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The Grey Lynn Song

from Linn in Grey Lynn by Linn Lorkin

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Turn the heater on to dress
Kneeling down beside it
It’s pre-gig paralysis
I just have to fight it
Grab the old performing clothes
Skies outside are darkenin’
Earrings from a window-sill
By a Grey Lynn garden

Sometimes it seems everything is slippin’ away
And that I can’t win, no I just can’t win
And they say “you should be a star in Las Vegas”
But tonight I’m sleepin’ in Grey Lynn

Do a hurried make-up job
In the Hillman Hunter
Stroll around the restaurant
Embarrass all the punters
Watch the meat and pasta pass
Kiwis a la carting
With Italian songs rehearsed
In a Grey Lynn garden

For a hundred lousy bucks
Gee it was a bummer
Cold and tired and homeward bound
In the Hillman Hunter
Drifting off then up I jump
Cursing in my cardigan
I forgot it’s rubbish night
For the Grey Lynn gardens

Sometimes all my life just seems
Stumbled through in blindness
Sill I’d like to thank my friends
For their lovin’ kindness
Hardest is to love youself
And yourself to pardon
When the greyest dawn comes up
In a Grey Lynn garden

credits

from Linn in Grey Lynn, released January 1, 1995
Piano & Vocals - Linn Lorkin
B.V.'s - Beaver, Candy Alderton-Conway, Julie Mason & Hattie St.John
Piano Bass - Hershal Herscher

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Linn Lorkin New Zealand

Brought up on farm in Tokoroa NZ, Linn Lorkin got her show-business start in Europe in the 70s. She started off singing in a low dive in Copenhagen and went on to play the prestigious Ronnie Scott's in London. She played piano-bar in NYC in the 80s and there became a prolific songwriter. Back in NZ she became one of the most versatile performers around, singing, touring and writing for many bands ... more

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