Dale's Poem
from Love on the Losing Side by Ribbon Road
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lyrics
DALE’S POEM
And it’s the loving that’s hurting
it’s the blood upon the tracks
it’s the broken-hearted railway
shouting ‘never coming back’
And I wish I was in Donegal
or somewhere deep in Wales
where there’s singing in the valleys
and the fiddle plays ‘til late
Here the streets named to remind us
of the fools that took us down
I drive along Middlewood Avenue
to get back into town
And every day the knife goes in
I wish that I could swallow
but I cannot get me breath and choke
the memories hollow out me chest
And what am I to do
I’m paralysed, I close me eyes
it’s the loving that’s hurting
it’s loving that lives
if only they would understand
I wouldn’t be like this
And it’s the loving that’s hurting
it’s the blood upon the tracks
it’s the broken-hearted railway
shouting ‘never coming back’
And I wish I was in Donegal
or somewhere deep in Wales
where there’s singing in the valleys
and the fiddle plays ‘til late
Here the streets named to remind us
of the fools that took us down
I drive along Middlewood Avenue
to get back into town
And every day the knife goes in
I wish that I could swallow
but I cannot get me breath and choke
the memories hollow out me chest
And what am I to do
I’m paralysed, I close me eyes
it’s the loving that’s hurting
it’s loving that lives
if only they would understand
I wouldn’t be like this
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from Love on the Losing Side,
released December 14, 2019
Words and music copyright Brenda Heslop (Ribbon Road Music) 2019
Words and music copyright Brenda Heslop (Ribbon Road Music) 2019
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Ribbon Road UK
Ribbon Road are:
Brenda Heslop
Jill Heslop
Geoff
Heslop
For the last 26 years, Brenda Heslop has been one of the undiscovered talents of songwriting. Only now is she starting to get the attention she has so long deserved, with singers taking up her lovely songs and spreading the word.
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