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Shadow Street Shuffle

from Where It All Began by daviesteelman

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Shadow Street Shuffle

You moved; I moved;
We said nothing,
Playing shadows.
Thinking in double time
Slow communication
Casting shadows.

And the mouse creeps down to the garner floor
The cat just smiles, flexes a paw
The dog’s away tonight; there’ll be trouble!

Looking, taking stock;
Across the pathway lie the shadows.
Move to intercept the slow trajectory,
End up chasing shadows.

Somewhere deep beneath the ocean’s heave
Skeletal fish gape and grimace.
With spark and glow they lure towards their jaws
The almost-blind – desperate for light.

Puzzled, trying to unravel
The complex interplay of light and shadow
Trying hard to fathom depth of feeling
Groping in the shallows.

Silent slips the slow-worm from his home.
He keeps his head down. He licks the air.
Swans fly overhead into the wind
Wing-beats slow, but making headway.

Focussing, our gazes meet, engaging;
My spirit surges with new-found exuberance.
My heart takes up its bed and follows on
Curving to the line of least resistance.

And how the snail struggles with her burden
And how the blackbird shouts his sympathy
And how the cuckoo-pint cowers for cover
And how the heart leaps and struggles to be free.
To be free, to be free.

credits

from Where It All Began, released May 21, 2018
Guitar solos - Stephen Wells
All other instruments, voices, programming, production, mixing and mastering - David Mudie

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daviesteelman London, UK

David lives in south London, UK. He has been writing and recording (but rarely finishing!) music for a number of years. He plays keyboards, guitar and bass, and enjoys the process of recording, producing and mixing.
He has played keyboards in The Arrivists and The Othersides, both London-based bands, and regularly played in blues-rock jam nights in south London (before Covid! Those were the days).
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