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My Heart Beats Like a Dream

by David Heavenor

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Started as a dream sequence about a boy running through a city devastated by war - a kind of Wilfred Owen 'Strange Meeting' landscape.
' down some profound dull tunnel long since scooped where titanic wars had groined…' I was very caught up in his war poetry when I was at school and the visceral power of his images.

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MY HEART BEATS LIKE A DREAM

My heart beats like a dream
Shadows thrown on calico
A juggernaut wheels out the creed
We won't stoop any lower
Your face takes me by surprise
I can't open up your eyes
The pity war distilled
The pity war distills
Flows like an ether from your fixed eye pools

The earth is dust beneath my feet
The sea breaks on a blistered shore
And I'm stranded on this street
Of houses without doors
And faces stare from windows bare
And a sign sticks up 'Keep Back, Beware'
And a shell screams down the alleyways
Kills the mother, leaves the child to pick the wall away

See the girl calling
See the girl falling down a sparkling cone of storms

I'm going to lie upon this bed
Lose this disease in vacant dreams
But then this shape inside my head
Keeps me awake with empty screams
And they pour a potion bare through brain
To keep us from the wild man insane
And I am the willing, desperate fool
That clings to every dreamed up rule

What kind of seed is this
That sprouts but will not stand?
Is this the fruit to kiss
That rots right in my hands
You've made us here to live our days
You said you wanted us to praise
What kind of game is this you play
That loads the dice to squander all our love away?

See the boy turning
See the boy burning with Pandora in his arms

Rest my boy, my bliss
Drink deep carmine rivers of my kiss

credits

released December 31, 2013
Vocals and acoustic guitar David Heavenor
Keyboards and Bass Steve Butler
Electric Guitar Charlie Irvine

From the album Winter's Children (Sticky Music 2001) available from CD Baby www.cdbaby.com/cd/heavenor

"The pity war distilled...'' from Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen

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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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