White Summer
Listening to White Summer, this song is just meant to be sung by Keith St John. His classic-oriental-rock-kind of melodies make the song just perfect. The Kingdom Come / Led Zep feel is drippin' all over the place. It's hard to imagine that Keith would not have been on the song, if everything had happened as planned. Since Keith was working on some other songs in the middle of 2019, I approached other singers to do White Summer. It took quite a while to find out it did not work out as I had hoped for, so in October 2019 I more or less begged Keith to do White Summer, after he had finished his other tracks for me.
The basics of White Summer were written during my 2018 summer holiday in Portugal, which was just a very creative period, working everyday on the porch of my apartment by the beach. 'From your mouth' comes from the same sessions, just like some tracks that will see the light of day in the future on a next album or so.
Initially the progress was pretty good, with Stéphan Forté doing the guitar solo's early 2019, emphasizing the oriental feel of the song in a great way. This was the last song of the album that was was finished in November 2020. To me this is one of the better tracks of the album!
Keith wrote the lyrics of 'White Summer', and it is about a boys realizations of his inner metamorphosis as manhood awakens factions of himself through his discovery of his fated bond with woman. At the core of all the fire between man and woman (which is seemingly ritualized through "satan's" song)... lies the ultimate peace and the ultimate light.....the "White Summer"
WHITE SUMMER
Ancient maiden shakes the sky
Fires tremblin' in my heart
Satan’s angels fill her eyes
As she sheds my seeds of love
Sweet love is raining and you’re the animal in me
And baby I’m in your Blood
Naked under summer stars
As we pray to higher Gods
Serpent blinds me in the dark
Fever shakes my bones so hard
Flames unlock my silent words
When she takes the sacred ring
Her painted eyes they shake the mountains
Oh I wanna give her everything
Sweet love is raining and you’re the Animal in me
Sweet sugar I’m in your blood
And the lightning shakes
White glitter fills my eyes
I can feel the thunder shake and hear the angels cry
White Summer so alive
Baby you stole my eyes
Guitar solo: Stéphan Forté
Timeless maiden’s siren song
Spells my fate and never fades
Push the night and winters gone
I feel my achin' senses call her name
White summer’s pourin' like the rain
Oh I feel it rainin' rainin' rainin'
You’ll always be the Animal in me
Yeah sweet love is flowin' like the sea
Guitar solo: Stéphan Forté
I’m in your Blood, I’m in your Blood
White glitter white rain
It’s a White Summer again
Music: Ron Coolen
Lyrics: Keith St John
Vocals: Keith St John
Guitar Solo's: Stéphan Forté
Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards: Ron Coolen