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Spirit Out the Window

from A Hard Sentence by Thinkspeak

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Spirit Out the Window chronicles our ten week trip to Europe in 1982. For me travel has often, perhaps for its novelty, pulled me out of obsessive thought, into the present where everything is quite profound, marvelous and beautiful. The French phrase, Jamais Vu applies, literally Never Seen... the commonplace takes on the cast of the extraordinary.

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Laid down in London walked those streets
rode the double deckers that was neat
took a ship to Amsterdam walked those streets
bridges over waterways that was such a treat

2.
early train to Paris walked those rue
heard a late night street band cover baby blue
crossin Swiss snow caps sleepin on my elbow
spent the day looking spirit out the window spirit out the window

3.
saw an island village cities on a hill
pulled into Firenze Medici ruling still

4.
train again to Roma walked those streets
Raphael and Leonardo vermin in the sheets
Brindizi in the evening shy lovers in the park
walkin round the fountain flirtin in the dark

5.
out in open water bow into the east south
two black Nato fighters rude and ominous
mothball freighters idle anchored at Corfu
Onassis empire fading hope for something new

6.
night train to Athens walked those streets
step up to Acropolis years and backs that creak

Albert Hall all around the top images like on an urn
black silhouettes taken from the ancients

7.
back to Barcelona walked those streets
Picasso en Museo coffee leche sweet
coche to La Mancha walked those streets
tapas in the cafe El Greco and the priest

8.
Filipe took the country Generalissimo is dead
change the name of boulevards change the face of money

9.
Toledo and Segovia spirit out the window
Sentra and Lisboa spirit out the window

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from A Hard Sentence, released June 1, 2013

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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