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This Time, This Place, This skin

from AGES by Andy Thornton

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It’s a delicate matter, a contest from birth
With each passing second four more on this earth
Each shaped by the times,
the place and the show of their skin
And each one’s original and each one’s unique
But caught in the crossfire at history’s peak
The shape of the world gets clear
as the fabric wears thin

What is it, a mystery? A heavenly plot?
Or an accident of history you got what you got
At this time, in this place, in this skin?

There's the essence of human compressed
from the start In everyone’s nature,
in each one’s Heart
It waits to grow free and shake off the poisoned mind
It throws off the shackles that keeps a man down
It reshapes the future when it comes around
It blows on the wind to join up the human and kind

So can I request that you share out your lot
You are what you are cos you got what you got
At this time, in this place in this skin

They’ll make you hate others and feed your fear
And build up the borders and fight for dear life
But it comes back to get us, that’s history’s way
the peasants revolt and the empires decay

I’ve seen my reflection in so many colours,
In those gone before me, in faraway others
There’s something like me in all that I meet
So if you’ve got religion don’t let it destroy
If you got the weapons don’t kill the joy
You can’t shoot the spirit, can’t kill your way to peace

There is no force on earth that could
make a great nation
So share what you have as a gift of creation
at this time, in this place, in this skin

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from AGES, released August 26, 2020
Instruments, voices, writing, production by Andy Thornton
Mixed by Rafe McKenna

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Andy Thornton UK

Andy Thornton has been writing songs since the day he first picked up a guitar at age 14. His instinct for telling a story is only equalled by his passion to get beneath the surface of everyday life and unveil the secrets of the human heart; whether it be anger, frustration, tenderness, love or hope of justice. ... more

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