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Hooks and Lines

by Original Spruce

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Halfway Up 03:19
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There will always be Someone ahead So set your own rules For the journey The view from the top Is mighty fine But the view half way Is not bad Stop for while you Smell the roses Think while you Boiling the egg Give yourself a break Settle for a little less Be happy to have Got this far Count your blessings See how far you have come You've got this far through life Well done! Half way up the tree Its a pretty good place For you and me To be  © M Spruce 2020
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Lockdown 03:40
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Lockdown We’re on Lockdown In our homes We’re all shut down In our homes I miss friends and family And holding hands There’s a new kind of fear Stalking the land And we’re changing Mantra’s We recite them We clap for hero’s In the night then We follow the science Keep watching the R New ways of working Finding our who we are And we’re changing Twenty, Twenty We didn’t have the vision We see others Who can inspire us Keep two meters Avoid the virus We’re finding out What we really need Re arranging our world Cutting back on the greed And we’re changing. ©Mark Spruce 2020
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Searchlight 03:25
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Its hard to keep your chin up When we're facing the end So many things now Driving me round the bend Feel like a specimen Trapped in a bell jar Switch off the servers Its all gone too far Stand on the beach Watch the crashing waves Jumbled thoughts about Never being slaves © Mark Spruce 2020
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Clearing the Floor 03:50
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Forty years ago A child helped you put this up Now you are the child You can help me take it down Laying the concrete floor You were the man Who knew so much more Than me Now this old garage Is cluttered and dusty Full of Possessions And those memories All those things kept Just in case. Do they still have a value? Still have a face? A task that needs doing Poignant memories sad But I'm sharing the moments With my dear old dad Changing roles The passage of time Passing on the baton Moving up on the line Clearing the floor Clearing the metaphor Clearing the passage Of time © Mark Spruce 2019
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Kings Cross 74 04:00
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Sipping tea in an all night Wimpy Kings Cross in 74 Missed the last train home After the party I didn’t wan to sleep on the floor The bright lights of London A young man’s awakening Soho and Carnaby street In awe of guitars I look over my shoulder And there’s the face of Greg Lake Ch No matter how the years turn The memory burns It’s one in the morning I’m outside the Wimpy It’s a dirty and dangerous place An empty bench I lie down in the station Look up to see a friendly face Where you off to son The night guard asked me as I sit curled up on the shelf Get yourself on the mail train north now He’s probably a father himself No matter how the years turn The memory burns ©Mark Spruce 2019
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June 03:59
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It must have been strange June To find me in your room Even though it’s now Early September. Your dinner party conversation Flowed without hesitation Though the subjects I have find hard now to remember. The Gatsbys and the Spatsbys The Lavinia don’t do thatsbys Appalled and enthralled By your charms. You made Aunt Maud applaud Uncle Bertie seemed less bored Freddie and Henrietta Were disarmed. Brother Charlie gave you The glad eye You made sister Susan sigh Your coquettish smile Left cousin Richard Almost melted to the floor. But your charming little glances Led me to take my chances So here I am standing At your door. Oh June May I come into your room Please excuse the lateness of the hour I want to rise to the occasion Be the carpel to your stamen Be the bee collecting honey From your flower I've fallen for your charms Please fall into my arms Lets share the remainder Of this night We'd play comedies and dramas Both in our silk pyjamas If I could hold you Until the early morning light. It would hardly be a sin If you'd just let me in Come here my dear Lets take advantage of this chance.  © Mark Spruce 2020
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Contagious Benediction 03:33
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The facts remain But perspectives change I see you now As the man you really are A selfish creature With a mind firmly shut If I were harder hearted I'd tell you how I feel I can't change you Today or any day But the stars are re aligning For the better If I'm not here I'll be somewhere else Drive to the end of the world I'll be just down the road. I'm not there But here and now The box marked pain Can be buried in the ground Thirty years to realise Thirty days to react Feelings in their Proper place at last Serenity spreads A contagious benediction Released at last A contagious benediction © Mark Spruce 2017
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Walk in the Light 04:08
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Like a star in the daytime You just can't see me The world revolves around you Like a star in the daytime You just can't see me You have a different view I built your foundations left before your graduation Abandoned the building of you Tried to be from a distance But I accept my persistence Left us stuck in a place That's not true Ch Ah but once I shone Bright in your night sky You walked in the light from me Once I lifted you High on my shoulders Showed you all you could see Time moves on And I've reluctantly discarded A suitcase worth of feelings Slowly letting go My emotional baggage A heart that's finally healing So go your own way For now I'm redundant In a world I used to hold dear Make your own world Create your own language If you speak I hope I can hear © Mark Spruce 2016
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Suspended 03:28
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Suspended Have we run out of time Suspended Hung out on the line Suspended Have we run out of steam Suspended It feels like a dream Suspended I can see more from here Suspended Cant speak but I can hear Suspended Light. I’m in the light ©Mark Spruce 2020
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Gliding 03:25
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Gliding with my son Across the sky Sun on my face And the wind rushing by Got a feeling of pure perfection Gliding in all directions The air is taking me higher For a glorious moment I’m flying Rising up so high Above the clouds Sweeping along So far from the ground Together we’re sharing these feelings Emotions and bodies both reeling A father and son to the end Re connecting as friends The sky’s a big, big place I feel the sun on my face And that’s fine Soaring into the blue like my heart The smile on his face takes me back To the start I got a feeling of pure perfection Moving in all directions The air is taking me higher For a glorious moment I’m flying © Mark Spruce 2016
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Stone Nicely Stone 03:43
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She cries over Verdi She cane weep to Debussy She cries over Verdi She can weep to Debussy But I’ve heard her in the shower Singing AC/DC It’s colours she’s hearing Dark Purple, marine She’s my artistic queen Oh Stone nicely stone Your loved by so many Stone nicely stone I’ll say it right now Stone nicely stone I love you more than any Stone nicely stone More than anyone else She can be clumsy Sometimes things get broken She can be clumsy Sometimes things get broken But she’s bright and she’s hones It’s never left unspoken Oh stone nicely Stone…. Like trying to guide a butterfly Or a fawn on a frozen lake With her ever changing focus Child like wonder She creates The soul of a cat And the heart of a flower The soul of a cat and the heart of a flower When she’s lost in the making Cut painting, creating She can lose track of the hour. ©Mark Spruce 2019
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Exploring 03:24
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Its another small adventure Heading somewhere new What’s just round the corner Let’s find another view We can choose, what we do Out little explorations Enjoy the country air Looking to the future And the memories We can share if we dare Far enough To be somewhere different Close enough To be home for tea Far enough For a little adventure It only works If you come with me Country churches And little towns Secret woodlands And ancient grounds Where we found each other Ham and chips One from the keg Back a different way On the homeward leg Far enough To be somewhere different Close enough To be home for tea Far enough For a little adventure It only works If you come with me © Mark Spruce 2016

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This album is a selection of some of the songs I have written between 2016 and 2020. The common theme for nearly all of them is, however they ended up, they started life on an acoustic guitar.

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released January 9, 2021

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Original Spruce Newark, UK

Singer songwriter based in the East Midlands, UK.

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