Lines

4 weeks ago by @berni1954

Lines

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Liner Notes

When I saw the prompt, I thought, in what way have "lines" affected me personally. This led to the Chorus; but then I had the idea of taking each line of the chorus and expanding it to explain further.

The verse about squared vs lined notepads was true in Spain/Catalunya for the first few years I was here.

I am submitting this as an acapella track, because, to get around the Neighbours' 10pm Sound Curfew, I can sing quietly into my ZOOM H1n and then put the volume up in Audacity. 😜

Lyrics

I had to write a hundred times
"I won't do that again"
Chalk squeaking 'neath my fingers
Till they curled up in pain
It was said it made a man of you
That discipline insane
I first became a rebel
When I unjustly got the cane

Lines I did for punishment when I was a lad
Lines I insisted must be there in my note pad
Lines of people waiting for the tickets to a show
Lines outside the food banks that seem to grow and grow

Sometimes cultural differences
Are seen in the very small
You couldn't buy a notepad
With lines in Spain at all
They all had those maths squares
It drove me up the wall
I need to write my songs on lines
But I didn't have the wherewithal

CHORUS

I stood in line from night to day
To see Dylan playing live
The queue stretched halfway down the road
My cool took a steep dive
We spent the time singing songs
That Dylan had contrived
When I finally got my ticket
I felt more dead than alive

CHORUS

We live in a country
Supposedly civilized
But the lines outside the food banks
Are getting harder to disguise
The jobs aren't there for people
Now the posts have been mechanised
They say our system is the best
I think that's based on lies

CHORUS

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