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David Heavenor - LIVE BOOK LAUNCH CONCERT

by David Heavenor

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THE HOLY BOOK SONG 05:40
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THE HOLY BOOK SONG You’re saying the road is one straight line But I know the path is serpentine I heard you say the moon was full But the crescent slipped behind my hill You’re looking through someone else’s eyes You twist and stare, no compromise You’re layering up conspiracies You’re trying to force me to believe So ring out the bells Flush out the bars Shake all the sweeties from the colourful jars Tell the kids to take a day off school For I’ve found a book that’s much holier than yours You paint the leaves on your holy tree And hum your hymns so fervently You stand in line, assuage your sin Back on the streets your divining hurricanes You leave your heart in the lost and found But you dropped your keys on some dry waste ground You wheedle out your woeful tale No one’s used like you, you rant and rail And your heart will entreat you, reach you in play Those words left unspoken, will open out to say You’ll really see me You’ll really see me You’ll really see me One day You call me to the betrothal feast Sprinkle spices on the fatted beast The gilded girls will glide and sing Then release the vipers back into the ring So whose are the answers? Whose sets the questions? Are you open now to any introspection? The wind on the water The wind in the wire Will kick up a storm, reflame the fire So ring out the bells Flush out the bars Shake all the sweeties from the colourful jars I’ve got a box for your book to fit And as God is my witness My name is not written on it
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LIME GREEN ROOM 05:25
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LIME GREEN ROOM You could say that I'm chained in this Lime Green Room Under the lamp of this city in the cold night gloom All the people are present but their voices unheard By the light and the time and the pulse of this world Movement saps you but you can't stay still For your life's in this label as time to kill From your house there's the tumbling through the mist and the gloom But your fate has no homecoming, the waking's your doom Sweet mother Mary, Sweet infant Jesus And your hope is in object, the charm and the chase Your hope is in moving from this to that place For this place is bone and that place is skull But caught in the passing there's a life in the lull Yes, its instant delight, instant hush From a glass or a smoke or some mystic rush But voices are silent, no tongue can tell Who holds the reins of the devil when you peer down his well Sweet mother Mary, Sweet infant Jesus Girl you're so pretty and your step is so neat But tell me what you wear to hide the defeat I'd love to know how you get around Two hours past the midnight when the silence hits the ground Voices speak just to be overheard It's come down to description but there's a void in the words So sing your song boy, write your book Remember you'll die if you get overlooked Sweet mother Mary, Sweet infant Jesus Everyone's walking backwards so you join the queue There's nothing on your mind so there's nothing else to do But join in the mock - up, watch your display With everyone lost in the very same way
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WILD CAT 04:14
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WILD CAT The lights went on in the city It had been raining hard all day The dirt and the steam from the factory machine Spilled out in the usual way There was insolence in the nation The government was lost Her majesty’s ministers defensive and sinister On a show done by David Frost A young boy came from the country, a giro to pay the rent Caught up in a nightmare of the streets and the blank stares And a cat which was heaven sent Wild Cat get out of my brain You're driving me mad, I'm going insane Wild Cat, you're in the devil's pay Name me your price to turn you away The lights went off in the city It would be six o’clock quite soon The boy had been dreaming, pestered by the rhythms in the sun and the moon He opened the door on his landing Walked down the stairs and trod Upon a newspaper with a headline declaring a message from God The preacher cried, get ready, ready to wail and howl For while the poor hate the rich and the rich hate the poor There’s a cat come on the prowl Then he got himself ready and laid himself down And got himself lifted from a grave in the ground
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THE STORY OF MY LIFE 05:46
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The Story of My Life If you’ll be my girl, I’ll be your boy Under the skylight skin of this beautiful world If you’ll be my kith, I’ll be your kin Mark our names in gold on life’s pendulum La, la, la, la, la, la, la,la I’ll be your clown when you have cause to weep And a comforter in your troubled sleep I’ll be your map on the pilgrim roads A poet and prophet when you’re lost for words La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la That fits the story of my life I’ll be your sampan on the China seas On the Russian steppes you can ride with me I’ll be your crampons on the Matterhorn And on the Mars excursion fly you safely home La, la, la, la, la, la, la ,la I’ll be the tick in the hallway clock And the doodle do in the crowing cock I’ll be the surf as it grabs the shore And the clicking crab on the ocean floor La, la, la, la, la , la, la, la And our names on the door goes to show And the lights from the shore let them know You’ll fit the story of my life We’ll sail our skiff on the Zuiderzee And bungee jump from that bridge in Kyiv Spin Maria Callas on the stereo Then fly to Paris with Louis Bleriot La, la, la, la,la,la,la,la We’ll deep sea dive off a beach in Guam And ask each other ‘Who do you think I am?’ Stargaze , moongaze then flip a dime Heads says, ‘You love me’ tails says, ‘You’re mine’ La, la, la, la,la,la,la,la That fits the story of my life Alors, laisse la tranquille Passée par ta ville Elle n’est jamais venue Oublié, oublié, oublié… le temps perdu
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JENNY AND THE COLD CALLER 06:47
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JENNY AND THE COLD CALLER As I turn my face against those winters As the cold North wind in her billowing gown Steals round my door I never dreamed, I couldn't contemplate the view That I might hear your voice on the phone again As the line came through I close my eyes when I think of you I see a lonely face in a downstairs hall You don't want me any more One small step, one giant leap for freedom Into an ugly house on a desolate plot On Cold Caller's Avenue Oh, Jenny how I miss you How I miss the island of your tenderness The colour of your skin Oh, Jenny there's a long road down Past the back streets of this bitterness Through the shallow beauty in this town That turned us upside down Soured blood, sallow skin A dark and purple cloak to hide you in Back rooms, body heat A stranger's soles snapping on the street Hollow cough from the juggernaut The crowd leans back and gasps in wonder Another rocket speeds out to the stars Another planet is explained Your parachute returns with plunder Broken rocks and videotape Full of light from undreamed of views
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OFF TO THE WAR With Rory Butler 04:49
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OFF TO THE WAR In the cold white stillness of autumn’s ending I’ve watched the season turn It's hard to believe these years are lending me Your life and death to be learned Baby, baby won't you send me off to the war Baby, baby do you know what our love was here for? You make me forget you for this winter season While you lose your mind and gain a style And I'm caught up in all this weary and waiting I lose my sleep at night like a child Change, the flag, change the flag It’s blown down on you Change the flag, change the flag It's blown down on you I've been raising up a rag... In the warm green distance of Spring surprising A pale white star floats up window frost And I can't help but count the heartbeats That measure all that's won and all that's lost Baby, baby, won't you wave me off to the war Baby, baby, do you know what our love was here for? .
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THE WAY OF THE WORLD - RORY BUTLER 05:31
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CANDIDE - RORY BUTLER 08:01
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CANDIDE The lamplight cut the young girl's face White of dove and black of ace The starlight hit her windowpane Cascaded on the streets again The wind brushed the dust between the folds of lace A record was sticking like an anxious face Her doorway was cracked and bare No colour anywhere The stairwell was damp and cold Twisting like a sinner’s soul And the church on the corner cast an awful shape The priest lit a candle, made a quick escape No matter what they say I'll throw my arms around you one day Candide, Candide Not like the boys in town They only want to mess around Candide, Candide For they won't let you dance away Dance away your tears They won't let you wash away The stained and frozen years They won't let you dance away, dance away your tears Two shadows jumped from a car Pinned the girl against the wall The papers said a down-town fight Mixed blood within the black blaze night And the face at the window no longer turned and went To the young baby crying in the stale tenement
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LINGER AND GO 06:08
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LINGER AND GO Remember we talked while the day came awake I felt surprised to be close to you, it felt like a mistake You're a woman of distance, but a girl with a smile Life's not a distraction to get lost watching the miles But go, linger and go Do you stand clear and open, do you stand up proud? Can you be enraged at the darkness enough to cry out loud? I'm going to stand back here, I'll wait here so long Guard the soul and the destiny that makes me give you this song. Who knows, not me, all alone again to watch and see Who comes, who goes Who takes the time to search and know? Can we share love together? Can you risk your lone heart? There’s more that binds us together than keeps us apart So take these words to you, reject every lie That says we don’t walk the same island, we don’t share the same sky. Will your powers awake you or leave you cold? Will your weaknesses break you and turn you bitter and old? It's so easy to write with you here so alive It's the world of our mourning that's so hard to describe
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THE FRIENDS OF THE BLUES 06:21
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FRIENDS OF THE BLUES Boys and girls will tell you It’s seldom straight and true One and one is always the hardest sum to do Go tell the news To the friends of the blues I flew to Paris To see my love Jani She’d sent a ’Dear Jean’ letter on a postcard from the Seine Go tell the news To the friends of the blues I spoke in sorrow I spoke with deep regret She spoke in rhyming couplets Drew on a long Gauloises cigarette Go tell the news To the friends of the blues She was cycling down Le Champs Elysées sur la nuit Faire un doux l’amour En Arrondissement Dix Huit From Boulevard St Germain She peddled to Montmartre With Albert’s letters to Maria Emblazoned on her heart Go tell the news To the friends of the blues All will hold together Then all will split apart In a world of snakes and ladders You slide back to the start Go sell the news To the friends of the blues À chacun à son goût
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THE FACE OF BLAME 02:56
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THE FACE OF BLAME They fashioned him in glass The leader of the class The people bowed and prayed To this image they had made His death ship cloys the shore Contagion stalks his floor A sneer upon his face His acolytes will praise So name the prophet, name the priest Name the colour of his creed Then blame the weal upon my skin Blame the womb she bore me in But the face of blame will raise its sunken eyes, stare back at you again A baby at her breast The soft tones of his breath A holy dove in flight Still waters bathed in light An outstretched healing palm ‘Before Abraham I am…’ Temptation’s bitter hour A blood-stained ragged tower So name the prophet, name the priest Name the colour of his creed Then blame the weals upon his skin Blame the womb she bore him in But the face of blame will raise its sunken eyes, stare back at you again
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LANCE STONE ON MARMION ROAD 05:19
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Marmion Road I start with my favourite of all David’s songs, the sublime Marmion Road. David describes its genesis: the memory of lying in bed at night as a young boy in the coastal town of North Berwick and listening to the sound of the sea and the gulls. One night a storm washes a ship up on the shore, and children explore it and play on it until, come Spring, it is ‘lost to Flot and Jetsam’s crab claws.’ What has prompted this memory, however, is its associations with Rosanna, a childhood ‘chum’ who is present in another later storm, as her ‘long white gown tumbles down this autumn evening / And the lighting cracks, interrupts our breathing / And all the words that I lack / Fill up all the space between the stars…’ This is stunning imagery – the lack of words being absorbed by empty space, a silence filling a silence, an absence replete with an absence. There is ambiguity here: are these ‘words that I lack’ those of the songwriter attempting to articulate the scene (the kind of writer’s-block lack portrayed in another Heavenor song, The Idiot Slot), or is this the inarticulacy of love, the failure to express deep feelings in words? Either way, what strikes me in the song is the juxtaposition of images of earth and sky. On the one hand, we have of ‘a house by the sea’ with ‘a child tossed in his sleep’; on the other hand, we have the vastness of the heavens and the void between the stars, aroused in the imagination by Rosanna, who, we are told, ‘floats like the moon’ and who is present in the lightning’s crack. Here is a move from the confinement of bed, home, sea, shore, and shipwreck to the infinite horizon of sky, space, stars, moon, and lightning. And the song ends with a beautiful twist: the wreck on the shore has morphed in the child’s dreams into a moon-ship awaiting him just off the lee shore, poised to bridge the gap between earth and space. Here we see the basic features of the songs that I will look at: the tension between above and below, earth and sky, confinement and expanse, and some resolution between the two
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MARMION ROAD 06:01
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MARMION ROAD A house by the sea, a child tossed on his sleep The shale shifts under the bay, shapes rise up from the deep The Hallow's Eve Ship paints white sails on the indigo blue Midnight Captain's grim face shows a storm will break through The ketch beached in the night; her dog howled for the crew The Saturday boys cried out 'She's in one whole piece too...' 'Let's all sail away' shouted Bill, 'Blabbermouth' we all bawled And by Spring tide she was lost to Flot and Jetsam's crab claws And her long white gown tumbles down this Autumn evening And the lightning cracks, interrupts our breathing And all the words I lack Fill up all the space between the stars Sparkledark, sparkledark, who tailored your gown? Just like my Taffeta girl, your sequins light up this town See Rosanne float like the moon, lonely as sin What a lovely cradle of light for my night to rest in Have you lilies to crush, a dead arms to break through? Where the old house gathers dust and memories fasten like glue? Now hush child, don't you cry, don't fret any more Your Moon-Ship waits for you just off the lee shore Rosanna you’re warm, Rosanna I’m cold Go on chum me back home down Marmion Road
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BOYS WITH NO LOVE 05:32
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BOYS WITH NO LOVE Now what makes me think that I've been here before Is it old Dionysus back at my front door? I'd hoped to be honest, how I'd hoped to be strong But honey, I couldn't, I couldn't last that long They say that all dreamers end up in a heap Stranded in back rooms while the rest of us sleep Forcing a rhyme into nothing to say Oh honey, will I, will I ever end up that way? Dark nights in this city Black nights in my sleep Oh, honey I pray of the Lord your soul to keep From cars with no lights From fiery stars up above But most of all, most of all, most of all Boys with no love He said that he would meet you in a maroon Delage Recite all his verse for you 'sur la plage' He came from Gare du Lyon, you came by Gare du Nord Hanging, hanging on his every word Caught sight of the waves crashing down on the sand Caught sight of the lovers walking hand in hand They flew up and grew up to meet the sun But they were burned up, they were burned up one by one Now what makes me think that I've been here before Is it the crack in the ceiling or the creak in the floor? They say there’s a boy settling down in this room For a singsong, singsong with the moon Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep
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IT ALL SOON PASSED 04:18
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IT ALL SOON PASSED The first time I saw you I was so impressed Your eloquence surprised me I must confess Your words were like jewels but it's a terrible shame You were caught in the speed deal of a borrowed name And you were so high It's hard to believe it So high, it's hard to conceive this So high, but it all soon passed The next time I saw you, you seemed to have changed Your words were so hopeless, and your meanings were strange You wanted to talk but had nothing to say For that jury of critics laugh when you talk in this way. And you were so low It's hard to believe it So low, it's hard to conceive this So low, but it all soon passed And Bonny tries hard to teach me Her rolling eyes will beseech me Her loving arms try to reach me But then again, I don’t know The next time I saw you, you were standing apart Bored by your friends, you knew them by heart Eyes on a stroll, elusive as dreams You were stalking yourself on a silver silk screen And you were so cold It's hard to believe it So cold, it's hard to conceive this So cold, but it all soon passed The last time I saw you, you were walking in black You'd slipped into darkness and not turned your back You saw the abyss and started to scream And there was no one to help you for this wasn't a dream And you were so afraid It's hard to believe it So afraid, it's hard to conceive this So afraid that it would never pass Next time I saw you I was so impressed Your eloquence surprised me I must confess
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BLUES WITH NO NAME 04:33
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BLUES WITH NO NAME I hope you like the letter It's the best that I can do I wrote it in my daydreams I hope you see the whole way through Reply if you can save me From these no name blues I'd like to see you sometime How I'd love to see you soon But don't ask for my confessions For all my reason's gone to ruin I lost it in the limelight Under the sun and the moon They say ‘You’re doing it Doing it the long way You’re doing it Doing it the wrong way You're doing it the long, wrong way’ That’s what they say I used to practice all my stage names But my words were kinda raw But my poise and lulled expressions Held my world in awe But I'm wondering who I am now Since I became outlawed Remember all the things I promised Remember all the words I preached They were dream days of the moment Way beyond my reach But I’m learning how to listen to echoes in my speech They say ‘you’re doing it Doing it the bad way You’re doing it Doing it the sad way You're doing it the bad, sad way’ That’s what they say. If I could cry, I might be happy For all the laughter makes me sad When you’re walking in the twilight You doubt what’s good and what is bad Been losing every feeling that I ever had I hope you liked the letter It's the worst that I can do I wrote it in my nightmares I doubt you saw the whole way through I'll write when I can save you From your no name blues
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THE IDIOT SLOT 04:33
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THE IDIOT SLOT Picked up the wood and I opened my voice Sought for an image, it’s not a matter of choice Looked for true living but its picture was gone So I’m left with jagged ashes in pretext of a song Tried the contortion, faked the exchange But my mind got fixated so I’m back on the page Imitation’s easy but the price is too dear It means you’re a liar and you’re losing your tears So weigh it up now, ma soeur, mon frère Tag der Zahren, ce jour colère Roberta Joan, Bobby D From Saskatoon to the Grand Coulee Chalk the floor and set the scene Stretch the scrim, incarnate the dream Stalk the beauty, wipe the stain Until God’s boy will rise again So I laid out my credentials and I relished them in view But the angels of discomfort trill ‘Oh boy you’ve far too few’ Where are the secrets of deliverance, objects of your pride? I’m waiting for your phone to ring in the bunker where you hide So what do you feel? What do you mean? Do the sands of time clog up your dreams? Does the day hang heavy like a hacking cough? Do you think the gloss is wiping off? Look to the moons to the myriad suns Go dance with the devil, see the kingdoms turn To all the cosmic shysters who erect their plots Do you think I like riding in your idiot slot?
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REVEAL 04:21
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REVEAL Another twist in the story Another turn of the page I’ve set this lantern before me To reveal. I saw the fires in the mountains Met a young girl on the trail She said all that money you’ve been counting, It’s not real. She took my hand and pointed to a star, She swept the light up and placed it in a jar And I’ve kept it before me, it’s been like a door to me, In my silence, my sorrow, and fear I saw the flood steal towards me She drew a line in the sand. Said all you need for the journey’s In your hands. We sat together by the embers She sang a song I once knew And all the lines I’d remembered Became true Lighting my heart, it’s the fire, the fire to my heart Lightening my heart, I’ll align my search to your star When I woke up in the morning, She’d left her shape in the ground Her presence still troubled the waters Without sound. Another day lies before me, And uncertain terrain Yet her song still sustains me Like a bower in the rain I’ll take your hand and point you to a star I’ll sweep the light up and keep it in a jar. So you’ll keep it before you, to be like a door for you In your silence, your sorrow and fear Another twist in the story Another turn of the page I’ve set this lantern before me To reveal. With Ruth Weston
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SIGN IN A STRANGER With Ricky Ross 06:18
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SIGN IN A STRANGER I imagine that every man gets free Your letters lie unopened on a chair I imagine that when you grow tired of me All my attitudes come too much to bear And the sky turns black It's plotted on record You won't be back when the storm clouds clear I imagine that they've got snow in France And the night is bright enough to ski I imagine that you hold a man in a kind of dance And he lies to you then you lie to me And the band is back, they've got it on record That same sad track you love to hear Postman, postman don't be slow Be like me and go man go S.W.A.L.K.- sealed with a kiss Scent rubbed on the pages from the joints on your wrist The look in the classroom what was it you said When you came up beside me in the bicycle sheds? I'm walking behind you, I'm climbing the stairs Watching the light through the folds of your hair Building up like storms, bursting in mid air I imagine that when the lawyer comes In his salesman's coat wrapped round a Thomas Clancy ream I imagine that he'll set the long division sums And close the case on some poor boy's dream Then he'll turn his Cadillac to make the next rendezvous With that same sad track on the radio
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THE UNDEVELOPED HEART - RICKY ROSS 04:30
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THE TRAITOR'S KISS 05:03
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THE TRAITOR’S KISS Let me tell you what I’ve learned As I’ve watched the kingdoms burn Let me tell you what I’ve seen In the billows of my dreams Never thought a world like this Would greet me with a traitor’s kiss Would leave me with a name like this Lying here against your breast Your breathing is my holy rest Lying here against your skin All my hopes and joys to win Never thought a girl like this Would leave me through a traitor’s kiss Would leave me with a name like this Like a dragon in a dream Like a dagger in a stream Like a tower wracked with fire A flame engulfs a heaven torn spire Never thought a town like this Would greet me with a traitor’s kiss Would leave me with a name like this I'd hoped to fly, I'd hoped to flee This cold and bleak Gethsemane A baying mass of rage and blame Consigns me to their plots again Never thought a place like this Would greet me with a traitor’s kiss Would leave me with a name like this Spin and spark and spark and spin The universe is found within Go raise a lie you warring creeds The beast will always feed its need Never thought a God like this Would greet me with a traitor’s kiss Would bleed me to die a death like this So let me tell you what I’ve learned As I’ve watched the kingdoms burn Let me tell you what I’ve seen In the billows of my dreams Never thought a world like this Would greet me with a traitor’s kiss Would leave me with a name like this
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MY EDINBURGH PICTURE 06:38
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MY EDINBURGH PICTURE Oh my dear Michael, I’m sorry that I’m late The framer cracked Anne’s photo He said I’d have to wait Her expression is shocking She stares as if she knows The place where we come from And the place we all must go My dear Michael I won’t trespass on your time You knew her differently Your memories are not mine But your sadness is curling like smoke around this house Your silence throws pictures of rage At God’s black farce Talk to me now, Anne I long to know Who got it right? Whose truth gets up on show? Talk to me now, I scarce can say your name Beyond a throat that cloys Beyond the words that blame My dear Michael do you remember Guy Fawkes Day When the embers gleamed and cracked against the Blackford braes? I remember you laughing when she called to me To watch the moon rockets that blaze Then fall in to the sea My dear Michael, I found my evening's vigil hard So I climbed Caerketton against a panoply of stars The city lay dreaming our futures in fire And Scotland was wrapping a wreath around Robert Louis’ s spires For I blamed you for being born I blamed you for knowing that your face against this shroud Would make me bold….
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THE LOVE SONG OF THE REPUBLIC 04:42
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THE LOVE SONG OF THE REPUBLIC Franklin's up at the crack of dawn To feed his flock on the gospel song He's got his words down pat and his black cassock But i'm on the outside, I'm looking in On the work of grace and the wage of sin That's when my shakes come back The story starts in a little shack With a cross-shaped chapel on a plot out back I've got my list of chores, they're snagging on my skin And when the preacher snarls like the judgment day I'm telling you boy, you'd better change your ways That's when my shakes come back Oh sweet Angeline When you sweep the altar clean You paint a holy scene Of limbs and light and love lit nights I fall The song is pure but the song is sour The song is putting my soul in a stour I got the hobo's chills by the second verse And when the chorus swells and the people sway And the glory train sweeps them all away I get my shakes right back Now four winds storm from every pole And the ice caps melt on the plastic shores And a wild cat gasps in its last death throes And the truth gets murdered on a white house lawn And some blond fool chants a victory song I get my shakes right back credits
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CHANGE ME LIKE SNOW 06:42
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CHANGE ME LIKE SNOW They sent for the doctor yesterday The boy is behaving in a most peculiar way Young men will see visions, old men will dream dreams But not in this city, if you please A long white low building, the house of the damned Which one's Andrew Duncan, is that him in the underpants? You leaned on my doorway after asking the staff I'm looking for my old friend, I remember his laugh Change me like snow, Mary, change me like snow The light of your friendship will always glow I don't think I told you, I don't think you know The light of your friendship changed me like snow Oh, you jazz lover, smoke your cigars With your Hermann Hesse novels in the back of fast cars In a circle at Winifred’s, what a household of dreams All the symbols and signs that upset the squeaky clean Then round at your town house, up a long dark back stair Music and books are the spoils in your lair You said ‘Come round for a meal' then reached for a tin Four sad ravioli and an acre wide grin Change me like snow, Ian... The stiff holy people cruised round in big ships With sin seeking missiles sticking out from their lips A tall priest at the bedside on his knees at my death In a strange shape of prayer, and the passing of breath Three tall stained-glass windows, a net for the sky Clouds chase out the winter, frost shapes melt in your eyes The Edinburgh night creeps back under her stone And the One is now Three and the Three are now One. Change me like snow, Richard…
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FOR JOE SLOVO 06:46
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FOR JOE SLOVO When the man walked in we said welcome The Fatherland had thrown another son into a foreign land When the man sat down, tears glinted in the shadows Now his children stare at photographs, A woman walks into an empty room When the man stood up, he said 'Remember this Only trust a good Christian or a good Communist But now my life becomes a hall of mirrors For my words are full of violence But in my heart I am a peaceful man So let me take you there To Tambo's dream, Mandela's hope Sisulu's street The buildings that we burned Lay down a bed of ashes for our children's feet When the man walked out, we heard the sound of thunder raging A comet sped across False Bay, the sea returned a million lights And the blood of Christ fell from a black child's temple And the names of slums were famous Before a watching world

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A live recording of a sold out concert on 14th April 2023 in St James Church John Street, Leith to launch David's collection of song lyrics called MY HEART BEATS LIKE A DREAM. The two sets include David talking about the background to the creation of the 24 songs. performed. With special guests Lance Stone, Rory Butler, Ricky Ross, Richard Adams, Caroline Jaquet and Simon Jaquet. Sound by Phil McBride The Sonic Lodge.

Thanks to Fiona Roche, Sophie Heavenor and Lesley and Donald Scott - Reid for help with FOH duties.

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released May 7, 2023

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David Heavenor is a Scottish singer songwriter based in Edinburgh Scotland. He has produced 8 albums plus 3 EP's.

I'm Watching Rosanna. ' An insightful song....beautifully written and observed. Iain Anderson. BBC Radio

'Jenny & the Cold Caller. One of the best songs ever written...' Ricky Ross ... more

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