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David Sylvian – Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees (1986) | Track profile | Dork

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David Sylvian
Gone to Earth
Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees

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Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees

Release date: 13th September 1986

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"Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees" is a track by David Sylvian, from the album Gone to Earth, released 13th September 1986.

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From Gone to Earth

1986

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1986

—The Wooden Cross
—Gone to Earth (Remix)
—River Man (Remix)
—River Man
—Home
—Answered Prayers
—Camp Fire: Coyote Country
—Laughter & Forgetting
—Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
—Where The Railroad Meets The Sea
—Upon This Earth
—A Bird of Prey Vanishes Into a Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
—Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
—Before the Bullfight
—Taking the Veil
—Wave
—The Healing Place

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