Speakeasy

from String by Tyrone and Lesley

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lyrics

Red door: knock twice
It’s an underworld paradise
Clouds in here: in here we reign
We let it flow ‘cause we feel no pain

Come downstairs where the music’s hot
Look at what I’m wearing (and what you’re not)
Now you can see - this tiger’s blind
Gonna spring for you as I unwind
I’m in the….

Speakeasy (easy speak)
Drink until your knees go weak.
Speakeasy (easy speak)
Come downstairs, find what you seek
Pour me another, we’re pawing each other
(2nd time ‘in a dimly lit cellar I was a good looking feller’)
ΩI’m less inhibited, when it’s prohibited
Nobody need know up above
Trip downstairs and fall in love

Same building, same street
same wee hours where we used to meet
nostalgia ain’t what it used to be
it’s hard to believe that girl (young chap) was me

A stack of chairs stacked like years
words spoken easy tend to disappear
Sick with love, sick with gin
Self medication: the doctor is in the…

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from String, released May 30, 2022

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Tyrone and Lesley Brisbane, Australia

The skill needed to pull our emotions from amused jubilation to sombre beauty is a rare one but these guys have it in abundance UkePlanet (UK)

tyroneandlesley.wordpress.com

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