This is our new Loudhailer song, ‘Three Hundred Kinds of Blue’. The poetic ‘300 kinds of blue’ are the blue gosu porcelain glazes made in Japan. The song reflects me and Rich heading down the road of life together. It is illustrated in the video by Hiroshige’s ‘Fifty Three Stages of the Tōkaidō’ woodblock prints. The images are my photos of the prints in our son Dexter’s collection. They depict the 300 mile journey down the road from Edo to Kyoto, the changing seasons and dramatic weather. Down the road we go …
Written, recorded and video by Lou Duffy-Howard
Three Hundred Kinds of Blue
Down the road we go
Down the road we two
Down the road, down the road
Three hundred kinds of blue
How we love and how we share
Tie the ribbons through my hair
In winter’s hard and frosty night
Our breath is icy, harsh and white
Waves rise and curl in a storm filled sky
Sapphire, deep and true
Look over where the red sun sets
Three hundred kinds of blue
Down the road we go
Down the road we two
Down the road, down the road
Three hundred kinds of blue
Down the road down the road
Down the road we two
Down the road we go
Three hundred kinds of blue
The light at dawn, a jaybird cries
Forget me not and cirrus high
On summer fields, celestial skies
Our seasons cycle round and fly
Look into me, and I to you
Marine serene and new
Our aura in the deepest night
Three hundred kinds of blue
Down the road we go …
From caverns wide and mountains tall
Flies and berries dark and small
To moonstone mermaid on the shore
Prussian, Cobalt, Sky, Azure
This spinning planet Vista Steel
Our Alice moon shines through
To light us in the deepest night
Ten thousand miles of blue
Down the road we go …
Down the road we go
Three hundred kinds of blue
But without you – without you
There’s only one – one kind of blue
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