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Thank you Piri, after a week of trying to write lyrics about water and a war vet with PTSD those few lyrics were all I could come up with. Then when I turned on the phone camera and picked up the guitar my mind went blank again and I struggled to remember what little I had written. So, I thought something is better than nothing, so I went with it over dubbing the extra vocal recorded on my phone.

For my soul.

If you know what I mean.

I drank all sorts of things.

I’ve had my fair share of stings.

But I tell ya  tell ya that water water.

Is the thing for me.

I had also written these lyrics to go with it but they didn't sing well

I left the military ten years ago.

A messed-up head and medals to show.

The bad war memories come back when I try to sleep.

My midnight screaming got me thrown out on the street.

In amongst all the civvies and their brightness.

All I see is my doom and gloom.

I swapped my family for the bottle.

That song has come out good Brian.     

Graham that is a powerful song.     

Good one Jeff a perfect song for a bluegrass band to play.     

Piri no doubt that would be one of Larry's favorite instrumentals. I'm sure Larry not being a cat of money wouldn't care less about the new Prime Ministers billionaire status.
Will the new PM still be living at Number 10 this Christmas a week is a long time in politics nowadays.
Jan your right Larry deserves a medal. I see on  youtube he has taken to chasing Foxes away . I hope it wasn't Basil Brush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvZZyoz9Gs8

Piri, in the last few weeks two young ladies I worked with before I retired have had their life's cut short by cancer. Your lyrics for me capture how people are feeling at this time over the loss of these two. A brilliant piece of song writing in a good but not over complicated way. I look forward to hearing you do this song.

Cheers everyone I love your comments New Zealand is a wonderful country with mostly good people but like the rest of the world we are groaning under the pain of the foolishness of humanity. Our politicians from both sides are losing their way it's a bit hard to write about in a few words here as it is a very complex thing to explain. Basically, our schools, hospital and infrastructure is broken with all these committees talking about it but no real action at the coal face. Most of our farmers have been pouring money and work into making sure their farms are ecologically sound. Instead of rewarding farmers for being good environment stewards the government has come up with a new proposed extra special tax for farmers to make life harder for them than what it is now.  Farmers are the economic backbone of NZ and that is where most of our overseas earning come from. The positive thing people are starting to say enough is enough and hopefully this will mean that some commonsense people might rise up to stop this madness but who knows. Unfortunately, in our school kids are being taught to believe absolute rubbish and it's making them think that the farming sector is to blame for all sorts of things. If the proposed tax and herd reductions go ahead, it would be ruinous to many farmers and our country. The kids here love to eat but they are ignorant about where the food on their plate comes from. So, we need Larry from number 10 to come and sort us out also LOL. We need the Uk and the USA to do well because what happens in your country affect us as well. So, if your economy catches a cold and sneezes, we in NZ end up with a financial situation that is like a bad flu and pneumonia. I will attach a link to the Wikipedia page about Larry who is a real cat at 10 Downing Street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)     

Cheers Brian and Piri it is so surreal what's happening with the British politically powerful I really don't know what to make of it.     

Good one Jeff sometimes it is tricky addressing our future demise.