David Heavenor: Music
JENNY & THE COLD CALLER
(David Heavenor)
(Heavenor PRS/MCPS)
Album: Private The Night Visitors
In finding solace from other people's songs I gravitate to the work of Canadian singer songwriter Bruce Cockburn. His song You Get Bigger As You Go from his Humans album was a strong influence on this one. 'One giant step a foregone conclusion... is one of his lines. I first came across him when I was 22 when my sister's friend Cath brought over an album given to her by her brother who worked in Canada. This album Sunwheel Dance 'saved my life' at that time.
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JENNY AND THE COLD CALLER
As I turn my face against those winters
As the cold North wind in her billowing gown
Steals round my door
I never dreamed, I couldn't contemplate the view
That I might hear your voice on the phone again
As the line came through
I close my eyes when I think of you
I see a lonely face in a downstairs hall
You don't want me any more
One small step, one giant leap for freedom
Into an ugly house on a desolate plot
On Cold Caller's Avenue
Jenny how I miss you
How I miss the island of your tenderness
The colour of your skin
Oh, Jenny there's a long road down
Past the back streets of this bitterness
Through the shallow beauty in this town
That turned us upside down
Soured blood, sallow skin
A dark and purple cloak to hide you in
Back rooms, body heat
A stranger's soles snapping on the street
Hollow cough from the juggernaut
The crowd leans back and gasps in wonder
Another rocket speeds out to the stars
Another planet is explained
Your parachute returns with plunder
Broken rocks and videotape
Full of light from undreamed of views