Nether Lands

This is the title track on Dan Fogelberg's album "Nether Lands" - This is the 2nd album of Dan's that I bought - I have this CD
I have shown all of you a picture of me wearing a "Nether Lands" cap and shirt
On Friday November 4,1977 (My first of many of Dan's concerts I attended) - I saw Dan Fogelberg and his band on the "Nether Lands" tour at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona
I was home on leave from the United States Navy-5 days prior to this, I was in San Diego, California where I had just completed 8 weeks of boot camp
This song was one of many that he and the band performed there
The album title is a play on Nederland, Colorado, the location of one of the studios used to record the album
Dan Fogelberg – vocals, electric and acoustic pianos, ARP synthesizer, electric and acoustic guitars, orchestral arrangement
Al Perkins – dobro, pedal steel guitar
Dominic Frontiere – orchestral arrangements and conductor
Produced by Dan Fogelberg and Norbert Putnam
Engineer – John Stronach
Mix-down Engineer – Marty Lewis
Assistant Engineers – Jeff Guercio, Mark Guercio, John Henning, Marty Lewis, Bruce Hensal and Gary Landinsky
Recorded at:
Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California
Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Record Plant, Sausalito, California
North Star Studios, Boulder, Colorado
Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee
Photography by Andy Katz, Boulder, Colorado
Design by John Kosh
Interior painting by Dan Fogelberg

High on this mountain the clouds down below
I'm feeling so strong and alive
From this rocky perch I'll continue to search
For the wind and the snow and the sky

Oh I want a lover and I want some friends
And I want to live in the sun
And I want to do all the things that I never have done

Sunny bright mornings and pale moonlit nights
Keep me from feeling alone
Now I'm learning to fly and this freedom is like
Nothing that I've ever known

Oh I've seen the bottom and I've been on top
But mostly I've lived in between
And where do you go when you get to the end of your dream

Off in the Nether Lands I heard the sound
Like the beating of heavenly wings
And deep in my brain I can hear a refrain
Of my soul as she rises and sings

Anthems to glory and anthems to love
And hymns filled with earthly delight
Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light

Once in a vision I came on some woods
And stood at a fork in the road
My choices were clear yet I froze with the fear
Of not knowing which way to go

Oh, one road was simple acceptance of life
The other road offered sweet peace
When I made my decision
My vision became my release

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~