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Alfred J

from Now We Are Schwa by Schwa

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lyrics

Why don't we go out tonight when the stars are smashed against the sky
like a windscreen smithereened across a city pavement.
Let us stroll through ginnel creeks and cobbled streets
where black rain beats on manhole covers and oily pools
reflecting derelict Victorian schools.

Streets that stream and slope past these gritstone curbs
to a Saturday night-bright city centre.
Do not ask me if you are dreaming.
Your hands are warm, your heart is beating.

In the street the people come and go, surfing the Pinot Grigio
In the street the people ebb and flow, caught in the high street undertow.

For I have known it already, known it all,
trawled the skies on low-cost long-haul flights;
I calibrate my life in gigabytes.
Is it the pattern on your dress
That makes me talk like this?

Don't get old, don't get old.
Skin wears thin and your lips get cold.
Don't get old, don't get old.
Mind cuts loose and your house is sold.

For I have heard it already, seen it all,
seen the world on high-res wall-mount screens.
I have plotted out my life in pixel dreams.
Is it the glitter on your throat
That makes my senses float?

In the street the people come and go...

credits

from Now We Are Schwa, released April 6, 2016
Peter Spafford - vocals, Roland electric piano
Richard Ormrod - shaker, surdos, triangle, drum kit, bass, cowbell, güiro, flutes, alto flute, vocals, alto sax, tenor, sax, baritone sax, trombone.

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Schwa Leeds, UK

Welcome in Schwa: Peter Spafford writes poetry and plays the piano; Richard Ormrod plays other instruments and arranges tunes. More recently, Jacqui Wicks sings and plays the ukulele.

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