David Heavenor: Music

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)

A live version of the song on The Winter's Children album performed at The Queen's Hall Edinburgh some years ago as part of Steve Butler's solo concert.

A friend has been saying
My words are too dense
It frustrates me sometimes
That he can’t see my sense
But I respect his opinion
He was a man rich and true
Through all of the dangers
When I didn’t know you
But I blame the truth
Its broken loose in you

So what are you thinking
Am I word heavy to you
Am I just a wayfarer who’s got caught in his blues?
The evening is late
I won’t get complex and tied
I just want to say that
You’re a beautiful child
And I've blamed the truth
It's broken loose in you

Escape the town
We took the car
Your tapes stretch from playing
I watch the miles
You watch the stars
And every signpost fading
When Camusfearna lies so still
Jackson’s fountain of light
A ring of water so bright
Bursts like a lost dream
In my memory tonight


I want to reach to find you
But I tremble at the cost
If I built my world around you
I know I would be lost
You speak of love with hesitation
I feel a broken edge
It conjures up a mystery
Of some girl hanging on a ledge
But I blame the truth
It's broken loose in you

Now the birds are migrating
The frost spirit has come
And I am reminded of the death of a son
And these words spring up in me
And I’m born in love
And he is on my mind
But it’s you I’m thinking of
And I blame the truth
It's broken loose in you


So I feel that I must answer
I feel I must explain
To make it quite acceptable
You've got to socialise the pain
But how do you douse a fire
If it rages wild within
I don’t know what I’m after
Am I just trying to take you in?
But I blame the truth
It's broken loose in you