Diamonds and Rust

Dance Away your Blues originalby pattipaigesongwriter instagram

Calling out to Freya by pattipaigesongwriter

A quarter past 10, I’ve been working four hours,
Time to refresh my brain.
A hundred metres to my favourite café.
I’ll go to Earth again.

Into the welcoming calm,
They’re there, waving “Hello”
Their perfect faces, well-practised care:
Doing the Dance of a Thousand Smiles.

Mid-morning bustle in Earthy Café,
Writers at their tables: children at play.
Every table buzzing with chatter and laughter.
They move through this chaos, no hint of disaster.

Gliding through the tables, with trays in hand
Are Jess, and Christie, and Evey.
They smile as they move with professional care:
Doing the Dance of a Thousand Smiles.

Back at the steam face, lunchtime rush.
All tables busy, pressure is on.
Order, process, service, pay, clean, carry on.
Yes sir, no sir, you’ll not be waiting long.
Arabica, decaff, Lapsang and chai.
Soup, sandwich, salad, cake, and pie
Lever, grind, press, wait
Beautifully arranged food on your plate.
The sheen on their face shows their state. But …

Through all this madness and chaos they glide,
Hannah, and Emma, and Laura,
All natural beauty, and professional pride
Doing the Dance of a Thousand Smiles.

Day nearly done, calm has returned
Their till screen has all turned grey.
Fleetwood Mac, the soundtrack 
Of another rewarding day.

Back to their homes, boyfriends, and lives
Are Jess, and Christie, and Evey.
Beautifully guided by natural care
Doing the dance of a thousand
The dance of a thousand
The dance of a thousand smiles.

Dance of a Thousand Smiles (demo)

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Music is all around they say which is true. I spent some of my childhood in Singapore Kenya and Shetland. As a young person I had a few lessons on guitar then I was hooked. I stopped playing and performing when I had children until about six years ago. Then friends encouraged me to get Jezebel my guitar fixed in fact between them and my father they paid for it. It took a while to get half way proficient again. After doing covers for a while I thought why not try writing a song . The First one came very quick indeed 25 minutes in the back of a car while on a day trip with my friends. Simma Dim which is one the album inspired by nature and memories of Shetland s a child.

 

Then came about 2 years of intermittent songs . Then I realised I almost had what constituted

of enough songs to make an album. Talking to Shaun Buswell at an Open mic we sort of made it happen . Off I went to Sweden for the weekend forgiven for missing the original flight feeling go hide under a rock moment . Hence the reference to the plane on the fount cover. The week before thinking I needed some ore choice in songs I wrote Jambo Malindi Mombasa Inspired by y childhood and revisiting Kenya as an adult. I have a love of Crete so also came Havania . I wrote Debrovnic while staying close by to this ancient beautiful city. Ost of my song s are about places and environment. See a tree was more up close and personal as it was addressing my past as a young woman bereaved at 21 with my soul mate committing suicide. Recently came Wild Cards which is about sitting in an ITU ward beside someone in a comma.

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