Scottish new wave/rock legends Simple Minds have unleashed the video for their latest single “Solstice Kiss“.
The song features on their eighteenth studio album ‘Direction of the Heart‘, released in October last year. Grab it here if you haven’t already.
“Occasionally a song emerges where you try to evoke both the spirit of the times and the surrounding landscape that brought it into being. Solstice Kiss is one of those songs.” – Jim Kerr
With Celtic textures underpinning its widescreen melodrama and Sarah Brown’s infernal vocals, ‘Solstice Kiss’ is a standout moment, a firm fan favourite and the fourth and final single to be released from the acclaimed album that reached number 4 in the official album charts. It was written by the band’s Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Ged Grimes.
Watch the video below, made in collaboration with The Macallan.
Simple Minds “Solstice Kiss” Lyrics:
This spirit shuts its eyes, unhindered by anything alive or dead
This spirit slips inside and moves through time
A journey that’s inside it’s head
No explanation, there’s no words that chime up above this cold abyss
Or did I dream, or did I dream you spoke to me?
You woke me with a solstice kiss, You woke me up
You woke me with a solstice kiss
Or did I dream, or did I dream you spoke to me?
You woke me with a solstice kiss
The mirror of your eye, reflecting eye, cannot turn away this rage
I see you drift through the realm of darkness into light, there’s no other way
No explanation, there’s no higher station, nothing will last
You spoke to me, you woke me up
You woke me with a solstice kiss
Did I dream or did I dream that my whole world would turn to bliss?
Or did I dream, or did I dream you spoke to me?
You woke me up in the worst place
Did I dream you spoke to me?
You woke me with a solstice kiss (x2)
Did I dream or did I dream you spoke to me?
You woke me with a solstice kiss
Did I dream or did I dream that my whole world
It turned to bliss (solstice kiss)
