Stuart Adamson, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist

“I’ve never seen 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 /…I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert / But I can live and breathe / And see the sun in wintertime / In a big country dreams stay with you / Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside / Stay alive.” (“In a Big Country,” by Big Country, 1983)

April 11, 1958-Dec. 16, 2001