Confession time - I'm a little bit Country

I used to play finger picking bluegrass guitar in an Old Time country band name of Big Stone. Guess which one is me? We only played songs by dead artists so you can imagine our excitement when Johnny Cash passed on. I was never a huge Country fan, to be honest, but I did make a pilgrimage to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville last year.
These days I stick to ballads. From a musical muse perspective, I follow the fantastic Declan O'Rourke and, of course, Nick Cave's great Murder Ballads. And what is a novel, if it isn't a ballad? It has a beginning, a challenge to face and an end. All things move towards their end, of that you can be sure.

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Sometimes you need to roll around in your sadness

 

Declan O'Rourke - Everything Is Different

Where there was a cool breeze,

There is just a cold wind

Where there was a blue sea,

Everything is frozen

And where there was a sunset,

There is only darkness.

Everything is different. Everything is different.

And where she kissed my fingers,

There is only longing

Where my heart was tender,

There is only bruising.

And where she filled my reason,

There is just this feeling, that

Everything is different. Everything is different.

And sure that I did all the things I should,

To keep our love alive, and I really thought I could.

So sure that I did all the things I should.

Oh I wish my heart,

I wish my weary heart was only made of wood.

For where there once was magic,

There will be illusion

And where there was no question,

Only thoughts and reasons

And where I saw my kingdom,

There will just be treason.

Everything is different, Absolutely everything is different now.

Declan O'Rourke's website - a truly amazing voice and very curly hair

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