"I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime....."
Big Country singer found dead of apparent suicide
Stuart Adamson 1958-2001
Associated Press
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
HONOLULU -- Stuart Adamson, lead singer and guitarist for the Scottish rock band Big Country, which had hits in the 1980s with "In a Big Country" and "Fields of Fire," was found dead in a hotel room of an apparent suicide, authorities said.
Adamson, 43, had been missing from his Nashville, Tenn., home since last month, Nashville police said Monday.
The body, found Sunday at the Plaza Hotel in Honolulu, was identified by fingerprints. An autopsy determined that the British-born musician's cause of death was asphyxia due to hanging, according to the Honolulu medical examiner's office.
Adamson's estranged wife, Melanie Shelley, reported the singer missing from his Nashville home Nov. 26. Nashville Detective Clinton Vogel said he suspected that marital troubles prompted his disappearance.
The group was nominated for two Grammys -- best new artist and best song -- in 1984.
In A Big Country
I never saw you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you
I never took the smile away from anybody's face
And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child
CHORUS:
In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime
CHORUS
So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
I always dug that tune. If my space weren't still shut down I'd post the MP3 |
