Name: Stranger In Uniform
Duration: P00H06M20S
Description: One of the few tracks here that aren't at all blues-y. The (just) pre-war theme (there's probably a novel there) is, I guess, folky, though I've always preferred to play it on electric guitar.

Stranger In Uniform

from Dinosaur Tracks by David A. Harley

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One of the few tracks here that aren't at all blues-y. The (just) pre-war theme (there's probably a novel there) is, I guess, folky, though I've always preferred to play it on electric guitar.

lyrics

Quiet days / Slow march past of the minutes
Remorseless progression / of the hours
The sun burns out / in a mock tropic sky
The sands run down / and time holds its breath

Waiting, ever waiting for the stranger in uniform
To shatter the mirror-still days

Quiet days / counting falling leaves
Stripping petals / from a scrap of bush
Nights under the trees / hiding from the world
Singing wild songs / to a gypsy moon

Waiting, ever waiting for the stranger in uniform
To shatter the cut-crystal days

Quiet days / sunrise leaps from tree to tree
A small boy with a fishing rod / re-lives jam-jar days
Ripples smooth away / the wrinkled image
Waiting for history / to rewrite the page

Waiting, ever waiting for the stranger in uniform
to shatter the diamond-cut days

Quiet country days / in a honeymoon paradise
Raindrops / dancing tiptoe on the glass
Clouds hang heavy / as time and history
Hiding in each other / in autumn 1939

Waiting, ever waiting for the stranger in uniform
To shatter the looking glass days

credits

from Dinosaur Tracks, released July 12, 2021
Words & Music by David A. Harley
Electric guitar and vocal by David A. 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