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My kids asked me why I never scream. So I wrote this.

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When you're bowed down by the weight of the world
When you're confused by the lies that you're told
You're looking for love and the trail has gone cold
Just open the floodgates and sing from your soul

That's why I'm singing, sighing, screaming
I tried to hold on to a fragment of calm
But life came along and it twisted my arm
I've fallen right out of the world of the sane
Here it comes again
I'm screaming!

I though that I could look life in the eye
see through the darkness and understand why
Suddenly everything was passing me by
And all this confusion made me wanna cry

That's why I'm singing, sighing, screaming
I tried to hold on to a fragment of calm
But life came along and it twisted my arm
I've fallen right out of the world of the sane
Here it comes again
I'm screaming!

Oh when you are down, oh can't lose a frown, oh you're feeling blue, oh Here's what to do:

Just lift up your spirits and sing from your soul
Try to forget all the lies you've been told
throw off the troubles and cares that you hold
And soon you'll be feeling on top of the world

That's why I'm singing, sighing, screaming
I tried to hold on to a fragment of calm
But life came along and it twisted my arm
I've fallen right out of the world of the sane
Here it comes again
I'm screaming!

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from Poetry and Rhyme, released January 3, 2013
helen McCookerybook: guitar and vocals; Gina Birch: bass; Dubulah: guitar

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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. ... more

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