{"id":77,"date":"2016-10-05T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/throw-down-my-pack\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:15:00","slug":"throw-down-my-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/throw-down-my-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw Down My Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nTHROW DOWN MY PACK<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry June 1973 <\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nGive me my pack, I\u2019ll be on my way<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe lakes of this land are now dry.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIt\u2019s been a good soldier in its day<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut its eyes have no water to cry.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nThe sun looks bright but the land is in shadow<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLike madmen we tried to swim a tideless sea.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA sky full of planes but nowhere to land them<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA head full of ideas that cried to be free.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nInstrumental Break\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nThrow down my pack; I\u2019m bound for to stay<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI think we can turn on the tap.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTurning the tap is like tugging Excalibur<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe need all hands at the tap.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nThe sun looks bright; we\u2019ll invite it to stay<\/span><\/div>\n
\nOnce we find a place to land our planes.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA hand full of ideas; a jug full of water<\/span><\/div>\n
\nReap the fruit of our aims.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nWhere has the love gone; we\u2019re empty and aching<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWhere has the fun gone; it\u2019s turned into violence.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWhere are the people with words and no action?<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLet\u2019s have the action and less of the words.<\/span>
\n
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\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nFeatured on my album, Songs From the Coventry Underground<\/i>, Gnome Label, 2007<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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\n……………….<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn June 1973, John Bargent and I launched Hobo, Coventry Music and Arts magazine. After the first issue, John left to roadie with a jazz rock outfit Khayyam on their European tour and residency at Ronnie Scotts. John more or less financed Hobo so I was left in the lurch and the first verses came about after realising I wouldn’t be able to continue it. Not long after I met Babs, who I was seeing for a while and she got the second edition printed at her place of work, albeit duplicated. It save the the day the final verses appeared. The lyrics are ones I sing when things go wrong and I want to remind myself that things can be turned around. <\/span><\/div>\n
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