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Soaked Up In Sand

from Checkpoint by Contraplans

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Be a cold day in hell i said, was quickly on my toes
it was so far out of joint i didn't recognise my nose
and i don't know whose mistake it was, i guess i'll never know
but instead of resting on the sick i was ratting on the dole

so he took me under his wing, that's the type of bloke he was
even though he was barely old enough to blow his own fucking nose
so we handled independence well because we weren't alone
living in the shithouse chocolate factory excuse for a home

now it's gone?
Where's it gone?
all that potential?
Soaked up in sand.

it was gradually we made our inroads out to selly oak that's where
a girl soon came between us but of course we made it work
and we'd always need a new excuse to not open up the pub
till you'd won back all the taking's that you'd blasted on the slots

you know we could have fed the five thousand with the breakfasts that we stole
and when the fruit machines got lifted you had held open the doors
lucky Boss knew you were guilty of nothing but naivety
but you caught up with the world so fast it wasn't so much later you were. . .

Gone
where's it gone?
all that potential?
Soaked up in sand.

I'd spent a whole day on a train and i was just about to drop
when i heard the implication you would not be coming home
i was an extra 1500 miles from where i wished to be
and these legs couldn't take me fast enough but i had nowhere to go

you were on the front page of the papers and they called you a hero
but i selfishly wished they'd found someone else to fight their fucking war
but thats not the way you saw the world so i left that grief at home
and i'll celebrate the memories of the time..... before you were gone.

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from Checkpoint, released November 22, 2013
Written &Performed by John E. Devlin

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