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ordinary sadness

from Green Leaves EP by nev clay

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written for a pre-Xmas gig last year that I didn't get to. A mild protest against compulsory jollity and conspicuous consumption, and a celebration of occasional gloom. Tuning: CGCEGC.

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save a place at the table for me - ordinary sadness. I'll be here when the tinsel comes down and the festive mania passes. All month you've been avoiding me on your quest for amusing commodities, but like a ghost from your long-lost family I've been standing at your shoulder. You don’t have to pathologise me: I’m not a bloody illness. All year long you’ve avoided me
on your quest for distracting activities, but like a ghost from your long-lost family I’ve been standing at your shoulder. Your whole life, you’ve avoided me with your inbuilt aversion to misery, but like the ghosts of your long-suffering ancestry I’ve been standing at your shoulder. Save a place at the table for me.

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from Green Leaves EP, released July 13, 2020

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nev clay Newcastle, UK

Nev lives near Newcastle and until 2018 was a mental health nurse. He's been clarting around the local music scene for 30 years, and once supported Keith Emerson out of ELP. Cover photo - Stan Bonnar concrete hippo, Killingworth, Newcastle, photo by Narbi Price 3 Jan 2023. Secret guitar tuning: CGDGAD ... more

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