Not An Usual Day

Monika Maid Ingolstadt, Germany

My name is Monika Maid and I am born in Neuburg/Donau in Germany Bavaria. Around 1984, when I studied Social Work in Munich, I got in touch with one of the first albums from Chris de Burgh and bought me a box-set one year later. During the years listening to his voice and melodies and the wonderful old tales and stories a dream was growing inside of me, that I would like to see him one day. This dream came true on his Road to Freedom Tour, where he gave a concert in my town. I was fascinated from his new songs and began to search for more concerts of him until I found him in Saalem again on this tour. After I had spend so much time with his music, now getting more and more songs of him on CDs, which he had created during the years when I could not find him in person, it happened, that I began to sit down with my simple concert-guitar and words were comming into my mind, which gave a song. So the idea to create something like music out of the audience was born, something like a musical answer to him and all his wonderful lyrics, which had filled so many evenings of my life with joy. The second song "Not an usual day" is the situation of this young woman around one year later in the same town, where he is comming to be part of a concert-night together with other musicians. Over the year she was often sitting in an old taverne near by a castle and dreaming from his song "Songbird". She got contact to his website and when there is thunder and lightning in the sky she is sent back home from the taverne to save the files which are comming in, hoping one day there will be an e-mail from Chris inside of her computer to see. "Not An Usual Day" did not appear on the tribute CD. But you can download the track when you right-click and "save as" here as a bonus track. Lyrics: It was not an usual day in this town When we met us there again Remembering music there Of all the years before We've heard in the rain; When my heart was beating fast From all that nights These endless waiting nights And the streets were filled with cars To stay by your side And to dance in the night. We are only just a minute in this universe Like a butterfly Dancing in the sky; It was not an usual day in this town I should meet you there again Remembering your voice and words Of all the years before We were wandering in the rain, When my heart was beating fast From all the nights That endless living nights And my dreams came >from the past I will need you there tonight Until the morning light; We are only just a minute In this universe Like a butterfly Dancing in the sky; It was not an usual day in my town, When I was dreaming from a song Near by the castlewalls was a taverne Where I found dinner in the moon, And in the darkness of the night I was sent away To save some things today And the sky was filled with light Flashes all around In this wonderful ground; We are only just a minute In this universe Like a butterfly Dancing in the sky;