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JENNY AND THE COLD CALLER

from David Heavenor - LIVE BOOK LAUNCH CONCERT by David Heavenor

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The phrase 'One small step...one giant leap' has entered the language and I think Bruce Cockburn's song 'You Get Bigger As You Go' from his Humans album influenced my song, I think ,as he uses it there. A break up song like his... Played in a different way apart from the last verse where I revert back to the original guitar figures.

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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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from David Heavenor - LIVE BOOK LAUNCH CONCERT, 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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