Name: The Salient
Duration: P00H04M41S
Description: Far from home

The Salient

from Ten Portraits by This Final Frame

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Far from home

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No artist seen and there is no green
Nor grass nor shade nor water,
No birds to fly and sing in the air,
Just the crash of the shell and mortar.
Just flat drab sand, unsweeping land,
And the stunted camel thorn.
The outline shape, the stony scapp,
And the waddles deep and worn.
No structures tall to relieve it all,
Lest we give the position away.
Just the barbed wire etched against the sky,
And the nets of artillery bay.
When the wind sweeps free in form the sea,
In the dug out’s sticky waters.
We crouch down low out of the blow,
In the dust storm’s humid shelter.

c1941 by Gunner David Skillen

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from Ten Portraits, track released August 5, 2013
Lyrics by David Skillen

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This Final Frame Liverpool, UK

This Final Frame are Paul Skillen and Carl Henry with Ian Jackson and Heather Newton together with some guests on this latest album. They hail from the vibrant 80's pop scene in Liverpool but have never stopped making music and this is their 3rd album release. ... more

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