Name: First & Last February
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First & Last February

from Letters To A Scattered Family (plus live versions/demos/etc) by Martyn Bates

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FIRST & LAST FEBRUARY

* you were that man so blue & slow, walking like poetry/
with a whistle that brought the world to heel/a mine of love for me .

* strong as the face of autumn leaves/blowing the breeze too free/
but it didn't matter none, I dig that mine of love for me -
that mine of love's for me .

* that february, the first & last time when the world tore you down
my friend -
that february - you let me look in you & I saw you born anew -
afraid of loving me .

*ah, meet me tonight in dreams to be tumbling in the streets/
with lives of a laughing tangled soul/
a mine of love for me -
you'll look like a sun - too harsh too watch/
but you'll do it joyfully -
so torn on the world you couldn't dig that mine of love for me -
that mine of love was for me .

* that february - the first & last time
when the world tore you down my friend/
that february - you let me look in you/
& I saw you born anew - afraid of loving me .

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from Letters To A Scattered Family (plus live versions/demos/etc), released May 2, 2023
* Martyn Bates : 12-string/spanish guitar/electric guitars/voices .
* Paul Sampson : bass/hand percussion/cymbals .

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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