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Secondhand Valentine

from Out of the Trees by Julian Gaskell

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Gaudy pieces of card held in hands
Organised and signed and stuck down with stamps
Posted under safely gated village lights
I'm in the market for some wild, grand gestures
kicking crushed twigs into roadside cambers
Because you and you alone make me feel alive
So to get out the message, to send you a sign
I'm gonna cross out that name, replace it with mine
And write it on a secondhand valentine

The sky is split up in grey compartments
The roses all filed in hallways and vases
On empty tables and overflowing bins
Seagulls going off like car alarms
Where the tunes on plazas once nailed through our hearts
Is it so hard to pinpoint the moment true love begins?
could you edit my face back in to that time
Undo the present, paste in my best lines
And burn them on a secondhand valentine Solo (B section)

Snatching the moments before the conclusion
Love embraces us briefly then heads back for seclusion
While bikes stand chained in pairs down by the stream
It's too slippery and cold, to have or to hold
It would promise you a world that’s rusted and old
So we make up our endings, we conjure disasters from dreams
Were you ever so selfless, so kind or benign
As when you wrote out his name, and you crossed out mine
And sent it on a secondhand valentine
I got lost in the darkness, misread the sign
You wrote his name, and you crossed out mine
It seems I'm just a secondhand valentine
Secondhand Valentine.

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from Out of the Trees, released October 1, 2020
JG - vocal, acoustic guitar, piano, accordion, drums
TS - upright bass

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Julian Gaskell UK

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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