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Black Curtains
02:24
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Black curtains frame my lonely nights
Like rain out through the streetlights
The pavement calls to the hooded man
But no pennies come to greet him, no
Mirror on the wall
Don’t you care at all
I guess no, is that so
Those curtains keep me awake at night
Staring into the bedroom
No grace to make me a better girl
No moral compass to guide me, no
Mirror on the wall
Don’t I care at all
I guess no, but who’d know
Back to silence and broken sounds
No one’s round to see me, no
The man outside lost to the ground
So whose careless hands will feed him now
Mirror on the wall
Don’t we care at all
I hope so, I hope so.
Alice Mary Williamson 2014
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2. |
Goodbye, goodbye
04:11
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When it’s time to go
I feel low, hiding from you
Won’t you look at my eyes
Try, try to prise me from the door
So slowly – you’ve never shown me
What I hope to mean to you
So I’ve gone – seems you’ll never call me
Back inside
Maybe it’s time to leave it, I’m tired to see it
That indifferent glaze to your eyes again
I’ll not endure it, no longer do you fit
This simple little life’s tale
Maybe, when I’ve found my baby
That’s when you’ll come running by
But darling, that’s too late for me
So goodbye, goodbye
(instrumental)
Lately, things have been shaky
But I was too tired to break from you
But now I’m done
So I can rest my mind
Please be gone when I open my eyes
So goodbye, goodbye
(Alice Mary Williamson 2015)
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3. |
She left for the Sea
03:07
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The girl at the piano
Has left for the sea
Her dreams have gone sallow
So she's setting them free
Her love lost his eyes for her
For he could not see
That her heart was a swallow
Adrift on the breeze
*
She asked him to wait for her
Polite as can be
But he wanted her now
And he wouldn’t hear no
So she’d no more to tell him
And didn’t quite care
For her life had expanded
Right out into the air
(Instrumental)
The piano sits empty
With no one to breathe
Their thoughts or their pain
Into sweet melody
(Alice Mary Williamson 2015)
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4. |
Just If I / Justify
04:47
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Stuck in a room
In your head in the gloom
Take me away to another day
Whiling your time
With no one and wine
How did it come to be this way
Don’t try
To justify why
Just cut your spinning and go and fly
Up to the heights
Of tomorrow’s lights
On those battered old wings of yesterday
(extended instrumental)
A broken old chair
Catches hold of your year
As the days slide off into the drizzling rain
And we no longer feel
As the world falls to war
And a children’s army are walking bare
Yet here we sitting
And thinking of I
Yes what about me, what – what will I be
Whilst a hundred million
Drying eyes die
How did it come to be this way
(Alice Mary Williamson 2013/2016)
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