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Making Tea Is Freedom

from Truth & Bullshit by Jon Hunt

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Making Tea Is Freedom

i) Alfie

Alfie's on, I'm watching Michael Caine
He's looking at the camera and his words tug at my brain
"If you ain't got peace of mind, then you got nothing"
So isolate yourself because attatchment causes pain

"Dig your nails in", "Let the drinking begin"
All these flashbacks seem so fucking banal now
Lots of trees and affluence, morning sun on ancient stonework
So tired of not quite understanding the magic

So I'm gonna climb into my bed, you know
I'm gonna delve inside my head to show me all
That sweet contentment that I cannot find
In any of my waking life

The questions on which we're wasting our lives
Monogamy and discipline and beer and fags and wine
Drugs and grease and lust and making good
The fog it stays around us, I say fuck it - so it should

Because I'm gonna climb into my bed, you know
I'm gonna delve inside my head to show me all
That sweet contentment that I just can't find
In any of my waking life

We only need one day of feeling
Or is this not what you are seeing?

I want to run across the rooftops holding hands with you...

ii) Making Tea Is Freedom

Now I've the sun inside my stomach
And watching your reflection of my smile
Listening to the rain against the window
And not having to stretch the extra mile

Joy and contentment reflected in our faces
We're happy sitting watching crap TV
Making tea is freedom when I'm doing it for her
The freedom that I knew belonged to me

Cos the gift of her smile is a miracle...
It turns all of the bullshit into truth
Content with cosmetic freedoms
And no unhealthy obsessions

Like road-works emerging in the distance
I'm finally presented with the proof

iii) Survival's As Natural As Sorrow

If I was like that, you wouldn't want me anyway
But I'm not saying that there's nothing good in our eyes
Bad, blank and black, once reality takes hold
Mutual euphoria is a thing that isn't sold

My words are caustic after a drink or two
Thirsty with boredom of a life without somebody new
The smoke rises quickly, and the circles don't fit me
I'm running away
Into morning sun and afternoon grey

iv) Afternoon Grey (instrumental)

v) Me (instrumental)

vi) Windswept

So hands up for the man who takes control and pulls the rug
I ain't ashamed to tell you that the wind's become my drug
Cos anything that's on the breeze that can't be seen,
it means the world to me

The lights they may dim slightly, but the fire will never die
There'll always be that lover in the corner of my eye
There's something else to be sometimes,
and I can't stand around as it blows by...

You scrape off all the layers, and then you find that life's the same
From drinking on the balcony to bus stops in the rain
So I'll toast imagination
And drink to all the colours in my brain......
Words and music by jh 2002-2006

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from Truth & Bullshit, released April 1, 2008

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Jon Hunt London, UK

Jon Hunt is a singer/ songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist from London.

His music, though often described as 'quintessentially English' is eclectic in style ranging from alternative rock and power-pop to ballads, vocal and acoustic guitar to progressive rock and psychedelia.

Jon's fourth full-length album 'An Explosion Of Nothing' is scheduled for release later in 2024.
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