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Summer Storm

from Writer's Mix (Vol. 2) by The Kellaways

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From "Paradise: Lost' (1999)

Melbourne in summer can be marvellously changeable and so can the mood of the harried worker. Heading home to St. Kilda in a foul mood after an angry work confrontation had been barely avoided. Carried on down to the waterfront where the full fury of the storm hit, bending trees double and sending sheets of sleet in horizontal layers. The colourful denizens of the St. Kilda streets responded in their own peculiar ways. Within minutes the storm was gone, the sun was back out, the beer in the Espy front bar tasted great and the anger was nought but a faint memory.

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SUMMER STORM

Singing in soaking warm rain, my pain is an open field
I peeled off the outer skin, found thin inner beauty there
A fair sunny day and a glass of champagne then remained
The anger had gone as a fierce summer storm, I refrained

Reading a book in the rain, the drain full of paper cups
And up in the sky the brown haze, is razed with a single swipe
Of Mercedes' new blades, mirror-max shades still remain
The anger is there but the clean breath of air, I refrain

The wind blowing hard in my face
Sleet driven sheets cross the bay
Trees arc and flick back in place
Blow away the words, I'm glad I never say

Waiting for a tram in the rain, the sane and the less so collect
Like insects at night round a flame, blame isn't easily pinned
The sinner is swift with the gift of the gab he remains
My anger is gone as a brief thunder storm, is contained

The wind blowing hard in my face
Sleet driven sheets cross the bay
Trees arc and flick back in place
Blow away the words

The wind blowing hard in my face
Sleet driven sheets cross the bay
Trees arc and flick back in place
Blow away the words, I'm glad I never say

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from Writer's Mix (Vol. 2), released October 6, 2012

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