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La Vie!

from The Overflow by Humphreys & Keen

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Graeme Humphreys here.
This tune started as a simple exercise I devised to get fit on my left hand at the piano. Etudes I think the old crusties called them.

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Deep late in the night.
The pull of dark,
the chance of flight.
A chance to steal back to the light.
It nicks and burns,
You twist and turn.
Can I be brutally frank.
Let me be perfectly clear.
If it's not blinding obvious,
don't wait no longer.
Don't wait your turn.
La Vie.

Uplift the sign, in point of fact and right on time.
Force not and refine, the truest path makes it's own line.
Can I be uncomfortably close.
Starlingly near.
Waste not on fantasy.
It's never better.
Watch your purse.
La Vie

Life rich, divine, the fullest glass, the neighbours wine.
At one with calm, peace, and serenity.
How clever can you be?
When you take charge it's electrifying.
Give me a break, for heavens sake, stand back I will demonstrate, it's somehow never too old, and it is never too late.
La Vie

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from The Overflow, released February 20, 2006
Humphreys/Keen

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Humphreys & Keen Auckland

Graeme Humphreys & Peter Keen were the primary songwriting partnership of the critically acclaimed Able Tasmans, an NZ band in the Flying Nun stable that produced 4 albums & one EP.

Named from the A B Paterson character Clancy of the Overflow, the ideas are drawn from many sources; Australian outback poetry; magic realism; a train between Bologna & Firenze; & our dark little rainy island. ... more

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