You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push The River

Going as much with the river as not ...

William Blake and the Eternals. You. Don't. Pull. No. Punches. Contemplating Baba. You don't push the river. Da. Da. Da. When you were a child. Looking for the Veedon Fleece. And it takes the child in you to know.

A live version following on from Streets of Arklow

Behind the sun, oh behind the sun ...

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Linden Arden Stole The Highlights

And he loved the little children ... I don't know why this song is so intoxicating. It puts me in the room with Van, drink in hand, while he sits at the piano and tells me all about this man. I feel like I know him intimately. Almost as if somehow it is my story as well. Or could be. Touching, beautiful and wondrous. Lord, he was a drinking man ...

Avalon Of The Heart

Going down by Avalon ... Magnificent in it's concept and performance, Van leading massed strings and gathered voices exulting in the magic of Avalon, the grail and the promise of rebirth. In the Upper Room the cup doth stand… Gonna make a brand new start ...

Memory Lane

I stop a while and take in the scene ... A stately string drenched meditation on mortality and his life from a man recognising where he is on the journey that " curves and twists and turns and twists and turns and wanders 'til you get, 'til you get to the very end." The familiar trope of "standing in the pouring rain" as a metaphor for sadness/depression is made more touching by the admission of the man still having more questions than answers and facing the prospect of death that is ever closer , "there's something moving, moving in the shadows and it's getting dark now up on memory lane." This place is not the comfort it once was. Don't know where I am or what I'm after ...

And They Stood Upon The Lawn ...

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