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Timothy Cameron: Noises

The Place I Leave Behind

(from the album "...every cloud has a sulphur lining...")
The place I leave behind, in the dust
Some day I'll reminisce, if I must
And call up from the past, all I'm hoping to forget,
The threat of old regrets

The place I leave behind takes your voice
Conformity a rule, not a choice
A peg to fit a hole, shaped to someone else's needs
Indeed, but now I'm freed

Run, never look back, grinning as I pack
Things that may remind, me of the tedious grind:
The place I leave behind

The place I leave behind, with its ghosts
I learned from them that first and foremost,
That staying put would mean, losing part of what was me
Ennui a certainty

Run never look back, grinning as I pack
Things that may remind, me of that tedious grind:
The place I leave behind

The place I leave behind, finally
Is relegated to history
I've burned a final bridge, linking me to yesterday,
Okay I'm on my way
Nothing left to make me stay
I'll take a pass, now it's passe

(words & music by Timothy Cameron)