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Goodbye Guernsey

from As Quiet As A Mouth by Martoc

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All my friends have settled down.
They've given up music and hanging round town.
They've lost all interest in fun and games.
Now they're burning out with their old flames.
Goodbye to hello and hello to goodbye.
Was it time to leave or a time to die?

Goodbye Guernsey, Guernsey goodbye.
No Elephant's Graveyard when I die.
Guernsey goodbye, goodbye Guernsey.
When I'm far away I no longer feel free.

When I learnt to drive you shrank in size.
All distances diminished before my eyes.
There was never any space for compromise
But now I have you internalised.
Goodbye to hello and hello to goodbye...

Goodbye Guernsey, Guernsey goodbye…

You're the greatest place on the greatest world
In the known universe, you are.
More than El Dorado, Xanadu,
Or even Shangri-La.
Goodbye to hello and hello to goodbye...

Goodbye Guernsey, Guernsey goodbye

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from As Quiet As A Mouth, released August 6, 2009

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Martoc Suffolk, UK

Inspired initially by the Channel Islands with a soupcon of mental illness (an enduring interest), Martoc has launched 8 solo singles (vinyl versions now collectors items) and 11 solo albums plus a group album 'Albatrocity' and the recent Arc Rocket duo. Coverage has included John Peel playing 'Navigator through Nowhere' off the debut album 'For Alien Ears', and 'Love is Dead'. ... more

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