Raised In Vain Archives - Dave Tutin
White Tiles
Posted: June 23, 2013For Wesley Once upon a time In a bar down in Brazil We sat and talked all night Our ghosts are talking still I talked about the women You talked about the men I think you knew already We’d never talk like this again Once upon a time Once upon a time In Soho there’s […]
More By Luck Than Judgment
Posted: June 23, 2013We’ve come so far We’ll go farther still We’ll take the strain We’ll climb that hill We’ll break the borders We’ll cross the lines Face whatever time designs And more by luck than judgment We’ll make it to the end my friend We never knew What was in our fate We just had to move […]
Jaded Heart
Posted: June 23, 2013There’s a fog out on the Bay Just the same as yesterday All surprises here are self-imposed If this city were a lover You would find under the cover Her golden arms are open But her jaded heart is closed There’s a fog out on the Bay Just the same as yesterday But it’s 1966 […]
The Truth
Posted: June 23, 2013The only one you wanted was the one who was not there This is how you came to me with riddles in your hair As I tried to solve them you laughed without a care I unwound all your secrets in a hotel room somewhere But morning shuffled in and they withered in its stare […]
All Things Being Equal
Posted: June 23, 2013“You’re living for nothing now I hope you’re keeping some kind of record.” * – Leonard Cohen I wish I’d kept a record like Leonard said I should Memories are disappearing islands in a flood All things being equal Which of course they never are Love would fall upon us all And never leave a […]
John
Posted: June 23, 2013So this how we all grow old Not by days Or years We drip like blood From bullet holes We fall like tears, John
America
Posted: June 23, 2013One mile wide But one inch deep Pray your lord Its soul to keep America is fast asleep As we sow So shall we reap Faith is blind But still we leap America is fast asleep No forgiveness in her heart Nowhere else for us to start America Sirens wail And cell phones beep Washington […]
Phoenix
Posted: June 23, 2013I’m hungry as a river And tired as the moon tonight I’m hungry as a river And tired as the moon tonight Don’t take my words to heart I’m too tired to fight Every day I wake up With a tiredness that sleep won’t heal Every day I wake up With a tiredness that sleep […]
Journey To Your Heart
Posted: June 23, 2013Somewhere back in England that’s where I left it all So many crude rehearsals of my final fall But when it came it wasn’t the expected fall from grace I simply fell in love with an unexpected face I had no way of knowing back there at the start The journey I was taking was […]
Nottingham Lace
Posted: June 23, 2013The factory gates at ten He has to wait till then To see her face again He reminds himself what women are for Reminds himself she’s just one more The local boys are loud The late night drinking crowd They are both lost and proud She dare not hope for the kind of love The […]
Cowboy Child
Posted: June 23, 2013A cowboy child ruled the plains Rode on through burning sun Through driving wind and rains A cowboy child with his gun Bullets without bleeding Death was all part of the fun Between the black row houses This spirit running wild Just another North of England cowboy child Dreams so full of far away Proud […]