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Flatlands

from When the music ends by John Meed

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Clouds paint mountains in the sky
And I dream of northern hills and sigh
When I awake to find that I am in the flatlands
Ninety five miles in this train
Ninety five miles of pouring rain
Ninety five miles and still no end to the flatlands
In the flatlands all you can see is sky
In the flatlands all the clouds do is cry
The wind will scratch and claw at your eyes
In the flatlands

I left you today with just one caress
I didn’t mean to add to your distress
And anyway I know that you can’t care less
For these flatlands
And what I did today won’t save the earth
In fact it might make matters worse
And I wonder if it’s all been worth these flatlands
In the flatlands all you can hear is the wind
In the flatlands eternity begins
Cathedrals take your money
But they leave you your sins
Hallelujah flatlands

A girl on the phone with a gravely whine
Asks her mum to meet her at twenty to nine
Just like me she wants to leave behind the flatlands
Maybe Cromwell liked it here
Maybe the water’s good for beer
But the places I love are nowhere near the flatlands
In the flatlands all you can feel is the past
In the flatlands nothing’s going to last
The waves will come and take back what they’ve lost
Goodbye flatlands

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from When the music ends, released March 12, 2009

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John Meed Cambridge

John Meed is a singer-songwriter who lives in Cambridge, UK, and writes and performs in the folk and acoustic traditions. His songwriting has been compared to that of Al Stewart, Leonard Cohen, Christy Moore, Jacques Brel and Richard Thompson. He has released eight albums and his music has been played on national and local radio. See johnmeed.net. ... more

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