Hanging by a Thread

from Mystery of the Rose by Ian Lilburne

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Music and Lyrics by Ian Lilburne

A song about frailty and the human conundrum.

lyrics

HANGING
BY A
THREAD

It’s not the first time
It won’t be the last
That I walk this broken line
Between the darkness
And the break of day
Between the blessing and the curse

Hanging by a thread

Between the devil and the clear blue sky
Between the fire and the storm
Between the camel and the needle’s eye
Between the hound and the wolf *

Hanging by a thread

SOLO

Beneath the softness of a gentle hand
Between the heartbeat and the sigh
Beneath the deadlock of a one-track mind
Between the promise and the lie

Hanging by a thread

It’s not the first time
Bet it’s not the last
That I walk this broken line
Between the gloaming
And the still of night
Between the blessing and the curse

Hanging by a thread

© Ian Lilburne
Music: September 2014
Lyric: July 2015

* A variation on the French phrase, ‘entre chien et loup’, literally ‘between the dog and the wolf’, i.e. between twilight barking and night howling, metaphor-ically between sunset and the dead of night, as echoed in the last verse.

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from Mystery of the Rose, track released January 13, 2021
Ian Lilburne - guitar
Sam Ray - vocal and Tibetan prayer bells
Cathie Travers - piano
Pete Jeavons - double bass
Steve Richter - marimba and clay pot

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