Name: Chin Chin
Duration: P00H03M55S
Description: Places and times are frozen in time until they're not!

Chin Chin

by Chris Gordon

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Places and times are frozen in time until they're not!

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Incense holders and paper cars
Smoke that rises from a coloured jar
Send to spirits far beyond the stars
Reflecting light from the golden bars

Amid the refugees from everywhere
Who fill the bars and the statued squares
Climbing ladders with a devil may care
In need of service and of quick repairs

Of all the things that were left undone
A T10 warnings when the day was done
The high humidity and blood red sun
Amid the whispers for those put upon

The lives enjoined out on different plains
Look too closely you could see the strain
The midnight riders always entertained
Invested with both joy and pain

Where men of empire once were feted
Amongst the tea where the opium traded
All the treaties have been since updated
Stored with pictures that have long since faded

Everything is now left behind
A postcard from another time
Flags of colony a different bind
Tears and rain as the church bells chimed

The Royal Rifles came in ‘41
To a Xmas and a rising sun
The border posts quickly over run
Empire day had been put upon

Now the march is to a different beat
Flags have changed out on the streets
Withdrawal is now a quick retreat
All that’s left is endless summer heat

All we knew has been blown away
Clouds of dust into another day
The tide of time has now had its way
Crusoe and the castaway

Everything is now left behind
Postcards from a different time
The tide and time has now gone away
Crusoe and the castaway

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released February 15, 2023
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Chris Gordon Brisbane, Australia

I studied music formally, both music theory and classical guitar. I love most styles of music but writing popular /contemporary songs resonates with, and creatively inspires me.

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