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Trying to have a little conversation with you
It's like trying to speak to a bouncing ball
"You're a hard one to read" she says to me
You should try it from this side
Then your view wouldn't seem so hard at all
From over here the view looks foggier still
She flicks me a glance like she was taking aim
Makes me think maybe I should be ducking
Or, should I try my luck?
We could go out for a fffffff ..feed the ducks
It's a merry dance we lead each other
As we chance our arms on our hearts
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Flying Feet
04:40
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We capered flying feet
Round unsteady streets
Toes tapped the tears in time
Broken beat and rhyme
Non-sense being good sense
Around us between us
Talked down to us
Thirteen of us
We all see a direction
In simple tricks of reflection
Splintered glass polished brass
Split the route warp the task
Reflection
Deception
Imperfect
Perfection
Rescue me
Rescue me
Altered states evade hate's
Fingers scratching at our backs
At where it is at
Fly from that no not that
Wrapped in escape
Wrapped in escape
Rescue me
Rescue me
Rescue me
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Rain Hymn
04:04
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Come cleaning rain
Wash round the bend
Wash my sister
Clean my friend
Clean the husband
Wash the wife
Clean this city
Clean my life
Come cleaning rain
Wash through the door
Wash my body
Clean my soul
Clean the words
Wash the doubt
Clean the pavements
Wash it out
Come cleaning rain
Wash round the bend
Wash the parade
Of mice and men
Wash the blood off
The things we've hurt
Wash what's covered
Out of the dirt
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Weight of the Sea
06:03
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My father telling me
We lost a son to the sea
His eyes gone totally green
Lost him to the weight of the sea
Lost him
To the wait and see
Black spot in me and thee
Black as the heart of the smoking city
Black as the deep where the angler fish sees
Under miles of the weight of the sea
Hiding
Wait and see
On the still rock she sways
The light from her gaze
Showing the depth of the dark
And the two men who wait
For the storm to abate
Rocking within her arms
As the still waters swell
So we'll find ourselves in other worlds
Far higher, far deeper than our lungs will allow
We'll climb and we won't know if it's up or down
All the time the elements crashing around
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Jamie Flett Glasgow
Music maker from Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland, now living in Glasgow.
Since my first collection of skewed,
folkish blues songs: ‘Cold But Bright’ I’ve tried to resist the artificial limitations of defining myself as a ‘singer-songwriter’ (admittedly, while writing and singing songs.) This has resulted in attempts to investigate some remoter sonic territories.. As well as more songs.
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