The Kinks - Preservation: Act 1 - Daylight video free download

Artist: The Kinks

Album: Preservation: Act 1

Released: 16 November 1973

Song: Daylight

Track-No: 03/13

The Album:

Preservation: Act 1 and Preservation: Act 2 are a 1973 concept released as separate albums in 1973 and 1974 by the English rock group, The Kinks.

The Preservation albums were not well-received by critics and sold poorly (the first one peaking on the Billboard 200 at #177), though the live performances of the material were much better received. Many hardcore Kinks fans were alienated by Ray Davies' melodramatic songwriting during the Preservation project era, resulting in albums that played more like the soundtracks to a piece of musical theatre than rock albums.

However, more recent reviews of Preservation: Act 1 have been more sympathetic to its ambitions. In particular, All Music's Stephen Thomas Erlewine has declared "Sweet Lady Genevieve" to be the "real candidate for Davies' forgotten masterpiece".

The CD reissue of Preservation: Act 1 includes the single versions of "Preservation" and "One of the Survivors", neither of which are available on the original vinyl release. The latter briefly charted on the Billboard Pop Singles chart peaking at #108.

Lyrics:

Daylight over the Village Green early in the morning.

Daylight over the hills and valleys heralding the morning.

Daylight over the mountains, daylight on the Village Green,

Daylight over the field and the factories.

Another night has gone away and here comes yet another day.

See the early morning risers walking round with bleary eyes.

Worn out housewives grit their teeth ignoring new born babies' cries.

Look at all the busy people this way, that way, everywhere

Biting toast and swallowing tea and breakfast specials on the air.

Feel that daylight.

Feel the sunlight on my pillow and it stops my yawing.

I thank God that I'm still around to see another dawn in.

Daylight over the valleys, daylight lighting up the trees,

Daylight over the hillside,

Smile a smile and sing a song, another night has been and gone.

Middle-aged bankers crack their backs and wish they were young and in their teens,

Lonely spinsters dream of dating Roger Moore or Steve McQueen.

Health fanatics in their attics training for the Empire Games,

School boys dream of Captain Scarlet, battle ships and aeroplanes.

Feel that daylight, Daylight.

Daylight on the Village Green,

Daylight,

Field and the valleys,

Daylight.