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If You Choose

from Skin: Deep by Penelope Swales

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If You Choose
© 2007 Penelope Swales

So the great prevaricator makes a decision
It’s time to leave the stage before he wavers
Any further oscillations, he can wrestle with alone
In his transit times, in his backstage moments

And if you choose
Bondage over freedom
Straight Street over the bohemian
There’s nothing I can do
And if you choose
Nurture over nature
Respectability over censure
There’s nothing I can do

To compromise an honest love
For a less honest love
Well, I, I understand
But I can’t collaborate
It goes too greatly
Against my grain

And if you choose
An inner isolation
Over a deeper understanding
There’s nothing I can do
And if you choose
Suppression over reckoning
If you’re gonna crush the whole thing down again
There’s nothing I can do

Coz law and order must be maintained
Artists, jockeys, queers all must be retrained
But always and forever
Our hands will be stained
By the blood of the death of dreams

Who were you in your naivety
To fondly believe you wouldn’t love me?
And who was I, in my misguided nobility
To think that I
Wasn’t going to play for keeps?

Choose a path
You better choose it wisely
Follow it cleanly, undividedly
That’s what you have to do
And oh, how far
Did I allow you to entice me
Into the world of compromise
That’s what I chose to do

And if you choose
Bondage over freedom
Straight Street over the bohemian
There’s nothing I can do
And if you choose
Nurture over nature
Respectability over censure
There’s nothing I can do
And if you choose
An inner isolation
Over a deeper understanding
There’s nothing I can do
And if you choose
Suppression over reckoning
If you’re gonna crush the whole thing down again
There’s nothing I can do
There’s nothing
There’s nothing I can do
There’s nothing
There’s nothing I can do
There’s nothing I can do
Ahh…..

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from Skin: Deep, released July 1, 2007
Vocals, guitar, stomp box - Penelope Swales

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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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