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Lonely Man

by Peter Wale

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This track is one of fourteen from the 2019 album, “Memoirs of Hakeford Wart”, issued by the Toronto-based label, Strawberry Rain - a 3LP, expanded version of the now extremely rare album of the same name, self-published in Cape Town, South Africa, by Peter Wale in 1972.

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LONELY MAN

Lonely man, let me be the window to your soul.
Open your mind and let me see
What has made you so cold.
Lonely man, oh, lonely man,
You will always be
A very, very, very lonely man,
If you follow me.

This lonely man, in action, is a bludgeon of our time.
Beating down accepted norms
And social pantomime.
Though, in the eyes of fellow men,
He's treated with disdain,
A brighter ray - enlightenment - has bent and touched his brain.

He and I are only two
And, yet, we are but one.
Our backs are turned toward the shade,
Our faces to the sun.
Lonely man, oh, lonely man,
You will always be
A very, very, very lonely man,
If you follow me.

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released December 22, 2020

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Peter Wale Ithaca, New York

Coming to the US in 1974 to further my songwriting aspirations cost me dear. “Your stuff won't sell “, US labels said. Well, this one, taken from the 4-song LP of a concert I gave in 1972, DID. 300 3-LP vinyl sets of the FULL concert were re-issued in 2019 and sold out (I've yet to be paid, BTW, and kinda late in the game). Could've seen that coming, I guess.
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