower. At night she falls and flies all around is a flower closing up at night or perhaps the pollen flying around. I also get the impression of romance in this song to perhaps the playfulness of sexuality. There is a vibe here of being so liberated in spirit that a rebirth or transformation has occurred. Out of body. He is involved but enjoys observing her spirit uplifted.

He is like a painter that paints himself as a small character in the scenes. So much humility.

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beginner
11-15-2009

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This song is a posthumous retrospective. The subject in this song has died and is literally floating away from the world.

When looking down, the world is just another arrangement of color and apparent activity; a game.

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GoodbyeBlue
01-08-2010

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To me, this song is a song from someone posthumously, telling people to enjoy their lives.

Morning = life/birth
Night = Death

"So look see the days
The endless coloured ways
Go play the game that you learnt
From the morning"

Basically telling someone to appreciate life and all it has, but he knows that life is just a repetitive game, which you learned to play when you were born

The next few lines, are almost like the dead rising - their energy still lives. I think the "she" he is referring to is nature, how she is everywhere, how death is a part of nature

Such a beautiful song



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lakevillain
02-23-2010

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i like the interpretations above. it also makes me think of mushrooms. not to sound like some drugged out loony who can only interpret things as drugs. i doubt thats what its about, just reminds me of it. some tribe -i forget which one- called them "little ones who spring forth" or something along those lines

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keithjones
03-26-2010

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Beautiful.

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Matt81
04-16-2010

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The whole album is a work of art in its flow, in fact all three of his albums are. Pink Moon (the album) is full of despair, pain, rejection, self loathing - partly I feel as a result of being around a place and people so far removed from nature (London).

To me, this song encapsulates the release of his soul from that cruel painful world to a place of peace. He's had enough, he's fallen from grace, he's accepted his fate - the album up to this point has confirmed that. Here he celebrates how beautiful life can be when you're at one with nature. And thenthrough death, we return to this very nature, to the true beauty intrinsic in the universe. The 'she' always makes me think of an unrequited love of his - but who no longer is an issue, her soul too is flying now and time has no meaning. But to the rest of us still here, he simply says, go and enjoy life, don't be too serious, love and abide with nature.

I felt this right to my inner core when I first listened to this album, this was the first song ever to bring me to tears. Keith Jones - that one word says it all and thank you for keeping his songs alive.

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apohronichin
12-11-2010

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Long weeks of careless joy, all day long. This is a feel good song in a way.

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ComfortZone
12-28-2010

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"go play the game that you learnt from the morning"

The song to me is about valuing the different levels of consciousness we can access with these human brains of ours, and nurturing balance in our perspective. Have moments where you know and sense the beauty of the world, but also, flourish in your human activity, even if it's not always cute and cuddly.

"Playing the game" has so many layers for me, and the game's not always "beautiful" as we think of the word. The rules of nature's game require we do certain things to survive as a species, and the rules of western culture mapped onto our community upbringings make us feel valued by scoring points in particular areas.

"The morning" is about nature and about the social imprinting we "learnt" growing up. I haven't been playing much of the game lately. Here, Nick is encouraging me to "rise" and compete, without being so worried about my (mostly delusional) negative impact on others, or about my (mostly delusional) perception of other's negative view of me.

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bowbow3
01-05-2011

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"the endless summer nights" Nick suffered from insomnia and many of his lyrics reflect this. I would like to think that he wrote this during one of these sleepless nights, but when he felt at one with the world and nature, also possibly remembering those that have moved on. A very beautiful song

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DoeADeer
02-20-2011

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Despite the widely accepted idea that this song is about life and death, and enjoying life while you can...

I dunno... I don't get the feeling of that from the song. I know in my mind that that's what it's about, but...
I have the image of me sitting on a porch of a house by a lake very early in the morning smiling and eating cereal with my pet greyhound sitting on the ground beside me or something... lol. I tend to put myself in the singer's place when I listen to songs, just like when I read books.

It just has an incredibly calming feel to me... there's just something about this song. It's one of the few songs I never get tired of. No real interpretation here... I just wanted to rant positively about it. :) lol

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ab0110
03-22-2011

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To me this song is just about appearciating life while your alive.

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2heartsbeatas1
06-06-2011

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i think Nick Drake's songs were generally all well in touch with Mother Earth, maybe because sometimes She is your only friend when you are so shy and lonely.

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HairyPalmJoe
10-15-2011

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A day once dawned, and it was beautiful
A day once dawned from the ground
Then the night she fell
And the air was beautiful
The night she fell all around.

So look see the days
The endless coloured ways
And go play the game that you learned
From the morning.

And now we rise
And we are everywhere
And now we rise from the ground
And see she flies
And she is everywhere
See she flies all around

So look see the sights
The endless summer nights
And go play the game that you learned
From the morning.


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I believe it's a song sung by the someone who is depressed. He's looking at life from an outsider's view and telling people to do their best to enjoy life before it is over.

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aventurine
01-12-2012

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I recently read an article where the author called the album Pink Moon "ghoulish and unlistenable." Evidently they never made it as far as this song, which, to me, is one of the most affirming songs Nick did. It's like a bittersweet love letter to those left behind.

I don't get that reaction from any of the songs on Pink Moon. Some of them are tougher than others - Parasite, Harvest Breed - but I just don't get the bleak and depressing mood, even from those two tracks, that some others do. It's spare, it's raw and evocative, but it isn't "ghoulish," and it's anything but "unlistenable." I could listen to it forever.

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difolk
01-30-2012

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I just wanted to add the precision that the album PINK MOON in which this song appears, sounds like quite dark and gloomy. Personally, I'm a huge huge fan of Nick Drake and despite the "depressed" side of some of his songs, and especially this album, it's such a beauty that I could listen to it in any mood and it would always make me feel good. But to come back at my comment of the album PINK MOON, it was made by a Nick Drake already corroded by depression at that time (And if you love him and his music, I hope you resist the temptation to turn his life into some dumb romantic tortured poet story, because, for having much studied his history, I know he was a funny and enthousiast but just shy guy. And he fell in this disease but it wasn't his innitial personnality) So he made the album Bryter Layter before this one, album which was very orchestrated and full of collaborations and of a myriad of instruments, contrarily to Pink Moon which contains just the sound of Drake's acoustic guitar and light voice (and a piano touch in the title-song). And he was disappointed by the fact that all the people he known called him a genius but that he hadn't a public recognition (And you can hear this bitterness very clearly in the lyrics of the song HANGING ON A STAR : "Why leave me hanging on a star, when you deem me so high - And why leave me sailing in the sea, when you hear me so clear"). He fell little by little in this depression, and decided to record Pink Moon alone with one sound ingineer, he made it in just two nights, and the result is an extraordinary album, nude, crude, disarming by its beauty out of frills, but very revealing of Drake's state of mind at that time, quite dark therefore. And listening to this album, with headphones to be isolated of all exterior noises, with eyes closed, is a unique experience. Because at the end, the last song you hear is FROM THE MORNING, and this song is so positive! After all an album of a beautiful darkness, you finish on this moving celebration of life, telling you that another day starts after this tormented night, all starts again with a beautiful morning, that everything is possible with the rise of the sun. It's at the opposite with the whole rest of the album, and it ends like that. I'm telling you, you can't arrive at the end of PINK MOON with your eyes dry. That's why this song has a particular saviour. And you need to know that FROM THE MORNING was his parents favourite song, proof that it has a positive reflect, and that's why they chose a quote of this song as epitaph on his gravestone "Now we rise, and we are everywhere".
I would end this comment, telling you that his mother has testified that he didn't want to be a star, but he felt that he had something to say to the people of his own generation, and he didn't feel that he did that. His sister has testified that he once said to their mother "If only I could feel that my music had ever done anything to help one single person, it would have make it worth it".... I can truly say that his music helped me!!

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