A low- key but enduring favourite, this song has a timeless quality to it which I find appeals. I tried several ways of recording it- harmonies, fiddle- but this solo take really did it for me, and felt most appropriate given the subject matter. I wrote it in the autumn of 1993 in Norwich, around the time of the eviction of the squat in the path of the Wymondham bypass, of which I had a rooftop view.
lyrics
C G Am
It grieves me to leave you this way or should I say
D7
I told you this would happen someday
C G
If I filled you with some false belief
Am D7 G
Then I hope its within your heart to forgive
So kiss me and wave me goodbye my dear
Hold me and try not to cry
By morning I'll be far away from here
So kiss me and wave me goodbye
I'm back on the road again, back to my roving ways
And I might pass by here some other day
And if we should see eye to eye
Perhaps then things would happen again by and by
So kiss.....etc
G Gmaj7 Em D
I've packed all my things and I'm starting to think
C D7
Of tomorrow and what it will bring
G Gmaj7 Em
Yesterday's gone and the future has come
C D7
We must learn from what's done and carry it on
To I don't know where or when, so many places and faces
I cannot say if or when
I'll be coming back here again, until then
Lets make this the final farewell
So kiss.....etc
I seek out some company when the time's right for me
But with every meeting comes a parting of ways
And it's not always easy for those who come close to me
That's the price for my living this way
So kiss.....etc
credits
from Solid Ground,
released May 28, 1998
Paul Gill- guitar, vocal
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