Back in Winter Town

Lyric was written in 1970 - when Coventry drummer Steve Harrison asked for some blues lyrics for a band that I think included Mojo Morgan - it was a traditional blues but a bluesy feel in the emotions. It's about, I think, procrastination - wishing for something and then being 'dazzled' or overwhelmed when the opportunity comes and blowing it, near as I can remember.  I was going to do it with our little band in 1986 and recorded it as a basic idea playing acoustic guitar,  analog synth bass and a very early little casio keyboard and multi tracked vocals and put through a digital delay more recently. We never did the track and the Cov band split up before anything could be used. So this is it's first wider hearing. Just an old demo track. The title was influenced by a Joni Mitchell song on Ladies of the Canyon which was current back then - "Morning Morgan Town". - Broadgate Gnome's comment reminded me that Leonard Cohen's Winter Lady was also an influence and the line Child of the Snow is a literary reference to Cohen - we used jam on Winter Lady in Coventry on the grass outside the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery back in the early 70's.

BELOW - NEW VIDEO PRODUCED BY THE GNOME LABEL OF BACK IN WINTER TOWN - THE SONG NOW FEATURES ON TREV'S NEW  ALBUM - SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND ON THE GNOME LABEL

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BACK IN WINTER TOWN

BACK IN WINTER TOWN

I persevered through

Persistent rain

Believing that the sun must shine.

Through the thunder clouds,

I kept my head

Wishing that the sun would shine.

I was isolated

by deep frozen snow

Believing that the sun would shine.

And the sun did shine,

and it shone so bright

that it dazzled me.

Chorus

And the rain came down

Now I’m back in

And the rain came down

Now I’m back in

(Bridge)

I'm a "child of the snow".  I'm a "child of the snow".  I'm a "Child of the snow"

I dug my way through fields of hurt

Believing I would find the key.

Through the gates of pain,

I kept my head

Believing I would find the key.

I was left alone,

In that nowhere zone

Believing that the key I'd find

And the key did shine

and it shone so bright

that it dazzled me.

Chorus

And the rain came down

Now I’m back in

And the rain came down

Now I’m back in .

(Bridge repeat)

Words 1970 Music 1986

By Trev Teasdel.

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Comments

[BroadgateGnome]

[this is good] Most impressed. Smitten  but a sort of deja vu smitten, like I have the  feeling that you must have shown me the lyrics some time  .just some lines. weird.,but good songs do that
But excellent  DD

[BroadgateGnome]

 I am not  so sure about that. Its  a memory thing rather than a recognition.I am getting some vibes from the presentation that  remind me of other things that I cant put my finger on.
But there is something more direct about the lyrics themselves  that gives m e that weird feeling. Its more as if somebody had shown them to me, back then. Are you sure you never sent them to the Gnome? Probably somebody equally smitten quoted some lines to me and it stuck at the back of my mind,until.
 Then it could be part of one of the "future flashes" that I get.
Although maybe its just a much more subliminal thing, a background theme to moping around Coventry,trying to find answers,on the day that a certain nurse hasn't shown up in the International Centre and without the bus fare to get to the parents in the hope of borrowing a couple of pounds.
Its also a commentary on memories themselves, looking back at all of those sunny days, when we know that most of the time it was grey and drizzled soaked.
I like this more than I did late last night,now I have recognised the last duck on Naul's Mill Pond flying away in disgust because i havent thrown any crumbs.
There is also a ripple of an idea in the presentation that I can associate with-that of being in encased in a bubble while ,able to watch but unable to interact with the world. (I call it a "sphere of confusion" nowadays.
Do You have plans for this? How would you tweak it , if at all?
This started of as a private message but I have decided to post it as a comment, in case others can make sense of what I am saying. DD