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An excerpt from the first single from my forthcoming 2nd solo LP

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Something a little bit different here from the songs on my debut album, The Changing Of The Seasons…

English Summer... A song written from the point of view of someone planning to emigrate, and considering the good and bad things about the country they were born in… It’s a song about mythical England… From ‘Good King Penda’ to Charles III, village greens & country gardens; with a cast of characters along the way including Ray Davies & Nick Drake, Queen Victoria & Edward Elgar, Johnny Rotten & Syd Barrett… England as it lives in the imagination, in music & fiction & poetry, and how that intersects awkwardly with the 'real world'...

It also has a bit of a different sound world from my debut… I play piano on it for one thing, and drum kit; and it was my first experiment with playing my own string parts…

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Lyrics:

Love God waiting at the gates of morning
Ride the bus up to the fields of strawberry
Rest in gardens where we feel secure, you're
Making daisy chains and eating blackberries

Lie there dreaming of a lark ascending
On her way to fight for good King Penda
Lazy Sundays chasing the White Rabbit
Ride your bicycle like you're Syd Barrett

On the village green with Mary-Jane, just
Five leaves left and then back home again, to
Wander lonely down abandoned high streets
Dry-stone walls have given way to concrete

Can we say goodbye to English Summer
Don't go home again?
Can we say goodbye to English Summer
When this summer ends?

Or shall we wander under dreaming spires
Built on plunder and the words of liars
On through dark, satanic retail centres
Where no-one lives because it's too expensive

No more bluebirds over cliffs of Dover
Til this island can be a safe harbour
Queen Victoria she went much too far
Hope and glory died with Edward Elgar

Can we say goodbye to English Summer
Don't go home again?
Make a brighter future in New Zealand
When this summer ends?

Will you hold your breath for one last swallow
On the breeze that's blowing through the willows?
Or will you find yourself an English lover
Lie there taking pictures of each other?

Still this countryside is green and pleasant
No more working class but we're still peasants
Can you feel the changing of the seasons?
Leaving England now in search of freedom

Yes, I'm, wondering will King Charles miss me
Whilst he's blundering through English history
No more future left in England's dreaming
Sleep in Wonderland but wake up screaming

Can we say goodbye to English Summer
We won't go home again?
Can we really say goodbye to English Summer
When this summer ends?

(Raphael Mann)

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Maree Choie - vocals, clarinet & flute
Raphael Mann - vocals, piano, bass guitar, drums, Spanish guitar, ukulele, glockenspiel, cabassa, tambourine, triangle, cello guitar, bowed taishogoto

Written, arranged, engineered & produced by Raphael Mann

Video & artwork by Raphael Mann

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