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Par Avion

from Green Ginger Wine by Robin Elliott

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Nice card gatefold case with artwork by Chris Timoney in greens and gingers with leaves, includes pull-out lyric booklet pre-folded and ready-to-read.

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    12" vinyl double-EP with Green Ginger Wine as side A plus five songs from the cut-short follow up Nowhere in Particular as the B side.

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about

I never used to write love songs, but now there's one on every record I make.

lyrics

you flew away from me after a year
and we said that our constancy would never waiver
or might never waiver, so long either one
had had nothing superior come along

then I thought I might love you
and in through my door
came laughing your letter and fell to my floor
with in-jokes all the envelope embroidered on
and under my name written par avion

o Antonia
always be mine
birds sing, stars shine
o Antonia

the closer you came, love, the further I fled
till in my fear and arrogance your love I left
I wouldn't say always I couldn't decide
if it was nothing I felt or if I hid inside

but what true emotion would dare shrink away
into empty night's cold from the warmth of your day
where your love waited smiling and soft-voiced in song
and no doubts had ever existed for long

o Antonia
nights grow colder
but where is your breath on my shoulder
o Antonia

then the birds sang the summer in and my heart believed
and the blossom burst forth and then fell like the leaves
of an autumn inverted and turned from as I turned to you
but it's a long flight by starlight
and you say the world's turned and stars might burn out
but still seem to shine true

now the sky's getting darker, dear, every day
and the birds overhead call as they fly away
the cold binds my fingers and howls at my door
it's the end of the world, dear
it must be: I'm sure

the planes are all grounded and the fuel is all gone
but the lesson your letter taught my heart flies on
I'm alone and I'm frozen I don't feel a thing
I walk out in to winter still hoping for spring

o Antonia
life's all leaving
but time turns all things
o Antonia

o Antonia
birds sing, stars shine
always be mine
o Antonia
o Antonia

© Robin Elliott 2015
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from Green Ginger Wine, released September 14, 2015

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Robin Elliott London, UK

Extraordinary songwriter and performer.

Funnier and more self-deprecating than this makes me sound.

Forthcoming album There is a Land is awash with novel narrative strategies and novelty Brexit tunes.

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