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Frightened Child (Unreleased)

Frightened Child sometimes titled as The World as a Frightened Child, has a big, spacious sound that needs a band. Not having a band, the song would sound lame if I recorded it, although it does work as a solo song in a live setting. The lyrics are not quite finished yet, even after all these years.


Final version of lyrics: Saturday, January 1st, 1994


Frightened Child (Unreleased)

Cry for the choking seabird
Flapping bleeding, ruined wings
On oily Shetland Island rocks.

Cry for the tide's dark, rainbow waves
Washing, thick and slow,
Against blackened village fishing docks.

Cry for the schools of fish
Gasping, choking, struggling, dying
In grey floes like rotting ice.

Cry for the vegetation,
Scorched and burned,
By an oil with a napalm hatred for plant life.

When will we all realise
That the world is a frightened child
That we have sexually abused?

The golden chain of life
Holding nature's fragile scales
Lies shattered at the craftsman's feet.

He reaches down - he hesitates,
Touching petroleum landscape—raped
And shudders as he weeps.

When will we all realise
That the world is a frightened child
That we have sexually abused?



THIS SIDE OF PARADISE by NIGEL PARRY

This Side Of Paradise album cover"...a disc whose recommendation is its deftly managed intensity"

-- New Internationalist, August 2001


"Deeply moving songs... With quiet intensity, Parry gives voice to this
'invisible people' living under siege."


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90.3/106.7FM, Twin Cities, MN.


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