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Airport Traffic
03:23
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Airport Traffic (Lyrics)- ©Mandy Connell
Intro: Instrumental A Part
From the Bustle of the Airport Traffic
I can read it in the paper now
They’ve taken all the half-caste children
From the towns where they’re not allowed
Like the rating on an adult movie
Nobody’ allowed to walk alone at night
There’s fighting on the streets, the towns, the byways: The night’s not safe: It wouldn’t be right
Instrumental Break- B Part
Occupation has its own language
Replacing all the words we know
Some of these kids still don’t speak English
The Government says it’s a symptom: So
Intervention/ Good Intention,
No matter which words we use
How much of the spirit gets lost in the action
Rolling out the tanks in the Dreamtime home
Longer Inst: Break / B part- Soloist Impro / Brass Section
From the Bustle of the Airport Traffic
I can read it in the paper now
They’ve taken all the half-caste children
From the towns where they’re not allowed
Like the rating on an adult movie
Nobody’ allowed to walk alone at night
There’s fighting on the sstreets,
The towns, the byways: The night’s not safe
It wouldn’t be right
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Bluetack Constellation
04:25
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BlueTack Constellation- Mandy Connell
(Capo 5)
C F Am F
I am painting, slow and ever-thicker coats of paint
Am F F
Upon the Windowsill that once was yours is now my room
F G C F
The walls and doors are shiny white now
C C F
Shiny white….. now
Am F Am
Oh brilliant white that picks up all the pretty colours
F F G C C C
of my pretty dresses, hanging up
C F F F
Oh, hanging up…..
C F F
CHO I painted over, the greasy black stain
Am F
Left by your hand, left by your head
Am F
Above the mattress where you slept
F G C C
I left the blue-tack on.
C F F F
Bluetack Constellation
F C C C
Bluetack Constellation
C F F F
Bluetack Constellation
Am F
I knew that you would leave me here
Am F F
But I told myself I didn’t
F G C
And I should not have held on so tight
Am F
Like someone’s little sister
Am F
Like someone’s second cousin
Am F
Like someone’s little sister,
F F
Had to join the party far too early
F F G C
Had to leave before it really Got Interesting….
C, F
CHO
END
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3. |
Colourblind
04:14
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Colourblind (Lyrics)- ©Mandy Connell
Intro /Break
Verse 1:
On the postcard that you wrote to me
You talked about the Ocean
You said that it was pretty
You talked about the Blues and Greens
Cho:
I don’t see it like you do, I don’t see it like you do
I like it when you write to me, Colourlind Lullabyes
I don’t see it like you do, I don’t see it like you do
I like it when you write to me, Colourlind Lullabyes
Intro /Break
Verse 2:
We’ve been talking on the telephone,
I could talk to you for hours
I’m always cooking dinner
You’re always editing your photos
Cho:
Intro /Break
Verse 3:
Since you moved across the ocean
You took away my daily routine
A picture in Still Motion
I am still where I have always been
(CHO CHANGE): I know you’re happy there in Hobart,
I’m still missing you from Melbourne
I wish you’d think of this as home
I’m still missing you from Melbourne
I wish you’d think of this as home
CHO:
Intro / Break / Coda Copyright © Mandy Connell
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The Hourglass (Lyrics)- ©Mandy Connell
Intro: Instrumental Riff x 2
Verse 1:
I have Four Thousand twenty two beads
Strung up on broken necklaces Balancing on windowsills
Rolling Round in drawers and old containers
Stored within the folds of pages, folded up & tucked away
Memories for rainy days and easy stages
Cho:
Hourglass sifting, Dandelion Lifting, Keeping Time
Hourglass sifting, Dandelion Lifting, Keeping Time
Instrumental Break- Verse ?
Verse 2 :
Can a number be a signal for a hidden intersection?
A twisting of a greater fate, a symbol for connection
Can a number mean stop or go?
Cho:
Hourglass sifting, Dandelion Lifting, Keeping Time
Hourglass sifting, Dandelion Lifting, Keeping Time
Longer Inst: Break / B part- Soloist Impro / Cool Elecric Guitar Section with three part OOohs?
Verse 3:
Honey mark the number down but don’t let it dictate terms
A number’s just a number it won’t tell us how the story turns
The radius is special, but diameter is too
I won’t let a number tell me I don’t get along with you.
Cho:
Hourglass sifting, Dandelion Lifting, Keeping Time
Hourglass sifting, Dandelion Lifting, Keeping Time
Outro: Instrumental Riff x 2
Copyright © Mandy Connell
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5. |
The Garden
03:21
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Mandy Connell Music Melbourne, Australia
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