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THE HARD ROAD TO HEAVEN

by David Heavenor

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A song about the inner battle to keep negative feelings at bay by the way you can be treated by other people. i.e. they show you two faces...he speaks with forked tongue etc etc . Hidden agenda. Language and history is rife with these people. Athens of the North was an old name for Edinburgh because of all the buildings influenced by ancient Greece. I don't know where Sean is now. I was travelling across the Forth Road bridge from Aberdour when I wrote the song and all the cables were snapping hence the need for another bridge. Don't know if Fink is still used as a derogatory term but I learned it when I visited America when I was 17 but its probably old hat now.

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THE HARD ROAD TO HEAVEN

I asked my friend Sean, ‘What do you do when you’re wronged?’
‘I laugh and forgive’ was his answer
So easily spoken, but his poor heart was broken
By a girl with two faces from Stavanger

Now the old bridge is breaking, and these shards that I’m taking
To stick in some fink in North Athens
It’s a city I love, but they cull all the doves
Of desire, any fire, any passion


But you’d better not get lost
Better not get even
You’ll just count the cost
On your skin, in your soul
On a hard road to heaven

So stare down defeats, watch the world in repeats
As the evil men ravage the valleys
And the honey tongued darlings will be unmasked in the morning
When Rasputin breaks loose in the alleys

I'll be the sinner?
You be the saint?
Who’s got the faults here?
Who's got the feints here?
Who lives by the light
Of that committe shining up there not so very bright

So spell out the end to your fair weather friends
For I see that the Meadows are frosting
Yeah get up and go, anticipate the snow
That going to sweep in and fill up their dead rooms

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released September 9, 2014
Vocie and Guitar David Heavenor
Piano, Bass
Drums Stuart Kidd
From the album ANOTHER EDEN

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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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