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Edinburgh

Tastes like instant coffee

Smells like brewing beer

Looks like a sleeping giant

What am I doing here?

I should be back in Alba

Where Lothian's heart beats fast

The kittiwake is crying

And I will, too, at last.

My mask is worthless as it does

Not hide me from myself

Being far from Scotland

Is not being myself.

Mist is lying in the Meadows

Snow's coming from the east

It's Sunday evening at the Tron

A mix of cheer and grieve

I wander up and down the closes

Looking for my smile

I must have lost it in Old Town

Nearby the Royal Mile.

The guy from Leith still sings the blues

His voice almost in pitch

He found my smile and gave it back

Making the very air itch

My room is coul, I sit alone

My flatmate mourns next door

I wish my lad could come around

To have someone to live for.

postcard from far away

i want to send you a song, regretting all my lies

i want to send you a card, explaining why i had to flee

shunning the word "love" was my game to protect myself

i wan't to - but i cannot word my feelings when i look into your eyes

send me a card, send me a card, from far away

i want to send you a seagull and her lonesome cry

i want to send you the swish of mussles deep from the sea

i want to tell you 'bout my strange dreams when you're far away

if i could tell you how i?m missing you, how i wish you could be with me

i want to send you an island ? over sea under wind

i want to send you the sea her salty waves and her spring

i want to send you the herbal scent of pines in the eve

i want to send you the smooth feeling of white stone underneath my feet

but i can't so i send you a card to tell that i love you

deep in my heart and that i long to be in your arms again

and gently kiss you bye my love

still smiling

when i'm sad and i feel forsaken

i hide in my dark rooms

filled with gloomy music

soon a friendly hand is approaching

to stroke my pain away

to cheer (to cheer) me up again

she knows when words are not fitting

and waits for me to talk

a shoulder to lean on

we share day's hardships and laughter

and you know

that i can only try

to give (to give) a little back

and without my friends

i couldn't stand here

and sing my song

they keep me going on

they make me feeling strong

there's a clown inside me

who's laughing

even in the darkest night

he keeps his smile

and this clown is fed

with visions

and a good word from friends

keeps him alive

yes without that clown

i couldn't stand here

and sing my song

he keeps me going on

he makes me feeling strong

without that clown

i couldn't stand here

and sing my song

he keeps me going on

he makes me feeling strong

at last

Be free

be free - she said - be free

for i mustn't love you

be free - she said - be free

you know you have to go

go away - she said - go away

it's hard but i have to

push away - she said - push away

your arms embracing me

autumn wind, carry my thoughts to a place where they're free.

look away - she said - look away

it will be even harder

if you look this way if you look

at me with lover's eyes

run away - she said - run away

my kinsmen will hunt you

if they found you here if they found you

i?d have to see you die

autumn wind, carry my thoughts to a place where they're free.

come close - he said - come close

my dear and believe me

our love is strong our love

will help us find our luck

let's go - she said - let's go

leave hatred behind us

i'll go with you i'll go

wherever you may go

autumn wind, carry my thoughts to a place where they're free.

autumn wind, carries my thoughts to a place where they're free.

Miss J Hunter Dunn (A Subaltern?s Love-song)

text by John Betjeman

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,

Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,

What strenuous singles we played after tea,

We in the tournament - you against me!

Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy,

The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy,

With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won,

I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.

Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn,

How mad I am, sad I am, glad that you won.

The warm-handled racket is back in its press,

But my shock-headed victor, she loves me no less.

The Hillman is waiting, the light's in the hall,

The pictures of Egypt are bright on the wall,

My sweet, I am standing beside the oak stair

And there on the landing's the light on your hair.

Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn,

I can hear from the car-park the dance has begun.

Oh! full Surrey twilight! improtunate band!

Oh! strongly adoreable tennis-girl's hand!

And the scent of her wrap, and the words never said,

And the ominous, ominous dancing ahead.

We sat in the car park till twenty to one

And now I?m engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn

Music

Music with you `s like gentle love

So relaxing for the soul and inspiring for the mind

Tough I know it's tough to reach the point where it gets that easy.

I've spent hours and days and weeks and month

To make my fingers grip theses cords

But now I know that it was worthwhile when I see you bring our songs alive.

And there's nobody there - nobody there

Nobody there - nobody there

Who can do it like you do.

There's nobody there - nobody there

Nobody there - nobody there

Who can do it your way.

Sometimes I feel like givin' up

And my fingers hurt due to daily practise

When I see you on that stage and feel deep inside that I'll never make it - there

He sucks the marron out of me

By boosting with his modesty

If being "famous" means to become like that then I'd rather forget - about it

There's nobody there to make music with

Nobody but you

There's nobody to make music for

Nobody but you

Hypocrisy

You wake up early and walk to Mess

Crawling on your knees you confess

That you're a sinner - only priests are saints

Do you really think anyone cares about your wails?

Church is flawless - nice invention

Especially for those who lack comprehension

If there's a god and he could see

He'd have to scream out in agony.

Cranky minds set sole on salvation

Your only friends are part of the sect

Open your eyes and see what the world's like

Cut the chains tangling your heart.

Incense junkies high on religion

They can't see the contradiction

Of preaching peace and making war

I can't believe how stupid they are

Hackneyed phrases, "yes" and "amen"

Every Sunday on and on

Wheedling the key out of heaven

But it certainly won't fit the lock

They want to practise charity

But that's just the outer shell you see

They're ruthless if you've once said "yes"

Extortion with your consciousness

Life according to the Popes comments

They pretend to be your friends

But friends accept your flaws as well

Don't try to make you fit - Give them hell!

Ever

If you came and you rescued me

You'd be my knight

On a shiny white steed

If you came and you rescued me

you'd have to get down to your feet

If I ever fall in love

Will you help me not to faint

When my head hits the stony ground

Everything I'm dreaming of

Is fading away - fading away

Will you be there when I cry

With a comforting smile

And the patience to hear me wail

Everything I'm dreaming of

Is melting away - melting away

I have seen it all before

All love is lost when the

Cruel sting of anger rules

Everything I was dreaming of

flowded away - flowded away

Will you let me hold your hand

When you need me

Like I needed you - so many times

Everything I can give to you

I'll gladly share - I'll gladly share

Nothing's lost

I have to think of you, all the time

I wish you were mine

But reality is different

I will never reach you

I grew up and learned to love

I look in the mirror and the sky above

I saw people and a few saw me, too

There's nobody in my mind but you

I learned to live but when I saw you

I knew that I had much more to learn

You bring joy into my life

You are the reason I have to grin all the time

But you don't know me. You don't notice me

You don't know I exist

You see my face and thousand other faces

And you can't remember

And I know this is reality

You will never see me

But I see you - always in my mind

And it really makes me blind

Don't Call me Baby

Baby if we don't know each other

Baby if we don't know ourselves

I think if we knew the right place and the time

I'm sure that you would be mine

Baby, oh baby, oh baby, just hold me tight

Baby, oh baby, oh baby, please stay.

Baby if you don't know my name

And if I don't see your face

I think if we did the right thing in this time

I'm sure that you would be mine.

Convalescent ?

she was bereaved

her family had crossed the line and gone to the shadows

she hid in her garden

surrounded by nature

away from people

even away from music

he couldn't see her like that

he took his flute and played a tune for her

but he couldn't reach her

so he took the flute an gave it to her

from now on he sent her a tune every day

imitating the sounds of nature

intending to bring her back

she played his tunes of

water

frog

bumble bee

and magpie

became natural again

then she took her new-grown wings and flew away

away from her garden

away from her sadness

away from him

and as he didn't want to put her in a cage

he let her fly

her sadness being part of him

for good

untitled (due to of a lack of genious)

clumsyness declares me a fool

perhaps my expectations are too high

but seeing others succeed in all ways

makes me hate my stupidity

and i hit the wall of ignorance

why can't my stout hands do

what my brain already knows

some people say trying does the trick

i've tried indeed - did not succeed -

and progress - nowhere in sight

Nomore

the day we met

you started punishing me

`cause i wasn't like you are

i was a little fat and lacked

the courage to push away your harms

NOMORE i am the little girl

who's afraid to face the world

if you don't like my face or dress

i do not care at all

so piss off

i tell you piss off

i don't wanna see your face nomore

piss off go out of the way

i didn't offend

for i didn't know you

and i was a little shy

if i had i would have known

you need this to feel strong

everything and everybody changes

but you just stayed the same

and today even your old "friends"

say you are a shame