SLeeve Notes and Foot Notes

Sleeve Notes and Footnotes is a little book of my lyrics available only from my website. It focuses on those lyrics up to 2013 of which I am most proud. For some of them I have written some sleeve notes, for me a much missed format that more or less disappeared with the demise of the LP. This is one of them introducing my song - now recorded on two albums:  Sister of a Dirty Moon.








Sister of a dirty moon

A man waits for a woman.
In the places where the echoes of the Dar as-Salam linger, the silhouettes of proud-bowed boats lie at sunset and the footsteps of the traders, mystics, scholars, fierce-bearded pirates and possessed loiter in the dirt,
a man waits for a woman.

Where a hot Sirocco wind teases the shutters and dogs sleep in doorways with one eye open,
 a man waits for a woman.

Through the scent of two-stroke motorcycles, orange trees, centuries of lofty washing lines and warm drains,
a man waits for a woman.

As the honking, rickety-racket, foot-dance day eases to a muttering susurrus and then ebbs to a sleepy doze,
so a man waits for a woman.

And as the everyday star emerges unexpectedly over jumbled roof tops and the wanton moon climbs into the purple sky,
still a man a waits for a woman.

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