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Hear the old songs near that ancient place
I can taste our very air
Comfortable in the room we were sitting in
But are you wearing black sitting there?

Both the love and the guilt – feelings mainly done
They’ve lost the present’s glare
Even recounting them may have distanced them
But are you wearing black waiting there?

And the sanctioned loss I’ve told few of
But when I do I relate it straight and fair
For me it’s a difficult tale to tell
But are you wearing black lying there?

I’m back in that room. My God, I’m back in that room
Wearing the clothes I used to wear
I gaze, wistfully, at the window and see
You, wearing black, leaning there

I hold your trust like an icon I stole
From a country church in County Clare
I’ve carried it with me through all the years
But are you wearing black, back praying there?

Your language perched upon my tongue
It was something I started to share
But I notice you silent at the window now
And wearing black, silhouetted there

And you upon the slice of beach
Running, throwing, laughing, without a care
And then you tearfully singing with a broken wing
Wearing black while pacing there

Yes, you upon the slice of sand
And in the fields, blissfully unaware
That it wouldn’t be long before we’d be away from this place
I see you wearing black, wandering there

You were happy to let me in
I remember you warm and fragile and bare
Are you dressed head to toe in mourning clothes now
Dressed in black, head to toe, standing there?

The plucked steel stings, the long space between
Each note played solid, without flair
Returns me in peace to a time of ease
But are you dressed in black, listening there?

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from The End of Summer, released May 9, 2020
Jon Airdrie - voc, acoustic guitar
Andy Ponsford -bass
Jem Ponsford - drums
Martha Lee - backing voc

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Jon Airdrie and the Enablers Newport, UK

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