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Not Pretending

from Regency Cafe by Tom Blackwell

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lyrics

I would fell a hundred trees,
Just to have you darling please,
Tell me you will wait all the while,
That I’m out here on my knees,
In this stubborn Southern heat,
With my songs,
Of broken valentines,
For it’s the only thing I know,
That makes any common sense,
To feel them rolling wheels,
Spin the needle without a thread,
But now I’m blue,
Because I’m not pretending

So if you tell me I am yours,
Before I steal without a cause,
I can reveal,
The will of a better man,
Than the one you first embraced,
Full of worries on his face,
Incapable of paying what he owes,
And there ain’t no one as blinkered,
Or set in silly ways,
Prepared to shoot the witness,
Who saw him through the haze,
Swearing blue,
That he’s not pretending

And I would plough a thousand fields,
To have the heavens yield me a way,
To keep you from the dark,
For I know its always in me,
The wolf asleep with one eye shut,
The other gazing to the gallows,
In the distance in the rough,
Swearing blue,
That he’s not pretending

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from Regency Cafe, released September 15, 2023

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Tom Blackwell Stockton On Tees, UK

Anyone who has seen Tom Blackwell perform in one of the small, forgotten venues across the North of England he has haunted for over a decade will have witnessed a truly sublime singer-songwriter distilling his blues, folk, soul and gospel influences into what Bob Harris has rightly described as, 'Wonderful, heartfelt music'. ... more

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