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Strolling Back (Walking up the High Street)

from The End of Summer by Jon Airdrie and the Enablers

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I am walking
Up the high street
Planning to spend
My seven pounds fifty
On a necessary
Luxury –
A new fountain pen.
Oh, the words I’ll write, the ideas I’ll express
Mainly from the heart, though the rational I’ll address:
Supporting or negating some argument.

And when we go to the hills it will be you
Who will warm me and cook my food
After I’ve scraped and I’ve washed every root
And we will savour even a basic vegetable
(So it is and what will be?
I have my mind, I'll think freely.
Back to you I'll always come,
Sad as times but never numb)


I am walking
Up he high street
I see you smiling
Walking towards me
Your thin dress
Your offer
Of sanctuary and more
Oh, the bleating heart, here it found some rest
Not a mind this time to weigh up what was best
Take the healing. Take what is simple. Sing out the peace

I am walking
Up the high street
I have my dreams
I have my talent
I have my love and
There is nothing
Too complex
Oh, the pain of things, before and pain to come
Never thinking then of a man I would become
I have my love. I have my books in my backpack.

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from The End of Summer, released May 9, 2020
Written by Martha Lee and Jon Airdrie

Jon Airdrie - voc, acoustic guitar. string arrangement
Martha Lee - voc
Andy Ponsford -bass
Jem Ponsford - drums

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The Enablers is a band/project having the central notion of bringing a core number of people together to fashion a collection of songs, and then to record these songs, capturing the mood of the time - the mood both of the compositions themselves and of the band for the project's duration. To date, there have been eight Enablers. ... more

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