David Heavenor: Music

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Album: Another Eden

I always had these lines playing on the number seven. Seven Seas; Seven Deadly Sins; the Secret Seven...but had never written a song until I was asked to take part in a Fringe event by Elspeth Findlay and Richard Medrington who perform their own poetry. (They are also part of the Company who tour a wonderful show called The Man Who Planted Trees). I never know where songs come from but I wrote this in one sitting and its basically a rant at the state of the
the world.

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Seven wonders, seven sins
Seven seas to get lost in
Seven serpents, seven ships
Seven harbours you just might miss

And the wheels in the darkness
Wheels on the road
Wheels that are twisted
And tired of the load

Oh gentle Jesus, meek and mild
Look down on your little child
God and mammon fighting still
Building towers, fomenting ills

Oh darling Charlotte, dearest Jack
What is that stain across your back?
What is that code you must fulfill?
What is that genome curling round your blood against your will?

And the clock in the square
Pins the time to the air
And the girl spins the dial
Across the fate of her new born child


Celestial city round Eden's lake
I got the brochure from a saint
I got a tract from a whitewashed church
Where love's a stranger and truth's a birch

Feast and famine, wormwood, gall
I know a book that tells it all
Go light a candle in the dark
It just might show up a question mark

You say family, they say race
You say love, they say possess
You say country, they say spoil
You say peace but all they've ever wanted is war