Coffee and Hope

from Drawing on my Dreams by Helen McCookerybook

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    “Helen McCookerybook has an excellent new record …”
    Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music, 22/09/22

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    Front cover drawing by Helen McCallum (aged 5)
    Back cover still from "Femme Fatale" (2021) by Naimad
    Inside cover photograph & label drawing by Helen McCookerybook

    Little Egret is dedicated to James McCallum
    Thanks to: Ian, Jane North, Damian, Ruth

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It's too late now to cast off the rope
The knot is bound
Tied fast to a terrible timeline
Sanity has drowned
But I'm still living on coffee and hope
They keep me sane
They stop me dwelling too long
On what's pouring down the drain.

Dried up ahead, our shrivelled horizons
Drift into dust
Behind me bridges have burned away
Fire and water, passion and reason
Love, respect and trust
All sense of order has gone astray

And all around me is insanity
And all that we need is tranquility

Could this be a nightmare that I can wake up from
Could it be a dream?
Will I wake up trapped in a painting
Of a Nordic scream?
Oh I'm still living on coffee and hope
Day by day
Though it seems my sunrise mornings
Are drifting far away

And all around me is insanity
And all that we need is tranquility
And all around me is insanity
And all that we need is tranquility

Panic stricken people,
Pestilence and plague
Override humanity
Nature has its ways
Storms in Australia
Melting ice caps,
International failure
Global collapse....
Yeah, that.

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from Drawing on my Dreams, released October 7, 2022

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Helen McCookerybook UK

Helen McCookerybook is an outstanding songwriter who's beginnings formed in the punk era, old associates The Monochrome Set/The Pirhanas her first band was The Chefs (John Peel fave) She later signed to RCA with her band The Horns and had a couple of minor hits
Helen took 20 years out to become a Mum and PHD, taking up her songwriting again in 2003. Suburban Pastoral was her 1st solo record.
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