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This song was originally written for the Bash Street Theatre production “The Cameraman”, a film-noir homage with music by Julian. Originally performed as a duet, its narrator now sits alone with his conflicted reflections on unrequited love.

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Squeeze me down to the fairground lights
Book a place for the moon, the sky’s full tonight
We could stroll on the seafront boards
Looking at drinks we can ill afford
And then crawl home on a midnight bus
But like the bread, you're all crust and  no guts
My skeleton was built to last
But maybe these bones have outlived my heart
That's why I'll never go away with you, 
That's why you'll never go away with me
And yet we'll never be far apart, sat on the corner of a photograph

You think that you're above the rules
A murmuration for those gaping fools
You blaze your trail on a fading sky
While picking the pockets of passers by
Who can't just drop it all and leave
To live like seagulls drifting on the breeze
I reach to you from the promenade
But you're too far gone to rejoin my path
That's why I'll never go away with you &c.

I wouldn't mind being left alone
A figurehead on a grounded boat
They don't know the storms we've seen
Or the people we might have been
Before they clear the deck, send us back to the night
Lets empty the bottle, put the world to rights

And before you tire of my voice and my gaze
I'll put my heart back in its case
That's why I'll never go away with you &c.

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from A Shandy Ballad, released November 3, 2023
Words and music by J. Gaskell ©2021
Recorded in Penryn, October 2023 by
Julian Gaskell - vocal, guitar, accordion, bodhran, bells

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Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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