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One Who Got Away

from Bleeding Edge / Distant Past by John Parkes

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One Who Got Away

You are slightly cold on summer days
You only have so much faith
You can never quite meet me here
Holding something back

And everyone has got a one who got away
Anyone can get it wrong and run away
Everyone can take summer on and turn it grey

So even though it’s raining stars
Even though the sunlight pours
This little piece of dark is yours

There is only drought in a cloudless sky
Too much sunlight makes you blind
Soft sand burns without some shade
And we can only build on hard ground

And everyone has got a one who got away
Anyone can get it wrong and run away
Everyone can take summer on and turn it grey

But it’s not written in the stars
There’s no fate or God or law
That says this piece of dark is yours

Watch them all carry on with confidence and summer skirts and bicycle bells
A kind of pain that feels the rain, the dark of love
The blood of life that makes it all real
Leaves you free to fall

Everyone has got a one who got away
Anyone can get it wrong and run away
Everyone can take summer on and turn it grey


By John Parkes

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from Bleeding Edge / Distant Past, released October 14, 2013
Acoustic guitar, vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals - John Parkes

Drums – Simon Smith

Keyboards – Neil Ferguson

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