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It's Not Fine
03:34
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All this time
Pours into a stream sweet as wine,
Till the spaces between us shine
(Except when it's not fine).
Your mind
Melts into a dream, same as mine,
Till the spaces between us shine
(Except when it's not fine).
O I've barely seen you since you got that new guitar,
Her form so intriguing,
So submissive, receiving, hmmmm....
Heavenly notes sing from your fingertips
In collusion with her strings,
It's your union that sings.
O I would take her place if I could,
Her sinuous body of wood (of hollow wood)
But I am made of flesh and bone alone,
And that's no good
(Apparently that's no good).
Chorus
O it's been so long since the sparkles would fill the air,
Remember we'd see them?
They'd surround you and me then, hmmmm...
But when I look at you now, you look away.
New dazzles they hypnotise,
There's a glamour all on your eyes.
O I would take her place if I could,
Her sonorous body of wood (of hollow wood).
But I am only spirit and blood and skin,
And that's no good
(Apparently that's no good).
Chorus.
Sha-la-la, it's not fine...
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Bushes & Briars
02:39
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Through bushes and through briars I've lately took my way,
All for to hear the small birds sing, and the lambs to skip and play.
I overheard my own true love, his voice it rang so clear,
How long have I been waiting for the coming of my dear?
Sometimes I am uneasy and troubled in my mind.
Sometimes I think I'll go to my love, and tell to him my mind.
But if I should go to my love, my love he would say nay.
If I show to him my boldness, he'd never love me again.
Through bushes and through briars I've lately took my way,
All for to hear the small birds sing, and the lambs to skip and play.
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Fenny Compton UK
Sister label of Woodford Halse.
Folk and Folk Adjacent music presented on short run lathe cut records and glass mastered CDs.
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