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Originally the title track of my first cassette LP. A long time ago...

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Sheer Bravado (Don MacLeod - David Harley)

Look at us now, back to back / And so choked up
That neither dares to say a word.
What is this crazy game / where losing doesn’t count
As long as no-one sees you’re hurt?
It doesn’t seem to me / That you really want to break up:
And moving on is light years / From my mind.
Yet we fence and fight and snap / And when we ransack our emotions
For a clue to what we’re doing, all we find / Is sheer bravado.

It’s just make-believe: / Behind the thrust and parry,
We’re just two frightened people talking tough.
No-one would believe / We were so close an hour ago:
Isn’t it time we called our bluff?
It doesn’t seem to me / That you really want to break up:
And moving on is light years / From my mind.
Yet we fence and fight and snap / And when we ransack our emotions
For a clue to what we’re doing, all we find / Is sheer bravado….

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from View From The Top, released March 16, 2021
Words and Music: Don MacLeod and David Harley
Vocal, guitars: David Harley

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com

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