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No Place for Heroes

from Some Folk by Pete Robinson

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An old friend of mine asked if I’d take a look at some lyrics of his and see what I could come up with. This is a true account of an ex-soldier suffering with PTSD. Unable to deal with losing the men under his command he loses everything and finishes up on the street. Unrecorded in the song is the happy ending – he becomes involved with the Invictus Choir which turns his life around.

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Cold November, damp. I’m living like a tramp. Nowhere to stay no place to go
My feet two lumps of lead. Nowhere to lay my head. Blow you winter winds blow.

Upstanding family man. Now that’s all down the pan. I’m dying here on the street
Wearing out some road. My brain on overload. I am dead and I am beat.

There’s no happy ending here. The past it keeps on sending me
Receiving like a phone.
Radio squawking. That’s my boys’ voices talking.
Did they make it home? Didn’t make it home!

So I’m a little tight. This doorway’s home tonight. Unroll my sleeping bag
And as I close my eyes a little more of me dies. So I’ll smoke this little fag’

God don’t make me dream. Don’t wake me with a scream. I’m lying naked on this floor
Can’t make them go away. Things I saw on that day. I can’t take this any more

There’s no happy ending here. The past it keeps on sending me…

There’s no happy ending here. The past it keeps on sending me…

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from Some Folk, released April 6, 2021
Lyrics by Charlie Carter

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The Mather Robinson Band Salford, UK

Dave Mather and Pete Robinson grew up together in the north of England in the nineteen sixties and have been writing and performing music individually and as a team ever since. From Opera to rock to pop and now back to their roots in folk music. Mather & Robinson entertain audiences in the north west of England but if you ask them - they will hummmm. ... more

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