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Recorded live on a Tascam 234 with 2 microphones in the kitchen of Rowan the Drummers house - leaving 2 tracks for overdubs.

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Sooner or Later
© Penelope Swales 1989

It’s hard, now to say – let’s wait and see
When you just want to decide
It’s hard to take a hard line
When you wanna let it ride

Let me sing you a love song
No it won’t take long
It’s the story of someone who believed in right
Falling in love with someone
Who didn’t believe in wrong

He told her that he loved her
Then he told her she was spoken for
And she told him she’d just end up climbing out a window
If he tried to lock the door

And she said
“Sooner or later, temptation rears its ugly head
Sooner or later, the initiated can’t help but turn their head”

Oh, you’re not pretty
But you smell so good
Your touch lingers
Like I knew it would
I feel your fingers
Feelin’ so fine
I can feel my body
Turnin’ water into wine

It’s the classic dilemma
It’s too old to be cliché’d
I’m too young to be tied down
I’m too streetwise to be waylaid
It’s the classic situation
It’s too old to be clichéd
You know, there’s no such thing as seduction
Because always somewhere the decision has been made

She told him that she’d do her best,
But it goes against the grain
Him saying he has no faith in her
Is only adding to the pain

If I take the apple,
It’ll destroy me from inside
Ah, but if I don’t take the apple
I’ll never be satisfied
Does that make me the black lady?
Do you paint me femme fatale?
Does you answer lie in ownership?
The territorial snarl

Let me sing you a love song
No, it won’t take long
It’s the story of someone trying to get it right
With someone who won’t admit
Anything is wrong

He closed his ears to issues
That she needed to address
Left her when she overflowed
With what she could no longer suppress

Sooner or later, temptation reared its lovely head
And she thought – well, at least I’m free now
To heed the call of another bed

So do you think it’s tacky?
Does that make me femme fatale?
How was I supposed to know
That he’d decide to want me after all?

Now he tells me he’ll accept me
As I really am
But I can’t help but be sceptical about if he really can

Ah, but in his eyes, I recognise
The plight of a younger me
I recognise the desperation
I understand the urgency
Ohh….
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later

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from Archive Vol. 2: Songs from the Borderline 1989​-​1992, released July 1, 2005

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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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