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Staying at a friend's house in London on my way back from travelling in Europe only to be met by the whole place painted in sickly Lime Green paint. It was Christmas and the whole city was packed full of glitzy glamour, baubles swinging aloft. It doesn't take long to see all the street people huddled in doorways and alleys, the darkside of the upside.

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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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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

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