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LIME GREEN ROOM Original version

by David Heavenor

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So back to the early 1980's. We convened in St. Michael's Manse, my parents house on Drummond Terrace Crieff while they were on holiday. Ensconsed in the lounge over looking the back garden we set up the mics into a 4 Track TEAC but failed to record the drums well - played by Simon next to my mother's china cabinet; Ricky on piano which we'd had since my early childhood in North Berwick -not tuned to any normal pitch. I wondered what ever happened to him...?! Bruce soon to leave for the states on bass with his funky pedal heading to become a world expert on digital photography. Me on Gibson acoustic which got nicked in York years later. The years pass. The reel to reel lay dormant, soon degraded and sold on.
The tapes re-emerge when I move back to Edinburgh and so do I decide to chuck them all? Ebay throws up another TEAC - I take the plunge and purchase it but it' s not technically up to scratch so spend a small fortune - the engineer sends a long list of faults and failures that reads like a foreign language but have their own beauty. This track sounds OK and the instruments blend but what to do about the drum sound? Sticks in a paper bag. Off to visit sound wizard Dave Gray (who I was at George Heriots with) and dubs in Simon again. Ok but no backing vocals. Maiiri my cousin has just done her amazing Pendulum Band show at The Queen's Hall where I work so we get together and the track is now complete. Off to be mastered and now presented here. Maybe a bit retro but we seem to live in times where all genres blend and co-exist.
Mairi's sense of pulse is central to her new work in recent years. Her show Pulse is a fascinating account of how she went in search of an authentic music, being restricted by formal classical training. Strangely I looked back at the original lyric which I had changed to....'the light and the time and the earth of this world. '

My original line had been....'the pulse of this world.'

See other versions on The Automatic Eye below

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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

Now movement saps you but you can't stay still
For your life's in a 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

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

Sweet Mother Mary, Sweet infant Jesus

Yes it's instant delight, instant hush
From a glass or a smoke or some mystic rush
But voices are silent, whose tongue can tell
Who holds the reins on the devil
When you peer down his well

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

Sweet Mother Mary, Sweet infant Jesus

And 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

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 caught in the very same way

Sweet Mother Mary, Sweet infant Jesus

credits

released March 2, 2019
Voice and Guitar David Heavenor
Piano Ricky Ross
Bass Bruce Fraser
Drums Simon Jaquet
Backing Vocals Mairi Campbell

Engineer Drum overdubs David Gray

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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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