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Tough love

from Heresy and Hearsay by James Bar Bowen

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Tough Love (2006)

When you put your arms around me and say you’ll never let me go
I often try to say the same thing too
I seek the comfort of strangers for the strangeness of it all
Who leave me hanging like you always do

Our meetings are always fraught with feeling
And our feelings are always full of fears
I’m seeking inspiration, I’m breathing in your smell
Till our farewells get crowded with our tears

Chorus
Tough love is for lovers much tougher than me
Tough love won’t ever set you free

Now I’m looking for a welcome where no one seems to care
No concept of the time that’s passing by
And I’m looking for a way in with words and more to share
Conversation where no one has to try

I get a sense of dislocation from a place I once belonged
Or at least I though it was the place for me
Now you’re living on the west side and our story still unfolds
Enough love is good enough for me

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from Heresy and Hearsay, released June 5, 2013
James Bar Bowen played guitar and sang.
Roddy Johnston played violin.
John Vaughan played bouzouki.

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James Bar Bowen Huddersfield, UK

Acoustic folk punk singer-songwriter with attitude. Award-winning songs to make you laugh, cry and rage.
Original, unusual, controversial, political, heart-felt, tear-jerking, angry, inspired, humorous, iconoclastic, sentimental, anti-fascist, engaging, intelligent ... more

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