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Life
Life lived with the past
A past
Dead before we were born
Born
To decay and peace
The peace of the broken and torn
Sound
Sounds of distant trains
The trains
Which carry heroes down
Down
The tracks that remain
The mainlines or main streets of home
Fifties' coffee bars and rock'n'roll bands
I know it all so well so blue
Skin tight Levi's and Brigitte Bardot
Escaping the austere and bland
Staccato images in movie houses
Crimson and abstract blue
Time
Time creates a space
A space
In which we live our lives
Lives
Of conflict or grace
The grace found in children and wives
Love
love makes its own mood
a mood
in which we learn to play
play the shades of blue
the blues of Southend and LA
Sixties' coffee houses and folk legends
I wasn't there but I heard those blues
Skin tight Levi's and protest singers
Nuclear songs of bitter ends
Frozen shadows haunting a skyline bleak
Crimson and abstract blue |
