Ballad of the Pretty Windows

from Fake Ballads & Tea Shanties by Cookie

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Ballard of the Pretty Windows

There are taxis there are buses running frequently
Up and down the length and breadth of Southwell Road
With a thousand pairs of keenly seeing peepers
Staring out from this relentless traffic flow

But it seems we’re in the city of the sightless
We don’t know nothing if we turn away
And I fear the good Samaritans are all sleeping
In hard cement beneath Maid Marion Way

Sing for joy sing for pleasure
Sing for all the things that brighten up your day
For don’t forget to sing your songs of hatred
And all the dark stuff that won’t go away

As I stand and stare into the Pretty Windows
In the knowledge of her gruesome history
If her delicate lace curtains were not voiceless
Would they whisper all their mysteries to me?

The walls have ears the windows they have vision
And both are witness to the foulest deeds
But while the fear is absolute the truth is hidden
Embalmed within the brick and glass and steel

Sing for joy sing for pleasure
Sing for all the things that brighten up your day
For don’t forget to sing your songs of hatred
And all the dark stuff that won’t go away

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from Fake Ballads & Tea Shanties, released May 25, 2017

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Cookie Nottingham, UK

Born and raised in the Shire of Nottingham, England.

Punk found me in my youth and shaped my life.

Played in bands Solvent Abuse and The Little Pigs, now just me and the six string.

Continually evolving music wise, it bores me to stand still!

Punk continues to shape my life. ... more

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