A unique track featuring some impressive guitar work, soaring vocals and pondering lyrics.
"Cloud Show", is a very SPIRITUAL song inspired one day in 1968, when I climbed the hill behind my farm in Kansas and sat on a "writing bench" that I would climb to, sit on it, write songs and play guitar. This was a special place where I would embrace the open sky and the broad "open prairie" below me from the ridge at the top of the hill. It is where I went to “watch my thoughts” and "observe my awareness watching my thoughts". I used to try to explain this to people and they would give me a funny look. Still, in my mind, this was and is an ethereal place that I still go to when I want to be embraced by an inspiring place when I meditate. The aspect of consciousness that this song explores is the "Two-light Consciousness". We all partake in “One Light” consciousness, and experience it, when we just sit and watch our minds "chatter on" with our non-stop internal dialogue that interferes with the internal "peace" we seek. The SECOND light, is the AWARENESS we can embrace when we just sit back WITNESSING this Internal dialogue and gently silence the chattering, so that a sense of calm and peace takes over our mindset and we find ourselves cradled in the Eternal Quietness that can heal us, and helps us to just "BE" and breathe. In other words, the “Two Light" helps us observe ourselves us as pure awareness of the moment. As we push the internal dialogue away, the words become like CLOUDS that dissolve and disappear leaving an inspiring, QUIET blue sky above. Eyes wide open, but inside I experience pure silence. Ahhh. This is why I love the Open Prairies … They don’t take me AWAY, they take me INSIDE myself and help me to “BE”. Oddly enough, people used to wonder what this song was about, but, in the last 2 months, interest in the song has slowly increased. People are starting to “get it”. So, I hope you enjoy it and be sure to read the lyrics. I wrote this song back in 1968 when I was 19. And please share this song. It is meant to be shared: https://chetnichols.net/single-cloud-show-solo
“Cloud Show”
Music and Lyrics by Chester (Chet) Nichols, Jr (ASCAP)
Re-mix was arranged, produced, remixed, mastered, vocals and all instrumentation by Chester Nichols, Jr.
Original track was recorded and produced by Stepehen Quinn Barncard at Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco, CA
Copyrights 1968/1972/2019/2021/2026 by Chester Nichols, Jr (ASCAP) & Magic Garage Music : Publisher (ASCAP)
URL: http://www.chetnichols.net
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Guitar Tuning
1 2 3 4 5 6
B B B D B G
VERSE 1.
We may have talked
We may have thought
We may have dreamed together
Yet, as I sit here right now
It really means nothing
Crossing the days off of the calendar
Watch them peacefully march on
In the crisscross march of today
In a parade of constant time
CHORUS
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show go by
VERSE 2.
For me there is only the thought
Of your touch and its warmth
To keep me till time
Takes my hand leads me and then we kiss
To be free to fear is life
To be free to exist is being
To be free to wonder is liberty
To be free to love is essence
CHORUS - Repeat
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show go by
MUSICAL BREAK
VERSE 3.
The art of forming fantasy
Has been woken from its bed
It may be here to give us a human truth
Yet, destruction may kill it instead
Won’t you stop and wallow in a dream
Share the natural high of love
You come with sincere wishes
And leave me with a happiness
CHORUS - Repeat
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show
And here I sit upon the hill
And watch the cloud show go by
And we will drink morning dew
Forever and ever
And gaze at your moon
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