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Fell

by John Cunningham

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1.
Slowly fall awake And throw your dreams away The rising sun is setting And the shadows make a drama of the day. Winter holds the heart Safer in the dark The stubborn house is housebound And the brickwork wrinkles in the acid sun. Let go of those dreams you used to know Leave them don’t let go. And of the perfect life The peace you couldn’t find Was there all the time staring at you in the dark. Early risers sing Self-conscious as the spring With too much time to think The bluebirds are breaking all the rules. And of the perfect life The peace you couldn’t find Was there all the time staring at you in the dark. And of the perfect height You always said you’d climb Sculpted in your mind Pathless as the wind and rain. Let go of those dreams you used to know Leave them don’t let go.
2.
Often a ghost of someone yet to be Walks through this house. Walks carefully. Watches a wind of dogwood and waits Under a blanketing sky of olive and slate. Waits for our weak voices to speak In a quiet only silence could break When morning dew confiscates the sun These are the good days not yet undone These are the days we half recognise Lost in a breath of blue in our eyes Lost like a rose whose scent we can’t hold. How do we know? How do any of any of us know?
3.
Please find the red Rolling thunder Rain attached And you might like Silver branches That pierce the night We get so we can’t feel We get so it’s not real We get so we can’t feel any pain We get so we don’t know We get so we’re so slow We get so we don’t know any pain.
4.
Won’t you tell me something about the rain? Wasn’t it something you adored? Now you are trying to ignore. I have captured something about the rain Since I was young enough to know Better we walk the path we go, slow. Oh Mother Nature’s son you are And your song is everywhere Lay a path in summer in there, for the rain, ‘cos the rain comes today, knows your name Won’t you tell me something about the rain? Or did it come at your request? Or was it just some kind of test? Taken to heart Taken too hard, slow. Oh Mother Nature’s son you are And your song is everywhere Lay a path in summer in there, for the rain, ‘cos the rain comes today, knows your name.
5.
I can fly 04:28
My paper words drift in the clamour I’m camouflaged against your character With the stream I drizzle down the road. But you would never know, I can fly! Like memory within memory My simple thoughts invent the ordinary And melodies like autumn leaves dissolve. But you would never know, I can fly!
6.
Might see the sightseers looking for the broken sun Living through the eyes of a lens like a Quaker gun What are you going to do? Might see the white sea sailing in the yellow rain Would save itself but the competition is insane. What are you going to do? Salvation might just have come too late. All for the love of money.
7.
Walked upon the golden sky It wasn’t enough. Caught the wind as it passed by It wasn’t enough. Dreamed I sailed the silver sun And I see now why. The heartache that you will find When mystery gets left behind. Just like getting frozen in time. Held the clouds in fearful joy It wasn’t enough. Made the sea a faithful toy It wasn’t enough. Dreamed I sailed the silver sun And I see now why. The heartache that you will find When mystery gets left behind. Just like getting frozen in time.
8.
I only get you in the morning In the still and quite air Wildlife busy though For an hour or so. And the smiling sun looks over To the tracing paper moon. And those troubled dreams Will fade away. Oh my God what have you done? You done something good I was in the middle of dreaming I hope your love will carry me on. Oh my God what have you done? The path’s now closed behind Hope your feet are paying attention I hope my love will carry you on. Oh my God what have you done?
9.
We wait for the waiting For August to fall The sad blue-eyed winter The cold sun to call. The sky tilting sideways To move where it will Though it might appear so It never is still. It never is still It visits us once And doesn’t come by again. And you are the witness To this unique time As days fold up smaller. And dressed up in lime The months meeting in darkness To plan next years’ show They might not remember We might not get old. We might not get old But we will have seen The white-hot sun rising. We could walk in this heaven While they plot paradise You and me could be living While they talk of life. The sky is reflected in your hollow eyes To dream where it comes from, where it dies But this is the substance From which days are made Where time is collected Where wishes are saved. Where wishes are saved And traded with hopes And filed under dreaming. We could walk in this heaven While they plot paradise You and me could be living While they talk of life. You and me could be free. Life. While they talk of life.
10.
Silver rain will fall from the sun Light capture paradise. Joyful dancing high A butterfly will fall softly from the sky. And try to recall when love was around Flowers will grow on this stony ground And peace will come to your heart. Walls will walk you home And the breathless wind Will sing your solemn song. And echoless stars will wake to the sound Flowers will grow on this stony ground And peace will come to your heart. Try to recall when love was around Flowers will grow on this stony ground And peace will come to your heart.

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released June 24, 2016

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John Cunningham Windermere, UK

John Cunningham English singer /songwriter.
Albums:Shankly Gates (1992), Bringing in the blue (1994), Happy-go-unlucky (2002) w.performances by: Joe Watson (Stereolab), Mehdi Zannad (Fugu).
Signed by Joe Pernice to Ashmont Records, & One Little Indian. Gigged w. John Martyn, Edwyn Collins, Television, Rufus Wainwright, Smog, Stereolab and Neil Hannon/Thomas Walsh. Not to confused with other JCs!
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