"Stage" genre: Acoustic
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	This was a song written in the early days of public performing, way back when. Live recording from the Black Dog Coffee Bar, St. Paul, MN, 16 January 1999.
	MP3.com CD: This Side Of Paradise - buy it! CD: This Side Of Paradise - Through a glass darkly: Bootleg tracks from the Coffee Bars of St. Paul, MN., 1999   Label: Independent Credits: Words and music by Nigel Parry; Guitar and vocals by Nigel Parry; Espresso machine by Black Dog staff.
	Story Behind the Song This was a song written after I first started performing regularly. Lyrics do i remind you of someone you think you once knew? or am i your broken mind, your drowning ophelia in the pool? i'm a train of thought i flow like rain i play fear research games, releasing all my pain. how can i tell the colour of your eyes when they're both closed? music makes more sense to me than flowers by a concrete road leave all your life behind, toss it to one side and climb higher them and us is more than a phrase and the truth is fun when you're a liar. sometimes it seems that all these spirit diamonds aren't made from coal time spent here in front of you is time spent inside all our souls where i'm thinking forever i don't feel used i'm just not sure who's performing for who: sometimes its me but mostly it's you. in the labrynth landscapes in our mind, we build our shelters deep and hide forgetting that what we are frightened of, doesn't live outside. i'm a second of your life i will not die you clip your own wings, too afraid to soar, too scared to try. Mid-January 1990, London

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