(Bruce Don’t Go)

Darkness on the Edge of Morningside (Bruce Don’t Go)

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Me and Stacey drank, Colin said he’d drive

St James Park 1985

Furstenberg, Tennents, we thought we walked the darkness of Candy’s Hall

Red wine and whisky

Burgers, flags and tears

One of those gigs that get you through 37 years

Checking the set list, he never played Candy’s Room at all

So did Bruce and the Big Man never kiss, never slide

On their knees across the stage? Has my memory lied?

I remember Trapped, Thunder Road, Twist and Shout

At least I think I do

Oh yes, I’m pretty sure. I think I was there

If you prove I was unconscious, truly I wouldn’t care

Sleeping in the car park, sick on the back seat? I don’t believe that’s true

Anyway, Bruce don’t go to Edinburgh

Stay in your land of hope and dreams instead

There’s a darkness on the edge of Morningside

Johnny 99 is dead

You look OK for a man of 72

But recently I haven’t listened much to you

I don’t want to hear those Jersey stories again and again

Heard them on the internet, read them in a book

And double denim isn’t such a fashionable look

And maybe one good song per album since I can’t remember when

Just tell me this, what happened to your hair

One minute it’s disappearing the next it’s there

Is it a brilliant disguise? Maybe that wee baldy man in the Cafe Royal is you?

Anyway thanks for everything

I’m grateful as you know

Even if you should have stopped maybe 20 years ago

I won’t pay £200 to hear Rosalita standing in a toilet queue

Bruce don’t go to Edinburgh

Stay in your land of hope and dreams instead

There’s a darkness on the edge of Morningside

Johnny 99 is dead

Copyright Tom Morton 2022