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A Crack In The Wall

from View From A Wooden Chair by Jumping Fences

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(in support of those people resisting the US blockade against Cuba)

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Between the lightning and the thunder crack
lies the fear and the thrill
The light is blinding, the dark is holding strong
The wild night shatters where it will
And in a flash,
In that foreboding instant
The breathless moment of anticipation
It comes to me like some cruel revelation

You lured me with promises
You courted me with a handful of coins
You threatened me like a father would
Between a laugh and a cry
between a truth and the lie
I see your empty eyes

Between the moon slowly fading and the rising sun
Pale silver, glowing gold
Between the day spent and tomorrow's void
This strange world loses its disguise
And in a flash,
In that foreboding instant
The breathless moment of anticipation
It comes to me like a cruel revelation

Between a laugh and a cry
between a truth and the lie
I see your empty eyes
And in the crack in a wall
on the other side
I see a hungry child

credits

from View From A Wooden Chair, track released June 28, 1996
Words and music by Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk

Sue Monk: guitar vocals
Lachlan Hurse: electric bass
Mark Dunbar: flute
Bernardo Alvarez: hand percussion

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Jumping Fences Brisbane, Australia

Jumping Fences is an enduring musical partnership between Sue Monk and Lachlan Hurse. Their original works contain imagery and styles that reveal both an incisive insight into Australian life and a long association with Latin American culture.

Performances feature Sue's rich voice, her rhythmic guitar technique and the colour of Lachlan's innovative bass style.
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