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A Week At The Cape

I’ve got ghosts in three cities, demons in my sleep,’ve got ghosts in three cities, demons in my sleep,
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You are my witness, my secrets you keep.ou are my witness, my secrets you keep.
Now stumbling without in the cold light of day,ow stumbling without in the cold light of day,
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I’m just a player in need of a play.’m just a player in need of a play.
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I walked down Longmarket, Wale Street and Brie,lked down Longmarket, Wale Street and Brie,
I searched for our tower, the old you and me,earched for our tower, the old you and me,
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And I stood under archwaysnd I stood under archways
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like mouths looking forlorn,ke mouths looking forlorn,
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My Prima Donna it’s almost the dawn.y Prima Donna it’s almost the dawn.
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I think of you sleeping, I think of you warm,hink of you sleeping, I think of you warm,
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I wrestle the darkness till I’m ragged and torn.restle the darkness till I’m ragged and torn.
You say the wind’s biting ou say the wind’s biting
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though the fields are still green,hough the fields are still green,
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The props are all ready, you’re setting the scene.e props are all ready, you’re setting the scene.
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So put on your armour and pick up your sword,o put on your armour and pick up your sword,
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I’ll find a guitar and sound out the chords,’ll find a guitar and sound out the chords,
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And we’ll meet in the wings nd we’ll meet in the wings
while the curtains are drawn,hile the curtains are drawn,
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My prima donna it’s almost the dawn.y prima donna it’s almost the dawn.
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So put on your armour and pick up your sword,o put on your armour and pick up your sword, About the songwriting process: St Georges Cathedral.
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I’ll find a guitar and sound out the chords,’ll find a guitar and sound out the chords,
And maybe you’ll leave me in love nd maybe you’ll leave me in love This song is about a trip that I took Verse two turns itself to thoughts about
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or maybe in scorn,r maybe in scorn, to the City of my birth – Cape Town, the person being missed. Back home
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My prima donna it’s almost the dawn,y prima donna it’s almost the dawn,
M of performances and one afternoon and happy and that bringing some
My prima donna it’s almost the dawn.y prima donna it’s almost the dawn.
with some time to spare, I took a walk comfort to the “player without a play”.
around some of the old haunts of my There is a theatrical theme that runs
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Click this link to listen...lick this link to listen... youth. It’s a song about nostalgia, throughout the song, hence the
remembering a love story about a references to “Props”, waiting “in the
“world of two” created by a couple as wings”, the “sword”, “armour” and
they experience being together as a “curtains” as well as the the love interest
moment trapped in time and separated being addressed as “Prima Donna” – the
from all other human contact. leading lady…

Verse one speaks to the nostalgia – the The song ends with a return to the
ghosts of relationships past and also idea that it was an experience that was
the loneliness of the one being in the encapsulated or frozen in time and that
city without the other. The street names to remain that way, it had to come to an
mark out the route through the city end – with the inevitable rising of the
centre and the “archways like mouths sun…
looking forlorn” are the great doors of .

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