![]() 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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5/11/2019 04:57:04 am
Slow notes and foot notes is an interesting book that caught my attention. It tells about music and how music can make a huge difference in our lives. An effect that will make our life better and we will be stronger for music is the one that can heal our scars and motivate us in so many ways. We are all in need of that person or hobby where we can release the stress that we are feeling. A hobby that can mend our souls.
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