Deep Purple Lyrics

Album: Deep Purple

April Lyrics

(Blackmore/Lord)

A sort of 3 part of concert about the month of april. The first section is played by just Jon and Ritchie. Jon played piano and organ, and Ritchie played acoustic guitar (a rhythm pattern and a double tracked lead pattern) and electric guitar. The choir was added afterwards. The whole section used about 11 different tracks. Also Ian on timpani can be heard in the background. The second section is Jon's orchestral description of April. The instruments used were : two flutes, two oboes, cor anglais, two clarinets, two violins, viola and two cellos. The third section is a treatment of the chord sequence of the first section in a more "Purple" way. As a whole, we hope April hangs together as personal evocation of a beautiful, but sad (to us) month.

April is a cruel time

Even though the sun may shine

And world looks in the shade as it slowly comes away

Still falls the April rain

And the valley's filled with pain

And you can't tell me quite why

As i look up to the grey sky

Where it should be blue

Grey sky where I should see you

Ask why, why it should be so

I'll cry, say that I don't know

Maybe once in a while I'll forget and I'll smile

But then the feeling comes again of an April without end

Of an April lonely as they come

In the dark of my mind I can see all too fine

But there is nothing to be done when I just can't feel the sun

And the springtime's the season of the night

Grey sky where it should be blue

Grey sky where I should see you

Ask why, why it should be so

I'll cry, say that I don't know

I don't know