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What If We Had No Moon?

from What If We Had No Moon? by Steve Stroud

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A peacock is roaming around like he’s nothing to hide
Flaunting his feathers he raises his arse to the sky
With a bark and a whoop and a plucky red eye to the gods
He won’t fly, so we've all got to die

A baby was crying that day in the Look-In estate
Drowning out sorrows from an alcoholic mothers fate
The fate’s snarling and laughing and spitting on what is divine
You know this is why, we've all got to die

I suppose you think this was all a mistake in my eyes
I was on relief, I was stricken, I had my stripes
The guilt used to flow and beer never entered my spine
This is why you’re all going to die

The peacock said “Look, I’ll make you a deal if you leave me alone”
"You can get Christmas off every year, you’ll make lieutenant and then you can stop leasing your home"
We negotiated a salary although I think he had no authority to do so
This is why you’re all going to die
That’s mud in your eyes
You’ll cry "Why, why, why did we all have to die?"

You snivelling little toad, get your ungrateful, hateful, greasy hands away from my gates
I could have laughed at you, I could have snapped you like a twig,
I could have made you a snake

But it’s alright, it’s really alright
If you don’t look with your eyes at me
It’s alright really
You can see the sun coming up even on a workday
On a workday catch the number 51
Press your head against the window
It’s a workday
Oh my love, I need a job that don’t kill me anymore
Its workday, oh my workday was given to me in a dream
Can I play? I want to ask
And when I finally did
It was alright, It was alright

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from What If We Had No Moon?, released March 8, 2009
Steve Stroud: Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, String Arrangements, Percussion

Marc Joy: Electric Guitar

Colin Wilson: Bass Guitar

Mike Collins:Piano and Keyboards

Jai Stark: Drums

Written by Steve Stroud © Steve Stroud 2009
Produced and Engineered by Marc Joy
Recorded at Ferndale Productions

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Steve Stroud Liverpool, UK

Steve Stroud is a Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist from Liverpool, England.

He has released four solo albums, 'What If We Had No Moon? (2009), 'Hot Pink Flamingos' (2014) 'Lavalamp' (2016) and 'Sketches from the Bunker' (2021).

He runs an audio production studio 'Big Cloud Productions' in Liverpool.

Steve lives in Liverpool with Sarah, his audio equipment and his beautiful son Harvey.
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