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Music and lyrics by Ian Lilburne. Produced by Lee Buddle, Crank Recording.

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CYPHER


The city’s cold
The wind whips wildly
Down the alleyways
And the avenues
The narrow streets
Are quite bleak
In the falling night

The café’s quiet
The spy sits waiting
For his rendezvous
In a Burberry coat
He jots notes in code
In a little book

Enter Cypher
She stands by the doorway
Framed in the moment
Of a hidden past

They cross outside
She ghosts him back to his hotel
It overlooks the Quai
The clouded sky
Seems liquid
In the gelid moon

The room is small
The bed is wide
There’s an antique chair


And a cheval mirror
With a finical golden frame

They lie together
Through the long night
Caught in the trace
Of a difficult lust
That should’ve been better

SOLO

The air is charged
In the frosted light of
a dappled dawn
Cypher lies awake
His hand heavy on her thigh
She gets up
Gets ready
As he lies asleep
With graceful ease
She erases her trace
from the room

She waits a moment
By his pillow
Kisses him on the head
Then steals away
© IAN LILBURNE
MUSIC: 1977
LYRIC: 1987― 2019

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from Mystery of the Rose, track released January 13, 2021
Ian Lilburne - Spanish guitar and vocal
Sam Ray - vocal
Lee Buddle - soprano saxophone
Pete Jeavons - double bass
Steve Richter - congas
Cathie Travers - mysterious Latin piano

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