David Heavenor: Music

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A song about being besotted, in love, feeling new and alive and rising out of a slough of despond. Unfortunately it contains the songwriter's great cliche 'Reason and Rhyme' but I resisted using 'Changes' and 'Rearranging' When I was 24, I rented the bottom floor of a house in Blackford Avenue in the Grange area of the city. The owner Monica lived upstairs and she said her daughter would be coming back from London for the Christmas holidays. Suffice to say that a vision of beauty walked through the door. The song Child of My Heart was written around the same time and for the same reason!. This is a recording of a rehearsal for a concert I did with Edinburgh band Mowgli and the Donuts at The Netherbow Theatre featuring the wacky and towering talents of Wilf Smarties, Bert Ford, Carmen Rollers and Wayne Blanchard the drummer who has just got back in touch courtesy of the internet...

HERE ONCE AGAIN


I'll go backstage, see what I find
Peel the skin off the script page
Watch your senses unwind
Caught in a moment, how your frenzy has ceased
These days of decision, now I see the release
And I'm here, here with my eyes

Yes, I'm here, is it a surprise?
Yes, I show, out of my circle of woe
I've stood here waiting for this train
I'm here once again


I'm a startled man, in a simple soul search
Uncomplicated, look it's here in the verse
I don't struggle for reason, but I struggle for rhyme
I struggle for sense here, these hopes to untwine

And I'm here, here in a space
Yes, I'm here, here in my place
Yes, I bear those days unaware
I've stood here waiting for this train


Your features are softened, the light sees them true
And through all of the dangers, your smile still comes through
You've come from the city of your political views
To this city of changes that might change you there too

I'm here once again
And I'm here, here with my rhyme
Yes, I'm here, here in my time
Here I stand with this page in my hand
I've stood here waiting for this train
I'm here once again