FLEETWOOD MAC - SANDS OF TIME

SANDS OF TIME

FLEETWOOD MAC

SONGWRITER: KIRWAN DANIEL DAVID

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: FUTURE GAMES

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1971

Future Games is the fifth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 3 September 1971. It was recorded in the summer of 1971 at Advision Studios in London and was the first album to feature Christine McVie as a full member. This album was also the first of five albums to feature American guitarist Bob Welch. “He was totally different background – R&B, sort of jazzy. He brought his personality,” Mick Fleetwood said of Welch in a 1995 BBC interview. “He was a member of Fleetwood Mac before we’d even played a note.”

Without the 1950s leanings of departed guitarist Jeremy Spencer, the band moved further away from blues and closer to the melodic pop sound that would finally break them into America four years later. After the band completed the album and turned it in, the record label said that it would not release an album with only seven songs, and demanded that they record an eighth. "What a Shame" was recorded hastily as a jam to fulfill this request.

The magic of a blackened night

Can go so far, but not seem right

Although my love, will drive away the sunshine

The magic of, a blackened night

And before you go show me

All the words of love

And the falling sands of time

Blow my wind and drifted by

To and fro the trees still bend

Wondering what the host will send

We will go right down to the sea

Bathing in light we will be free to wander

And the falling sands of time

Blow my wind and drifted by

To and fro the trees still bend

Wondering what the host will send

We will go right down to the sea

Bathing in light we will be free to wander

And the falling sands of time

Blow my wind and drifted by

To and fro the trees still bend

Wondering what the host will send

We will go right down to the sea

Bathing in light we will be free to wander

The magic of a blackened night

Can go so far, but not seem right

Although my love, will drive away the sunshine

The magic of, a blackened night.