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It's Not Over

from Mystery of the Rose by Ian Lilburne

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Words and music by ian Lilburne. Produced by Lee Buddle, Crank Recording.

A dark song with a happy melody, comically arranged. The music pays homage to Lieber + Stoller’s 'Stand By Me'. The lyric riffs on a quote from Prison Notebooks by the Italian historian|philosopher Antonio Gramsci that appears as the frontispiece to John Fowles’ novel 'Daniel Martin':
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appears.”
This strikes me as the perpetual process of the human condition, the progress of history, a never ending nightmare from which we cannot seem to awake (to riff on James Joyce).

lyrics

IT’S NOT
OVER

The old is not gone
And the new yet to be born
Stuck in these middling years
What strange symptoms do appear

Holdin’ on to the past
In the hope it just might last
Even though the die is cast
It’s not over

The fire burns bright
And the smoke clusters tight
While the fiddler on the throne
Doesn’t see anything wrong

But until the long race is run
The sad songs have all been sung
And the portraits all been hung
It’s not over
It’s not oooh-oh-ver
It’s not over
It’s not oooh-oh-ver

Until the roses have all been plucked
And the lemons have all been sucked
And the horny people all been fucked
(The director calls the final cut)
It’s not over

MIDDLE EIGHT

It’s not over
Til the bells stop ringing
It’s not over
Til the fat lady stops singing

solo

The old is yet to die
And the is new strugglin’ to be born
Stuck in these maddening years
What morbid symptoms do appear

But while the fire is burning bright
And the stars shine down at night
And the crack lets in the light
It’s not over
It’s not oooh-oh-ver
Its not over
It’s not oooh-oh-ver
It’s not over
Til that fat old girl stops singing
It’s not over
Come on girl
Keep on singing
It’s not over

© IAN LILBURNE 2016

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from Mystery of the Rose, track released January 13, 2021
Ian Lilburne - Spanish guitar and lead vocal
Sam Ray - backing and fat lady vocals
David Edwards - Piano
Pete Jeavons - electric bass (bass and lead bass)
Steve Richter - drums

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