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Small Mind

from one: walk with me by Simon Dwight

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A guy I used to work with once told me angrily that I was 'A small minded little man'. I just laughed, came home and wrote this.

Whilst recording it, these two characters emerged. A pair of sad, old worn out fellows who liked to play Guitar Hero. Nothing much better to do with their time, they stepped in and put down some lead at the end of the song. If you listen really carefully you can hear them shout to one another.

Whilst mastering this I thought about cutting out the end and stopping at the track when the vocal finished, but these two strange men - the 'guitar heroes' talked me out of it.

So you tell me, truly, can I be a 'small minded little man' when this is the kind of thing I get up to?

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Small Mind

I'm a small minded man
I'm closed up to new ideas and thoughts,
I live in a mental landscape with dead trees, leaves and compost heaps
Of love - I've known some sometime...
Of hope - that died with all my many teenage dreams...
Of faith - a well that's long since run dry

How can I open my eyes and see when I'm blind?
(And so many other people here are like me)
I guess, I have to content myself with the thought
That at least, I know I'm blind
And that I'm a small man with a real small mind

So where did it all change?
What happened to all those Big Dreams?
Where is the hope that I lived inside?
And where is the faith, the faith that purified?
And where is the love? Where, oh, where is the love?

It's on the inside,
On the inside
And I want to see the outside again...
Please, please
Roll back the Rock
Turn on the :Light, Spark up the Sun
It's time to stop and face the wind
Not turn on my madness, on my heals and run

And when the muse has gone - tell me where can you search?
Where can you turn? Hide? Run?
Tell, oh please tell me,
Who, who turned off the Sun?

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from one: walk with me, released May 3, 2012
All guitars and vocals by Simon Dwight
Written, recorded, mixed, engineered and produced by Simon Dwight

Bradwell Common, Milton Keynes 2006
Licensed by Tide Music

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