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The first song I recorded using a 'decent' set-up in 2003. This was re-recorded in 2007 specifically for this album as the original didn't really stand proper scrutiny, quality-wise. Not mine, anyway...

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There's a rain falling on a small Honduran town
Wide-eyed women peer out between the bar
Of a small Cantina painted Orange and Brown
Dirtied by fumes of passing cars
Children sweep rubbish to the side of the road
For a few pesetas from the Gringo who works there
They all know tourists will be by in the evenings
So they put on their make-up and brush their hair
And the sweet rain's falling again
Washing away the dusty air
That sweet rain falling again on the people living there

Here comes 'Martin the cripple' on his skateboard
With his stumps newly-bandaged by the Jesuit hospice
He sits on the board on the patch he's worked for years
Hope in his eyes with each passing Tourist
Antonio the Pimp leans against his pick-up truck
Crushing his cigarette slowly with his fingers
Children play with a punctured football
Slowly deflating like an innocence that lingers

Well if it isn't Father Stephen, checking out what's going down
Pointing out the way to heaven with a smile and then a slight frown
There's two women standing talking about Madelaine
(The hooker who died just the other day)
And their voices sound like two Mandolins fighting
As they argue back and forth and slowly drift away.

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from The Unexpected - 2003 - 2007, released December 6, 2013

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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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