David Heavenor: Music

Written in the heart of Edinburgh in the shadow of the castle in a flat I used to rent with some friends which had a prospect over the Southside of the city looking over to the Pentland Hills. Sentiments about the moment you cross the border into love but soon realise it can't last. But it's also a song about how we are ports in the storm for each other and the struggle for meaning.

LINGER AND GO

Remember we talked while the day came awake
I felt surprised to be close to you, it felt like a mistake
You're a woman of distance, but a girl with a smile
Life's not a distraction to get lost watching the miles

But go,linger and go,
Linger and go

Do you stand clear and open, do you stand up proud?
Can you be enraged at the darkness enough to cry out loud?
I'm going to stand back here, I'll wait here so long
Guard the soul and destiny that makes me give you this song.


It's you and me, alone again to watch and see
Who comes, who goes
Who takes the time to search and know?


Will your powers awake you or leave you cold?
Will your weaknesses break you and turn you bitter and old?
It's so easy to write with you here so alive
It's the world of our mourning that's so hard to describe

Can we seek love forever, can you risk your lone heart?
There's more that binds us together than keeps us apart.

So take these words to you, that bind up the time
Remember I'm singing what you've given to rhyme

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