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Back from the Brink

by Keith Reid and Anders Widmark

Back from the Brink is one of two songs by Keith Reid on the CD Lush Life by Mikael Rickfors, released March 2004 in Sweden, and produced by Ingemar Bergman [no not that one!] and Anders Widmark. All arrangements by Anders Widmark, who also plays piano on the record. Widmark is a great jazz pianist and composer in his own right: see www.anderswidmark.com for example.

Back from the Brink

Anders Widmark & Keith Reid (copyright Warner/Chapell Music Scandinavia AB/David Platz Music Scandinavia AB)

Throw away all those childhood toys
The brick and the bats and the games
This is how we separate the boys
With tricks and with traps and with names

We go lighting a fuse
When there's so much to lose
Grow that mountain of pain ever faster
Let's draw back from the brink
'cause we don't wanna sink
And it's all gonna end in disaster

This is how we make the world go around
With charts and with smarts and with greed
This is how we keep the natives down
With trinkets and bangles and beads

Get our hands in the muck
We go passing the buck
Grow that mountain of shame ever faster
We go making a stink
'cause we don't wanna think
And it's gonna end in disaster

Thanks, Anders Johansson, for scans and typing

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