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Lowland Love
04:42
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The Suffolk dawn is hiding low
Beneath the winter wind
She hears the sea roar and moan
The halyards clattering
Time and tide come and go
Home is just a word
Careworn, airborne
A flock of raucous birds
Pulls away as a ghost patrol
Love is hard to find in troubled times
One last step to the shoreline
Lowland love is cold and hard and blind
Lowland love, lowland love
Every day is just the same
To the gun-grey swell
Hissing stones wax and wane
Tears on broken shells
Time and tide come and go
Hope drifts just like the sand
Planes glide, eagle-eyed
The lookouts at Kessingland
Fall away with the undertow
Love is so hard to find in troubled times
One last step to the shoreline
Lowland love is cold and hard and blind
Lowland love, lowland love
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2. |
Take A Rest At My Door
03:48
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Take a rest and surrender
Take a rest if your heart is poor
Though times be weary
Take a rest at my door
Take a rest, befriended
Take a rest if your spirit’s torn
Though times be testing
Take a rest at my door
Come away from your searching
Up from the darkland moor
Come away, be still now
Come close in the storm
Take a rest, be mended
Take a rest let the sun restore
Faith in these times uncertain
Take a rest at my door
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Lemon
05:35
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Sunrise as we wake
Low light on a lemon lake
A flicker on our wall
I see your breath rise and fall
But it’s a working day
I’m in my overcoat
Grab a coffee at the train
It’s my screenplay
A kaleidoscope
While we’re waiting for the weather vane
The weather vane
We will bathe in running water
We are ripples in the stream
We are starlight’s sons and daughters
And forever we will dream
Dream a lemon dream
Blue sky on an orange dawn
Bluebells blooming on a camomile lawn
Pyjamas in a heap tossed aside
I feel your pulse rush and rise
We’re on our way
Leave the city smoke
A bag in the back for overnight
It’s our hideaway
In my horoscope
Everything we do will turn out right
It’ll turn out right
We will bathe in running water
We are ripples in the stream
We are starlight’s sons and daughters
And forever we will dream
Dream a lemon dream
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4. |
Deep Water
03:50
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There’s a ghost out on the ocean
There’s a pillow on the floor
A lilac tear, a lipstick smear
A letter in a drawer
There are sheets of rain still falling
There’s a last October light
A bed of nails where hearts have failed
And never said good night
Roll away, roll away
From the sullen gloom of a forgotten room
That won’t let in the day
And you can’t keep deep water
You can’t keep deep water
You can’t keep deep water down
There’s a train runs through the heartlands
The smoke lingers in the sky
There’s shadow space where a soft embrace
Should have held a life
But the tales were misbegotten
And the stories got underhand
Love laughed and went, turned to contempt
Over the wet marshlands
Roll away, roll away
There’s a grudging kiss of an autumn mist
That might let in the day
‘Cos you can’t keep deep water
You can’t keep deep water
You can’t keep deep water down
The fields are ripe for harvest
Mirrored in a rainbow’s arc
The dogs lie still by the windowsill
I’ll walk them before it’s dark
And I will play my songs tonight
To friends of these northern lands
I just hope that boy was never spoiled
And somehow become a man
Roll away, roll away
Turn the stone, the undertones
Always let in the day
And you can’t keep deep water
No can’t keep deep water
You can’t keep deep water down
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Katie and Kitty were out for the night
A bottle of Bruichladdie, the amber daddy, as I pondered our affairs
Musta been kinda late when I turned out the light
I heard them rolling in and falling up the stairs
It’s alright
I can take it or leave it – maybe it’s both
It’s alright
I’m a cool cat, (he’s a snake) I'm a sloth
In the undergrowth
Katie and Kitty were out for the count
Breathing long and slow, submarine audio, the sleep of the just
I turned to go, discretion paramount
A man’s got to do exactly as he must
It’s alright
I can take it or leave it – sometimes it’s both
It’s alright
I’m a cool cat, (he’s a snake) I'm a sloth
In the undergrowth
Katie and Kitty out in their Sunday best
Pink polka dot bikinis, champagne and blinis in the sun on the beach
Ooh was last night yet another test?
Did I pass or fail? Is heaven out of reach?
It’s alright
I can take it or leave it – always it’s both
It’s alright
I’m a cool cat, (he’s a snake) I'm a sloth
In the undergrowth
Keep that meter running, keep that engine revved
You can see what’s coming and what you have left
In the undergrowth
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6. |
I Love Paris In July
04:12
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Wide awake in the hotel night
No let up from the heat
Drifting through my pillow dreams
The drum of time barely beats
The city starts to rise
Hours till you arrive
Mona Lisa, a market, Metro lines
I wonder why
I love Paris in July
The heavy scent of summer lime
Lazy tennis in the park
The bell strikes twelve and in perfect time
Your blue eyes make their mark
A drink in Freddy’s bar
You here on my arm
Blossom, boulevards and butterflies
I wonder why
I love Paris in July
Night time by the Seine
The moon a golden madeleine
Bridges, riverboats and Bordeaux wine
I wonder why
I love Paris in July
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7. |
Time To Fall
04:16
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The evening’s close and we drink our beer
London laid out below
Is it imagination, do you draw near?
A moment I’ve always known?
The breeze starts to rise and we share a smoke
Our shoulders almost touch
I’m getting kind of edgy - should I make a joke
So you know it don’t mean much?
Love knows no reason
Love knows no fear
Love’s on the doorstep, love reappears
Season by season
Year by year
It takes one more step, it perseveres
The headlights roll on the city streets
Won’t you stay here now my friend
Do you hope, do you believe?
Is it time to fall in love again?
(Is it time to fall?)
Time to fall in love?
Is there still time
To fall in love again?
(Is there time to fall?
Time to fall in love?)
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8. |
Brave
03:50
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When you’re down nowhere to go
No-one around, you’re feeling low
All at sea, you’re gonna drown,
You’re fortune’s slave -
When you’re lost, seems no way
Dreams washed and drained away
Paths and trees criss-cross
And misbehave
When no light’s ahead of you
When no-one says what you should do
When troubles come like a tidal wave
Just be brave, just be brave, just be brave, just be brave
Don’t turn to church, don’t turn to drink
Go research what you really think
Let it percolate, put away the birch
And hatch your plan –
In the dead of night stalk your prey
Come as you might, come as you may
Don’t negotiate it watertight
Catch as catch can
Then the light’s ahead of you
Then you know what what you should do
See angels rise from your architrave
Just be brave, just be brave, just be brave, just be brave
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9. |
Be Careful How You Go
04:13
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The wind whispers in the aspen tree
The sun falls with the day
Still and silent the gentle path
Guides the evening way
Stars in the sky tonight
Float past the quiet moon
Your footsteps forever in the grass
Where the wild orchids bloom
Oh this breeze will carry you
Oh love is all we know
Just one thing before you leave
Be careful how you go
Be careful how you go
Time runs soft and ragged now
All words are sand
They slip and slide down the mountainside
We stay hand in hand
Oh this breeze will carry you
Oh love is all we know
Just one thing before you leave
Be careful how you go
Be careful how you go
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If I was your piano
And your fingers brushed my keys
I would listen to your song
And play a rhapsody
All my flights of fancy
Blending dreams as one
If I was your piano
And you were my love
If I was your guitar
And you strummed upon my strings
I would sound a gentle chord
As your melody takes wing
Oh the winding minuet
With the harmony above
If I was your guitar
And you were my love
But I can’t play strings or keys
I can barely hold a tune
Why try shooting for the stars
When you can’t even reach the moon
If I was your tambourine
I might just stand a chance
With simple hopes and wishes
Stepping through a simple dance
And though I’m way out of time
My heart is beating like a drum
Oh if I was your tambourine
And you were my love
And you were my love
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Larry Mindel London, UK
Larry has been living with Long Covid throughout 2022.
Proceeds go to Long Covid
causes.
Larry Mindel makes music for the ages that draws on folk and jazz traditions.
Geographic and human landscapes come together - in Antarctica, a wetlands in New Zealand, the Australian outback, the lowlands of Suffolk, the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides....
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