MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCENE [alternate version, previously unreleased]

from OUT OF THY STAR by The Ophelias

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Track: 1
Title: MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCENE [alternate version, previously unreleased]
Authorship: Marc Bolan [John’s Children, 1967]
Publishing: Copyright Control
Recording date: February 1988
Recording place: Emeryville Recording Company, Emeryville, CA
Recording engineers: Randall Rood & David Immerglück – 16 track
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 02:38
First appeared on Out of Thy Star, Bandcamp
Released 23 November 2020 [streaming only]

Leslie Medford : vocals, electric guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

Particulars: This version ends completely differently from that released on Oriental Head [1988 LP], and it is shorter. Also, this mix was considered to slightly accentuate the treble frequencies, but this difference is very subtle.

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MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCENE

Petals and flowers...
In the park, getting dark, eating the heat.
There’s an eye in the sky, melting your feet.
You see a chick who starts to nick the petals and flowers.
She starts to joke and then provoke the Dance of the Hours.
It’s all down to a midsummer night’s scene.
It’s all down to a Shakespearean dream...

In her face there’s a place disfigured with love.
Her hands are white like the night encased in a glove.
She starts to swing and watches you nick/eunuch petals and flowers.
She starts to joke and then evokes the Dance of the Hours.
It’s all down to a midsummer night’s scene.
It’s all down to a Shakespearean dream...

Petals and flowers...
In the park, getting dark, eating the heat.
There’s an eye in the sky, melting your feet.
You see a chick who starts to nick the petals and flowers.
She starts to joke and then provoke the Dance of the Hours.
It’s all down to a midsummer night’s scene.
It’s all down to a Shakespearean dream...

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from OUT OF THY STAR, released November 23, 2020

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