David Heavenor: Music
OFF TO THE WAR
(David Heavenor)
Heavenor PRS/MCPS
Album: The Automatic Eye and Another Eden
You may know the scenario. You're mad about the girl but she wont say yes, yet she won't say no. She leaves you alone for weeks then gets back in touch... you get back in touch, then she leaves you alone. My solution was to go off to my local war, put my life on the line. Would she wake up?
The song should have been on the Winter's Children album with its theme of Edinburgh in winter. I wrote it as Autumn changed to Winter in a cafe which used to be at Holy Corner in Bruntsfield. (So called because there are 4 churches at this intersection in the city.)
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In the cold white stillness of autumn’s ending
I’ve watched the season turn
It's hard to believe these years are lending me
Your life and death to be learned
Baby, baby won't you send me off to the war
Baby, baby do you know what our love was here for?
You make me forget you for this winter season
While you lose your mind and gain a style
And I'm caught up in all this weary and waiting
I lose my sleep at night like a child
Oh change the flag, oh, change the flag
It’s blown down on you Change the flag, oh, change the flag
It's blown down on you
Change the flag, oh,change the flag
I've been raising up a rag...
In the warm green distance of Spring arriving
A pale white star floats up window frost
And I can't help but count the heartbeats
That measure all that's won and all that's lost