{"id":7567,"date":"2025-07-09T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:16:40","slug":"watching-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7567","title":{"rendered":"Watching The River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watching The River\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qnqBJ96s0Gg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/rickwesthorpe\/watching-the-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/group.jpg\" alt=\"Buy \/ Stream\" class=\"wp-image-7591\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Song (sort of). Well &#8211; the lyrics are new, and the music is heavily reworked, although the bones of this were originally part of a theatre project at Dartington back in the early 80s. It&#8217;s another &#8216;rain&#8217; song &#8211; an echo of the lush wet environment in which I live in West Wales. I have been working with Phil Stanton, my saxophone-playing friend and neighbour, which has affected more than just instrumental solos, changing my approach to constructing the whole song in very good ways, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think you saw me as I turned to the light<br>You were shining like the morning star<br>You were so bright<br>I think it must have been you<br>Could only be<br>Felt like something touched the truth<br>Touched the heart of me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching the river flow<br>We were watching the rain come down<br>Watching the river flow<br>We were watching the rain come down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you asked me the reason why<br>I couldn&#8217;t give an answer<br>Wouldn&#8217;t care to try<br>For if you ask me, at the end of the day<br>We&#8217;re better for the mystery<br>Let&#8217;s leave it that way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it only you and I?<br>Is it only you and I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A drop of rain on a leaf on a tree<br>Falls into the river and is lost to me<br>The river&#8217;s waters<br>They run fast, they run slow<br>But in the end there is the sea<br>And that&#8217;s all I know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the sea becomes the rain<br>And the sea becomes the rain<br>And the sea becomes the rain<br>And the sea becomes the rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching the river flow<br>We were watching the rain come down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Song (sort of). Well &#8211; the lyrics are new, and the music is heavily reworked, although the bones of this were originally part of a theatre project at Dartington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}