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Little Mary

from Cloudcatcher by Kevin Blight

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A song about my commute. The characters are real people, the verdicts are real....just like Judge Judy. 'Little Mary won't set the world on fire' was a snippet of bitchy conversation that I overheard on a station platform...

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'He / She' is sitting in the carriage today
If it's man or woman I just could not say
She's either an ugly woman or a pretty man
But with legs like that I couldn't give a damn
She's got hands like a builders & elbows like mine
In the dark or at a distance she might look fine
But the devil's in the detail not the surgeons blade
And the way that she walks says that she's 'Man-Made'

The girl that I call 'Gobshite' is on the telephone
Doesn't seem to care if her business is known
She broadcasts every word through the length of the train
But every day the subject is always the same
She doesn't seem to have a life that you could describe
She just recycles gossip from the 'Metro' headlines
Oh she could be a Nazi if she thought it was cool
But for now she's just a gobshite and somebody's fool

'...Little Mary won't set the world on fire....'

Fat and sweating businessmen search for a seat
And every day I'm praying they won't sit next to me
It looks like I'm unlucky as one settles down
A broadsheet and computer and a dripping frown
Only god above knows how they get that way
Expense accounts must take a pasting every day
The trolley man must mint it from the North to the South
As my travelling companion shoves his wares down his mouth

'...Little Mary won't set the world on fire....'
Yeah, come on....come on, come on, come on.

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from Cloudcatcher, released January 7, 2014

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Kevin Blight Stafford, UK

Award winning songwriter Kevin Blight is often compared to Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby & Joe Jackson. Writing in a multitude of styles his roots are firmly in the Folk-Funk-Punk-Blues-Rock genres...primarily a Guitarist, he also plays Bass, Keyboards, Mandolin, Harmonica & any other instrument he can get his hands on...including Pringles Tubes. ... more

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