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Cusp
© Penelope Swales 1995
Something about the day
Makes me just want to sleep all day
Something 
about the wind
Makes me want to let my mind blow away, blow away

Something 
about the sun,
Makes me just want to doze all day
Something about the 
temperature
Makes me want to dream on, dream on
My dreams get stranger as 
my sleep gets lighter

I can hear the sound of distant activity,
But the 
cocoon of heat and light around me,
Defeats all movement,
Seduces all 
motivation,
Dilutes all clarity

The wind moves the leaves in the trees,
A 
passing pensioner's just a mirage
And I'm so far away,
So far away,
From 
wherever or whatever it was that I began

Something about the dry
Makes me 
just want to cry all night
But if this desert's inside me,
How can I water 
it
With salt tears from the outside?
It has its own delicate ecology
And 
salt enough to ruin a richer plain
I need the relief of rain
I need the 
relief of rain
To rinse it all away

My heart goes out to greet the wind
I 
never realised how much I had been missing
The movement of the air,
The 
presence of unseen forces
Calmness is sometimes harder to navigate than any 
storm
And I have been becalmed
And now the breeze caresses me,
Suspended 
here in my
New-found, blue-bound
Isolation.

credits

from Returning on Foot, released January 7, 1995
Vocals, Guitar - Penelope Swales.
Violin - Paul Jonas.
Bass - Stephen Wright.
Percussion - Ajax.
Drums - Carl Pannuzzo.

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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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