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Corporation Lane

from Between Light and Dark by Penelope Swales

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Corporation Lane
© Penelope Swales 1993

Slippin’ through the shadows
Straight down Corporation Lane
I’m a-lookin’ for a job
I’m tryin’ to find a way in I can get out of again
Trying not to be lost forever in the mob

Gotta get on my feet again
I’m past caring
But I know there’ll be a time when
I’ll be daring
To start out on my own again

I’m tired, now it’s hard,
But I can’t turn back now that I’ve come this far
Now that I’ve come this far

Hidin’ from the horror
In the streets and in my mind
Knowing things will never be the same
Fighting off the emptiness your passing left behind
I was fighting to track him down before it came

Just to have warm arms to fall into
Just to have warm life to cling to
While the wave broke, while I wrangled
With my grief and my despair
Just to have somebody there,
So not to be alone

Hideously alone
With the knowledge
Of your passing and your pain
What a time to have him let me down again

I was cryin’ for him
Coz you were gone
Cryin’ I need help to carry on
I was crying sore

The death of a friend I’m crying or
Was it the death of a friendship?
I’m not sure
Which I was crying for
Which one I was crying for more

Could I ever be content
In Corporation Lane?
Could I ever fit into the mould?
I’m practising my special art of staying insane
And I’m tryin’ to suss is out
Before I get too old

Gotta get on my feet again
I’m past caring
But I know there’ll be a time when
I’ll be daring
To start out on my own again

I’m confused now,
It’s unclear
How could I be so far,
When I thought I was so near?
I thought I was so near

Too tired to think straight
About Corporation Lane
Too tired to think straight
About Corporation Lane
Too tired to think straight
About Corporation, Corporation, Corporation
Lane------.

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from Between Light and Dark, released September 11, 1993
Penelope Swales - guitar, vocals
Trish Anderson - vocals, bass
Rowan Brown - drums

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Penelope Swales Boolarra, Australia

Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics, love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020. ... more

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