song - High and Dry
We started sometime yesterday
shooting arrows in the sea
counting stars and making hay
Taming truth and electricity.
The days went fast the nights went slow
The future came for us too soon
You threw your cat a butcher’s bone
And killed an Adder with a spoon
You turned the lights off on our street,
smashed the gates and left for Rio,
And I went paddling in the deeps
Of no-one else but Mary oh
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There was no-one else but Mary
But there were hills we had to climb
Our dreams soon put us to the sword
And impatience stole our time
And off we soared on wings of myth
Without fear and without shame
Sure that we were first to sing
Songs of love and truth that made us slaves
We rushed into the ancient dance
bewitched by dreams, by history,
and If there was a fleeting chance,
it stole beyond us silently
like clouds that slip in on the dusk.
Falling rain upon the river
Or Albatross as safe and lost
as geese within the endless skein.
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There was no-one else but Mary
But there were hills we had to climb
Our dreams soon put us to the sword
And temptation stole our time
You might have felt time pass you by
Like a question on the wind.
Beating wings in life’s disguise,
But the words no longer seem to fit.
And eyes and ears won’t let us know
The secrets driving destiny
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poem by Jim Hogg
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