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"The epic ‘Long Way Out’ is really quite a voyage – the intro showcases Hollingsworth’s impressive dexterity and is lent a spooky edge by the faint sound of conversation simmering underneath, then the song itself sets off on a dusty country road, with the singer at one point sounding like a blue whale giving its mournful cry across the ocean. It’s one of those rare pieces of music that if it went on forever may just draw the listener into its own Bermuda triangle – see also ‘The End’ by the Doors and ‘Galaxy of Emptiness’ by Beth Orton to name just two." - Dave Urwin, Live Music Scene, album review

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I don't need drugs to feel sane again
I rove alone, now, in the night of the Wheels
Your fate's your own now, you know how living feels
You can wait a lifetime to see the stone roll down the hill
The Holy Rollers fade in and out, allowed
In the Crowd, they hear...

“I read it on the Internet, an empty modern epithet
That a friend is a stranger you just haven't met”

“God alive! The sky's a bowl! I'd never want to sell my soul
For a simplification of the Truth, Reduced Negation, here's the proof...”
(wo hoh_______hoo...)

Magic surprise, make the Truth disappear before your eyes
To fall in with the lies, you must internalise
That living the Life is an over-sublimation of far too much information
You can lose the intimation that the only implication is the Real-World's subjugation
To the Night, We'll blow the way, we'll see
Through to the Dawn on the other side

One Life, Live it, basically you can't believe your eyes
Easy living, something gone but you can't name the price, 'til, eyes wide
Walk along the edge of where the Sand that meets the Land
And where the Sky that meets the Sun that meets the Wind

The Eye beholds the Knife that's joined to the Hand that holds the Blade
And it will see the Story played if it can
Dream long, Live it, Time and Time and Time and Time again
Feel my New Song, feel the Fevered Dream and watch the Wheels Turn
Cobwebs burn...don't weep for the loss of jewels that flee the sun, cause it's all One

And I stand and watch

Only long enough to put this thing to bed
Until the next time I feel this Esoteric make-up of the motivation
That guides the tides...

And it was only my mistake to think it mattered
Right or wrong
I took the Long Way Round.

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from Coming Home To Stay - album, released March 12, 2007
James Hollingsworth

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