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Calvary

by Adrian Dent

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I woke up last Monday morning with this song in my head.
I had been dreaming of a busy market place, it was getting dark and there was a sense of needing to get somewhere safe as if there was a storm brewing. In a shop doorway was a young girl, sitting in her rags and singing a song. The main part of the song remained in my head so I grabbed my guitar, a pen and a cup of coffee and set about capturing it. Here it is...

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They took a boat across the sea
in the hope they would be free
The English man said “Turn around,
this land belongs to me”
He flew in to the promised land
PanAm luxury
He hoped to make his fortune
all he made was enemies

The American said “Here I am,
come now and bow your knee,
raise your gun with your right arm,
bow down and worship me”
His promises are mantras
and his lies are poetry
“Black dollars for your father
and your mother stays with me”

And the world is waiting for a sign
and staring at it’s feet
And the price of gold means heads will roll
in the name of liberty
The barrel’s run dry, there’s a hole in the sky
and there’s trouble on the streets
The science is grim, when the facts are all in
there’s nothing left to eat

And a girl sits in the doorway
with a book upon her knee
And though she’s small, out loud she calls
for all to hear and see…
“Come stand with me, join hands with me
in the shadow of the tree
Your questions are all answered
in the blood of Calvary”

credits

released October 27, 2020
Words and music by Adrian Dent
All instruments and voices by Adrian Dent
Recorded and produced by Adrian Dent
Thanks to Dave Price for encouragement and the 'news reel' idea

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Adrian Dent Cardiff, UK

From an early age Adrian was going to be a rockstar. He wrote some songs and taught himself guitar (in that order) and joined his first band as a teenager. He never became a rockstar probably because of his shyness and suspicion of the record business and in 2016 he quit playing live gigs due to a brain disorder. He now concentrates on writing and recording from his home on the South Wales coast. ... more

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