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Colour of Anyhow

2/22/2017

'Colour of Anyhow' is the first song on the 1970 GRT album. This photo is the back cover.

Lenny Breau's brilliant and delicate touch graces this simple, yet haunting song.

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The young me is looking out, directly at the world. But either the world is veiled, or I am, somehow.

What a complicated internal and external reality I inhabited then. How difficult is was to just be myself. Years spent being partials ... a bit of me here at this time, a bit of me there at another. Youth. Pain. Yet, still somehow, optimistic and quiet within.

I thank the young me for having the fortitude to see me through to the old me. She knew then. He knows now.

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Heartache

2/9/2017

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I was listening to songs written over the years, and came across this one, Heartache. Canadian musician and composer, Howard Baer orchestrated it with such finesse.
The beautiful painting, entitled 'Passage', is by the amazing artist and dear friend, Valerie Nichol.

Musings

Suffering the loss of a loved one is part of life. We all know it. Makes no difference though, when loss comes to call as it did for me in 1998. Suddenly, and totally unexpectedly, my beloved was gone, gone, gone.

I wrote this song ,which still today, happy as I am, startles me with the depths of its painful reflections.

The good news is...I lived through it, learned from it, made a subsequent mistake because of my assumptions about having healed from it, then really healed and found 'the perfect one' waiting for me. She was waiting for me to go through all of that, and emerge more whole, and more able to love.

'Aint it the way!

We walk our path, stumble, get up, and finally look back one day in deepest appreciation for having been able to rise wiser, and perhaps more beautifully adorned by our scars.

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Slavin'

2/4/2017

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There's not much to say about this, friends. The pictures say most of it. I wrote it in 2013 after a particularly enlightening work experience. I'm posting the lyrics as the Musings. The mouth harp player is my dear friend, and wonderful visual artist, Chard Chenier.

Musings

Slavin'
music and lyrics by B. Glenn Copeland
© B.Glenn-Copeland SOCAN 2013

You grind your life at the wheel
to sweeten the corporate deal
The only jobs they make
will chain you to the stake

Slash the funds for the poor
Who are crawlin’ to your door
They need another fool
And you can’t afford to send your children to school

              Slavin’ for the slavers
               Pimpin’ for the power

               Ave Maria

You’ve got a family of four
tellin’ you they all need more
You just can’t make ends meet
Watch the tube and go to sleep

Your daddy’s been long gone
Your mama's in an old folks' home
Soon will be your turn
Your kids they watch, they learn

           Slavin’ for the slavers
           Pimpin’ for the power

Long hours for your pay
There’s less of it everyday
Somewhere around the world
A woman makes a penny for a whole day’s toil

Need some land to drill
Rape and burn and kill
Drive folks from their home
Then give ’em a job and give ‘em a loan

           Slavin’ for the slavers
           Pimpin’ for the power

               Ave Maria

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